dear diary

I haven't written about my life/family in a few weeks and thought I'd give an update for my family and friends on the west coast. In the future, if I'm going to do one of these personal posts, I'm going to title it "dear diary" so those of you who don't care can click back another time :)

I was super proud of myself tonight for cooking dinner at home. Since we moved Since forever, I've been really bad about making dinner. I like cooking, and I even enjoy grocery shopping, I'm just not great at planning it. My wonderful mother in law (I say that seriously, not sarcastically - she's one of my best friends) gave me a book called Saving Dinner the Low Carb Way.  I'm trying to eat healthier (as in, eat fruits and veggies more than once in a blue moon) and also save our budget, and so far, as in, tonight, everything is going great. They give you weekly menus and shopping lists, along with nutritional information for each meal. I'm excited to see how it works for us.

The house is coming along beatutifully. We re-arranged our living room this week, and I've got to take photos because I think it looks great. My goal now is to hang things on our oh-so-bare walls. I'm looking forward to flexing my budget-friendly decorating muscles. I'm thinking it should involve this:

At $69 I could definitely afford one of these for the blank wall above my love seat.

Tomorrow is party inspiration day - check back for some grown up party inspiration.