memoirs for my daughters

There are some simple things that make me so very happy, one of them is seeing the milk pitcher full of almond milk and opening the cupboard door and seeing no empty glass jars. I got this wonderful glass pitcher on Amazon that is just perfect, it has a wide mouth so none on that trying to stick the scrubbie in with a fork to clean the corners and it has top that seals when you turn it so none of that sloshing milk when you inevitably have to shake the almond milk, and its big so fits over 2 liters of milk. I think I mentioned that I make our almond milk, its a simple enough procedure but its soaking the almonds, making sure I have the container clean and then I have to wash out the cheese cloth, its not a big deal its just one those things I have to do every few days so when I see the pitcher full, I know I have a break for a few days.   Seeing the glass jar cupboard empty means I have all the glass jars full of food in the freezer, which also means I don't have to cook for a f...

Again, I haven't posted for so long I have lots of catching up to do.  I had my first doctors appointment on the 21st of February-HUGE DISSAPONTMENT! I think most pregnant moms understand the joy of hearing your baby's heartbeat and seeing it squirm around on the ultrasound, it sort of connects you to your baby and makes all the awful sickness seem worth it.  Its my third baby so I know the ropes so to speak, I think I have reasonable expectations when it comes to my doctor, I understand that I am one of many patients and its a lot of routine questions for them but I do expect  them at least to pretend to be interested and make me feel at peace if everything is as it should be. All that to say, I was looking forward to hearing the heartbeat and knowing it was in the right place etc. I get to the office, thankfully my husband came with me as we were informed it would be a two hour visit where we would have an ultrasound, do blood work, see the doctor and discuss what our i...

I have been very negligent of my blog, I keep meaning to write but I just never seem to get around to it. Most days I feel like I am moving in slow motion, which is not the norm for me, now at 13 weeks pregnant I feel a little more energetic as in it doesn't take me 15 minutes to muster up the courage to get out of bed (seriously, me not being able to get out of bed???) never before, no matter how sick I felt or lazy or tired I have always been able to "rally" and just get up and get on with my day regardless of how I felt, but not now I would try and I was just not physically able, it was a very frustrating feeling. Thankfully now, it only takes me about 5 minutes so I'm improving, I tell my poor kids that they will survive this pregnancy, and it will be my last, I feel like such a failure of a mom most days, it might be better I am squirreled away at home so I won't get judged too harshly by other moms. I pray their eating habits are not destroyed forever and t...