7UP Biscuits

Tonight we had a meatless meal for dinner inclusive of water sauteed squash, steamed broccoli, red beans and rice, and 7UP Biscuits.  These biscuits are delicious.  I have made them twice now and not once have we been disappointed.  I used Sprite instead of 7UP because I did not have 7UP, but I'm sure they are fantastic with it as well.  The recipe was a Pinterest find from the Plain Chicken blog.  I hope you try them and enjoy them as much as we do.

7UP Bisucsits from Plain Chicken

Good Morning!  I hope everyone in the southeast stayed safe with the bad weather yesterday.  I did not get a chance to write my post yesterday so I'm doing my update this morning.  When I last left you, I was off to meet Daniel for our Baby Safe class.  The class proved to be very informative and well worth our time and money.  We got to practice CPR on the infant doll, we learned the proper course of action in the events of choking and ingesting poisons.  Some information was kind of common sense, but some really helped us.  For example, I had previously read that Lana would need to sleep in our room for six months as a SIDS precaution and it turns out this is not necessarily the case.  We can in fact put her in her beautiful crib from day one.  I will share a picture of this lovely crib and nursery soon including the pretty bumpers and quilt, which were totally for my viewing pleasure.  They will be removed before she lays her sweet little head to rest in there so don't worry.  We also learned about what medicines and what products we can and cannot use or we must delay using for a bit.  The instructor gave us helpful hints about general safety precautions we should have already addressed such as having a land line so that the emergency responders can get to us about ten minutes faster than if we called from our cell phones.  She also pointed out the benefits of said land line for when we finally are comfortable enough to let someone else watch our little girl.   Others that do not live here and may not be able to direct the emergency personnel as easily so it is just helpful all around.  I had to also suffer the "I told you so," of Daniel when the instructor brought up the importance of having a fire ladder or two because of the fact our house is two stories and well it is just not safe to jump out the window in the event of a fire.  Now we are embarking on our safety and baby proofing our house.  I will have plenty of updates on that I'm sure as soon as we actually start making more progress.

Yesterday was rather windy and cold here so I decided to stay inside and work on some of my to-dos.  I wish those days proved to be extremely productive, but it also feels like I discover, or create, other projects that I feel absolutely MUST be completed before Lana arrives.  It is a never-ending cycle and sadly they are usually things that get added to my dear Daniel's honey-do list.  What did I accomplish you might ask?  Well despite the numerous loads of laundry I have done for Lana already, I still found more thanks to the kind gifts she received at my work baby shower and my last shopping trip.  So at this very moment, I can finally say every single item has been washed and put away!!  She is set at this time.  Her closet is organized and I finally feel that I have it all the way I want it.  Yay!!  I registered her furniture so that I can get updates on recalls and all.  I found a pinterest pin on 40 meals to prepare for the freezer in four hours.  It is my goal to attempt that probably this weekend because I know I will not be feeling up to cooking healthy meals after delivery.  Our guest rooms are complete with clean bed linens for the grammys arrival for their crucial roles as members of the birth team.  We are getting there slowly but surely. 

Last night Daniel went, of his own choosing, to Boot Camp for Dads class.  I have to say that I am blessed beyond belief with this wonderful man as my husband and little Lana has no idea how blessed she is yet, but she will soon find out.  He has actively pursued and engaged in any opportunity that has presented itself for us to learn to be better parents, well except for the breastfeeding class, which is understandable and I fully give him a pass there.  He came home last night so excited about all he learned and the topics they discussed.  There were two former class graduates that brought in their daughters, three and six months old, and Daniel was pleased to report he "still has the touch."  He was able to hold the six month old and she was very content with his company for a while.  He now feels confident that he can assist me with being the protector for our family and keeping visitors at bay when it is not a good day.  He believes he learned tricks to save me on when I cannot seem to soothe Lana on my own or just need a break.  I love that man and look forward to seeing him in action because I have full faith that he will be an AWESOME father.

Well my morning is getting away from me again and so I guess I should get off the computer and do some more stuff.  I am trying to finish the majority of the boring, must-dos so that next week when our weather is warmer I can play.  Have a great day everyone!!

Good afternoon!!  The rest of the weekend did not include too many blog worthy events so I held off writing you all until now.  Saturday ended up being a little bit of a wash for me because I could not get motivated to do much.  Sunday has quickly turned into my favorite day of the week given that we have found West Bowles Community Church.  I truly get excited to go each week and always feel better when I leave.  Normally we go to the Sunday School class called Homebuilders, which is for young families, but this week it was canceled for the ministry fair.  Either way, the people are AMAZING.  We have never gone to any church where the people are so outgoing and friendly.  We both have learned a good deal and it works for our hybrid religious family too, me the Christian and Daniel the Jew.  Basically in that regard, we are blessed to both support each other in our religious beliefs and look for the common areas.  We both are open-minded and like to learn so we make it work, but a church that does not make Daniel feel extremely uncomfortable is always a bonus.  We are still working to find our Jewish home.  Hopefully we will be as fortunate in that search too.  Other than my excitement over church, it was just a regular weekend at home.

Today was my first non-work, week day and so far it has been great.  I got up when Daniel did for work and made us smoothies for breakfast and then sent him on his way with a packed lunch and warm coffee.  Yes I felt very domestic and June Clever this morning.  Then I channeled my horribly lacking Jillian Michaels and did my third trimester pregnancy workout video.  You can assume that was as fun as it sounds.  Next I reviewed my coupons and jumped in the shower to embark on that money saving adventure.  The deals were seriously exciting at King Soopers as was the trip overall.  There I was 8.5 months pregnant pushing around my cart of extreme couponing finds packed so high that I could barely see over it.  I felt a little embarrassed and pleased with myself at the same time.  There was a well-behaved, hansom young boy in the store with his mom that found the fact that I had a "baby in my belly," very interesting.  He also found my cart to be comment worthy.  Out of the mouths of babes.  Then there were the older ladies passing rather judgmental looks like why do you need 12 boxes of Kleenex.  They obviously do not have my never-ending runny nose that some say is a pregnancy symptom.  Or maybe they were unaware that here lately everyone that comes to visit is sick once they arrive, love you mom and Joey!  Anyway I saved 65%, $174 in coupon savings which combines what I pulled and the store card.  I was a very happy little mama.  Then I had just a couple items at Safeway where I saved 74% and some toilet paper from Walgreens that was not the best deal, but a necessary evil I guess.  You can see from the picture above that we are stocked up for a bit.

Now while day time television is not always great I have missed Ellen!  I love her and she has Jillian Michaels on so it is kind of fitting for my day.  After this I get to go meet Daniel for dinner because we have our Baby Safe class from 6:00-9:30pm.  We are excited to try to make ourselves more smart and prepared for our baby girl.  I will hopefully have another blog-worthy day to write about tomorrow.  It is supposed to be a little cold and lightly snowy so I don't know how many adventures I will have outdoors.  Take care all!

Hello blog world!!  Today is the first official day of my post-employment/pre-mommy adventure.  I went into work today for a half day to say good bye and participate in my exit interview.  The interview helped me feel better about leaving my dear work friends because I was able to shed some light on how rough it has been there to the powers at be.  I felt as if my points were received and that is all I could have asked for I suppose.  Once I finally made all my goodbyes (an hour and a half after I was supposed to leave), it was on to better things like a middle of the day train ride and a late lunch with a milkshake celebration treat.  The middle of the day train rides always demonstrate that it truly does take all kinds to make the world go round.  Today's trip consisted of the entertaining girl with multiple colors in her hair talking way too loudly on her cell phone about the dramatic battle with another female over what one could only assume is one SERIOUS catch.

Once the soap opera train ride and lunch were over, it was time to get to work, my new work.  I will spare you the less than exciting details of all of my cleaning efforts to rid our home of Daniel's germs this afternoon and simply say that it already feels healthier in here.  Tonight we decided to have an relaxing evening to help continue Daniel on the road to recovery.  We rented the End of Watch movie and called it good.  The movie was a little too intense for our low-key theme and the language was certainly rough, but overall not a bad pick if anyone's interested.  Now we are patiently waiting for our bedding to finish drying after the sanitizing process it endured.  I realize you may find it hard not to envy the happening night life we lead, but do your best.

Tomorrow we are hoping to have a nice productive day finishing some of the house projects and well, more cleaning.  There may even be a coupon trip to King Soopers to start stocking up on things for when our baby girl arrives and the family comes to welcome her.  I'll do my best to make the tasks as fun and post-worthy as possible.

Good night for now and I promise to bring you more interesting material within the coming days!