ONE.
As some of you know, Jerry works evening shifts while I work days, so we don’t get to have dinner together often, except for weekends. Since he works at a college, he had quite a long holiday break and it was fantastic. Not only did we get to spend a lot of quality time together before baby’s arrival, we also got to cook together a lot. I found a bunch of recipes on Pinterest we’d been meaning to try, as well as some old favorites, and I meal planned all fancy-like. My favorite new recipe we tried was this French Onion Chicken Noodle Casserole. Mmmm… it tasted like alfredo and I highly recommend it. We also tried a Dorito casserole, which we were sadly not fans of, and made a couple of our regular Crockpot favorites (beef stroganoff and chicken and dumplings). I am a HUGE fan of the Crockpot. Let me know if you have favorite recipes for it that I need to try… the easier the better!
TWO.
Even though it is SO freaking cold out, there is some consolation in that it’s hot chocolate season. I’ve been devouring the stuff like crazy and am becoming a total hot chocolate snob this year. I used to drink it with water (either a K-cup or just the cheap $2.00 boxes of Nestle or Swiss Miss pouches), but now I am all about using milk. It’s so much creamier and yummier… how did I used to drink it with water?! I was also spoiled by my friend Beth who sent me some homemade mix with mini chocolate chips… mmm. It’s almost gone, then I don’t know what I’ll use! I am not a coffee drinker though, so hot chocolate is my go to hot beverage of choice. Any recommendations?
THREE.
I’ve mentioned it before, but when I transitioned my blog from a book blog to a personal/lifestyle blog last year, I had to think long and hard about my blog design. I decided that as much as I love it, I needed to eliminate the bookish feel since I’m no longer really a book blogger. Jerry decided to work some overtime and save up the money to pay for my re-design for my Christmas gift and we finally saved up enough! Jessica over at Cobblestone Marketing will be doing my new design and will be starting it next week! The bill is paid and I have sent her all my ideas and I simply CANNOT WAIT to see what she comes up with. She’s the one who designed my current one and transferred me over from Blogger to self-hosted three years ago now, so I know whatever she comes up with will be just as amazing. I’m excited to work with her again. As always, I am on the hunt for other personal/lifestyle blogs to follow since I recently made the transition, so leave me some good suggestions, including your own if we aren’t blog buddies yet!
FOUR.
I’ve recently rediscovered my love of Paperbackswap after a hiatus of oh… maybe three or four years? Ha! I totally forgot about it. When I finish reading one of of my own books, I usually pass it on to my mom or the library, but recently I’ve been listing a few on there again and I forgot how much fun it was! It’s kind of annoying having to pack up the books and go to the post office, but I like getting credits and swapping for other books. Here are some of the ones I’ve gotten from there recently:
FIVE.
Well, we are now at the “impatiently waiting” stage of pregnancy where we just want to meet our little bambino but are trying to enjoy things in the meantime before life changes forever (in the best way possible). Two of my best girlfriends came over last weekend. Jerry was home early from work so we went and got frozen yogurt then played a fierce game of Apples to Apples. My friends and I get seriously vicious over games. It was a fun night, and probably one of the last ones I’ll have with my friends before becoming a mommy. I know life changes in a million ways when you have a baby, but I truly do have some of the best friends in the world and I know they’ll stick around. That doesn’t prevent me from being a bit nervous about how much life will change, but more than anything, we all just can’t wait to meet him!
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| Unrelated photo of Dakota and me! |
That’s five for now — see you in the next chapter.
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