Tonight's dinner & dessert was a raging success. J had the idea of making stuffed bell peppers and as a special treat, introducing Moira to chocolate fondue.

Ground pork, onions, fresh garlic, chopped up bits of the bell pepper caps, rice, and pecorino romano cheese... mmmmm, they were awesome. Used a red, a yellow, and an orange pepper - they were out of greens at the grocery store, for which I am grateful, actually. Moira actually almost cleaned her plate!

The fondue was a huge hit. We had strawberries, bananas, cheesecake, marshmellows, and Lorna Doone cookes (why have I not had these before? As a shortbread addict, these are dangerous) to dip. Tonight I had no doubt whose daughter Moira was; I think she liked the cheesecake best. Christian was fondest of the strawberries. He did actually manage to eat more chocolate than he ended up wearing, but I'm not sure by how much. :)

J has managed to poison himself with summer sausage. We're guessing that there was some sort of filler in it that is gluten related, because wow is he miserable.

It's 5:30 am, and I'm going to look for some new earphones for my deaf father to listen to the TV with that don't result in him damaging my children's hearing. Or maybe we'll take some of the expected profit from selling the house and buy him some @(#&@(#$ hearing aids!