Ben and Finn

The Spronk Brothers met for the first time today.

Phineas Jon Spronk

Phineas Jon Spronk was born Nov. 24 at 6:15 PM; 7 lbs 2 oz, 20 inch. Keri and Phineas are doing fine.

The Baby Is Coming

We should have a baby by Monday night if not before. My doctor was gracious enough to just schedule me in and get this over with. Since my employer seems to not want to give me anything to do, I have been using my time this week to continue cleaning, rearrange the closet a bit (again), try to keep on top of dishes and laundry (it could happen before Monday, you never know) and spend more time playing with Ben. This has been a very long week and probably the worst to not keep me busy. I just keep finding things to do, though.

Jon was finished with finals on Wednesday and is enjoying some leisure time. He put up Christmas lights along the wall last night and Ben just loved them. Jon turned all the other lights off and walked around with him. Ben would say ooh along with his dad. When Jon put him down, he followed the lights along the wall just looking at them. He must be learning a lot of B words, because he kept repeating bbbbbbb as he pointed, despite Jon repeating the word lights.

So just a couple days to go. Stay tuned for pictures next week...

My Recipe

Since it was suggested to me to update my blog, and since I have nothing terribly exciting to share except that the Vikings actually beat the Packers yesterday and I actually got to see it, along with a dusting of snow, here is my recipe that the Huisvrouw asked for.

Chicken and Stuffing

4-6 chicken breasts
2-3 slices American cheese
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 box chicken stuffing, prepare as directed

Put chicken in 9 x 13 pan. Cover each breast with half a slice of cheese. Pour soup over all of this and then layer stuffing on top. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake another 15 minutes. (I cut my cooking time a bit as my oven runs hot and dries out the chicken.)

World Meat-Eaters Day

Today, Nov. 1, is World Vegan Day, a day in which to celebrate all things vegan. A part of me wants to start a holiday for meat eating. But then I thought, many of the major holidays revolve around meat: Thanksgiving = Turkey (or Baby Backribs if you are a Spronk); Christmas and Easter = Ham; Passover = Lamb; Fourth of July = Brats, Hot Dogs, and Hamburgers on the Grill; Arbor Day = Hickory or Mesquite Smoked Ribs (OK, maybe that is also just a Spronk thing). So if vegans want their own holiday that's fine. Meat Eaters get to celebrate all the rest.
Jon


P.S. the picture is of the USDA PRIME Ribeye steaks that we had tonight for World Vegan Day. The steaks were awesome. Would have converted any die-hard Vegan.