The greatest love of my life...

maybe not the greatest but definately something very important to me and something I have a deep rooted affection for. My DH? My nephew? Friends? My car? My home? Nope.

FOOD. I freaking love good food. It makes me feel happy(and sometimes I'm convinced sad). At one point during the ttc bit, I was certain that if I lost weight, I'd fall pg right away. While losing weight did regulate my cycles to something resembling normal, I didn't get pg. Slowly, I packed the weight back on. I don't take full responsibility for it, claiming that a new job pretty much restricted my exercise(partly true but the new job didn't force the big macs and sweet tea down my throat). So 65 pounds lost, 60 or so gained back. Yeah, its depressing. However, you really have to fully commit to the idea of a lifestyle change in order to make the diet/exercise thing work. I simply can't. I'm trying to watch what I eat, but right now, I just don't care. I def. don't want to gain anymore! Ahh,this is just getting depressing SO I'm gonna talk about the good part, the foods I love!

Tonight we had family dinner night, my turn and since I had to work till 4, it was one of those 'throw something simple and fast together' types of dinners. It turned out great. We had bbq chicken, baked beans, corn casserole, potatoe salad, and homemade slaw followed by a very yummy cake my mom makes. Last night, we had steak, baked potatoes and WILTED LETTUCE. OMG, LOVE wilted lettuce! Can't thank the person who came up with that one enough!

I simply can't wait till the cucumbers, new potatoes, tomatoes, onions and all the other goodies my FIL grows in his massive garden to come up. I'm craving the hot summer days that you go out to pick dinner. Last year, he planted over 2000(thats right THOUSAND) tomatoe plants. Sadly, last yrs garden didn't do as wonderful as previous yrs, both because of the season temps and conditions and because of FILs stroke and our inability to keep up with helping in the garden like we would have liked to.

DH had mentioned today that if it can get warm and stay there for a few days, we'll be able to go out mushroom hunting soon. Only once a year do the morals come up, and boy is it a yummy time of the year.

While I'm on the topic of food, I've agreed to host this years easter dinner so in my planning, so far I'm making this yummy jello and strawberry salad, dh will smoke the ham, and then the usuals, green bean casserole,deviled eggs, etc. I'll probally only do 3 sides and leave the rest up to mom and SIL. I'm sure as usual there will be tons of leftovers. I'm not a big fan of leftovers so I usually divide it up between everyone sending it home with them, lol. Once I've ate it, I have no desire to eat it again immediatly.

I guess its obvious that any one who could write such a long blog about food, is pretty in to it, LOL. Off for a bowl of ice cream now haha