Anniversary!!

Yesterday was my 9th wedding anniversary! Hoooray!! I was sick. Boo-urns. In case you are not aware, I am a terrible sick person! I groan, whine, complain, grunt, moan, and generally behave completely un-ladylike and not meant for company! Over the past 11 years of acquaintance Marvin has learned the proper response to my sick person attitude. He has sympathy, but generally ignores my moaning and such.


To my delight, the mom to the LG I'm watching now brought us a bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling juice!! So sweet! I'm excited that this work opportunity has introduced me to a new friend. I've really enjoyed spending time with her during this "transitional" week before full-time work. Today is my first morning alone with my new charge and so far it's been pretty great for a first day. She asked for momomomomomom once, which I think is pretty funny as I believe her favourite word at home is dadadadadadada. Going down for her nap produced a few tears, but nothing too traumatic. Except to Marvin, who can't stand to see a little girl in distress. Boy is he in trouble.


But back to my anniversary! Marvin cooked supper (fries with the works....mmmmmm my favourite from "home") and after Bible study mom came over to babysit my sleeping son and we went out for ice cream! Hooray for catering to pregnancy needs! M also did the dishes. Isn't he sweet? Truth be known, he often does the dishes, but it was even more special that I didn't have to do dishes yesterday.


So I know this is completely random, but thinking I should add a picture to this post I did an image search for fries with the works and have really come to realize that most people in the world don't know what I'm talking about as this is one of the 50 or so images that came up:

Not even close. But a good anniversary pic. :) Ok. Fries with the works. A PEI specialty, invented by the owners of the G&E restaurant in O'Leary. This is slightly disputed by others, but I have to give the shout-out to "home" anyway. To make this super-fabulous dish you have to put healthy food concerns to the side...for the moment. Start with fries, then add hamburger, gravy and peas. Oh yeah. It's yummy. But M and I have tweaked it a bit. We don't use canned peas, but the fresh-frozen sort, we cook an entire onion with the hamburger and add some mozzarella, making it sort of a poutine/works mix. Next time we make it I'll be sure to take a picture so you can see how yummy.

If you're looking for healthier recipes, check out my bff's blog. She's checking out much healthier stuff than I am.