Recipe Collection

I am good at trying recipes. Good at documenting them and pretty good about documenting them on my blog, but have been looking for a way to get them printed. I hate writing them out on cards. I’d rather print them off so I can read them.  But then I end up with sheets of paper and printing them every time I make them. Plus I have a bunch of ones that I am finally admitting are not going to be made again (or ever)…

So now I am taking my favorites and converting them to cute printable 4×6 photo-sized cards.  I had them developed and stuck them in a little 4×6 pocket photo album. Perfect.

Here are a few…

Rosemary Ranch Chicken Kabobs

Lasagna

Sweet Restaurant Slaw

Here’s the link to all the one’s I’ve finished. Feel free to borrow or share. I will be adding more out here too… not done with all my recipes…

Full Term

I am now officially 37 weeks pregnant, which means I am full-term and this baby could come any time.  I am feeling pretty well – actually probably then I felt in December.  I think with Maria I was so ready to be done being pregnant at this point, but right now am not sure.  I think though there are several factors to this: 1 – it’s not 80 degrees like it was the spring I was pregnant with Maria, 2- I’m not completely hating my job and want to finish some things up, but probably the biggest reason is 3- My house is not ready!! :)

I still want to get the room completely ready and things sorted through. We aren’t changing the nursery, just moving Maria’s stuff out of it.  Most of that is done, but I haven’t completely unpacked the stuff that goes back in.  I finally got a load of newborn baby clothes washed, so hopefully can get those put away in the next few days.

One car has the carseat base installed, and I picked up a swing and papasan/bouncy this weekend (Craigslist find).  Still lots of cleaning and a bag to be packed! :)

OH! And getting Maria healthy!  Poor girl has an awful cold/virus.  Thought last night we were dealing with Croup.  But the doctor thinks it’s just a viral cold.  He did prescribe a cough suppressant to help her sleep (and help us sleep) but it means I’m taking yet another day off from work tomorrow!  Ugh!  Hopefully it doesn’t turn into an ear or eye infection!  Wish us luck!

Weekend Accomplishments

Friday night: Got Maria in bed after she had a fun-filled day with her aunt and cousins! Then I caught up on some TV. (Ugly Betty & Grey’s Anatomy)

Saturday: Dishes, Laundry, Lilah’s birthday party (despite the yuk weather), short nap and some good reading time, dreamt about the baby (including its sex – last time the one dream I had was right!)

Sunday: Bed, Bath, & Beyond + Target shopping with Maria, prepared lunch(!), resisted long nap (instead read and took short nap), made banana bread, made dinner(!), watched some football, moved Maria’s clothes into her big girl room closet and dresser, read some more!

TO DO: post/blog a new recipe and pictures from the weekend. lots more baby prep stuff (install car seat, laundry, prepare room (packing more of Maria’s stuff away)

A New Mess

Last week I attempted to clean. And felt really good about it, but this weekend we just seemed to take a big step backwards!

Partly due to having a new bed delivered and not having space for the old bed quite yet. I need to get rid of an old couch and then rearrange! So right now it is just kind of laying on top of that couch!

Then we pulled out the Christmas tree which caused us to rearrange the family room, and the other room already has an extra bed so it’s not quite ready to take on the extra “stuff” that the Christmas tree should displace.

But the bright side is that our garage got cleaned up this weekend (while we pulled out Christmas decorations!)

AND we got to play outside a little bit! Maria loved it and wants more snow!

Ready for Sledding!

Ready for Sledding!

Closet Cleaning

In our downstairs Amusement room (or 2nd family room) we have a large closet on one wall with nice shelves.  Yesterday it was full of crap.  RIght now it has much less crap!

  • I organized and got a bunch of craft stuff, including fabrics, sewing notions, beads, cardstock (from our wedding invites) and other various items ready to donate to ArtScrap (a re-use crafty store in St. Paul).
  • Plus I got rid of a bunch of boxes from old cell phones, cameras, and other electronics that for some reason we felt we needed (recycled).
  • Found a pile of manuals from our old computer (recycled).
  • Went through our board games decided since we don’t play a lot of board games that we could donate 1/2 dozen to a charity.
  • And decided that the gift bags from my baby shower had not been re-gifted in the last 2 1/2 years, so I listed those on freecycle and Craigslist!

And now I have a whole bunch of rubbermaid containers to re-fill!