Day 16:

Back on Sunday, I didn't get to use the meal I had prepped.  My sweet mother in-law invited us to dinner, and no one who has control of their faculties would turn down a succulent meal made by my in-laws.  The funny thing was that they served a tastier version of what I was going to make: pork, green beans, mashed potatoes (plus a whole lot of other fantastic stuff I had zero intention of taking the time to prepare).  Great minds...

So, I had all of these thawed steaks, and hungry people, so I figured I should get those things together and made foil dinners!  I added potatoes and garlic salt, and voila!  Minimal effort, hardly any clean-up, and extremely happy people.  It really doesn't get better than that.

One thing that did make it interesting was the fact that I do not have a kitchen faucet today.  Sunday night, right before leaving for the in-laws', my 5 year old wakes me up from a truly luscious nap and tells me that the kitchen is spraying water everywhere.  Apparently, some, uh, pipe thingy had snapped off of the under-faucet thingy, and experts say that isn't fixable.  (I'm still over here, with my obviously limited plumbing knowledge, thinking that SURELY someone could, I don't know...solder SOMETHING, right?  Alas, no professional could validate my genius idea.)  So, yesterday, today, and probably tomorrow will be spent without running water in my kitchen until my new faucet gets here.  I am just thanking every single lucky star, and a few unlucky ones, that the dishwasher still works...as much fun as it would have been to wash dishes in the bathtub or something.