Pork Butt

The good news is finally out in the world.  My big sister is expecting her third baby on October 14th!  Yay!  Nate's newest cousin will be almost exactly a year younger then he is!

And now that everyone knows and I don't need to worry about letting something slip, I can start talking to the rest of my family again.  Which is good because no one has seen Nate since I went back to work a month ago (!).  So, tomorrow we're having the whole family over to our tiny tiny house for dinner.

One of the great things about my maternity leave was I was able to get back into the kitchen and starting cooking again.  I pretty much had given up all cooking while pregnant, and by the end of the pregnancy there was little I was able to eat because of the gestational diabetes, so I made it my mission to make Jason so fat that no one would love him but me.

I got a new set of cookbooks and started watching old episodes of America's Test Kitchen.  One week they made this pork butt that had me drooling.  It calls for a 6-8 lbs hunk of meat so I haven't been able to try out the recipe, but with six adults and three children coming over, it's on!

The big problem I'll have to solve is where to put these six adults and three children.  Our "dining room" is really just a wide hallway with a table in it.  I'm sure we'll manage to make everyone fit, but it'll still be like solving a giant tetris puzzle.  I really cannot wait until things turn around with the housing market.  This house was perfect for two adults, we had plenty of space, but since we added Nate it's tight.  There's no storage and so there's just stuff everywhere.

I called a real estate agent a few months ago about comps in the neighborhood.  Interest rates were so low we figured we could upgrade and keep the same mortgage payment, but to sell now would mean barely getting enough to pay off the mortgage and not hing to cover closing or to roll into a new house, so here we stay.