Sunday: Leftover hamburgers I made on Friday with the George Foreman Grill.
Monday: Hotdogs, baked beans, slaw and chili
Tuesday: tuna pasta casserole
(Busy day we have, we need easy Classical Conversations today !)
Wednesday: baked chicken, rice, green beans
Thursday: We may have waffles, turkey sausage and fruit
Friday: homemade pizza
I need to make this week: homemade yogurt
Food may change depends on my exhaustion, nausea and third trimester mood swings.
There is no food waste to report today. My poor starving family, will gladly eating whatever I cook and going back for more if available. The nausea with cooking and eating is just as strong now in the third trimester as it was in the first. So cooking is very difficult because it makes me so queasy. It takes hours to calm.
They were happy I finally went to the grocery store, to do my Saturday Groceries shopping, on Wednesday. We were without fresh produce several days. We sorely missed them. My little guys love their baby carrots at lunch with their sandwiches. I love my apples in my oatmeal. Salads with dinner and lunch. We are so blessed. Our refrigerator contains possibilities of lovely healthy snacks and mini meals.
Our 8-year-old Cat Kiki died in the wee hours of the morning.
I did not think she had long left. She was not herself after disappearing for about 4 days. She has never left more than 24 hours.
Kiki loved her food and was never one to miss a meal. She would actually come to the back door on the deck and “beg” for her food. If we forgot to set her food out or fed her late she would get a major attitude with us and get really “lippy”- her meow would sound like she was really chewing us out and letting us know, “This is not okay. I need to be fed on time!!”
She loved our entire family. Even Noah, who would make her dance with him and Jesse who liked to love her a bit to hard, like squeezes instead of hugs.
We were given Kiki when she was newborn, when I had new baby Samuel. I believe someone had accidentally squished her in their garage door. She had what appeared to be a broken tail. We had her checked out by a vet, but she could not find anything really wrong with her. We had her shots given, and spayed when she was cleared by vet for surgery.
Kiki would frequently regurgitate some of her food, but we thought it was because she ate so fast. We did tell the vet. She weight fast and was a portly cat all of her life until this past 2 weeks.
She was just an animal, but she sure felt like part of our family and will be sorely missed. Little Miss Spunk!
“Start by making your own home a place where happiness and love abound, through your love for each member of your family and for your neighbour. Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really love their homes.
On Sunday Night we had rain, sleet, and then snow. It was an interesting night considering we just had summer-ish weather just a few days prior.
I think our cat Kiki may be on her last life. She had disappeared for about 4 days. This is a big deal, Kiki was a little pig and never missed a meal. She came home, very thin, sickly looking and quiet. She barely eats and is sleeping a lot. She is well hydrated. Kiki, normally a “chatty” cat, has been really quiet. I am not quite sure what to think about her right now.
She is 8 years old and was given to us shortly, like a week after, I birthed Samuel.
I have an overwhelming case of the “sleepies” lately. I don’t know if it is normal late pregnancy tiredness or if something is wrong, if I am missing a much-needed vitamin or need more iron or what?
I crave a date with my husband. He has been blessed with some much-needed overtime lately. We needed the money so it is right on time. It has also cause a sacrifice of us time. So I miss him. We need to reconnect soon. Preferably before baby is born.
Almost daily, I secretly wish for someone to come help me sort through my home and cart things off to GoodWill or Kidney Foundation. I also secretly hope for premade meals about once per week, especially on my super exhausted days.
I don’t like to complain, but I really need help these last months of pregnancy. I feel people who fail to help or tell me about how I got myself into this, simply lack compassion, it should not matter which number your baby is, as to whether you deserve help or not.
Confession: I REALLY needed our break from Classical Conversations this week to sleep in and regroup! Although, I terribly miss everyone!
Random thought:
It is easy to think grander of yourself than you ought, especially when your standard of comparison is mediocre.
Saturday: Leftover hamburgers I made on friday with the George Foreman Grill.
Sunday: Beef Kielbasa, cabbage and rice
Monday: French toast from some old french loaves, eggs
Tuesday: Fried Flounder, mashed potatoes, green beans
(No Classical Conversations today !)
Wednesday: baked chicken, rice, corn
pinto beans and rice for me 
Thursday: We may have waffles, turkey sausage and fruit
Friday: homemade pizza
I need to make this week: homemade yogurt, and pumpkin chocolate chip muffins
I am using the crockpot method for making the yogurt. I only make 1/2 gallon at a time since I have been on bedrest and I have weight lifting restrictions.
No food waste to report this Friday. I believe I cheated again.
Barely cooking, barely shopping. Some days I cooks to late.
Breakfasts are mostly cold. Lunch is cold sandwiches and dinner I cook late.
I have majored in napology this week. I seem to either be overwhelmingly tired or overwhelming hungry. Maybe it has something to do with being seven months pregnant and feeling slow and huge?
I have too many plans for dinner but I really want someone to bring us dinner already cooked and paper plates so I don’t have any dishes to wash and can sleep more. Most days by the end of the day I am quite deliriously exhausted. I haven’t been enforcing undone chores. I have been too tired to parent, I have been asleep. When I notice undone things, my people are away at their activities: Community College,Part time job or basketball practice or some other important cause. Maybe if I insisted on everyone doing their share, I will be less tired and have more time to be Mom.
God has smiled on me today and blessed me with a little something I love.
Fiesta for $2.87
Saturday: Homemade pizza; cheese and pepperoni ,homemade applesauce( I have some apples that are not food waste but too soft to enjoy fresh)
Sunday: Friday I made homemade hamburgers on my George Foreman Grill. We have lots leftover that we will eat today.
Monday: We may have waffles, turkey sausage and fruit
Tuesday: Beef Hotdogs, Baked beans, slaw, chili
(Classical Conversations Day , we need an easy dinner!)
Wednesday: grilled or baked chicken, rice, corn
pinto beans and rice for me 🙂
Thursday: tuna salad, or tuna macaroni salad and fruit
Friday: Fried Flounder, mashed potatoes, green beans
I need to make this week: homemade yogurt, special request for pumpkin chocolate chip muffins
I am using the crockpot method for making the yogurt. I only make 1/2 gallon at a time since I have been on bedrest and I have weight lifting restrictions.
I am thrilled to report NO food waste this week. I feel as if it was a cheat week. I cooked way less lunch and breakfast meals. We had the basket ball tournament this week,two day of two hour physical therapy sessions and a couple of days of running various errands. I did NOT feel like a stay at home mom this week. I did not make either our batch of yogurt or pumpkin muffins.
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