Baby “Bump”, Graduation, Food (again!)
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Now that I’ve got the “baby bump” (two weeks earlier than with E!), I’m looking for new maternity clothes. I was much further along come summer with E, so my shorts all have the purple panel on them and my shirts are for further along too…I don’t have the belly yet to fill them up so I end up just looking fat & frumpy. I’m going out shopping Wednesday, I think. I would like a couple pair of capris plus a few shirts. I ordered a few Belly Huggers, so I’ll be able to wear some of my current shirts a bit longer with the layered look (and they’ll be great for nursing, replacing some of the tanks I used with E). I just don’t like shopping, though. I don’t feel like I know what looks good on me. I’d love to have a personal shopper! Store selection is somewhat limited too. We have Kohl’s (cute but tiny section), Target (but their maternity section is NOT good!), Motherhood Maternity (I don’t like some of their business practices, so I try to avoid it) plus the standard department stores. I haven’t tried any of those yet. I’m not a fan of ordering clothes online since I can’t try them on first but I think I may have to this pregnancy.
Jim graduates IOBC (Infantry Officer’s Basic Course) Thursday. Last one & he can officially serve as an officer. Woohoo! Jim’s parents are coming in tomorrow night, my dad Wednesday night & SIL Thursday. (Only my dad is staying with us.) Three schools down, two more (hopefully) to go! He’s going to Airborne right after graduation and Ranger at the end of the month. I am NOT looking forward to that one. If he completes it his first time through, that is 63 long day. And missing our 20-week ultrasound. :( Good preparation for the next deployment, I suppose.
So another meal question….rib prices are up, so I decided to scrap that idea. I think we’re going to do a burger bar instead. Besides lettuce, tomato, pickle, ketchup, mustard, red onion, bacon & sauteed Vidalia onions, anything else? And what should I do as a side? I thought about some potato wedges and corn on the cob. Any better ideas? I’m not a fan of mayo-based potato salads but I’d be open to other ones, I just don’t have any recipes. And sundae bar ideas. We’re doing that Thursday after the graduation reception. I’m planning on making a vanilla custard, chocolate and then something else. Maybe a butter pecan as both of our dads like pecans. But what to put on top? I have nuts, chocolate syrup & caramel syrup. What else?
Dan & Doughnuts
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Be still my heart…I got to watch Dan on MSNBC last night! He was hosting Scarborough Country for Joe. I miss Dan Abrams & his show. I used to e-mail him/his show. I even had a couple e-mails read on air. I :puffy heart: Dan.
Does your grocery stores have a salad bar? I was thinking about this last week. One of my weird pregnancy things is that I crave salad bar salads. There was one chain in WA that had salad bars but it wasn’t convenient to me. None of the stores here have salad bars anymore. One location of the stores I shopped when we were in IL had a bar but not the other locations of the same chain. I think only one store in my hometown has a salad bar anymore. Are they a total thing of the past now?? With all the ready-to-eat foods in the stores now, I’d think salad bars would do good. Mom stops at the store on the way home, picks up some bread from the bakery, an entree and then makes a big salad. I miss salad bars!! (I ended up taking E on a date to Ruby Tuesday.)
So plans have changed for Jim’s graduation. They are having a reception, so I don’t have to do dinner after all. We’ll still do one on Friday night. Instead of shish kabobs, I’m thinking we’ll do ribs, loaded smashed potatoes, a salad and maybe some grilled corn on the cob.
And that brings me to my next question. I’m thinking about making doughnuts one morning. I want to do yeast doughnuts. I’ve only made cake ones in the past. Has anyone out there made yeast doughnuts? With the amount of time it needs to raise…well, that puts my day starting early! I thought about making them the night before but I really want that hot, fresh taste. I thought about making them but cutting the frying time down a couple minutes and then finishing them in the morning. Or I thought about making the dough and putting it in the fridge overnight. But I’m not sure how either would do. I’m planning to make some regular glazed ones, chocolate iced using Alton’s recipe and maybe some maple iced. And then I’ll have nuts & maybe sprinkles too. Yum.
Getting Red out of Carpet
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Any brilliant ideas?? I have no idea when this happened or what it is. The last time I had red drink in the house was December and I don’t remember spilling anything (and I can’t imagine I wouldn’t have cleaned it up!). DH has red Powerade sometimes but never sits in the chair it was near. (I just discovered it when I moved the end table.) I’ve tried Resolve Spot Magic (my go-to), some stain cleaner in a blue can from the automotive section, Oxi Clean, water & Dawn and even a bit of gentle bleach (it helped some but I don’t want to use it since my carpet isn’t pure white). I remember Wal-mart used to carry a selection of stain fighters targeted to different types of stains but my Wal-mart doesn’t carry them & I can’t find them in any other store.
Details
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As Cory observantly noticed, I posted the last post in ‘being sick’ and for good reason. The last couple days have actually been pretty good. Last I weighed in, I was down six pounds. Nausea, vomiting, extreme sensitivity to food smells, food aversions, aversions to chewing…the first trimester isn’t my friend! I’ve thrown up less (knock on wood) than I did at this point with E but I’m WAY more sensitive to food smells.
A few weeks ago I started having weird dreams, thinking food smelled off and threw up twice (on different days). I didn’t really think much about it. Jim jokingly asked if I was pregnant. Since we’d been trying for almost a year without anything happening, I thought he was nuts. So to prove him wrong, I took the test. He had come home early that day and was taking a shower, so i went upstairs and handed him the test (in the shower). And then I sat down in utter shock. When I’m not busy being sick, I’m still in that state.
Due date is up in the air. According to my LMP, I’m due at the end of December. But my cycles are rather funky and I think I had more like a 60-day cycle, not a 28-day cycle. So that would put me at the end of January. They’ll date it at our 20-week ultrasound.
Elizabeth is ecstatic. She is SUCH a baby lover & nurturer. She talks about the baby non-stop. She has plans to nurse the baby (oh, how helpful that’d be!), change the diapers (she wants to do dirty ones, not wet ones) and for the baby to sleep in her bed.
Instead of waiting until after the first trimester again, we decided to go ahead and tell the news. Last time I was about 14 weeks before we told. Our families are, of course, thrilled.
I have a lot of concerns that I’m not really ready to go into right now. A lot. But right now I’m trying to focus on staying out of the bathroom, staying awake through the day (not easy w/E’s night sleep) and getting through the next few weeks.
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