On Wanting to Eat All the Time and Other Everyday Things

The other day Katie was having a terrible afternoon. After sleeping only 20-30 minutes, she woke up. I tried to put her back to sleep, because she was obviously still tired and I hadn’t yet finished my “list of things to accomplish while the bambino sleeps.” But she wasn’t interested and threw a screaming fit that lasted nearly an hour. Finally, I’d had enough. I put her in her car seat and we drove into town where I bought myself a Jamocha shake at Arby’s….it’s the closest you can come to an iced coffee drink in our up-and-coming metropolis. Then we drove to Joe’s work, which normally makes her happy, but not today. Joe was just about to leave on a delivery, so he suggested that we go along. I jumped at the chance. The trip would take us into some of the prettiest country I’ve seen around here and Katie would very likely sleep the whole way there. So I went home quickly to change Katie’s diaper before we left….and discovered a bright red little booty! No wonder she was screaming/crying/complaining for so long! I just hate those moments when I realize that I’ve been hard on her and punished her, not knowing she was in pain! Good thing kids are so forgiving and adore us anyways!

So…we eventually got started on the delivery. This time I remembered my camera.

I call this Biscuit Rock. You see, I have this problem. With this pregnancy, nearly EVERYTHING reminds me of food. I’m always craving food I’m not making that day. Joe says it must be because there’s a very hungry little boy in there. What does he know? Girls have appetites too. Just look at some of my friends! Ha! The internet is a bad thing right now. Especially Pinterest. I see amazing looking foods that just about make me go crazy…but then I have no motivation to make it. Either that or it’s so unhealthy, I won’t make it. But back to Biscuit Rock. Doesn’t that look just like a freshly cut out biscuit….not baked yet? As soon as I laid eyes on it, I was immediately craving hot biscuits and sausage gravy. I guess I could make that. Just have to go buy sausage first.

Every time I see these rocks, I think it looks like a castle….or the Dark Lord’s fortress…or something equally sinister.  I really should go out there on a stormy evening and take their picture…then you’d agree with me.

This is a really cool canyon. The picture doesn’t do justice. It’s huge.

On the way home, we stopped in a little town for supper…because the tuna and mashed potato pancakes I was planning to make for supper weren’t quite fitting in with my food fantasies right then. I’ve been planning to make them nearly every night this week…and somehow it just never works out. So anyways…we went to this real, authentic, working soda fountain. Except we just got hamburgers and fries because by the time we were done with them, we had no room for ice cream or soda or anything else.

Katie had to make it look like we actually sat at the soda fountain. We didn't.

Last Saturday we went to Cheyenne to buy lots of things that we needed. We were at Office Depot right before they closed and they were getting ready for a big sale that started the next day. Except we didn’t know that the sale didn’t start the next day.  We’re not very good at reading the fine print. So we told them we’d take this desk that was on sale for $99.99. The salesman said we’d have to get there right away in the morning because it was the last one they had in stock. The manager overheard him and told him to just give us the sale price right then. They went back into the warehouse to get the desk for us and here they were out of the color we wanted. So, they ordered one for us and had it shipped right to our house for no extra fee. When they were doing the order, Joe saw that the price they were giving us was less than their cost….so we ended up getting a $230 desk delivered right to our house for only $99. I was right pleased….and I’ll definitely go back to Office Depot…and you should too. Of course, I know that a second-hand $10 desk would’ve been a better deal, but when you live an hour or more away from anything decent on Craigslist or a thrift store, you get what you can get.

I get a kick out of the above picture. Katie was trying to help her dad all evening. Here it looks like she’s checking out his muscles. J

Katie's favorite thing about the new desk.

Love her sweet, kissable face. I wonder if any baby face has been kissed as much as hers? Some days, I find myself smooching her sweet cheeks as I walk into the grocery store, etc….and I think, “Boy, I better quit this, or she’s gonna be really embarrassed when she’s a teenager! "And it’s a good thing that she’s so sweet and precious and all those other good things. Cuz there are days when, if it weren’t for her sweet smiles, and kisses, and hugs, I’d just about lose it with her. And then the other day, after a particularly trying morning with her, I told Joe that I think it’d be fun to have twins. He looked at me like I’d lost my mind.

Buddy definitely approves of the new house. Oh, did I not mention the new house yet? We moved about two weeks ago into this giant, beautiful house. The awesomest thing is that we don’t have to pay rent. Yep, that’s right. The lady who owns it can’t sell it until a certain time because of something called Capital Gains Tax. She’d tried renting it out before, but had a bad experience. So I guess she figured that if she lets someone live in it rent-free, they’d take better care of it than if they were paying rent. We do have to pay utilities, insurance, and taxes…but that’s nothing compared to what rent + utilities would be on a house this size. We feel blessed indeed…and totally undeserving. Let’s see, everything in it is big, so just add the word huge to all the rooms I mention hereafter. There are 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a laundry room, a basement, a dining room, a breakfast room, a kitchen, and a gimongous living room. We’ll probably only be living here for around a year, so if you’re thinking about coming to visit…now is the time! We’ve got more than enough room!

Katie sharing scrambled eggs and sausage with me. The other day she was getting babysat and ate 4 eggs at once. She’s been chowing down ever since….until this morning.  I gave her a bowl full; she ate half of them and started scattering the rest of them all over the floor and the top of her toy box. Little mess! And then the internet repair guy showed up and saw it all.

You know you have a very exciting life when there are only two things written on your calendar for the entire month. One of those is a birthday party on a Sunday evening. Which really isn’t anything new because we get together with church people every Sunday evening…I like that a lot! The other event is a Dr. appointment. Exciting, huh? Speaking of Dr. appointments…if I get an ultrasound done at this appointment, which I probably will…should we find out the baby’s gender? We just can’t decide. It was lots of fun waiting till Katie popped out to know what she was…but it might be fun to find out before too. What do you think? Oh, and if we do find out, we’re not telling you what it is. J


Thought I'd start a new thing here and share some interesting posts, blogs, etc. at the end of each of my posts. So here's the first ones. Some of you have heard me say that butter is good for you. Gasp! And most of you probably thought I was loony. Well, here's two articles explaining why some fats are good for you and why some aren't. Read and be enlightened! If you disagree with them, feel free to comment on that blog, not mine. :-)

http://www.modernalternativemama.com/blog/2011/4/18/monday-health-wellness-low-fat-diets-are-not-healthy.html

http://www.modernalternativemama.com/blog/2011/2/22/healthy-fats-what-why-and-where-to-find-them.html