The McAffee Update

After all the crazy medical issues and events this last year (broken arm, gall bladder surgery, food poisoning, piece of wood through Dan's hand and finger, and his dad passing away.) Dan passed his Pharm Class with flying colors and we are excited to move on to the next step in his schooling.

Right now he is studying for Boards, teaching himself how to type, keeping up on the honey dew list I give him and getting over this cold/bronchitis he has had on and off since January.

Dan will begin his 3rd year of Medical school in June with his summer classes and take his boards in July and will begin Rotating in the Fall.

I have been keeping busy with work at UTI and with Pampered Chef. (For those of you who don't know I got a job working at Universal Technical Institute. I process the enrollments for future students.)

We both keep pretty busy with our church callings(Dan is a primary teacher and Melissa is the Choir director) and our hobbies. We are also enjoying the beautiful spring Arizona weather and hope that it will be a long spring.

Hot Plate

I made some beef pot pies yesterday with the leftover roast. For dinner tonight we were keeping it low key and decided to just eat all of the leftovers we have in the fridge. I couldn't find a container that fit the pot pies so I put seran wrap on it an put it in the fridge. Dan's asked if the plate was oven safe. so he could heat up the pot pies and not dirty any extra dishes. He is very thougthful.

I told him Yes. HOWEVER, you will need to be extra careful with the plate when it comes out of the oven. Dan then gave me this look, " well yeah, hot plate of course I am going to be careful."

The timer went off to check the pot pies, he got a hot pad to take the plate out of the 350 degree oven. All is well right. he put the plate on the stove to cool and went to get the rest of his dinner ready, fork, drink, etc.

He decided to grab everything for dinner (fork, drink, hot plate of food). Forgetting the plate just came from the oven; he picked up the plate. In mid-stride realize the plate was scorcthing hot not having time to put it on the counter, tossed the plate.

I have never seen a correl plate shatter and I have dropped many on my day. Needless to say the plate shattered into a million tiny pieces and we did not have pot pies for dinner.

It's never a dual moment in the McAffee household. Luckily, Dan does not have a career that requires the use of his hands :o)

The Misadventures of a Potato Lover

We found an 8 pound bag of potatoes on sale, so Melissa decided that she wanted to have mashed potatoes for dinner. We were going to have a roast the next day so she thought it would be a good idea to make a little extra. Peeled, chopped and rinsed. Things were going well. The salt shaker was empty and put in the sink to be wash; so she decided to open up the salt container and just give it a small shake into the pot. The first shake didn't really give much so  .   .   .  she decided to give it a second shake.  .   .   .   .  Well the second shake was a  little bit much. Needless to say we ended up making the full 8 pound bag of Potatoes to even out the salt content.

She could of just said she wanted potatoes all week with out the drama :)