….because that’s what my whole life is about. 
Don’t get me wrong, Jay and I never hate getting nice things for ourselves, but I never can gather enough ~caring~ to do adult gift guides besides house/kitchen stuff. Our interests kind of drive our gift desires, anyway, so if I were to make an adult gift guide it would pretty much be the entire list from the Kitchen Gift Guide plus a few golf things for Jay and free babysitting.
Someone come babysit twice a week for free, please. …
GUYS GUYS GUYS. 
This is my way of shopping this weekend without actually shopping. You know? I want so much to take advantage of every.sale (because you can’t save money if you don’t spend money, that old chestnut), but I don’t need a thing and our house needs to be organized and emptied and NOT filled with more things. But you should definitely be shopping for the cooks in your life! Or maybe…people who need to start cooking a little bit more? People who like hanging out in the kitchen and letting other people cook for them? You know your audience.
I love kitchen gifts because they can be food cooks or non-cooks depending on what you get (there’s frozen pizza on here!), and everyone 1. eats and 2. has a kitchen. So! Here are some of my favorite things + things I’d be thrilled to get. They aren’t sponsored at all, just things I’ve bought for myself or have my eye on and would love to get.
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Today we have a gift idea! 
A gift idea that was gifted to us once, in fact. Once, long ago, while I was pregnant with Beck, Jay broke his leg in three places on the first day of vacation. It was horrendous, and he still is dealing with pain from the injury and planning to have a third surgery to do some more correcting of what can only be described as a crappy first attempt at fixing him.
In those early weeks of healing, one of my yoga students at the Y brought this meal to me one day at the gym. It was SO good and one of the most thoughtful things she could have done. The end result was a salmon salad with orzo, but she packaged everything separately and cooked the components perfectly so that the salad was great cold and we could mix and match to make plates exactly the way we wanted. I created a version and love this idea for a gift for someone who needs it, but it’s also great to prep on the weekend and have for lunches and dinners all week. The salmon DOES get slightly fishy when eaten cold, so you could definitely cook the salmon right at the last minute or even sub chicken, but I don’t mind the cold salmon flavor at all.
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Guys. 
I have talked so.much. about how I got a new camera this year, and it has changed so much on this website, in freelance work I do, and just in for-fun pictures that I can take so much more easily with a camera that takes such great pictures. My last camera was old, tired, and needed a lot of coaxing and perfect light to produce anything close to great images. …
Emphasis on KITCHEN, guys.
One of my favorite types of gifts to give is house-type stuff – slightly fancier items that people may not buy themselves, but that are so enjoyable to have around. These aren’t in any particular order or theme, but they are things that we use in the kitchen and around the house day-in and day-out, with a few items that we (me) are hoping for in the coming months! Basically this is me planning my birthday. Almost all of it comes from Amazon, so it can still be here WAY in time for Christmas with no need to battle the crowds on your part. …