Happy Halloween...

from all the little ones (including the one in my belly)!

Ashamed

I can’t believe I am confessing this.  I am embarrassed to admit it.  I used to make fun of people for doing it.  I was always astonished when I saw others doing it.  Then the day came when I was desperate enough to try it.  It was last week, my whole body was aching under the pressure and weight of the little one inside me and I gave in.  That’s right, I put on my bikini and went down to our community pool and let the whole world see my baby belly.  It was really only two older couples and a couple of moms and their babies, but it seemed like the whole world.  I have to tell you that it felt amazing.  I found myself wishing I had given in a bought a maternity bathing suit months ago.  Will I do it again?  I don’t know, maybe yes, maybe no!

Panic

How did I diddle daddle along with my pregnancy thinking I had all the time in the world?  Do you know that my daughter doesn’t have any socks?  Did you know that I have gift cards to go buy a pack and play for her to sleep in our room and I have been procrastinating and never bought it?  I could keep going, but it would get a little monotonous.  The point is I realized that my baby could be born any time after 36 weeks, which means I could have only three weeks left or I could have 6 or so, or anything in the middle and I really need to get my act together.  Yes, I have lists, I have ideas for Christmas presents, I have thought about our Christmas card, but now I need to start acting!  Here all this time I thought I was ahead only to figure out I was WAY far behind.  Where has my brain been?  (Isn’t there something called pregnancy brain?)

Finished!

Pediatricians

What do I really want?  Someone who I am not sure exists.  I want someone I feel comfortable with, who I trust, and who is okay with an alternative vaccine schedule.  A doctor who wants me to be comfortable with the choices I am making for my daughter and not try to push me to do what I don’t think is right for her.  So far we have interviewed two physicians and both have left me frustrated.  Am I asking too much?  Are all pediatricians brainwashed by what the American Pediatric Academy recommends?  Do they not see anything wrong with injecting viruses into two month olds, saying “it’s for their good”?  I never realized it would be so hard to find a pediatrician who would be okay with skipping some, changing the schedule, and delaying some.

Healthy

It’s official…I will never be a good baker. To prove my point, let’s take my latest baking experience. I decided that since we are officially in the month of October, it might be fun to make some pumpkin bread. Armed with a recipe and some ingredients, I set off to make it. My first problem occurred when I saw that it called for 1 ½ cups of sugar, which is when I decided there was no way it needed that much sugar, so I put less than the recommended amount. Next I looked at how much pumpkin I needed to put into the bread, 1 cup, the can I bought was almost two cups worth of pumpkin, so of course, not wanting to be wasteful, I put the whole can into the bowl. Since I had all that pumpkin in there, I decided that it was going to be moist enough without adding all the oil, so I cut the oil in half as well. Then to make the bread even healthier I did a mixture of rice flour and whole wheat flour to finish it off. As I put the bread in the oven, I was so proud of myself for the substitutions I had made to make the bread a little better for us.


The end result wasn’t quite as bad as you might’ve expected it to be, it was a little on the dry side, but the actual taste was pretty good.