Hello me beauty!

For the past 15 months, I have been living with this in my kitchen:

It is a glasstop stove, and it is CRACKED.

I know I could have purchased a replacement for the cracked portion, but I wasn't really impressed with the performance before it cracked.  I hated the thought of spending money on something that didn't work well to begin with.

So I've been hemming and hawing, picking and choosing, changing my mind again.  Cooking with electric skillets and an electric kettle, I've been making do without the stove top (too scared to use the stovetop once it cracked).  But last week, I finally plucked up the courage and made a DECISION and purchased a stove.

Anyhoo, I far more excited about this appliance than a nice girl should be.  Isn't she loverly?

I have a roast in there right now & it smells heavenly.  I expect that the new stove will hit it off with this guy

and soon the house will be filled with lovely little baked offspring.  Good thing DH & I both work outside the home so we can offload some of the goodies!