I don't even have enough time to write this post.

Tonight is the last night in our first home. We have been so busy with moving boxes and packing things up and going back and forth to the new and old house. We are so so excited to live in the little pink house that I haven't really thought about leaving the old and it made me a little sad. I took the day off today from work and my mom is going to help me finish putting contact paper on all the shelves and drawers. We have pretty much everything moved over except for the big furniture. We need more man power than I can give so tomorrow morning, some lovely fellows have offered to help.. and we are so grateful. :) We haven't set up internet in the new house yet (too busy to think about it) so I don't know when we'll be up in running again but I have been making sure to take pictures so I have some before and after photos. Hope you all have a lovely Memorial Day weekend. :)

Beer Batter Bread

This is just too easy not to try. I tried this recipe because my dear friend Jonathan Clark tried it first and found it to be successful. He got the recipe from from the William Sonoma Baking Cookbook. I have made this 2 other times and it was just splendid, super yummy with just butter or a little bit of strawberry jam. :) So here it is..

Beer Batter Bread

• 3 cups all-purpose (plain) flour
• 3 tbsp firmly packed light brown sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 bottle (12 fl oz) beer, unopened and at room temperature
• 4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted, plus extra for serving

Preheat the oven to 375. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan. In a bowl, stir together the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt. Open the beer and add it all at once and it should foam up. I used some orange creme beer because that's what I already had in our fridge and it turned out well. Stir the batter quickly until the ingredients combine. Your batter should be a little lumpy. Pour into the greased loaf pan and drizzle with the melted butter.

Bake until the top is crusty and a cake tester comes out of the center clean, about 35-40 minutes. Let the bread rest in the pan 5 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Cut a big ol' slice of that thing and dress it up with butta' and some jam. Jonathan mentioned that the left overs were just as good as the first slice. I can't say that we would know that seeing as our bread magically disappears the day it's made (with the help of some friends).. so no left overs for us.

I hope that you try it, love it and tell me all about it. :)

Afternooning

Freshly squeezed strawberry lemonade. "Yummy in the tummy" as my grandma would say.

Agenda for the weekend:
-Going on a date tonight with my Love. We're going to see Babies (please watch the trailer if you haven't already)!! I feel like I've waited forever for this to come out. :)
-Lily's 3rd birthday party. <3
-Packing for days and days.
-Hang out with some good friends.
-Watch Paul write his 15 page research paper (that is due Monday - oye).
-Finish reading my Real Simple magazine.

That's it. Happy weekend. :)

I'm growin' some scallions in our kitchen and they are coming along! This picture was taken 2 days ago..
you should see them now. I'll try to update on these little babies. I'm proud of them. Grow grow!!

I have not been a good mother to my blog child.

Has this been the longest lull in my blogging history or what? I think it's been days... weeks even? Yikes. Well geez, a lot is going on. I finally have pictures to post from our anniversary trip and pictures of food and recipes to put out there but for now I will start with just a short update. April and the start of May have been filled with work, school, Brother's 22nd birthday (gaijadgadfhi!!), hang outs, a tea party, concerts, a trillion loads of laundry, Mother's Day and.. oh yea.. we're moving! The latter is the most exciting for me. I cannot describe the feeling or say it enough. We aren't moving far, not far at all actually -- 6 or 7 blocks away to be exact. :) We will still be living in Lincoln Park Historic District but instead of living in a 1 bedroom duplex, we are going to be living in a 2 bedroom house (built in 1930) with a big backyard, a porch (!!), garage, ranunculus in the front and a big beautiful quiet street. I am going to do a separate post once we move in because I am just that excited, if you couldn't tell. We prayed diligently for our future home and G-d blessed us beyond what we could have imagined. We so don't deserve it.

So anyway, that's what has been keeping us busy and crazy these past few weeks. Our living room is full of boxes and I can say that I am definitely ready to be settled in.. but not for a couple more weeks. I vow to blog again very very soon with pictures and all.

Oh.. um p.s. The new house.. it's pink. Like powder pink. And before you make a face, I love it.