Monthly Meal Plan-November (Thanksgiving)

Omigosh can you believe it's less than a month until Thanksgiving?? Luckily, we've got you covered with some amazing recipe ideas that everyone will love!

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Something Saturdays (10/28/17)

It is cuhrazy around these parts. We're feeling the pressure of the fact that the baby will be here before we know it. Oh and it doesn't help that Michael is also graduating which means we now have to figure out and set up his student loan repayments (#blech #seriouslythissystemisawful). Anyway, last weekend I worked and we worked on a couple small things and then Sunday we had our final baby shower which was really nice and fun and we got lots of great stuff + enough gift cards to cover the other things we needed from our registry! Woot! So we ordered all the rest of that stuff this week too. Long story short--we're getting lots of stuff and putting lots of stuffs away. We also picked up the cradle my great grandfather made from my cousin (my aunts and uncles and most of my cousins and cousins kids have all slept in it, including myself). Wednesday we started our 4 week childbirth class which we like, but not as much as we've liked our other classes (this teacher is super sweet but seems not quite as updated on the current research about stuff? I'll admit that I'm definitely the obnoxious know-it-all/closest thing to a hippy of the group, also. Oops.) Other than that I've just been making a bunch of food to freeze for when the baby gets here, reading up about a lot of stuff, etc. Today I'm working and then we're going to get all my old stuff out of my mom's house (ugh) and we also have a couple other small projects we're tackling this weekend. 

Like I said...busy busy busy!

Baby Update -- 32 Weeks

How far along: 32 (33 on Friday) weeks

Due Date: December 15, 2017

Baby's Size: Right on track, according to my app he's about 3.8 lbs.

Total weight gain/loss: 20 lbs gained

Maternity clothes: Pretty much exclusively-with the exception of some big pj's and such.

Stretch marks: Yes I got a few, ugh. I was hoping I'd get away without any lol.

Sleep: not bad, definitely not as deep of sleeps in general and sometimes getting comfortable can take a second (and of course I wake up a couple times in the night) but not terrible.

Best moment of this week:  We had our last baby shower and it was super fun! Spent more time getting his room together too, which is always fun. AND I was super excited because the doctor said that his head is down, so he's in position already and I hopefully don't need to worry about him being breech!

Miss anything: Laying on my stomach lol.

Movement: LOTS, I think he's become even more active.

Food cravings: Still no cravings, just normal food life around here.

Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope.

Have you started to show yet: YES, very much so!

Gender: boy!

Labor signs: Nope! Cross your fingers that I don't for at least another month!

Belly button in or out: In between? No belly button? Lol mostly still a teensy bit in but the top has started to push out.

Wedding rings on or off: On, still!

Happy or moody most of the time: Pretty happy :) :) :)

Looking forward to: Tonight we have our first childbirth class and I'm excited about that, and I'm really just looking forward to getting more and more done from our to-do list and then I can just relax and enjoy the fact that HE'S ALMOST HERE!