The kids are in bed. We put them to bed closer to 6:30 tonight, a Saturday night. They played hard today, and they needed it...and I needed it. Stan is at the Priesthood session of conference. And I am here, on my couch, with college football on the TV.
I realized that my last few posts have not been that informative on our lives. I have kind of neglected this blog bc I have been much more focused on my recipe blog, which also means that I have been busy cooking. I am trying to keep a schedule, plan, menu, what have you. I really like having a plan. I like having all my ingredients on hand and not having to run to the store to get the 2 ingredients I need bc I have finally figured out what I want to make for dinner with the stuff I have on hand (minus those couple of things that I have to go to the store to get). Anyhow, the plan is: Sunday I make the plan, Monday I shop Wal-mart, I cook or eat leftovers all week, Weekend I go to Publix for a few sale items and any fill-in items I may need. - Stan is very appreciative of all my cooking. I don't mind it so much, pretty much bc I have a plan. So, that's one thing that's been going on in my life.
Another thing going on in my life is being pregnant. I am getting big. I am tired. I finally have one pair of pregnancy jeans that should help me through the next three months. This is my first winter baby and I haven't had to worry about preggo jeans in the past. I don't think any woman loves finding the perfect pair of jeans, but I always have huge issues. I am tall. They don't make too many maternity jeans in the tall area, and if they do, often times they are awkward on me. I ordered some from Old Navy, and they were too small. I found some Gap one on Ebay and they are great. Pregnancy is painful. My back often hurts, and there are other pains in other areas that I won't tell you about, but they hurt a lot. Although, there are ligament pains that I am used to being constant in other pregnancies that have not been that bad with this one, so that is good. It was those pains that made walking so horrible for me, but this time I can actually take a walk and it isn't too bad. I am just really slow.
I went yard-saling today with some pretty good success stories. I found a great glider that is usually super expensive for $20. It even reclines. I got some cute kid patio furniture for $2 that I might spray paint a cute color. I got some great shoes for Jake that are in great shape, but those actually ended up being too small. But hopefully baby boy can wear them one day, so I'll hold on to them for 5 years.
I made curtains. My house finally has 1 set of curtains. If you're friends with me on facebook, you can check them out. And thanks to Pintrest.com, I have made hand soap, made a soap dispenser out of a mason jar, made a prayer jar for the kids, have ordered cool lids that you can put on plastic bags (that probably doesn't make sense but they are cool), I've ordered jar sealer attachment for my foodsaver, then realized my foodsaver didn't have the port I needed, then ordered a new foodsaver off of ebay. (I saw that same foodsaver at a yard sale today for $5, and a part of me died.) Although, I got a good deal on mine too. I spray painted a cute shelf that is now in my living room, and it helps control the kids' book collection that is out of control. But I kinda like having lots of kid books around.
I took Kate out of the state funded Pre-K program and put her in at the Methodist church right down the street. This solved my huge problem of having to wake up Brooke, to leave early, to sit in carpool forever bc I have to be first in line bc I had to rush home and be at the bus stop when Jake got off...and that I often still missed. I would have to call my mom and have her hurry there to get him. It was frustrating. Now she gets out at noon, I put Brook down for a nap, and then I am home when Jake gets here. It is so nice when a solution is found that makes life run so much more smoothly. This is part of the reason I have my kids enrolled in 0 extra activities. I am sure I will have them in more things one day, but they are young. I love having them at home. It makes it much easier to have meals at home, have FHE, and have them in bed at the same time every night.
Are you still reading?? I am impressed if you have gotten this far in all my rambling. You must be a true friend. But chances are that if you are one of my true friends, that you already know close to 90% of all I have already said. But chances also are that if you know a lot of this stuff that I like you.
I love that it is cooler. It makes being pregnant a little more bearable. I have my door open as I type this and the temp outside is 58 degrees. It makes my toes a little chilly, which is 5000 times better than being hot. I LOVE it! What I don't love is that Clemson is beating Viginia Tech. C'mon Hoakies!
We took the kids to Partner's Pizza in between conference sessions today. It made me realize how much I enjoy my kids and that they aren't all toddlers anymore. They were silly, but not out of control and screaming. And a cup of water got spilled, but that was actually Stan's fault and not one of the kids. It was quite pleasant. And we went on the golf cart which was so nice since it was a little cooler.
Ok, so that is my life. I am behind on cleaning, and laundry. I am finally getting out the kids warm clothes. I lay on the couch a lot. Stan is my third and fourth arm and is over the top more helpful than I deserve. He really picks up my slack. Mostly, he is great at picking up and straightening up, which I relaly appreciate bc bending over for me suck about 1/2 of the entire energy I have in my body. Getting off the couch take up 75% of my energy. Ok, so not literally, I just have a hard time being as agile as I normally am.
I really am rambling. I'll be done now. 10 points to you for finishing.