Loving Life

I don't have one concise subject to talk about today, so I'll just randomly share what's on my mind.  Aren't you excited? I had another baby check-up yesterday.  Everything is looking good.  However, I had to take my 1 hour glucose test while there.  They wanted me to take it early since I have very large babies, to make sure I don't have gestational diabetes or any other issues.  I never have with my previous three pregnancies.  I did have to take the three hour test with two of them, but I always passed.  I just apparently am a very good large baby maker.  My smallest child was 9lbs 5oz.  I'd be delighted with a baby under 9 lbs. My nausea is slowly decreasing.  I still don't feel great most of the time, but it's feeling like it's less.  I still have random food aversions and loves.  I've eaten about four salads in the past two weeks.  That makes me happy.  Usually, salads happened everyday in my life at this time of year, but I'll take w

I made myself a salad and ate it yesterday!  It was so exciting to eat a salad again!  Notice that I had to cover it with a sauteed chicken breast and sunflower seeds, but that is in fact a bed of lettuce underneath! It didn't taste too bad to me.  That made me happy. I couldn't bring myself to add other vegetables to it, but I'm hoping that will come.  I need to keep reminding myself to stop grocery shopping like I'm not pregnant.  My fridge has all sorts of lovely produce in it right now that I can't bring myself to eat.  Sigh.  This lettuce and spinach came from my garden, so that helped with the desire factor.  I also added in some fresh dill, parsley and a bit of mint from the garden too.  Yum!  I have also found that water is back to almost normal for me if I drink it with lots of ice and add a bit of lemon juice to it.  Thanks, Melanie, for the suggestion!  I've been taking walks during school time for the past few days.  It has been so lovely to be fre

I had a lovely weekend here in my little corner of the world.  My Friday was awesome.  It was the first time in weeks that I felt like a normal human full of energy with no nausea.  It was glorious.  I now have hope for the next week or so as I finish out this trimester that I will again feel human.  Let us hope that this pregnancy follows the example of my previous ones! I enjoyed my Mother's Day.  I have given Aaron permission to not stress about making the day perfect and buying my expensive gifts.  I really don't want  Aaron to buy me something because he "has to do it".  He's good at doing sweet things for me throughout the year just because.  Those mean WAY more to me than anything else.  I saw on the news that the average American spends $154 on Mother's Day.  Really?  That's the average person - which factors in people like us who don't do anything that costs money.  Wow!  The thing we did do was to hang out at my parent's house for lun

Aaron coaches middle school girls track and it's tradition that I make cheesecakes for his running teams at least once each season.  Since yesterday was the last official day of practice, I knew I had better get baking.  There are about 50 girls on his team, so I made a chocolate/vanilla marble cheesecake and a lemon/raspberry cheesecake.  I did have to take out a few small corner pieces for quality control purposes.  I also made about 4 dozen cookies for those weird girls who don't like cheesecake.  When Aaron came home, the only thing left out of all of that was three small squares of the lemon/raspberry cheesecake.  Since I'm pregnant, I  immediately claimed them for myself.  They were good! Yesterday was also Abby's birthday.  She is now a big six year old.  They went on a field trip at school for her birthday.  It was her first time of getting to ride a school bus, so she was really excited about that.  She is still loving school.  The other night she told me, &qu

Day one of full time school was a success for the girls!  They came home excited to tell me about what happened during their day.  It was fun to hear about all they did.  They even were excited about the bit of homework they had.  It sounds like they are learning to navigate the school and learn how things work.  Ana was very excited to have her own desk and a place to store her stuff.  And Abby got her own place to hang her supplies on her chair.  All of that made them each feel like they belonged instead of being a visitor.  Tomorrow's clothes are already laid out next to their backpacks in anticipation of another good school day.  Now onto things that are constantly on my mind - food.  I struggle in my first trimester of feeling good and enjoying eating.  It's usually a feeling of being sick if I don't eat, but feeling even sicker when I do eat.  I spend much time everyday trying to think of something that sounds good to eat.  The problem with that is that what sounds

Today is the big day!  The day when the girls begin their journey in public school!  There was a lot of excitement this morning as they got ready.  There was also a fair amount of nervousness too.  I've never gotten to do the whole obligatory pose with your backpack on your first day of school picture before.  But today is the day to make it happen!  So here you go - pictures of my two favorite girls on their first day of school. We went garage sale shopping last weekend and found a very nice backpack for Ana.  It has all sorts of pockets that she fell in love with.  It's always fun to get new school supplies! Here they are pretending to trudge to school. Their classmates were all excited to see them arrive.  One little girl in Abby's class had made her a little heart out of  pipe cleaners and was all excited to give it to her when she arrived.  I think they will have a good time and though the adjustment phase might be a little hard, they only have a few weeks left of sc

Today as I was walking into the house, something caught my eye that made me stop and come back to look a little more closely. This is one of the girls' little dolls that they like to play with.  When I asked why she was hanging by her feet submerged in the puddle I was told that she was being a "bad mom".  Should I be nervous about my future nursing home placement?  If I'm ever found hanging by my feet half submerged in a muddy puddle, you'll know who did it and why it was done.  I was a bad mom.  But I think this mom's infractions were more serious than mine - I couldn't get the full picture of her sins as there was too much giggling going on, but it sounded as if she was being equally mean to her children.  For the record, I have never tied my daughters up by their feet and left them half submerged in a muddy puddle.  I felt like I should clear the air on that one. And on a completely different note, here is a picture of the quilt I am making for Abby.