In a world that is riddled with divorce, I'm feeling very blessed knowing that the young (and not so young) marriages in my immediate family are going strong.
Hooray for marriage!
What are you thankful for today?
Yay for Marriage!
Funny Hats
What does one do in those long weeks before a baby comes? The weeks where Mommy doesn't want to cook, clean, or do anything else other than Have This Baby.
We went to the mall and tried on funny hats about three days before Lexi was born. We walked a lot at the park, and took long naps. We went to story time at Barnes and Noble, and we wandered the toy aisles at Target.
We took pictures, ate out a lot more than usual, and waited. And we waited. And we waited.
What do you do when you need to kill time?
Randomness
Someone has slept through the nights three times in a row. This makes me very happy, for I can not function without sleep. I feel normal again, and that's a really nice feeling. I'm hoping she keeps it up.
I find Etsy mesmerizing. I want to buy some cute prints for my girls room and can't decide between these two shops:
or
Today our big plans involve making strawberry shortcake for dessert and finishing one load of white laundry.
It's amazing to me how this most recent pregnancy changed me into someone totally different. Everything I normally love doing I found repulsive or annoying (blogging, photography, coffee...) Perhaps it was a mixture of the pregnancy, being away from home, and not seeing the sun for what seemed like months on end, that left me feeling like an alien to myself. The moment, and I mean the very moment, she was born I felt like ME again.
Has that ever happened to anyone else?
Food Rules
I just finished reading a new book (on my new Kindle!) called Food Rules. Written by Michael Pollan, who was also involved in the making of Food Inc., a documentary I loved watching.
The book Food Rules is small, a quick read, but full of good advice, or rules, concerning what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, etc.
Some of my favorite rules were:
Rule Number 1 : Eat Food. (Hint: Hot Pockets are not real food.)
Rule Number 7: Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
Rule Number 11: Avoid foods that are advertised on television. (Ever seen a TV ad for fresh broccoli? I haven't)
Rule Number 18: Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
Rule Number 44: Pay more, eat less.
It was a good read full of common sense and has re-energized me in regards to what I cook for my family. The first few weeks after having a baby are always hectic and now that the dust is (kind of) starting to settle, I'm finding myself back in the kitchen doing what I love. Using my head to think about what I should feed my family, and then using my hands to make it.
One more thing, see that cool glass milk bottle in the picture above? It is filled with organic chocolate milk that we purchased (splurged on) from Whole Foods. My favorite grocery store. In. The. World.
I love that place.
Homemade Ice Cream Sandwiches.
Homemade chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate chip ice cream from Cold Stone makes one mean ice cream sandwich.
They were so satisfying on beautiful spring day here in Florida. The sun was shining, we ate outside with friends, Lexi fell asleep in my arms as the breeze floated by. These made the perfect dessert to end a perfect day.
From Where I sit
1. A sleeping baby
2. A blurry pile of diapers waiting to be folded
3. A coloring two year old
4. A four year old climbing into the closet
A regular day here.
My 3 Girls
If Lexi is not sleeping, she's eating. If she's not eating, she' s having her diaper changed. And in the few short minutes that she's awake, fed and changed, she is being held by her two older sisters.
The love her to pieces, and like to go on and on and on about her chubby cheeks, tiny toes and squishy ears.
We think it's fun having three pretty little girls, but Daddy is worried about having three pretty teenagers.
Sigh.
It will be here before we know it.
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