It's official

With my January resolution not to visit forums, I've spent my limited internet time catching up on blogs of friends and family and I've come to realize a couple of things.

1. I know a lot of people who don't have kids, most of whom are family (all of my siblings, many of my cousins, etc.)

2. I definitely have kids, and it shows in my blog.

I've spent a lot of time reading blog posts about fun vacations, the cool couple costumes at Halloween parties, birthdays spent at fancy restaurants with friends and complete with expensive jewelry, buying new houses, endless photos of puppies (which are totally adorable), and new jobs.

After reading all those posts about the awesome things everyone else is doing, I find some of my own posts rather lame by comparison... I mean, I did get an iPod for Christmas (which has been totally awesome, thanks again Dave!!!), but I was also super excited about bunk beds for the girls and the new bench for our kitchen table so that we can all sit together while we eat dinner. I then spent a few sentences complaining about some of the finer aspects of parenting. After the potty post, I posted several pictures showing off my kids, and getting excited about them sleeping...

and now, what am I excited about?... that's right... a freezer.

We've realized for the past few months that we have been having a really hard time fitting all of our frozen goods into our freezer. Yes, we did just discover that we all LOVE Popsicles, and I like to have ice cream and grape juice around for purple cows, and we found a great, inexpensive frozen pizza that we all love... and maybe we shouldn't be buying so much of that stuff... but I've also been trying to make very large quantities of meals and freezing some for later. I've made frozen lasagna, split pea soup, chili, funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, chicken pot pie and chocolate chip cookie dough which have all frozen really well. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make them all at the same time... instead, I have to make one every other week or so and wait until we've cleaned out the freezer before making more. We also haven't had the chance to stock up on things on sale, like butter and frozen veggies, and we haven't had room for frozen fruits for smoothies.

Anyway, after realizing all of this, I decided I wanted a chest freezer... something extra to hold more frozen stuff. When my parents gave us an awesome Visa gift card for Christmas, I decided I was going to use the money to go towards a chest freezer... so I started shopping. Unfortunately, chest freezers are EXPENSIVE!! I thought maybe if I found one on sale I could get a little tiny one... one only slightly larger than the cooler we take to the park. I wasn't sure that would be worth it, since I needed more space than that, and still didn't want do spend so much...

enter craigslist.com :)

On Thursday, I found exactly 1 listing for a chest freezer for sale in Provo. After contacting the seller and negotiating a price, he delivered my new freezer Friday evening!

It's totally massive, but was an awesome price.

It's definitely ancient, but it's also Sear's brand, so it should last forever. (And yes, K is STANDING in the freezer)
I'm very happy with craigslist tonight. :)
Now I can't wait to shop and cook to fill it up!!

... so, it's official... I'm a stay-at-home-mom and a suburban-housewife.