Kitchen Dreams

     I recieved my first kitchen set today/yesterday.  I am so ecstatic to have a kitchen table and chairs!  A friend of my family was getting rid of this great dinette set and I snatched it up!  As you can see in the picture, It's an awesome color of green, with super retro green vinyl chairs to match!  Everyone has teased me because of how much I love the look of them.  They're vintage!

     Matt and I sat at our new kitchen table for the first time tonight and ate dinner.  This was the first time we have EVER done this.  It felt great to sit down to a meal that I cooked at my very own kitchen table.  I feel silly for how excited I am about it, but I just can't help myself! Yahoooo!  I made some really yummy fettucine alfredo and sauteed shrimp.  The shrimp themselves weren't that great quality, but I still enjoyed every bite because I was eating in my new kitchen!  We had the window open and the breeze rolling in from the 70° evening made this a meal to remember.  Not that the meal itself was spectacular (although, I must say, I'm an awesome cook) but the situation surrounding the meal made it a perfect Sunday.

     Granted, we did have a kitchen table before this green one.  When we first moved into this apartment, we had almost zero furniture besides our bed and a couple dressers and a bookcase (because everyone knows I must have somewhere to store all my books!).  Matt's parents happened to find a kitchen table at a curb somewhere, and knowing that we didn't have one, grabbed it for us.  Turned out that it was really rickety and kind of scary to lean on, but hey, any table is better than no table.  Our kitchen has virtually no counter space, so I really needed a table.  I am so happy to have this matching set now, instead of the rickety old wooden table we had for the past 9 months.  It's really starting to feel more like a home than any other apartment we have lived in since I've moved out of my parents' house.  I must be growing up.