A different kind of New Years Eve.

Before the fiasco of laughter.

Dan and I went round and round about how we wanted to ring in the New Year. We first thought the smartest thing to do was for me to work but no jobs opened up. We then thought to go out but didn't want to ask either set of Grandparents to give up their New Years Eve. We didn't want to be completely lame so we thought up the idea to make a nice dinner, make dessert & toast to Dick Clark's countdown.

 Kroger had a really good sale on already cooked lobster. We scored the last two in the store, had it with a side of green beans, cheese biscuits and homemade mashed potatoes.


Dan has never eaten lobster before & I really hate this was his first experience. We did exactly what we were told to do. Steam the lobster for 5-10 minutes. We left them on for 8. I have had many lobster in my day, vacationing to Maine and attending the lobster festival multiple years in a row as a kid. I was hoping it would be the same kind of melt in your mouth lobster meat but boyyy was it not! It was the most gritty, tough meat I have tasted & we were happy Kroger refunded our money the next day. The mashed potatoes is my Mother's recipe & they turned out AMAZING. I am so fortunate to have that recipe in the family. Green beans, check. Cheese biscuits, burnt & dry. Ohhh, and we can't forget about the spinach dip I worked hard on. I made the horrible decision to use miracle whip instead of mayonnaise. Um, yeah. No. Not good.

Wannabe Bananas Foster

Dan was really grossed out by the lobster (hehe)  and had a hard time eating it. At least the champagne was yummy (for Dan!) No drinking for the breastfeeding Mama! Our semi-disaster of a dinner left us crying in tears of laughter. That was the most Dan & I have laughed in months & both agreed we would rather have laughed that hard then have a flawless dinner & mild conversation. We fried bananas with brown sugar & made a coconut sauce with coconut milk, cinnamon & sugar. They ended up being amazing.

We poured champagne (Juicy Juice for me) & toasted together, alone, on the couch. It was sweet & romantic. I couldn't have thought of a better way to ring in 2012. We are so, so excited for all of the fun times in the future. Happy New Year!