35 weeks

my baby names

how do these look together?

the first says 'deepak', the second 'sanjana', and the 3rd is the potential name of previously called 'baby no name'. we are going to stop at the temple this week to see what the monk thinks of our chosen name. we originally selected 'sajani' for sanjana, which means 'beloved'. turns out it wasn't exactly a proper name. nothing wrong with it but it was kind of like naming your child 'honey'. you can but it's not REALLY intended as a name. if that makes sense.

anyway, i'm nervous about sharing this name because, well, my own family has not been supportive in any names we have shared and it's made me rather insecure.

दीपक
संजना
ऋषि

freezer time

i have a bad habit of being interested in something, finding out all the possible info and then not pursuing it/following thru with it. one such example is with making food/baked goods to freeze for future use.

in the past i could say that i had little room but now we have a 2nd fridge in the garage and we don't buy much frozen food beyond fruit for smoothies (now that summer is over) and a few other random things.

one of the blogs i follow thru fb did this 'once a month cooking' thing. i have to admit i have been put off by such posts in the past from other blogs. the things that they make, i would never eat. i have a serious aversion to anything with canned cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, cream of anything really.

this particular blog had no meals that i would replicate but was also making plenty of baked goods and that i could get on board with :) i love to bake, i bake alot. even since being diagnosed with GD, where i can barely have a taste of what i make, i still love it. i simply have more to share with friends, which i'm sure they don't mind!

i am due in 6 weeks but will likely be induced in 4. (i'm going for a 2nd vbac and there are reasons for this in my case). so tonight i finally decided that i am going to make something to put in the freezer. it's not much but it makes me feel good moving in that direction. i am simply baking a banana bread and freezing half of it. the other half i will serve at my lunch playdate tomorrow.

i'm asking around for a good pumpkin muffin recipe because i've read that muffins freeze exceptionally well and i have a jumbo sized can of pumpkin just waiting to be put to use.

i also saved several vegetarian meal recipes that are said to do well frozen. some of these are a veg jambalaya, stuffed shells and veg meatloaf. i am going to work on those this and next weekend. i am so nervous about freezing food and then reheating it and having it be weird, but i'm ready to jump in and take my chances.

when baby no name (he MIGHT have a name!) is here, there will surely be rocky days where having a prepared meal that simply has to be popped into the oven, will come in handy.

if this goes well i'd like to keep it up so that my freezer is always stocked with at least a dozen meals that i can pull out in a pinch. wish me luck!

mama got a brand new bag!

i am so excited to have a new diaper bag. the bag i bought for use with sanji is super cute, pink and brown fleur de lis design, vinyl so no worries about getting it wet or dirty, and it's spacious. too spacious. great for a long day out, like all day where you need to change clothes and such. but for our park outings, children's museum, etc., it's near empty and bulky to carry. i bought it as soon as i saw it because i was having anxiety over all my choices and it was $80 so if i didn't love it, no big loss.

lately all i've needed for sanji is diapers, wipes, water, snacks and an easy change of clothes. i can squeeze all of that into a mini jansport backpack, which i have been carrying around for months. i'm always looking at bags online and have always loved the storksak 'emily' bag. at $175, it wasn't the most frugal choice. definitely mid-price compared to others that i like but that would be painful for me to spend. EVERYTHING i buy i think of all the other things i could have bought for that amount.

anyway, we were out last night and i saw the bag and just picked it up to admire it. there was the $175 price tag. and THEN, there was a tag that said 49.99, final price. OMG, could it be?? amit said let's buy it and i am SO cheap that i said, i don't even know if i want to pay $50 for it. (i know, pitiful, right?) amit said he'd tell the sales girl to hold it and i could think about it. sanji got fussy and i told amit that was our cue to leave and a sign that it wasn't meant to be. he decided that it was too good to pass up so he ran back to buy it.

it took awhile so i went back to check on him and i joked 'tell me there was an additional discount.' he said 'it rang up for 29.99.' i insisted that he was lying. the sales girl said 'no, it really was 29.99.' i told her 'thank you! you made my night!'

and that is the story of my new diaper bag and how utterly excited i am over such a bargain. i'm so glad amit went with his gut. i checked on nordstrom.com and it's still $175 there. yay for me!

wordless wednesday - 33 weeks

not the greatest start

i have no other place to vent this, where involved parties wouldn't see it. and oh, do i need to vent this morning.

we have eagerly been preparing for my brother and his daughter's arrival from socal, this morning. we stayed up late getting things ready, woke up early to prep a great breakfast and get to the airport to pick them up.

this morning, amit and the kids left to the airport shortly after 8am. their flight was to land at 8:20. at 8:30 there is a call from my brother - to tell me he's landed, surely, right? WRONG. he is calling to tell me that he missed his flight!

he swears he's been calling me all morning, funny i have no missed calls. he didn't even try to reach amit. had he called in time for amit to have not left, it would have been fine. but amit was nearly there. we planned our day around their morning arrival.

i'm upset and i think it's fair to be so. this is a supreme example of a lack of responsibility. my husband isn't even upset but i am upset that my brother expressed no sense of feeling bad for amit and the kids having gone out this morning for no reason. he was just like 'man, i have to wait here for 5 hours.' he says he was there 2 hours early and it is the holiday but 2 hours would have been ample time as he opted to fly out of the less busy 'ontario' instead of 'lax'.

i will make the best of all but can't help feel a bit of the potential of doom for the visit. there are reasons i feel as such, which maybe i can share another time.

i told him that he's going to have to take the MAX when he arrives. i'm not sending amit on another 50 mile rountrip drive.

*sigh* it's going to be a long week.

boscia update

it works! i truly was skeptical. i used it friday and saturday woke up with no more dry, painful lips. i used it all day yesterday and today my lips are back to 100% normal. i definitely can't afford to use this as my daily lip care product, but at least i know where to turn if i ever suffer painful lips again. i'm definitely going to be diligent in using a daily lip moisturizer to avoid this problem in the future. i'll just find something alot more affordable!

so i admit it, boscia rocks.