Latest addiction

I'm not a huge cold desserts fan. Unlike my husband who can eat a pint of ice cream a day, I don't particularly ever crave that. Nor do I crave frozen yogurt...although a friend and I recently tried Yogurtland and it was DELISH. So when Rita's Ice Custard opened up recently by our home, I didn't think much about it at all. Dear hubby, on the other hand, was informed by a colleague on the east cost that that place was "so friggin' awesome" that we should try it ASAP.

Our lazy bones didn't try it out until last week (they've been open since this past summer)...and now I am HOOKED. I've had 4 (!) gelatini's in this past week. Ridiculous goodness I say. What is a gelati? It's their creamy custard layered with their Italian ice then custard on top again. Smoothest Italian ices in the freshest yummiest flavors. Had I known about this before I probably would have been there every week this past summer. Oh man. So good.

Did I mention I've had 4 of these in less than a week? I must stop. But you must try it if you haven't already. http://www.ritasice.com/

Below is a pic of my latest fix that I had last night. Vanilla custard with fresh watermelon Italian ice. Ahhh....

Great starts

It's a beautiful Monday morning and my poor little baby boy woke up this morning with a fever. :-( I think this is his first one. He's not fussy just warm. Hopefully fever will break soon.

I've decided to use our currently least utilized room in the house (the dining room) as a place to have my Quiet Time with God's word. I've been extremely inconsistent with my QT even though I literally spend time in prayer every morning and night. That's because B keeps me accountable. It's a part of our daily routine and you know how babies thrive on routine and structure. Anyhoo, it' been really nice to step back into God's word. Rather than just reading through it, I feel like this time around reading Genesis has been more like reading a really amazing story/adventure? I know, sounds kind of silly but whatever. It's all good.

My husband recently bought a Keurig machine that makes hot/cold coffee/tea beverages. I hate to admit it, but it makes really great tea. I hate to admit it only because my hubby was ridiculously excited about getting this machine and just couldn't stop raving about it. And I didn't see how it could be so awesome. Well, apparently it is. I'm having some English Breakfast tea this morning with some agave sweetener and a splash of milk. That along with a delicious blueberry muffin. Good food for the body to go along with the food for my soul.

Have a wonderful Monday everyone!

Friday Foto 2011.10.14

As I ease my way back to my blog, let me try something with routine. As many other of my fav bloggers do-theme days. I'll do photos in phriday. Haha. Most likely they'll be pics from my phone and most if those pics are of my little bundle of joy :-)

Here he is at...you guessed it...3 months old ;-)

How do I do this?

Well I'm glad to know that I can blog from my phone, but clearly that's not the most preferred method. Since the DH has started to work from home more often, I've been booted off of the home laptop I'd been using for so long. Not to happy about that. He did build a desktop for me to use, but all of my old files STILL haven't been moved over yet. Did I mentioned that I married an IT guy? So much for having a technologically advanced home. On top of all that I have hardly been using my point and shoot camera for two reasons. First, I got an iPhone in April and it takes great pics and videos so I alway have that with me to use. Secondly, the battery keeps dying so fast. Really sucks. My friend once said, "the best camera to have is the one you have with you.". So true. We've now been in the market for a new camera. Apparently that's a popular thing to do when you have a new baby-get a fancy schmancy camera. However, as with most major purchased in this household...we still haven't gotten a new camera and we've been looking for about a year now. But anyhoo, this is about to turn into rambling post. I mean, I can't help it. I haven't blogged for OVER A YEAR! lol.
Okay, so my goal for this next week is to get back to blogger. But first, I've got to get my work area back in order. That was another part of the hubby working from home deal-I lost my craft room. That's now the guest room and future baby #2 (whenever that happens) room. We turned the old guestroom into our joint office space now and as it stands right now...my work area is not working for me. Wish me luck. I really really miss blogging.

Over a year

Ohmygoodness!! I can't believe it's actually been over a year since I've posted anything!!! How very very quickly time flies. Well, this post is just so that I can see how blogger from my iPhone will work. Long story but I'm less and less often using our home computer anymore. Might have to do with the fact the I'm running around all day trying to keep up with my little bundle of joy :-)

ouchie update and a giveaway link

so for anyone who's still out there...i'm doing 99% better!  1% is for the slight remnants of soreness i still feel in my lower back every now and then.  but the fact that i can move around, sneeze, get in and out of the hubby's truck on my own...without wincing in pain...makes me SO happy now :) 

added bonus today...i was able to get my wedding ring set off of my swollen finger.  i'd noticed how swollen my left ring finger had gotten about 3 weeks ago and i was starting to get stressed about getting it off since i wan't haven't any luck.  and guess how.  was it lotion? no. vaseline? no.  olive oil? no.  soap and water?  definitely not. i even tried the string trick that i found on http://www.babyscenter.com/ and read all of the feedback on this post ...and the trick that did it?  WINDEX.  i kid you not!  so i'm now walking around preggers and w/o a wedding band on.  hope i don't get any funny looks.  ;-)

okay...so another bit of fun news for any of you out there reading this...please visit my friend Anhesty who has a FABULOUS giveaway on her blog...the link to that is here.  She's fabulous and so is the Shabby Apple boutique that to my surprise had maternity wear...awesome!

hope everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend...my goal this weekend...clean out my closet.  i'm going to really have to let go of my former (way former...like 10 years ago former) skinny self.  wish me luck!

ouchie

i slipped and fell at the bottom of our staircase on Friday night and let me tell you...falling when you're preggers is the WORST time to fall.  luckily, i didn't hurt my spine, just the major muscle adjacent to my spine. and luckily i fell on my backside and not my front side.  my OB said my baby's pretty well protected in my body at 17 weeks.  i had enough extra cushioning before i got preggers so i'm sure that helps as well.  i saw my regular primary care physician today at the advice of my OB since i was still having some shooting pains 3 days after this happened.  my regular doc said that the best thing for me since i was preggers was to just continue to take tylenol and suggested i use a heating pad.  he said it would take about 10 days to heal...and today is day 4. 

i'm super thankful for the prayers and encouragement from friends and family.  i can not wait for day 10.  i'm going to really have to try harder to not be so clumsy going forward. 

and mark my words..the next house we get if we ever get a second house...it will be a one story house. ;o)