Videos of the Little Man

Happy Thanksgiving!!  Hope you are all enjoying the break from work to take time with family and (hopefully) good food!  We are doing our first Thanksgiving for just us, no friends or fam this year.  It's kind of fun so far, but we would love to be near family today.  We are doing an Advanced Plan dinner this year, and we decided to skip lunch and eat a later meal today, around 5pm.  I also decided to wait and make everything fresh today.  So far hasn't been a bad decision, even though I could have made just about everything the night before and baked today.  I was in the kitchen for three hours so far making breakfast, side dishes and dessert.  Taking a break now, then just two more hours to go and our meal is complete and ready to eat!  I'm only using two recipes from my Season's Eatings holiday cookbook, the rest are new and will be posted on Healing Cuisine in the next week or two.  The menu at Chez Schwartz:  Individual Cornish Hens with Dijon Mustard Herb Glaze, Homemade Gravy, Garlic Mashed Fotatoes, Caramelized Sweet Potatos, Green Bean Casserole, Sunshine Broccoli Salad, and Blueberry Crumble.  And we had Baked Apples with Praline Whipped Cream and Pumpkin Muffins for breakfast.

Can you tell I'm excited about today's meal??  :)  Go figure.  Always excited to try a new recipe and make it "Advanced"!  Dave is playing Mr. Mom today and doing a fabulooous job!  We can tell Austin is loving his extra Daddy time.

As requested by Grandma, we wanted to share some videos of Austin.  He is growing up so quickly!  He turned 2 months old this past weekend.  The weeks have certainly flown by.  He is getting chubby and starting to giggle and coo now.  His temper is also starting to show when we move or stop bouncing him, anything he doesn't want to do.  Dave reminds me, while it might not be fun at times, we are blessed with an independent child from the start.  Here is the first video, more to come as i have the time to upload them...maybe later tonight or tomorrow.

We are so grateful for Austin, and all of God's blessings onto us this last year!!  Lamentation 3:22-24:  The faithful love of the Lord never ends!  His mercies never cease.  Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.  I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!