It must have been the full moon!

If you don’t remember, on Friday I was VERY excited to have my first girl’s night away from Hallie since October! Not to mention I haven’t had more than an hour or so away from her since January (but this only included time for me to get chores done or go to work to take care of other kids minus mine) so this really was a MUCH needed break!

On Friday evening I am leaving work giddy excited to get a yummy dinner and try a new swanky dessert place in Dallas with my bestie, when I get in the car to our check engine light on…GREAT! I immediately called my husband who kindly suggested that I still go out, but have my friend Joyce pick me up, and he’d work on the car. So I agreed and called Joyce. We made plans to do something closer to home (since she was already in Dallas it didn’t make sense for her to be driving back and forth so many times!) While waiting on Joyce, Christopher discovered that all was fine with the car and that it needed just a small repair that didn’t affect the safety or performance of the vehicle, AWESOME! So I was calling Joyce to let her know all was good and that I could still meet her if she wanted to, and the poor girl informed me that she had gotten in a minor wreck! I felt just TERRIBLE! Thankfully she was okay, but we decided to reschedule our night out for another night. This freed Christopher up to head out to his fishing trip a few hours earlier than expected, so it was just me and Hallie! After putting her to bed, I decided not to let the night’s unfortunate events get me down and planned to take Hallie to one of my favorite brunch spots in the morning!

On Saturday morning, I decided to pull up the menu to this restaurant, and came to find that they had closed! Super bummer! So I made some pancakes and sausage for me and the little miss.

Later in the afternoon I packed up all of the groceries I bought to make a nice meal for Christopher’s Mom and family for an early Mother’s day celebration! I got all of the ingredients to a pesto sauce in my Father in Law’s food processor and clicked it on….nothing happened…I switched the plug to the outlet where I was charging my phone…again nothing… Okay so it’s a defective food processor. I decided to pull out the blender. Which I can only find half of! My sweet mother in law then steps in and tries to help me think out a new plan.  What about the blender in the bar she suggests! Good thinking, I tried that and it was rusted…darn! So my Mother in Law calls my Brother in law who lives close by and asks if we can borrow his blender. He agreed and my mother in law was back with it in no time! I transfer all of the ingredients over and go to turn on the blender….which starts smoking! If you are keeping count this is now the 4th attempt to get my pesto sauce blended! So now my Mother in Law get’s creative. She puts 1/2 of the ingredients in my Father In Laws Magic Bullet  which is small so we would have to do it in steps. She turns it on…NOTHING! You can’t make this up! We again try my phone in the outlet, and it works great! WHAT THE HECK! One more call to my brother in law who is kind enough to bring over his food processor over. We transfer the ingredients….and….IT WORKS! I about died! After 6 attempts, we were finally cooking!

Pesto Cream Sauce

We had a nice meal, and as we were leaving my mother in law points out the giant FULL MOON! Well no wonder!

I also made a Bolognese Sauce My brother in law also made a Focaccia Bread which thanks to our late dinner everyone snacked on!  He also made a yummy Tiramisu

Sunday my bad luck didn’t stop! I went to get Hallie’s formula and my Similac check got stuck in the check machine and took the attendant 10 minutes to get it out.  Then last night Hallie and I both had middle of the night allergy attacks and couldn’t sleep! We are running on empty this morning!
So that was my weekend, how was yours?
<3 Kelly