I should be sleeping…I am tired but I want to be up for whatever reason.
Perhaps I am domestic after all. Today I received my set of Pyrex bakeware (3 mix bowls with lids, 4 smaller bowls, pie dish, and 4 baking dishes with lids) that I made my husband order me along with our new electric blanket (they were on sale if you spent a certain amount of money). I figured I can always use more baking dishes…
I cannot express how happy I was to take each piece out the box–all 19 pieces. Who knew I could get so excited over dishes? I couldn’t believe it but it did fill me with contentment looking at the pieces and thinking about all the dinners I could make in them and all the good I could store in them. I am even thinking about making some casseroles or pasta up ahead of time and sticking them in the freezer.
Of course, since that made me feel so wonderful, I want to keep that feeling going. I started shopping for new dishes. My husband and I had talked about buying some new dishes because he is getting tired of the old octagon plates (or are they hexagon?) that he bought after his divorce. I have (had?) a Corelle set of plates and cups that belonged to my parents and I liked them; they were packed away but I haven’t come across them yet. I almost think they were lost or stolen. So I decided to do some shopping for tableware. I looked a couple of months ago but didn’t see anything I was too impressed with. I did a search for Corelle and was soon on a website looking at their choices. At first I wasn’t too impressed but I soon found something I liked. It is called Tree Bird and has a brown and green tree pattern interspaced with little blue birds. Also, the stuff was on sale. If you ordered 12+ pieces you got 40% off plus free shipping after $75. I was ready to buy! And I did after the internet quit acting up. I ordered service for 6 people plus a platter (I couldn’t get that in Tree Bird but I ordered something that would work well with it) and 2 serving bowls (one to match the set and one to match the platter). Now I feel I am all set up to put on a nice dinner 🙂 I did not order any coffee cups though–we have many already and I don’t serve tea with dinner like my mom did.
All that made me feel super domestic. I suppose I like decorating and setting up house. I get bored with the cleaning and organizing, or should I say tedious re-organizing? Ha.
–I looked on Ebay and found some Corelle-ware like my parent’s old stuff. It was called Indian Summer. I miss that stuff– I don’t think I was impressed with it when I was a kid but I really like it now. I wish I could find mine…
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