Happy New Year to all! We began this year with a delicious lunch at my mom and dad's house yesterday. Mom made beef tenderloin steaks, mashed potatoes and veggies while Karli and I made a recipe from the cook book Beth printed for everyone of Grammy O's recipes. It was a cherry cheese pie -- basically a cheese cake with sweetened condensed milk and cherry pie filling on top. We made it a little lighter by using the 1/3 less fat cream cheese and light cherry pie filling. Karli could actually eat this, so she had a ball helping me mix it and lick the beaters. I was very glad we could make something together and she could lick the beaters like I used to get to do (and still love to do)... Kudos to Aunt Beth for suggesting we get some of Grammy's recipes down on paper. Nick couldn't wait to test the final product out, either, he picked it as a favorite before we actually made it.
We also went to the doctor today to see if they could tell why Karli may be failing her hearing screenings, and they pulled a large chunk of wax out of her ear (while I had to hold her down screaming) and said she did have an ear infection in her right ear. So we are on Augmentin for two weeks and then we are getting another hearing screening in the doctor's office in four weeks (Jan. 30th to be exact). Hopefully they found the culprit and we will be done with this saga in her 3 1/2 year old life.
We also got our new Samsung 40" LCD HDTV delivered today from Best Buy to go in our room to replace the 32" one we think was damaged by too much Wii activity. We are putting the 32" in our living room, so we all can be in different rooms watching what we want on TV. AHHH -- togetherness!!!! We just got back from Walmart and then Target to find a suitable and "most cost effective" (I was told not to use the words less expensive by my new boss a few months back because it suggests a decrease in quality) TV stand to go in our living room. Walmart's selection did not suit our needs; therefore, we went to Target and found a lovely, most cost effective honey colored book case that will work well in the area we intend to use it and will hold the TV and Wii and $29.99 DVD player we bought to go with the ensemble. Yes, the Wii is staying with the TV corrupted by it and is going in the living room.
Well, I better go see what the princess is up to -- it is too quiet in our room.
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