Roasted Chicken: 3 meals

Roasted Chicken with carrots, celery, onions, and potatoes

1. chop veggies and place on the bottom of a roasting pan.  Chicken on top
2. Put a pat of butter under skin and 1 tablespoon butter in cavity
3. salt & pepper the outside
4. Roast chicken 1/4 hour for each pound at 350
5. Baste each hour
1. Add a cup of white wine after the 1st hour
2. Chicken stock after 2nd hour
6. Let sit 15 minutes before carving
7. Serve with the veggies
8. Prep steps 1-3 for third night

2nd Night Leftovers are Delicious! 

• prep steps 4-8 for third night

3rd Night Chicken Soup

1. get as much of the chicken off the bones as possible
2. put carcass in a big pot.  cover with water, Bring to a boil
3. Refrigerate overnight
4. Strain off fat
5. Take any more meat off the bone and discard the carcass
6. Add more carrots, onions and celery
7. Add Salt and pepper to taste. garlic salt. Oregano. bay leaves and basil
8. refrigerate overnight
9. add 3 chicken bouillon cubes.  
10. add pasta
11. bring to a boil
12. serve with grated parmesan

Nanny

I found a babysitter on care.com.  Her name is Molly, she's a college senior and she comes several afternoons per week.  Beginning this week, as Caitlyn is now in Preschool 3 mornings per week, Molly comes Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons.  This arose out of a need for some time away from the kids, after the move.  We will see how much I can get done while they are both in school, but she has been a great find.

Join a Temple

We joined Greenwich Reform Synagogue just before the High Holidays!  We felt very welcomed by the congregants as well as the Rabbi.  It's a small congregation and we are excited they have a lot of opportunities for learning for the kids.

Long Exposure Photo

I didn't realize we had done this when we first moved in!

http://silverfamilyil.blogspot.com/2014/07/july-4th-sparklers.html

Bike Ride

I did take the kids out for a bike ride the other afternoon.  It's pretty cramped in there for them, after only 7 minutes they were fighting, so we had to turn around.  I have a feeling, the next step might be to have Josh take his bike, me take Caitlyn in the trailer, and Jared on his own...baby steps!

New State

We visited Connecticut this past week in our house search.  I hope to also visit Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine while we live there for 3 years.

Take Pictures Of The Whole House, As If For A Magazine Cover (Before & Afters)

Well the purpose of this task was to clean out and make our house look beautiful.  Since we are going to be moving, the best we can do is clear out and stage it.  The "after" pics are what our realtor took.  Since this project  will be finished before we move back, this is the best this house is going to get

Entry Before

Living Room Before

Living Room Staged

We moved the two armchairs, and wine bar to storage...The train table is not yet gone, but is going to be sold.

LR 2 Before

Dining Room Before

Dining Room Staged

The barstools were moved to storage and the room is no longer used as storage!

Kitchen Before

Kitchen Staged

I really worked hard to clear off the counters...this room is hard to keep clean.

Kit2 Before

FR Before

FR 2 Before

FR staged

We donated and stored a bunch of the kids toys.

Coat Closet Before

Nursery Before

Nursery (Caitlyn's Big Girl Room) Staged

In between the before pictures and now, Caitlyn got a big girl room, so there is not much that remains, aside from the walls and the lamp!

Nursery 2 Before

Josh Bed Before

Josh Staged

We stored a bunch of the miscellaneous things from Josh's room.

Josh 2 Before

Josh 3 before

Hall Bath Before

Hall Bath Staged

Just hid most of the kid stuff!

Guest Room Before

Guest Room Staged

Put two big dressers in storage and got rid of the kid stuff to either my sister's house, a friend, or donated it.

Guest 2 Before

Guest Closet before

Guest Closet Staged

The luggage went in to storage and the board games are in that box!

Guest Bath Before

Guest Bath Staged

Just picked up.

Office Before

Office 2 before

This room was not ready for the pictures, but I am still working on it!

Master 1 before

Master Bedroom Staged

some furniture went in to storage and we changed the bedding; since I never even got around to pricing the hugeness of this room to be painted, I had to embrace the purple, so the bedding was neutralized and the windows in the bathroom really make this room much brighter!

Master 2 before

Master closet before

Master Closet Staged

We edited the amount of thing on the shelves

master 3 before

master bath 1 before

master bath 2 before

Master bath staged

Opening the blinds and moving the towel bar makes a big difference

 We didn't make any changes to the house on the outside, but it's so beautiful in this pictures. Spring is here!

 I am going to miss dinners on this deck

 We finally got gazebo furniture last summer, and now we are moving away and won't be able to enjoy it.

though the kids do enjoy the playset, it's a shame they only had one summer with it.

I hope the people that rent this house, love it as much as we do and take good care of it.  I know we'll do our best to take care of the house we end up renting.