My New Toy!

I have a new toy!

Okay, it’s not really a toy – it’s a microwave. I’m excited about it, though. The counter top microwave that we got for our wedding nearly six years ago started sparking and buzzing every time I used it last week and the old, brown microwave above our stove has never worked as long as we’ve owned our house. Dale came over yesterday afternoon so the guys installed it with a little help from my brother-in-law, Nic.

I was in the middle of making turkey for supper when the guys came back and decided they should install it right away. So, we pulled the stove away from the wall and I ended up making the potatoes, peas, and stuffing in the middle of the kitchen. The new microwave is the same brand as the convection oven that Seth bought for me last year to replace the mustard yellow one that died while cooking a turkey (coincidence?) and they match perfectly. The only problem is that they show how yellow the white paint on our cupboards has become. The cupboards were originally a dark brown and we painted them white after we bought the house, but the paint has started to chip and two of the drawers are broken.

We also removed a cabinet to make room for the new dishwasher. Now that I have a dishwasher, I seriously have no idea how I even functioned without one. I could do without the gaping hole next to it, though.

So, now I just need to figure out a way to kill our cream/brown refrigerator, talk Seth into a Kitchen Aid stand mixer, and convince him that we need new (non-white) cupboards.

Something tells me it will probably involve turkey…