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The Final Days
My “due date” is next Wednesday, but according to my due range, the baby could come at any time. I’m so relieved he made it to 39 weeks!Unfortunately the supposed “nesting instinct” has not kicked in. Instead, the “oh-crap-I-am-officially-full-term-and-we-are-not-ready” realization kicked us into high gear. We got Henry’s old infant car seat washed up and installed, ordered and organized all the supplies from the homebirth kit, hung Tate’s first mobile, hung up the clothes in his closet (which are all stain-free, former Henry clothes), finalized our recipe binder so my mom has some go-to recipes to cook for our vegetarian/half-gluten-free family when she and my brother are here for ten… Read More -
Father’s Day Recap
On Friday afternoon I realized that Father’s Day was–um–right around the corner. Henry and I have a tradition of making Matt a card with one of Henry’s footprints. But beyond that, I was clueless. I brainstormed ideas as I drove to pick up Henry from daycare. I thought of just the thing to buy Matt, but then I decided that I didn’t want to set a precedent of buying him a big present for Father’s Day (since it’s already hard enough to come up with good ideas for Christmas and his birthday).So I tabled the present idea and instead decided to have a “sweet treat” theme for… Read More -
Meal Plan Update
Master sheet with drop down
menu
Final shopping list with the selected meals +
standard list
Printed shopping listI’m so happy that my initial enthusiasm about our new format for meal planning still stands! We’ve been using the new approach consistently for two months.On Sunday afternoon, Henry and I open up the Excel document and click on the five meals we want to eat that week. We also click on our “Standard List.” Excel then spits out our shopping list for the week (organized by section of the grocery store). We print and we’re on our way to the grocery store!When I explained… Read More
