I got my run in this morning. A very cold, wet, 5 mile run run – but come hell or frozen water I was getting out there to run today and by God I did.

Immediately upon I scarfing down the same breakfast I’ve had for the past two days Zak and I left to meet my step dad (who, as luck would have it also happens to be a civil engineer and is qualified to do home inspections) for the inspection of the new house!

I haven’t explained much about the house yet but we’re basically moving from our 1980’s 1500 square foot suburban cookie cutter house to a 100 year old 2000 square foot city house that’s got a lot more character and a lot less electrical outlets.

More hard wood floors, but less yard.

More counter space, but less garbage disposals.

More house to clean, but less laundry to carry down stairs thanks to a laundry chute.

There’s actually access to the laundry chute from the kitchen. Throw your hands in the air like you just don’t care about stinky dish rags heeeeyyyy hoooooooeeee!

More cool features, but less new windows. More drafts, and less central air.

We’ll be trading a lot with the move. Zak will be closer to work, cutting his commute time down to about 15 minutes from 35. We’ll be closer to museums, homeschooling friends, but further from family. Our yard is smaller, our new neighborhood is more transitional.

At the end of the day, we’re excited and looking forward to what’s to come!

The girls spent the day with Aunt Ellen while we were at the inspection. I came home to get some work done and the girls came home with a new second hand kitchen appliance.

I’m positive there is not one of these at the new house!

They picked this up with Ellen today, poor Ellen feeling bad that she didn’t realize until it was too late that this was more than just a toy and didn’t cook pretend food. Although I think the “pretend food” might be exactly right.

But uh oh. What’s missing? I of course say “uh oh” with a certain twinkle in my eye!

No pan! Well shoot, I guess we’re not making any “cookies” tonight.

Don’t get me wrong. I love cooking with a 100 watt light bulb as much as the next guy but I’m more concerned about the contents of these packets of light bulb cookie goodness and wondering if I’ll be the first person to google “organic easy bake oven recipes”.

Well that answers that. I smell a new blog. Or at the very least an e-cookbook. Who wants to contribute?!

Oh wait! There’s an Easy Bake Over cook book right in the box! What do you know?

Hmmm, this recipe looks promising… Chocolate Balls!

The girls were definitely distraught that we wouldn’t be eating at Easy Mama’s Bakery tonight, so I helped smooth things over with a couple of giant Wegmans ghost cookie attached at the hip.

Appropriate, no?

I smoothed things over with myself for buying my children giant cookies with a giant jug of my favorite salsa! Who knew Garden Fresh Gourmet comes in jugs now? Not me!

I pretended to ignore the dirty looks from Jillian, I know she disapproves of those cookies.

When I took this out the mailbox today it took me a minute to recognize her! I can’t believe me, not even immediately recognizing my own girlfriend. The horror!

But don’t worry, we made up and had dinner together.

Left over veggie chili + spinach + red leaf lettuce + guacamole dressing + 2% Fage = a rockin’ taco salad for dinner on a Friday night.

A late run + a home inspection = two posts for the price of one. Or is that one post for the price of two? Oh well, you know what I mean.