Hi everyone! My super computer savvy hubby started a website for our family, so this little blog moved over there. Here’s the link. Hope you enjoy it.

http://wuzza.flansite.com/

Blessings,

Wuzza

For example, I no longer have to yell downstairs. Daniel, my oldest, has a course load that keeps him on the computer almost all the time. Though he does unplug for an ocassional football game, potty brake, food intake, etc…but I digress. Since he is almost always on, I simply log on my laptop, pull up Google Talk, and IM him. He then makes sure the message gets to the intended receiver.

I can also summon him for chores. All without having to yell down the stairs. Here is an example of a typical exchange between us.

Daniel  to me

show details 11:09 PM (4 minutes ago)

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11:09 PM me: it’s that time

 Daniel: …?

 me: do you hear ‘em?

 Daniel: …?  The call of us needing to go get junk food?

 me: all those dirty dishes beggin’ to be washed

Daniel: ok.   Radically different things..

                I pick the first…

 me: oh! I think I hear the table too…….

 Daniel: Creepy.

 me:  *table calling*,  ” Daniel…..wash me daniel, daniel…”

 Daniel: I think you’re skitzo.  We should take you to a hospital.

 me: only took ya 16 years to figure that out? I never thought of you as slow.

 Daniel: a mental institution. Where they, ya know, check your head.

 Daniel: Especially when you hear inanimate objects speaking

 me: LOL

 Daniel: like tables and dishes

 me: when you are responsible for keeping your own house clean, inanimate objects will speak to you too

 Daniel: Probably

 me: and then you’ll call me…

          and give me some sob story…

          and I’ll feel sorry for you…

          and come clean your house…

          not.

me:  I’m so glad we can have this special mother-son relationship…

 Daniel: XD

 me: thanks to Google Talk…

This message brought to you by modern technology and love between  mothers and sons everywhere.

Wuz

I was driving home one evening and passed by this little park. The intensity of the sunlight on the trees was amazing!  The sun was setting and too low to shine on the grass in the foreground of this photo.

But look at those trees in the background! They don’t even look real!

 It was beautiful in person. Freezing cold, but still, and quiet with just ocassional chit-chat between the geese.

And that sunlight….it was just glorious.  

“And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” Rev 21:23

Amen and God Bless.

Wuz

Andre’s uses fresh foods, not frozen stuff shipped in.  They typically do 4 dishes each day with Quiche Lorraine and Cheese Pie being regulars. The other 2 dishes change day to day. All the food is typically made from scratch right there in the kitchen. Except for those gorgeous rolls which are sent from the main store in downtown Kansas City where they have the fancy professional bread oven. I know this becuase I have personally called the chef out to our table and played 20 questions with him over how to make those rolls. I haven’t quite got it down yet.

And the sauces……If there were a “King of the Bechemel” this guy would win. Whenever we try a different dish, my hubby and I try to figure out what he put in  the sauce.  Some times, if it’s the end of the lunch rush and he’s not busy, we call him out to play 20 questions about the sauce. (Hmm, I wonder what goes through their heads when we come through the door).

Hubby and I both had the Quiche Lorraine. While the boys tried the lasagna. Now the embarrassing part is that I forgot to get pictures of the food before we started to eat. So you are stuck with pictures of half eaten food. Not really appetizing I know, but I live and learn, won’t happen again.

We had babies #6 and #7 with us this time because they had had doctor’s appointments earlier that day and we promised them a hot chocolate.

I love their desserts because the portion size is just right. That, and they are delicious.

What can I say after all that?  Only this, If you live in the Kansas City area, treat yourself to lunch at Andre’s sometime.

Happy Eats!

Wuz

This photo of a suisse confisierie hangs in Andre’s Rivaz in Overland Park, Ks. 

We came toward the end of the lunch rush, thank goodness. Otherwise, you can’t get a parking space, and you have to wait for your table about 20 minutes.

That’s my camera man hubby and my two youngest.

I love the giant ornaments. I wonder if I could do that in my foyer…

Ahh, the chocolates. That is what they are famous for. And they should be. They also have fabulous pastries which are served as dessert and included in the lunch price.

But the absolute best dessert, best item, best anything they have is this:

We almost always get a box to take home to the kids. They are locally known as the heart cookies. People come in and say,  ”Do you have any of those….uh….uhm….heart cookies?” And the folks at Andre’s know exactly what they want. What they are is some kind of flour based cookie dough (I think) greatly enhanced with crushed pecans and maybe a bit of toffee? I am not sure about the toffee part, but they do have a buttery-ness to them. Then, all that love is dipped in either milk chocolate or dark chocolate and the white swirl is added, free-hand, to each individual cookie. MMmmmm, mm. Dang, those things are good.

I wonder how many of you are now looking for some leftover Christmas goody to eat. I’m going to break in to my hubby’s Nutty Bar stash…

I wonder if Little Debbie had Swiss ancestors…

More Tomorrow,

Wuz

P.S. I am not affiliated with Andre’s in any way. Neither is anyone I know.  But I wish I knew those people. Well enough to be invited to their houses for dinner parties. And dessert parties.