RAWR!
Give me meat!
I’m feeling so much better! As of Saturday all I want is meat. I must need the iron since I’m not longer taking the prenatals. I’m like a wild animal, devouring everything in my path. Rawr!
I had the BEST prime rib french dip sandwich on Saturday. I tried to recreate it at home tonight, but failed. It was still decent since it was meat, but not nearly as good as my dream sandwich from Saturday.
Now that I’m feeling better, you all better watch out. All I’m going to talk about is food.
Or not. That would be pretty boring.
We had your standard Halloween night, with the addition of some drizzle. Oddly, it was almost hot outside so the drizzle didn’t rain on our parade too much. Due to H1N1 or the bad economy or both there were very few porch lights on. We did our neighborhood and a friend’s neighborhood. It was kind of sad, but the boys didn’t seem to notice. I guess I should post a picture, but I don’t really have any good ones. He was Swiper the fox again, so he basically looked exactly the same as last year, only when he sat down his pants came up to his knees. I was surprised they fit at all since they were 24 months, but they were ok when he was standing.
I think I’ve picked all the good stuff out of his candy basket, already. Dang!
Did any of you receive “candy sticks” in your baskets? I was sort of shocked. They are just candy cigarettes without the splotch of red dye at the end. I had no idea they still made that sort of thing. I’m so glad our society is trending further and further away from smoking. I remember “smoking” those candy cigs when I was a kid and feeling so cool.
Erik doesn’t even know what a cigarette is.
The other night we were out in the neighborhood and a guy was smoking on his front porch. Erik saw the lit up end of the thing and went over to ask the guy how he was holding a star. The poor guy was bombarded with questions, but was trying to be good and not say the word cigarette or explain what smoking was. Erik was pretty insistent and wanted to hold it so he could have a star too. It took a lot of cajoling and trickery on my part to get him out of there.
We didn’t have school today, but we did have glorious weather. Erik and I spent about three hours at the park, then came home and spent another hour with him on his scooter. Finally, a toy we made a good investment in. It’s the only birthday present we bought and I’m not sure what to get him for Christmas. He hasn’t mentioned anything, though I know he will want to open lots of presents. My thought is that it would be better to stick some money in his savings account than to spend it all on crap he won’t play with. But, I don’t want to deny him that Christmas frenzy of opening presents. If he actually played with his toys it would make it a lot easier to figure out.
ACK! I can’t believe it is time to start thinking of Christmas things already. I really need to get Erik’s haircut, buy him some sort of holiday outfit and get professional pictures taken. It has been a long time since we’ve had portraits done, so I think it will be worth it. I am planning on sending out wallet sized pictures to family members instead of doing photo cards for everyone this year. I have a whole stash of regular Christmas cards that I should use up. I can’t resist them when they are on clearance in the middle of April, but I haven’t used them in a few years so the stash is out of control.
I have also been worrying about Christmas gifts for the niece and nephews. I have the superman cape for the little guy since he didn’t get his last year. I think I am going to get the older kids each a magazine subscription. Any reccs for a 5 yo boy and 4 yo girl? As usual, I want something that they can’t destroy or lose, so a magazine will be perfect. When they are done reading it, it can be tossed. Bonus! They might actually learn something. I may get Erik a subscription as well because I think he would enjoy it.
I don’t know what Mike wants to do about his family. We arrive in Sweden on Dec 27, so the gift opening will already be done. I am not sure if they are planning on exchanging gifts with us or not. Btw, G’burg people! Mark your calendars! We will be in town Dec 28-29 and we’d love to get together at some point!
Ok, I’m hungry. I need MEAT! Gotta go find something to eat.
I think Mike is quite happy to get his wife back. I did a menu plan for the week and have been cooking. I’ve also had a few energy bursts and have done some cleaning. And, of course, now that I am feeling better the appetites of the second trimester are making themselves known. After a miserable 12 weeks, I think we are all relieved.