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The cold virus is still lingering but our air conditioning is fixed. Right in time for this 40 degree weekend (haha!). Chris and I went with the little boys to Home Depot on Friday. I can\u2019t tell you how much fun that was. Logan decided he was in the mood to cry that day. We could hardly speak to the sales associate that was trying to help us. We got the lay of the land appliance wise and I ended up settling on a Samsung stove. Thanks to COVID, everything is on back order, there isn\u2019t one appliance package fully in stock. No matter which oven we chose, at least one of the matching pieces will be missing. This Samsung set had the fridge unavailable but no big, don\u2019t need it right now anyway. So we signed up and went home. That afternoon I started to do some research and I realized this Samsung package really wasn\u2019t going to work best for us. The fridge wasn\u2019t going to be quite what we would need when we finally did get it. The dishwater had absolutely awful reviews. Oye Vey! This led to Chris and I going down a rabbit hole of cheese drawers and ice makers and French doors vs side by side. WiFi capable?! Craft ice makers?! Who knew! So we decided to sleep on it and when I woke up the next morning I had my decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My saint of a husband called Home Depot and cancelled our original order. We placed the new order online. Our LG appliance package minus the dishwasher will arrive July 9th! The dishwashers are unavailable with this brand but that\u2019s perfectly okay because we had to replace ours only a few years ago. I can live with a mismatched dishwasher especially since I love the one I have. This appliance ordeal was a little nutty thanks to COVID and because of the fact that it was unexpected so we didn\u2019t have any prior research done. However, Chris and I did it without a single argument! We had been talking about replacing them for over a year, he kept offering to do it and I kept saying \u201clet\u2019s wait.\u201d Minus the dishwasher, the appliances we have are 16 years old and for 10 of those they were used by the family that we purchased this house from. As much as I didn\u2019t want to do this right now, it\u2019s certainly due! With 24 months interest free financing and Memorial Day sales, it couldn\u2019t have happened at a better time. I can\u2019t wait to do a post\/review when my new set arrives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make lemonade out of all these lemons, I\u2019m going to try my best to document our month of living without an oven. Chris offered to buy a countertop one to get us by but as of now I\u2019m up to this challenge! I have a crock pot, an air fryer, toaster oven and the stovetop still works so I think we\u2019ll be good! I\u2019ve done just fine so far but I\u2019m wondering when I\u2019ll finally say \u201cI\u2019ve had enough!\u201d This year I\u2019ve really knuckled down and focused on cooking. I\u2019ve always been okay at it but my skills were pretty limited. I\u2019ve watched too many hours of Food Network and I\u2019ve gained a lot of knowledge from watching a variety of shows. I have branched out so far beyond my cooking comfort zone and it\u2019s been great! Some weeks my waistline won\u2019t agree but I do try my best to balance healthy and light dishes with hearty and savory ones. Anyway, back to my newest challenge. I\u2019m confident I\u2019ve gained enough of a skill set and knowledge to make this month without the oven fly by! Another plus, it\u2019s the start of summer which means it\u2019s grilling season! I can\u2019t wait to share some of the recipes I come up with during our oven-less month so if you ever find yourself in a similar situation you\u2019ll have something to refer to! Pray I make it through this and my optimism perseveres!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Holy cow! What a week it\u2019s been!! I\u2019m exhausted. Physically and mentally. I wish I could sleep this rainy weekend away. But I\u2019m a mom so that\u2019s not happening! While I\u2019m nursing Dylan and getting him down for a nap I\u2019ll share the latest updates on our circus of a life: Last week we had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-346","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifesincelandon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}