scrap in my head

Today is my favorite kind of day. I had a bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast, slept in and played hooky at the gym. I'm sipping on a cup of coffee with a splash of plain cream and I can smell the braised beef I'm making coming from the oven. Its pouring down rain outside and it smells fresh and clean.

Speaking of clean, I'm inspired to do some. I actually cleaned every square inch of my kitchen after I was done cooking. You can ask my husband... I hate cleaning the kitchen and often leave him a plethora of dirty dishes in the sink to find when he comes home... oh I am bad.

My goal this week was to get my scrap-room all clean and purged. Yeah, woops. Haven't even started. I'll get there though. Do a little today, some more tomorrow, and finish it up this weekend and next week. I've been taking a lot of pleasure in the little things in life. Trying new recipes, getting a good ass-kicking at the gym. Going out to lunch with old friends from high school. Its been fun and good for my soul. Usually in the fall I start to feel tired and bored, but so far that hasn't happened this year, its been all good, inspiring. For those of you who don't get Cooking Light, I highly suggest it... as many of the amazing new recipes I've been making have come from there (i.e. the beef pot pie, the braised beef, the spicy turkey meatloaf i stashed in the freezer for next week, etc etc).

And because no post is complete without a picture I have a few of my family... so you can kind of get a gist of who I'm talking about when I mention my crazy sister ;) or my dad... or mom or brother in law.

Heres my sister, Jess and my Dad:


My soon to be brother-in-law, Dan (I know... I know...):


My Sister Jess, My Mom and Me. (this one's kind of old).


And of course, last but not least, the hubs:


I need good light recipes... you guys should send me stuff.