What's for dinner? This deliciousness.

I'm sad about summer being over.  I am a warm-weather, 12-hours-of-sunshine-a-day person, so summer is my favorite season, and I mourn its passing every year. But, I AM excited to start cooking warm, comforting fall foods! So, I got myself in gear yesterday and made a weekly menu, with a corresponding big, fat grocery list, to get started on some of that good fall cookin'!

moderate home makeover: kitchen edition

[UPDATE: images removed April 2012 due to high traffic of this post in Google image searches.]

With a probable move in our future, my husband (hereafter known as "Hubby", until I get tired of that name) and I began gearing up several months ago for putting our house on the market. We discussed, made lists, and researched the changes we'd like to make in each room. Frankly, we're awesome at the planning stage.


And then, last week, we began in earnest.