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Halloweeeeeeeeeeeen!
I hope your Halloween was fun and festive! I was pretty happy with the way my crystal ball reader costume turned out. I will say that Coconut handled his first Halloween very well. He was an excellent crystal ball. I would ask people if they wanted me to read my crystal ball, rub my belly, and then pull out a fortune and hand it to them. (As a side note, I downloaded, printed, and cut the fortunes from this fortune cookie site.)… Read MoreMatt had fun carving a pumpkin with our dremel. Hoss was happy that we didn’t attempt to dress him up…
In terms of ideas for next
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Meal Planning Made Easy
My current meal-planning system is pretty inefficient. I have a binder of recipes that I flip through to select our four meals for the week. Then I make our grocery list. If I find a recipe off the internet that I really like, I print it and add it to our binder.I love that we have a centralized place to store our tried-and-true recipes, but it’s a bit inefficient to write and rewrite all the ingredients every week for the grocery list. It would be more efficient to have a computerized system that would automatically import the ingredients I needed for whatever recipes I selected for the week.… Read MoreThe
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November: Reflection & Rejuvenation
From the Nikki McClure CalendarThe months are flying by! But it’s good. I’m simultaneously excited that we’re getting closer and closer to the birth (we’re due in mid-February) and I’m satisfied that I’m dutifully preparing for it. I think I can attribute my joyful attitude to the fact that I’m consciously making space in my life for pregnancy. I work ten hours a day on school stuff, but then I come home and take an hour-long nap and then take Hoss on an hour-long walk. Matt and I cook together about four times a week and enjoy meals out approximately three times a week. Then I usually have a… Read More
