How Life is Going

This picture below should sum up about how life is going for me right now:

A little. . . .busy. Messy. Trying to get organized and I'm feeling that whole nesting thing coming on so it's really driving me nuts. Why the heck can't I get bursts of energy like this when I don't have a huge belly that makes it hard to sit, bend over, pretty much everything? So I do what I can but it still seems to be taking longer than I want it to! I shouldn't complain because this week is my last week at my job and I should spread out my little "projects" so that I'm not finding myself all caught up and twiddling my thumbs and wanting to pull my hair out because this little lady has decided she's more comfortable inside than outside. So, for now I guess it's fine. But I'm still bugged because I'm 8 1/2 months pregnant and ready to be done but at the same time I'm still freaking out that I'll have a CHILD to take care of for the rest of my life. 

See all these things going through my mind? I feel a little crazy.

Another project that I made time to do was prepare some freezer meals:

My goal was to make about 2 weeks worth of dinners to have ready for those days I am not going to feel up to cooking. I dread that because already there are plenty of days I don't feel like cooking. But now I at least am prepared! And it wasn't even that big of a hassle to do it. Maybe I'm just super woman or something (ha), because as I was looking into recipes I wanted to try there were all these pin on pinterest like "This woman is AMAZING! A WEEKS WORTH OF FREEZER MEALS FOR $130 BUCKS AND 1 DAY OF PREP" or stuff similar to that. So after I figured out the recipes I wanted to do, I was expecting to spend at least that amount and take that much time to prepare.

Umm. . not the case, thankfully! Maybe it was the recipes I decided to do? I looked into a lot but most of them didn't sound good, or sounded like a lot of prep the first time around, and then even more prep when you actually wanted to eat them, which does not make sense to me. Like casseroles. I vetoed every casserole recipe because a.) I don't have room in my freezer for those and 2.) I didn't want to "half cook" something and then cook it again. That sounded silly to me. I wanted something that all I would have to do is either dump all of it in my crockpot and let it cook, or dump it on a cookie sheet and cook it once when I actually wanted to eat it. 

So I came up with mostly things I've already eaten and realized they would work just fine as freezer meals and not take up too much space. Here's what I came up with:

Chicken Roll Ups (I've made these before and they say you can freeze them. I've done that too and they turn out great)

Homemade Pizza Pockets (we've had these a lot, but never frozen them. . . I'm assuming they will be just fine. If not, then whatever.)

Taco Soup (all I'll have to do is add the meat \)

Brown Sugar Turkey Loafs (made these before too, both in the oven and the crock pot.)

Crock pot Pineapple Chicken Verde (this one I haven't tried before. But chicken? Good. Pineapple? Good. Green chili Verde sauce? Good.  All together sounds good to me)

So to make all of that my WinCo grocery bill was only $65 bucks, which isn't too far off how much I spend on groceries most weeks anyways! And to prep ALL of those it only took me about 2 1/2 hours. Not bad at all. I still had my sanity afterwards and now have 2 weeks worth of meals! Sa-weet. So if you've thought about making freezer meals but see posts like the ones I saw and thought "Yeah right, I am not dropping a $140 bucks and giving up a Saturday to do this" it really isn't that bad! I guess it will all depend on what you end up doing. 

And this is just a picture of Paul and his brother David putting together the stroller. David and his girlfriend Allie are AMAZING and bought us the stroller/carseat combo, saving us a lot of money! We are very thankful for that. It was funny watching them attempt to put this together without bothering to look at the instructions. Of course they got stuck and had to end up using them and what do you know-it went a lot quicker!  

That's pretty much life right now. People keep asking us if "we're ready" for this baby and I always want to say (and most of the time do say this) "Um. . .no? Were YOU ready?" at which they laugh and say they weren't. So why did you think me, who has never had a child, is READY??? People are funny. I know they are just being concerned and nice. So no, I am NOT ready for this baby. In fact, I could (and maybe I will) write a whole other blog post about how totally unprepared I feel for motherhood and that it still doesn't seem real that I will have an actual child to take care of in a matter of weeks. Oh, and I'm trying not to panic about the fact that in order for me to even have this child to take care of, I have to go through the whole birthing process. 

Paul and I went to one of those classes at the hospital last week and while it was very informative and the nurse who taught it was HILARIOUS, it still left me feeling slightly terrified. We had to watch an actual birth and let me tell you, I am not one of those people who find medical things fascinating. They make me want to vomit. We watched this natural birth and this lady pretty much pooped out her child and it caught me completely off guard. I know I had a look of grossed out/shocked on my face and I turned to look at Paul and he had the exact same expression! Ha ha ha it was hilarious. And then after the class Paul said "I can't unsee that stuff!" Which is just how I feel. And then we talked about postpartum recovery stuff and that is like a whole new battlefield! You mean I'll be bleeding in various places and super sore AND have a child that will need constant care and attention, not to mention all the hormones leaving my body making me cry plus combining the lack of sleep, oh and my uterus will have to shrink back down causing even MORE contractions?? Man, this is going to be an adventure for sure. But everyone can do it, right???

Trust me, I know this whole process is miraculous and I am very very VERY grateful that I am pregnant and that everything has been going well with this little nugget, but I also want to be realistic on this blog. I will not be one of those people planning on going natural, I will want my epidural and I will want it quickly. I am not one of those girls who would like to have a mirror down there to watch my baby be born. No thanks. I want to have some joy out of the experience and not feeling pain or seeing that stuff that will make me queasy is the way for me.

So here's to hoping these last few weeks go well. That the nugget is healthy and strong. I know she'll have me wrapped around her little tiny fingers the moment she gets here. And I really am excited.