This week was a week for learning and acceptance. Learning and accepting that I cannot make up a recipe without some kind of guide, especially when dealing with sardines. Let me explain about the sardines first.

Okay, so I don’t know if you know, but sardines are really, really good for you. They have a lot of Omega-3 fatty acids in them and, since they’re small, they don’t have the same mercury levels as other fish. They’re also really cheap and very filling. All of this made them sound really appealing to me, so I tried them once on toast. They were okay, but, see, sardines are packaged whole, and their bones are edible. While I was eating my sardine-toast, I pulled one of the little filets off and saw a tiny spine lying there. That kind of freaked me out and made me feel weird, so I decided not to do sardine-toast again.

So everyone has seen the glass painted with colored modge podge, and I found the perfect vase at Target on clearance for $3.48.....perfect...if I screw it up. :) Luckily this technique is amazingly awesome and easy, and I finally got around to trying it, except I couldn't decide what color to paint my vase.

I kept flip-flopping between red, yellow and orange. Think. Think. Think. Eureka! I'll paint my vase with all three of those colors!

I was going to do a post about more basement stuff today, but I want to share/show y'all this first. :)

With all of the goings-on with the weekend and getting ready for it, the boys have not had a lot of Mom and Dad  time. After H went to bed Sunday night, Dev, Steve and I headed downstairs with some munchy madness, but before I get to that. I want to share some pictures that my father-in-law, Harry, took of the boys over the weekend. Harry is the mastermind behind Spruce Studios and is located in the Reading, PA area for any of you gals that need a photographer.