Busy Busy

Be warned, this is pretty boring!   LOL!

This is going to sound crazy, but if you know me, you probably already think I'm crazy...  ;-)  Anyway, I think I am nesting.  You know, like a pregnant woman.  It's because we are getting ready to do IVF again.  I have spent the past 3 days cleaning my house from top to bottom!  As soon as school was cancelled due to fog, I got to work.  I cleaned and organized cabinets.  I cleaned the refrigerator and freezer.  I am embarrassed by how gross the fridge gets.  How does that happen?  It's all sparkly clean now.  I washed every bit of dirty laundry in the house.  I threw away clutter.  I washed every dirty dish and 409'd my whole kitchen.  I think that's it for Wednesday.

Shawn had to work Thanksgiving. :-( We were invited to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving, so that's where we went. I made a Feta & Parmesan Zucchini Bake that I found on Pinterest. Here is the link:
http://www.mykitchenescapades.com/2012/07/feta-parmesan-zucchini-bake.html

It's low carb, so perfect for me.  I also made no bake cookies, but didn't eat any.  My grandpa LOVES no bake cookies.  I didn't eat one.  I didn't eat a lot either.  I wanted to stay away from the carbs and eat them with Shawn.

Since Shawn had to work, we had our Thanksgiving with him today.  I made a Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, leftover zucchini casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing, peas, and rolls.  That was for the 4 of us.  I am not cooking again until the leftovers are gone.  I have a feeling I won't be cooking until Wednesday.  It was worth it.

We got up at 7:45 to get the Turkey going.  While prepping it, I listened to Christmas music!  I LOVE Christmas music.  After I put the Turkey in the oven, Shawn and I brought totes inside from the garage full of Christmas things.  We turned on the TV since we have free STARS right now.  The Vow was getting ready to come on, so I gave Shawn puppy dog eyes and begged him to sit and watch it with me.  I left the tree partially put together and we sat together and the couch and watched it!  I am thankful my husband will sit down and watch a chick flick with me once and a while.  How'd I get so lucky?

After the movie, we finished the tree and decorating the house.  We also put all of the fall decorations away. By that time, the turkey was almost done and I finished making everything else.  I ate carbs!  It was amazing!!!

After eating, we managed to get all of the dishes done and everything put away.  The kitchen was back sparkly clean.  We were pretty comatose, so we watched Garfield's Thanksgiving, then a few episodes of Castle (Season one).  Between the shows, I made us some cookies.  They were the Otis Spunkmeyer cookies we bought back when Zac played baseball this summer.  I know, we have some serious willpower on this diet!  We each ate a nice warm cookie topped with a scoop of ice cream.  It was Heaven!  I can't tell you the last time I ate something like that.  Carbs make me so tired now that I'm not used to them.  Every time I eat them, I feel sleepy within 30 minutes.  It's amazing what you learn about yourself when you diet.

I finally got my behind up and I washed all of the living room blankets.  I gave the dog a bath.  I had to clean the bathtub from the dog hair, so I ended up cleaning the other one as well.  Then I cleaned the sinks and toilets all over.  They are clean enough to eat off of, but I wouldn't want to try it.  ;-)

I washed the dog towels (from drying her off).  I washed a load of white. I swept and mopped every floor.  After that, I took a shower.  I had to wash off the dog smell from giving her a bath.  I got out and trimmed Lucy's nails, brushed her out, and now we are finishing up The Amazing Spiderman.

Tomorrow we are getting together on my other side of the family.  I plan on making corn casserole and Feta & Parmesan Zucchini Bake again.  I will not eat any carbs tomorrow.  This was my one cheat day until next Thanksgiving.  Shawn and I agreed we are not cheating at Christmas.  It was a once a year thing.  The kids will be eating all the leftover carbs for us.

I checked Twitter earlier.  It was the first time in a month.  I've had an account for quite a while now, but I just can't get into it.

The tree is twinkling and we have the lights on the house and garage on.  Thank you Shawn for putting those up when it was warmer last week!

That's about it here...  I am so lucky to have such a wonderful life!  I am thankful for it!

Take Care!

~Sam