Snug as a Hug

Hi! It's me...remember? I live in a nice, cozy house with my nice, cozy husband and a tall, skinny teenage boy. I'm not kidding! Seth is really skinny now. With muscles, though. Crazy. And we have a new tv, after waiting almost three years for Keith to keep his promise. Yay! Mark helped me make "Missed You" cards for Primary today. He printed off a picture of Jesus holding a child's face in his hands, using nice, heavy paper. I'm excited to show the Primary president! Mark also made clam dip for tomorrow. Nummy...clam dip. Yes, basically I sit around or lie around (haha - no choice on that) while Mark works or we watch tv or movies together, or we read (he reads about baking bread). Lots of tv seems silly, but we also have to change the channel frequently when not watching educational television, if you know what I mean. Just flipping through the channels is dangerous, and we don't even get cable television channels. What a telling commentary on our times. Fortunately, there are quite a few channels with interesting programming that we thoroughly enjoy. Today I learned how to fry rib pork chops (they are the meatier, 'more fatty' cut). If you cut the fat on the rim a couple of times, it keeps the chop from curling up, and if you salt them and put them in the oven at a low temp for a half-hour before frying, it makes them juicier and more flavorful. After frying, you can hold the rims down in the frying pan to make them crispy. Isn't that great to know? Not that I'll be frying any pork, but, still. : ) Seth's birthday is coming up, Mark helped out at work today and did the shoopping, and we got a new sheet! Seth worked, and the cats curled up on our bed all day, as usual (Jasmine is finally learning not to climb on me!). And Leto was excited to get new dog food. There you have some of the highlights of our Saturday. Now tell me about yours! xoxoxo