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I know yesterday was all about the house and I promise not to spend the entire month going through it room by room for gratitude material, but today I am specifically happy for my kitchen. I spent most of the morning cooking up a storm and it made me happy.  Truly ridiculously happy.  I have my cooking mojo back!

From the first time I saw it, I loved this kitchen.  It's FAR from perfect (plain white builder's tile with gray grout on the counters, even uglier tile on the floors), but the layout is excellent.  It's basically one big kitchen-family-room combo.  The kitchen sink gives a view of the yard and I can stand at the center counter and watch the kids play in the family room (or watch Oprah while I chop vegetables).  It's not giant, but it's roomy enough that I finally found the need to employ Rachael Ray's "Garbage Bowl" concept because the constant back and forth of walking to the pantry to throw stuff away was getting annoying.  Today I made two lasagnas, a caesar salad and two trays of homemade twisty bread sticks without running out of counter space. 

All that AND the dishwasher actually works more than 50% of the time.  The only person more grateful than me is Dave.