Laura & Andy's World Update

Hello all! I thought I'd kick this thing off with an update on what's new in our world. We still accidentally have three houses - which is phenomenally less glam than it sounds. Our "old" North Arlington house languished on the market this summer and we have finally decided to take it off the market for the winter and have rented it out to a nice family. They work for the State Department and they're moving to Moscow in May. We put the "old" house on the market because of allegedly insane prices in our neighborhood, but we haven't seen them come to fruition yet.

In any case, we wanted to downsize to a smaller place since it's basically a place for us to hang our hat during the week. (We try to go to the river just about every weekend.) We found a cute bungalow in the 'hood. (Glebe & Columbia Pike if you know South Arlington.) The previous owner even had a picture of the old house allllll alone in a field, not a thing around it. In the background we discovered a car that looks like a Model T.

And of course, we haul out of town on Friday afternoons. Our little river house is all settled. We still have a few things to work on, but we'd be bored if we didn't. Finally we can rest a bit since the house drama is resting until spring. I'm currently in the throws of getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I went into Williams-Sonoma yesterday and thought I was going to faint it smelled so much like Thanksgiving. I will be making all of the traditional fare - as I told Margaret the other day - No innovation for Thanksgiving!!! I think this year I'm going to make the Mountjoy ambrosia salad too. Andy is happy because I make him Nana Taylor's stuffed mushrooms. Should be yummy. One of these days I need to make that recipe for Smashed Potatoes Grandpa wrote about.