Showing posts with label in the kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label in the kitchen. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2011

My cup

here's a little blog post just to annoy the Newton boys who can't understand 
why we Newton girls always blog about coffee cups...

Early this week, as I was loading the dishwasher, one of my favorite little coffee cups slipped through the gap and plummeted to its death, the handle breaking off into 2 pieces (or so I thought). Instantly, my thoughts were ushered back to the summer time when Naomi was in my kitchen, and her words came back to haunt me, "Gab, be careful about putting your little cups here in this spot in your dishwasher, because they might slip through and break." Lesson learned.

Sadly, I put the poor little cup on my counter and left it there, not knowing what to do next (how can I throw away the cute little cup Mercy got me at the Goodwill?).

Fast forward to a couple days later, and my dishwasher starts giving us trouble, refusing to drain. Luke did what he could, to no avail. Thus, Mr. Repairman was called, and after many minutes of tugging, hammering, tapping, and pulling, out came the water pump, and out of that came the third broken piece of the coffee cup. Mr Repairman called, "Here's your problem." I had to laugh as I handed him the cup so he could drop the little piece into it.

Naomi, you are a smart little housewife. I miss you.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Family Heirlooms

I pulled my handy-dandy mixer out this week, and was flooded with memories...I got a little sentimental over this little household gadget. When we lived in North Carolina, over 4 years ago, my caterer-neighbor had a crisis and came pounding on my door..."Gabrielle, I'm hosting a party in a couple of hours and my mixer broke! Can I please, please borrow yours?" So she did, and it saved the day as well as her fluffy mashed potatoes. I remember her telling me how wonderful it worked, and that she's always getting a new mixer every couple of years. It was funny to me, because it was totally a $30 mixer, since we couldn't bear to register for one of those expensive ones when we got married, for fear that all we'd get was a mixer and nothing else! (I still think it was that day of whipping that permanently placed the mixer on the high setting, but no worries...)

So here I am today, with my 12 year old hand-mixer--a faithful mashed potato whipper. I use nothing else! I can't bear those hand-held potato mashers, which all my brother-in-laws swear by. They must be whipped, and only with my little Hamilton Beach mixer. What will I ever do without it, when it goes to kitchen appliance heaven? Do they even make these things anymore?
The first picture Amaleah took, I had a very grumpy looking face (maybe that's how I always cook),
so I had her take another one so I could look more pleasant...