April 10, 2009
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Friday morning (anticipating the first night of nights)
Good morning all. It is currently 8:30, I have been up since 7:30 and trust me I wasn’t happy about it.
Yesterday I got quite a bit done. Today there’s more yet to do. I got all our groceries repackaged for freezing and the freezers organized. The little freezer above the fridge is anything but meat. The big freezer is primarily meat and large items. I also cut up 6 bell peppers (red, orange and yellow) and put them in ziplocs and froze them for future use. I feel pretty good about the prep work I got done. I still want to get some bags of frozen veggies. Probably the steam fresh because they can be cooked in their own packaging in about 5 minutes. What could be easier?!
I managed to get some pyrex containers so we can freeze food and then cook it in the same container when we are ready for it. Gosh those things are expensive. I need a couple of bigger pyrex containers, but they only had those bundled with the smaller ones (which I don’t need/want). I got another box of the rubbermaid containers, I like those, they have a good seal on them so they will be great for the freezer too (though obviously not the oven).
I found two containers that will seal air tight that I am going to put all the bottle and breast pump stuff in once its all sterilized. That way it can sit out or be put away and I wont have to worry if it needs sterilized again before use. I am thinking I will probably clear out a spot in one of the cabinets to keep it for now, but once Lillie is here and its being used alot it’ll probably just sit on the counter for a while.
Today (or rather this evening after Tancy leaves for work) I want to get the laundry done and general picking up around the house. I need to finish unpacking our clothes from our trip (I have primarily focused on Lillie’s things up to this point). Dishes need to be done. I am hoping I can get Tancy to make a trip to the dump before she goes to work this evening… I’ve got a pile of stuff in the kitchen that needs to be taken out (plus all the meat packages that need to go too).
I just can’t tell you how proud I am to have gotten all the Thank You cards done. It is a relief. I am fairly certain though that I am going to need more thank you cards for the shower here… If I only send out as many for NC as I did for LA I don’t have enough. I don’t know what to expect really…. about 56% of those invited were there and/or participated in the shower in some way. Yes I know that’s obsessive to know that and don’t misunderstand, it isn’t that I am keeping track of who did and didn’t come, I am just trying to make sure I have enough Thank You cards. Mom was telling me that sometimes people wait till after the baby is born to send a gift… so how do I prepare for that?! I guess I am just trying to prepare for things that just aren’t possible to prepare for.
Ok, that just took 30 minutes… I decided to change the format of the addresses in my excel spreadsheets so that the next round of Thank You cards I can just print address labels for everyone. Yay me. Wish I had done that for the first round, but ya live and learn!
BRB. The phone calls.
Ok, that was Angie. Nice conversation.So Tancy is up now and I should probably get off of here and spend some time with her. Tonight is going to be rough… she was up before 10:00, not a good start to a well rested first night. Ugh.
Hope everyone is having a great Friday.
Love to all!
