Quiz: Which Thanksgiving Side Dish Are You?

Perhaps one of these?

[clockwise, roasted chestnut, mushroom, and currant stuffing,  sweet potato casserole,

one mean green bean casserole, delicious, creamy mashed potatoes, nutty cranberry relish]

The folks over at Martha Stewart have put together this silly quiz (that may or may not be really old, but it is new to me) so you can find out:

Which Thanksgiving Side Dish Are You?

My result:

You are undoubtedly:

Roasted Root Vegetables

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I would have thought of myself more as stuffing, honestly.  Maybe because that is my favorite?  I don't know.  I do know that I cannot wait to eat our Thanksgiving dinners!  We will be having dinner with friends on Thanksgiving day and then plan to make our own feast on Friday to have tons of leftovers.  :)

A major orange moment!

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It was one of those moments that went in slow motion...one of those moments you hope will never happen...one of those moments that only happens on cartoons!  One of those moments that happened to us yesterday at the grocery store.  My son LOVES going grocery shopping...especially through the produce section.  He usually flips out when we get near the bananas, his favorite, but today it was the oranges.  He was riding in the cart and must have grabbed an orange as we were strolling by...an orange from the BOTTOM of the pile, perhaps?  Oranges went EVERYWHERE!  Everyone was so nice and it was pretty funny, but I felt terrible that the oranges went all over the floor!  Sooooo... here are some beauties in honor of the fallen oranges:

modern circles wedding invitations

sunshine tarts

bookplates, set of 6

the office I have been obsessed with for a long time

Italian spun pointelle cardigan

Ugh!!  I hope to never experience anything like that again!!...though I kind of wish I had my camera or remembered that my phone was in my bag to snag a photo.

[For some reason the alignment of this post is off.  I have tried to fix it numerous times and cannot!  Boo!!]

Up next...Thanksgiving!!

As if I am not hyper enough, this time of year almost doesn't require coffee.  [I am not even sure if that sentence makes sense.]  Immediately after Halloween, I am in full-on Thanksgiving mode.  Since we are now two days past that and I need to get the premature thoughts of Christmas out of my head, I have chosen a few things that have my wheels turning:

1.  fresh cranberry sauce recipe
2.  place card holders
3.  thank-you cards
4.  satin gold sparkler paper star urchin
5.  tablescape mentioned in this post

More on each one later...  :)

First Date!

I hope you had a great weekend and Halloween!! We had so much fun and it all began with our first date night since our son was born...over 16 months ago!! Apparently I have issues leaving our child, but oh well. :)

image by Nola Lopez

First...I need to go back a few years.  Our first real date almost 9 years ago was to Outback (gag!).  No offense to anyone who loves, works at, or owns Outback, but I am just not a chain-restaurant lover.  Anyway, my husband and I had run into each other a few times before this actual date, but I still kind of thought it was going to be a real date.  I met him at his house on my way home from work and we were going head out.  We are about to leave and he asks his roommate if he wanted to join us!  Ha!  So now, not only was our first date to Outback freakin' Steakhouse, but it was also with his roommate!...talk about romantic.  All in all it was fun, but thinking back, it is pretty funny.

So what is crazy about this whole thing is that our next "first date" was also to a steakhouse...Modern Steak...a far cry from Outback.  The other funny part is that we also were not alone.  We were with about 20 of his coworkers and their spouses for a celebratory dinner after receiving an exceptional achievement award.  The place was gorgeous and the food was equally as fantastic.  Take a look:

 restaurant images found here!

I loved everything about this place...the food, the service, the decor...all of it!  It really was a great night out and the perfect start to our fun-filled weekend!  ...I just hope I am not the only one with attachment issues!!  :)

Have a happy week!