Sometimes, I feel like a horrible wife. I love surprising the husband with dinner. I've been sick so I haven't cooked much. But, the other day, I felt well enough to throw a little something in the crockpot. I found a glorious recipe on pinterest for minestrone soup. It would have been really yummy. But, I went to class and forgot to turn the crockpot on low!
DANG IT! (Well, I thought a little more than that, but for the sake of sanity, I will be PG.)
I got home from school and it was a pile of mush! So gross! I dumped it out. So, we ended up having chicken enchilada soup from Costco for dinner, with avocado cut up in it.
The lessons to be learned here, is sometimes pinterest fails AND to always have back up dinner in the fridge or freezer somewhere like a frozen pizza or soup from Costco. If you are just newly married, then use one of those glorious gift cards someone has given you.
I'm always checking out food blogs for new recipes and don't understand how can their food look so perfect all the time? These bloggers carve creatures out of watermelons to fancy up their fruit plate, or the frosting on the cupcakes is absolutely perfect to the T with no hint of fingerprints.
Please tell me, that I will only get better at this…if not, maybe this just isn't my talent and I should pursue my domestic attempts somewhere else like in Karate, Acrobatics, Yoga…the list goes on and on.
It's times like these where I'm really thankful for my husband and his willingness to support me for richer and for poorer. Failing at cooking, especially while pregnant, is by far a very very emotional.
We would love to know some of your favorite EASY recipes, paste the link to a recipe in a comment below!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
DIY PROJECTS...
First off, everyone was so sweet to comment with all sorts of ideas on how to cure my pregnancy sickness. I guess I should clarify that pregnancy sickness can NOT be cured. We found that the biggest things to help me get over the hump of sickness were:
Try my hardest to sip on fluids.
Go get an IV of fluids if I'm not really succeeding at drinking fluids.
Vitamin B6 shots every couple days.
Here is a 16 week ultrasound picture of our baby! It kind of looks like an alien. Our midwife said, she thought she something BUT she kept saying "I'm not an ultrasound tech, so I could be totally wrong." We had a hunch it was a girl, but now we have absolutely no idea!
Hurry up 20 week May 8th appointment so we can know our baby's gender!
Anyways, Derek and I are slowly starting organize our apartment a little bit. We have a lot of things for being newlyweds. It's been interesting trying to find a spot for everything. We love doing a lot of DIY projects together, and organizing means just that.
I think I knew we would some sort of life-changing event happen and so last November, we invested in a nicer TV stand. It was a little beat up, so we decided to sand it down and paint it!
I LOVE bright colors. I have so many ideas for what I would love to do with my house one day. Lets just say, my kitchen will one day trump everyone else's. This TV stand will be project number 2 we have worked on together as a couple.
I think that working on projects together, makes you closer than ever. I really enjoy the time I get to spend watching my husband sand something…I think it is very manly! I'm not really sure what he thinks of me when I sweat, with my hair pulled back in a messy pony-tail, while painting a small crevasse. He probably dies over how attractive I look.
I'm not sure how many projects we will get in once we have our new born. We will probably be too tired to even think of doing any projects.
Anyways, I would love to hear some of the projects you have worked on with your spouse or even with your kids. We always love getting ideas for what we can do now and in the future together.
Thanks!
Check out our masterpieces below:
Try my hardest to sip on fluids.
Go get an IV of fluids if I'm not really succeeding at drinking fluids.
Vitamin B6 shots every couple days.
Here is a 16 week ultrasound picture of our baby! It kind of looks like an alien. Our midwife said, she thought she something BUT she kept saying "I'm not an ultrasound tech, so I could be totally wrong." We had a hunch it was a girl, but now we have absolutely no idea!
Hurry up 20 week May 8th appointment so we can know our baby's gender!
I think I knew we would some sort of life-changing event happen and so last November, we invested in a nicer TV stand. It was a little beat up, so we decided to sand it down and paint it!
I LOVE bright colors. I have so many ideas for what I would love to do with my house one day. Lets just say, my kitchen will one day trump everyone else's. This TV stand will be project number 2 we have worked on together as a couple.
I think that working on projects together, makes you closer than ever. I really enjoy the time I get to spend watching my husband sand something…I think it is very manly! I'm not really sure what he thinks of me when I sweat, with my hair pulled back in a messy pony-tail, while painting a small crevasse. He probably dies over how attractive I look.
I'm not sure how many projects we will get in once we have our new born. We will probably be too tired to even think of doing any projects.
Anyways, I would love to hear some of the projects you have worked on with your spouse or even with your kids. We always love getting ideas for what we can do now and in the future together.
Thanks!
Check out our masterpieces below:
(Our bedroom vintage dresser)
(And the yellow TV stand)
Thursday, April 3, 2014
What No One Tells You About Pregnancy...
First of all, the hubs and I thought of some extravagant way to announce this, but I have been feeling so sick that this little bit of writing, a picture, and a Facebook post on April Fools Day will have to suffice. Welcome to the reality of being 15 weeks pregnant. I never imagined that I would be pregnant so soon after getting married. Though I feel that this little lemon sized child couldn't have come at a better time. Finding out that I was pregnant came with a huge shock. We thought it would take a few months of trying to get pregnant, but this little one was anxious to come down right away..
Up until recently, having children scared me. The thought of raising an child to hopefully one day become an independent adult was a real, scary thought. However, since finding out that this little he/she/it (say that really fast) is in my stomach, I have realized that it is a privilege to rear a child. I also keep thinking how neat it is that Heavenly Father entrusts the husband and I to teach this child correct principles, values, and to nourish them physically and spiritually. It makes me feel indebted to God that he trusts me to be a mother.
Though at the same time, I keep wondering why I signed up to be a female in heaven. I thought pregnancy would be an absolute joy, but it's not. What husband and I have learned is that the first trimester, and perhaps the whole pregnancy, is the worst in the history of EVER. I have never been so sick in my life. I have been throwing up constantly. From IV's to Anti-Nausea medicine, everyone keeps telling me that it will all be worth it in the end once they place the little nugget in your arms. I just keep telling them (secretly, in my head of course) to shut up!! I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel yet.
I find myself getting frustrated. I tend to think that tomorrow I'll feel better. Tomorrow comes and I feel just as sick. My mother-in-law never got sick when she was pregnant and I look at her and wish I could say the same one day, "I loved being pregnant." Throughout this, I have gained a greater appreciation for my own mother. How did she get through her pregnancies, being so sick, especially when there were other kids around. I FEEL LIKE I CAN'T EVEN GET THROUGH THIS ONE! So, mom, you amaze me.
I puke. I feel so tired. My breasts hurt. I pee all the time. Acne is out of control. I cry over nothing. I am having really bad sciatic pain. I feel like I have permanent bruising on my arm from getting IV's. I'm so abnormally tired. I have gross tasting saliva in my mouth. I crave the strangest things…fish tacos…and then next thing I know, they are regurgitating out of my mouth. Talk about a bad taste! There have been so many days where I have just hung out in the bathroom with my blanket, right next to the toilet.
And ohhh, my poor husband. He has been the dishwasher, the laundry doer, the clothes folder, the bathroom cleaner. He does the grocery shopping and never fails to get the 12 pack of sprite each week that I desperately need. I feel that I can't contribute to anything because I can't really do anything. Pregnancy is over taking my life! I then start to feel down about myself and find that getting depressed is easy as ABC and 1-2-3.
The only thing I can contribute is attempting to take my progesterone, folic acid, and gigantic pre-natal pills every night. Darkness comes and there my sweet hubby is, coaching me through, trying to distract me, so I don't throw the pills back up. It's like running an emotional marathon every night. There have been numerous occasions where I just sit and cry to the husband because I think, "I CAN NOT DO THIS. I DON'T WANT TO BE PREGNANT. WHY DO I HAVE TO BE SO SICK? STOP MAKING ME SICK CHILD!!" The hubs just listens and rubs my back. But then, I have the thought, "I wouldn't have given you a child if I thought you couldn't handle this." So, then I feel somewhat comforted that I will get through this someway, somehow. But it's hard.
From all the women I have talked to, some women experience only part of these symptoms. Others experience none. And the lucky ones, such as myself, just get them all. Anyways, while I experience this trauma, I often find myself pleading with God to let me have a good, healthy baby and an easy delivery. Since my whole spine is fused, I can't get an epidural. This means, I have no choice but to give birth naturally. "Dear God, please make up for my pregnancy sickness (and my fused back) and let my delivery be easy!! Oh please, oh please!!"
Well, if you have any suggestions to help reduce some of my pain and sickness, please let me or the husband know. Let me rephrase that, let us know AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Thanks! Even though there are lots of things that I have not liked about being pregnant, the most important thing is that we are truly excited to have a baby.
(I guess I should mention there are a few positive things about pregnancy. My nails are growing really fast. My hair is a bit thicker. Seeing the baby on the ultrasound and listening to the heartbeat was surreal. However, so far, the cons outweigh the pros and my opinion of pregnancy is very negative.)
Up until recently, having children scared me. The thought of raising an child to hopefully one day become an independent adult was a real, scary thought. However, since finding out that this little he/she/it (say that really fast) is in my stomach, I have realized that it is a privilege to rear a child. I also keep thinking how neat it is that Heavenly Father entrusts the husband and I to teach this child correct principles, values, and to nourish them physically and spiritually. It makes me feel indebted to God that he trusts me to be a mother.
Though at the same time, I keep wondering why I signed up to be a female in heaven. I thought pregnancy would be an absolute joy, but it's not. What husband and I have learned is that the first trimester, and perhaps the whole pregnancy, is the worst in the history of EVER. I have never been so sick in my life. I have been throwing up constantly. From IV's to Anti-Nausea medicine, everyone keeps telling me that it will all be worth it in the end once they place the little nugget in your arms. I just keep telling them (secretly, in my head of course) to shut up!! I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel yet.
I find myself getting frustrated. I tend to think that tomorrow I'll feel better. Tomorrow comes and I feel just as sick. My mother-in-law never got sick when she was pregnant and I look at her and wish I could say the same one day, "I loved being pregnant." Throughout this, I have gained a greater appreciation for my own mother. How did she get through her pregnancies, being so sick, especially when there were other kids around. I FEEL LIKE I CAN'T EVEN GET THROUGH THIS ONE! So, mom, you amaze me.
I puke. I feel so tired. My breasts hurt. I pee all the time. Acne is out of control. I cry over nothing. I am having really bad sciatic pain. I feel like I have permanent bruising on my arm from getting IV's. I'm so abnormally tired. I have gross tasting saliva in my mouth. I crave the strangest things…fish tacos…and then next thing I know, they are regurgitating out of my mouth. Talk about a bad taste! There have been so many days where I have just hung out in the bathroom with my blanket, right next to the toilet.
And ohhh, my poor husband. He has been the dishwasher, the laundry doer, the clothes folder, the bathroom cleaner. He does the grocery shopping and never fails to get the 12 pack of sprite each week that I desperately need. I feel that I can't contribute to anything because I can't really do anything. Pregnancy is over taking my life! I then start to feel down about myself and find that getting depressed is easy as ABC and 1-2-3.
The only thing I can contribute is attempting to take my progesterone, folic acid, and gigantic pre-natal pills every night. Darkness comes and there my sweet hubby is, coaching me through, trying to distract me, so I don't throw the pills back up. It's like running an emotional marathon every night. There have been numerous occasions where I just sit and cry to the husband because I think, "I CAN NOT DO THIS. I DON'T WANT TO BE PREGNANT. WHY DO I HAVE TO BE SO SICK? STOP MAKING ME SICK CHILD!!" The hubs just listens and rubs my back. But then, I have the thought, "I wouldn't have given you a child if I thought you couldn't handle this." So, then I feel somewhat comforted that I will get through this someway, somehow. But it's hard.
From all the women I have talked to, some women experience only part of these symptoms. Others experience none. And the lucky ones, such as myself, just get them all. Anyways, while I experience this trauma, I often find myself pleading with God to let me have a good, healthy baby and an easy delivery. Since my whole spine is fused, I can't get an epidural. This means, I have no choice but to give birth naturally. "Dear God, please make up for my pregnancy sickness (and my fused back) and let my delivery be easy!! Oh please, oh please!!"
Well, if you have any suggestions to help reduce some of my pain and sickness, please let me or the husband know. Let me rephrase that, let us know AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Thanks! Even though there are lots of things that I have not liked about being pregnant, the most important thing is that we are truly excited to have a baby.
(I guess I should mention there are a few positive things about pregnancy. My nails are growing really fast. My hair is a bit thicker. Seeing the baby on the ultrasound and listening to the heartbeat was surreal. However, so far, the cons outweigh the pros and my opinion of pregnancy is very negative.)