Happy 4th of July!

In celebration of Independence Day the kids and I decided to make a dessert.  Of course we tried to follow our healthy eating rules, but just fruit and yogurt wouldn't do!  So we made shattered glass jello-o.  My oldest son (8) found the recipe online and asked to try it, so he's actually the one that made it, with a little parental supervision of course!

(Fingers courtesy of my two year old)

To make this go with our healthy living learning we used real jello, not sugar free, because we don't want artificial sweeteners!  And we used fat free condensed milk to lower the calories a little.  Plus we are learning serving size, only one small square with lunch or dinner is necessary.  Here is a link to the recipe 

http://www.foodlibrarian.com/2009/03/broken-glass-jello.html

I was discussing the idea of my needing a recliner for recovery from my surgery with my husband this am and we both realized that we didn't really like the idea of a "used" chair.  It's not that I have a problem with hand-me-down type things in general, but if we bought the chair off Craigslist we know nothing about the previous owners or the chairs history.  All I could think of was the episode of "Big Bang Theory" when Penny gets a chair off the street that seems nice but when Amy sits on it there's something crawling around in it that bites her butt...yikes.  So I tried looking online to try to find something new for cheap and I found a likely candidate at Walmart, until we went and saw it...so incredibly ugly!  Ugh! I was not about to spend $300 on it!  So we broke down and tried going to La-z-Boy, hoping they would have a floor model or something on sale.  After looking around at their chairs I fell in LOVE with one of their recliners... It was leather, and automatic!!  No using my incredibly sore tummy muscles to try to recline the chair into a comfortable position!  But on sale it was $1000, I was sure there was no way my husband would agree to it, it was just too expensive!  And then he sat down on it. His face was priceless... You could tell he loved it.  I still thought that there was no way he'd let me get it, but then he asked if it was what I wanted.  I said yes, but it was so expensive.  His response was that he'd rather spend more money for something nice that we'd keep and use and love than spend a lot of money on something we didn't want to keep and would throw away.  So yay!!  I am getting the best "recovery chair" ever!

Left is the chair floor model, top right is the control (hands again by my two year old), and bottom right is the color...it's hard to see but the light piece is our living room couches color, the red blanket is the same as our couch blankets at home and the chair under it is a chocolate brown.  We go pick it up from the warehouse on Saturday and I can't wait to re-arrange my living room to put it in! This is one step closer to being ready for surgery *gulp*