Instructions for Budget Decadence

Gather the following materials:

• a French press
• a milk frother
• some excellent coffee
• A decent grinder (we'd love a burr grinder, but are little blade one works just fine)
• milk
• some sipping chocolate
• your nice dishes
• steel cut oats
• craisins
• brown sugar
  

Get up in the morning on Saturday and head straight to your local Farmer's Market. Enjoy the fall weather, purchase excellent seasonal produce, get a sample of an Asian pear (yum!) and buy some as a treat.

Come home and start some water boiling for the oatmeal while you put away your produce. Get the oatmeal cooking while you get your 6 month old down for his morning nap. While he sleeps, enjoy your oatmeal with craisins and brown sugar and a cup of coffee with some hot frothed milk - all in your nice bowls and teacups. Finish the meal with the baby in his high chair, banging a spoon against a plate.

Spend the day enjoying eachother's company - watching the baby get closer and closer to being truly mobile. Do dishes periodically while your spouse makes the baby giggle in the next room.

Snack throughout the day. Enjoy napping with the baby in the afternoon. Have leftovers for dinner that create minimal dishes.

Get the baby to bed for the night and then enjoy some of that sipping chocolate with some more frothed while you watch a movie or tv show with your sweetheart.

For Team Carlson, this is decadence.

It's been a good day.

That milk frother was one of the greatest Hannukkah gifts I ever got for Matt :-)