Plugging away

I am trying really hard to be a "big person" about being pregnant. I think I have been fairly successful, for the most part. I am in my third trimester and I am beginning to feel it.  So, in the past few weeks (despite me not posting), we have done ballet on Tuesdays, swim lessons an Wednesdays and tumbling on Saturdays. While some weeks were better than others, menus were made and dinner was ready when we got home, or shortly thereafter. My shining moment menu-wise was BLTs. They were fabulous!  Anyway, I am starting to slow down. That said, this weekend I finished doing the cutting in on the nursery painting, they laundry is done and the menu is made. I'd share it with you, but that means I'd have to get off the couch :)

I'll do my best (I had to get up and check after Tuesday):

Today - leftovers. Jon was working plus it is super hot and, you guessed it, I don't have the energy to "make" a meal.

Monday - Stuffed poblanos. The pan was made a while back and has been frozen. Pop it in the oven and done!

Tuesday - baked cheesy chicken casserole. Supposedly it tastes like Olive Garden. 

Wednesday - Chinese:  homemade fried rice and frozen egg rolls. 

Thursday - tostadas. I have been craving these and I have no idea why. 

Friday - dinner at the Millers with Denisia's parents who are visiting.

Saturday thru Tuesday - Jon is on call so we are leaving him home alone and going Up North with my family. I am crazy. It will be exhausting without Jon.

That's it. I hope to finish painting the nursery this week including the "finishing touch". Don't worry, I will post pictures :). I hope it turns out well.

Have a great week!  Stay cool!

First day of Paul's last year..

Screw the menu I made yesterday - I just ordered Papa Johns pizza :)  Have a great weekend!!

ONE MORE YEAR!!

Dude.  Paul starts school tomorrow night. He's studying tonight...ggrr.  So, time to get back into the habit of making dinners NOT on the fly and cleaning my house - both which have been neglected the past five weeks or so and I don't care!  We had an awesome mini-summer with the family and I'm happy to have spent so much time doing fun stuff rather than doing crappy junk like cleaning my house and planning meals.

BY the way, I found a new love in Costco (do you have those?).  I buy most of my fresh food at costco these days.  Milk, eggs, bell peppers, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, fruit, etc is always in the fridge, always eaten for breakfast, dinner and  lunch and I just love it.  ADDITIONALLY, a few months ago my A1C was high (Boo diabetes) so I've been working at lowering it and yesterday my results from eating a  healthier lifestyle were huge and my A1C was a normal level this time.  WAHOO to that!!   I've been doing a food diary for almost a month now and really kind of love knowing exactly what I ate and how many calories and carbs I've been consuming - oh, and by the way, I'm down 5 more pounds since I started the diary...VICTORY!

Here we go.

Tonight:  Grilled Brats, Grilled Corn on the cob - because it was so dang nice outside!!

Tomorrow: Paul has school on Fridays - SUCKY!  We will likely have taco's and sit home twiddling our thumbs until he comes home because we won't know what to do.

Saturday:  My niece Kaylas 2nd birthday party - dinner is made by family!  Wahoo!!

Sunday:  Noonans over for dinner.  Grilled Bulger Bean burgers or Sweet Potato bean burgers - we will see if I have time to go get some Bulger or not since time is not on my side anymore (sniff, sniff). 

Monday:  Chef salads to use up the rest of the veggies from the fridge and that are ripe from our garden.

Tuesday:  I'm thinking some kind of adult-ish grilled melted cheese sandwich w/ tomatoes from the garden and good cheese and I'll make some pesto with our abundance of basil...yum!

Wednesday:  I don't know, I can't get off how good Tuesday sounds!  Maybe I will have leftovers and the boys can have pancakes.

Thursday: Garlic or ranch chicken.

Friday:  Meat loaf cupcakes

Saturday - this is a half marathon day (I think!?)  Hopefully I can finish it and hopefully I'm not dead tired!  I haven't been running more than 8 miles in a really long time - though I did do 17 in less than a day last weekend..hhmm...I'm sure I'll finish but it might not be pretty :)

Have a great week, Ann!!