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Lost Bread

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So these pictures and this experience is over a year old, but I just found the pictures on my computer and remembered that I had meant to post about this.

Last summer while we were in Dallas, somehow we had a loaf of French bread that went stale before we could eat it. Such a pity, too, because Josh and I love a good loaf of French bread. But then I remembered that Josh told me French toast actually comes from the poor class of people back in the day in France, when they would have bread that was too hard to eat but they were too poor to buy more, so they saved their bread by soaking it in egg to re-soften it and then cooking it, and it was called pain perdu (which translates to “lost bread”). I decided to see if I could recover our lost bread by making authentic French toast, and it worked! Yay! So now you know what you can do with stale bread, besides just feed it to ducks. :)

100 posts!

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This is our one hundredth post! Woo hoo! Kind of neat that we’ve been posting for as long as we’ve been married (almost three years!) and through lots of major events (like having Carson!). We’re glad to have this record of our life together, and glad to share it with you. And to celebrate, some photos you may or may not have seen showing our most excited and happy faces:

Guaranteed

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One of my new favorite hobbies is reading the guarantees on Walmart’s Great Value brand food labels. Sometime recently they’ve redesigned their packaging to be white, blue, and simplistic, but with each item they include a guarantee of what they’re food will be. Usually the guarantees seem to be pretty safe. For instance, did you know that they guarantee trail mix to be fruity and nutty?

Thank you, Walmart, for guaranteeing that my fruit and nut trail mix is, indeed, fruity and nutty. Also, breadcrumbs are guaranteed to be crunchy and crumbly.

But some of the guarantees are a little less obvious, like distilled white vinegar:

Pure. Robust. Guaranteed. And I think one of my favorites is the guarantee on cream of chicken soup:

Versatile. Creamy. Isn’t that just perfect? I want to know whose awesome job it is to pick out just two adjectives to describe each and every Great Value food item. And maybe this could be a new dare/prank activity: walk into Walmart and try to complain that your cream of chicken soup isn’t versatile enough for you. See what they do.

A very big thank you

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A few weeks ago, Josh and I got a package in the mail. It was addressed to us, but the return address was just that of a children’s book publishing company in the midwest. Inside was this book:

It’s a cute, fun children’s book with no words, just pictures, and lots of fun fold-out pages. I bet Carson will love it when he’s just a little bit older.

But we just don’t know who sent us the book. So if it was you – a very big thank you! We love it. If you let us know who you are, we’ll send you a proper thank-you. :)