Hi Little Eli,
Holy moly, are you as tired as your mom and dad are? I bet you slept right through it and now you will be up kicking me all night :) I think I am either getting my 2nd trimester burst of energy a little late or my nesting instincts a little early because I am miss Susie Homemaker. When I told that to your dad, he said "Does this mean that you will want to start cleaning?" Nope, I highly doubt that but good try on his part!
Yesterday, your dad and I went grocery shopping and I made a list of ingredients for lots of recipes. Tonight, we cooked them all up. We have enough food for weeks. See, we have to get prepared with some new recipes for when you are here. We will probably be too tired to cook, too broke to eat out and too lazy to bundle you up to take you out to dinner. Let's see what we made tonight -
Runza Casserole - 5 dinners worth
Pampered Chef Taco bake - 3 dinners worth
Chil - lots o' dinners worth
Quiche - lots o' breakfasts worth
Ham and cheese macaroni
Ham & Peaches packets - new recipe I found from Reynolds - 2 dinners worth
Chicken parm packet - 2 dinners worth
Chicken and potatoes packet
Chicken and pasta packet
Everything is all prepped up and just ready to be thrown in the oven. We left out 1 dinners worth of everything to eat over the next week/week and a half and the rest all went in the freezer. It was exhausting but I feel good knowing we truly don't need to eat out for a long time. All of those packet recipes are untested but if they are good, they were so easy and you will think I am a gourmet chef. I really do like to cook but I hate to clean up afterwards.
Our sugars were perfect today- gold star day. I switched out my oatmeal for quiche and ate good all day. Woohoo for us :) only 70 more gold star days required.
I forgot to tell you a few days ago that October is 1/2 over. I know, that is kind of a "duh" comment. But, when we first found out we were pregnant, we were terrified of the month of October. Not only was it the critical month for your development, it was the month that we had all the babies - 10/7 and 10/17. I tried to convince Dr. Bonehead to put me in a coma for the whole month so we could "skip" it. He didn't go for that. So, we woke up on 10/1 and tried to ignore the fact that it was October. Now, we are on the 19th and you are still cooking and you are a stage where you have a pretty darn good shot of making it.
I will leave you today with a little sweet story. Every day, your dad comes home from work and one of the first things out of his mouth is "How was Eli today?" or "How was baby boy today?" I imagine that this will continue when you are actually here too and I can tell him either you were a good baby or a rotten baby :)
