We've had a very big week around the De Leon household. On Tuesday Teri left town for the first time since Vin was born. She went to Atlanta to the Women in Foodservice Forum conference and went to Richard Blaise's restaurant Home. Those of you who watch Bravo's Top Chef know who I'm talking about. Now, while Teri is off with chefs and eating great food I was braving my first days without her. Luckily James lives "two doors down" and so I'm never really alone. He came over with Jefferey and Bob on Tuesday night and made us quesadillas and then the nicest thing of all... he emptied my dishwasher. Who knew that something so simple and domestic would make me so happy. Who knew that I would find it impossible to do this myself. We love James!!


On Wednesday we went to lunch with Uncle Mat to a great bbq joint called Hard 8. For those of you in Dallas I highly recommend this meat joint. Afterwards made a visit to the new Mrs. Paul Travis aka Marilyn Murphy. Then on Thursday Teri returned (yea!!) and she took over Mommy duties so I could get some school work done. But the greatest part of the week was dinner at Blue Mesa. Last night they kicked off their corn festival with a Corn Buffet featuring Corn Fritters, Southwest Succotash, Corn Cakes, Pork Tenderloin with a Warm Corn Relish, Corn Crusted Grouper Tacos, Shrimp and Corn Skewers with Pomegranate Chile Glaze, Chimayo Market Corn and Sweet Corn Upside Down Cake with Mangos, Peaches and Blackberries.

This I know is true: Teri loves Vin, Corn, the color Orange and Me, and in that order. We had a wonderful time and couldn't resist getting our picture made with the corn. Actually, we were taking Vin's picture in the corn crate when a fairly drunk woman insisted on taking our picture too. She grabbed an ear of corn and stuck in down my shirt. Who was I to resist this photo opportunity!

When we got home Michael had left a decorative bag of apricots on our front door. I love it when people leave presents on the front porch!

To finish up our week, we went to Brinker's home office today to show off the boy. Whew... I'm exhausted!