try something new

The kids and I have been trying to buy one thing a week that we’ve never had before form the grocery store. Last week it was Polenta. eh. It was ok. I thin it’s one of those once-a-year type of foods, like boiled dinner or saurkraut.

We’ve been trying a few new recipes here and there. Some are winners and some aren’t. Once summer comes we can try soem grilling things like fish. I’ve always wanted to grill fish. Maybe I’lll get a whole one and learn how to clean them, too!

Maybe I ought to try some public speaking. Or praying outloud with strangers. Oooh, I know…Karaoke!

Dh and I went to a chinese restaurant yesterday. He always orders the same thing- Pepper Steak. This time, though, he ordered the Chicken Dali! Are my new attitudes rubbing off? I felt like we went wild and crazy with with our lunch! What a good feeling.

1.) Eat with chopsticks
2.) Be less hesitant overall
3.) Bikini wax
4.) Check out Riverview Church
5.) Sushi
6.) Country line dancing

1.) An authentic Mexican mercado or Asian grocery store
2.) The Tuba Museum and Restaurant
3.) Farmer’s Markets
4.) the Media Center and Bookstore at church
5.) The MSU Dairy Barn- ice cream for the kids!
6.) The Green Door Blues Bar
7.) A “make your own pottery” place

Trans Siberian Orchestra! Wow!
Got free tickets from FIL and took MIL cause Dh didn’t want to go. I am so glad we went! It was amazing! Only goes to prove that I miss a lot of great things by not doing them…

Dh and I tried to sit in a different place today at church. Two rows from the front- opposite side of the church. I LOVED IT! You could see the worship band better and I got a whole new view of people in the congregation. Great, just great!

Dh hated it. Said he felt like he was on display. I felt like all the air was sucked out of my balloon! I’m glad he tried, but I’m disappointed he doesn’t share my enthusiasm for new things.

I sat with friends at church today and realized that Dh and I sit in the same pew, same row, same side of the church every week! There are so many little changes I can make that would make my life so much less predictable. A new grocery store across town, a coffee shop I’ve never been in before, a foreign film- the list is endless. I will try new things.