Yummy Yummy Yummy!
I have been really bad about keeping up on things… it’s been quite a busy month. On Saturday I almost resolved to never go to another store again. After searching Walmart for 20 minutes for an item I couldn’t find, I came home and ordered it online from drugstore.com… no sales tax… free shipping… along with some more GNC vitamins that I’ve been putting off purchasing because it’s a hassle to go to the GNC store in the mall. Then, yesterday, I went to Joann’s to find cute fabric for making totes and I didn’t see a ton of selection. I went to fabric.com, where I found so much selection that I had the hardest time deciding what to buy, and had to sadly delete a ton of cute prints from my cart, telling myself that I could get them next time… If it weren’t for the fact that there are certain things you simply cannot get online, I’d be content to do all my shopping in my pj’s. I can even get my groceries, and I love that. It’s really not easy at all to drag three boys through shops all the time, and it’s very stressful as well.
Now that I’ve gone on and ranted about how I’m an online junkie, I guess I should share the big news going around our house. We’re planning to go to Europe next summer! Whoo hoo! (That’s for Derek… I hear they like to say that at WAMU!) But that’s not the most exciting thing I wanted to share. What I wanted to say is that Ethan ate solids for the first time today! This morning, on a whim, I broke out a little jar of applesauce that I had sitting around, and gave him maybe about an eighth of it. It was a messy experience… several times he spit it back in my face, but for the first time, it mostly went down. Mostly. Now that I know that he is finally willing to take a stab at solids, I can now start a new project I’ve been planning to do since Ethan was born: learn how to make baby food. I ordered special baby food freezer trays off of Target.com last week, and a great baby food book off Amazon this morning (there’s the ordering things online again!), and now I just need to pull out the blender and food processor, and get to work! I can’t wait!
Sorry for the strange ramblings on this blog… it’s been a long day, and I’m feeling like I’ve been inside a little too long! I’m hoping the weather clears up by the end of the week because today was yucky. They say that Thursday will be nice, which is good because we have a play date scheduled. Yay for friends!
Hey!! good news!! it is going to be 90 in washington on Friday!!!! LUCKY!!!!
May 13th, 2008 | #
I’m with you on the really long day. Will it ever end?
May 13th, 2008 | #
I’m totally with you on the online shopping thing! When we lived in the middle-of-nowhere East Texas I got into the habit and find that sometimes I have to force myself to go to the mall now that we live in a big city! It makes life so much easier (and sometimes cheaper) to shop from the couch and have someone just deliver everything to my front door. The only problem is that my shopping cart usually ends up too full!
May 13th, 2008 | #
My heart skipped a beat when you said you were pregnant! Don’t scare me like that! We just turned in our money on Sunday, and I’m counting on you to be there with us in Europe. It wont be the same trip w/o you!
May 13th, 2008 | #
Ahem. That’s “Whoo hoo”. “Wooh Hooo!” was trademarked by The Simpsons, as one of Homer’s catchphrases. Seriously.
May 13th, 2008 | #
Sorry for thr shock! I changed the blog… not sure what possessed me to write that yesterday… definitely a long day. And I fixed the Whoo hoo, just for Derek!
May 14th, 2008 | #
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May 14th, 2008 | #
I am so with you on the online shopping! There is so much selection so fast, why go out to the store?? And I am excited to hear that you are trying to make baby food! I did some with Blake, but unfortunately he didn’t like a lot of the homemade stuff I tried. Applesauce and sweet potatoes were big hits though, and very easy to make. I also got the freezer trays, and I also used plain old ice cube trays–freezing is definitely the key, otherwise you are constantly cooking and pureeing food. Keep me posted on how it goes!
May 14th, 2008 | #
Here’s a site I visited a lot. http://www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com/
May 14th, 2008 | #