Derek and I have been LOVING our weekly farm share this summer. This is the first year we have had a share, and it will definitely not be our last! Every Tuesday it is a surprise to see what we have in the box for the week. We love the large head of green or red leaf lettuce get every week. I have never eaten so many yummy salads in my life! This week our salads were enhanced with radicchio and arugula. I hard-boiled an egg and Derek grilled up a chicken breast and voila!
Other staples of the share so far have been radishes, spring garlic, swiss chard, and beets. We are eating lots of sauteed chard and beet greens with garlic, onions, and red pepper flakes. Delicious! This was our first week of new potatoes, so we did those on the grill along with the chicken breasts. The babies are indirectly getting lots of local, seasonal, organic produce this summer! We received the Beaba Babycook (aka, the magic baby food maker) as a shower gift, so we are hoping to make our own baby food when the time comes!
Everyone asks if I have any pregnancy food cravings. The strangest thing for me is how much I crave SUGAR. For someone who has never had a sweet tooth, it's a big change to enjoy a little sweetness every day. Some weeks Derek will bake me something, I enjoy a Klondike bar here and there, and I can always count on some kind of dessert showing up in the lunch room at work. Everything in moderation, of course, but this is definitely a pregnancy defined by sugar cravings!
Derek finished painting the nursery walls "new grass green" this week! He also decided to paint the ceiling, so as soon as that is done we will be ready to assemble the cribs and set things up!
I'm 24 weeks along right now and things are going well. I am so thankful that I've had such a good pregnancy so far. I'm taking a prenatal yoga class on Sunday mornings and that has been so helpful in keeping me in a good state of physical and mental being. Unfortunately I've been having symptoms of carpal tunnel, which is apparently more prevalent during pregnancy. I'll be talking to the midwife about that at my checkup this week, and my yoga instructor gave me a pose that should help as well. My belly is big enough now that I can't really sit on our couch anymore -- it's just too hard to get up because it sits so low! So I'm very glad we bought the recliner when we did, as that is my best seating option right now :) I continue to walk as much as possible, although at a much slower pace... Derek is great about picking me up from work when he can, so that is much appreciated.
Derek has been working tons of overtime and there is so much to do around the house. We decided last weekend to have a date night on Saturday. We had a nice dinner out and then went to the movies. Believe it or not, we have never gone to a movie in a theatre together before! We figured we should do it while we can! When we get babysitters in the future, our priority will be to see our friends or have a nice dinner out, so there likely won't be many movies in theatres to come. This is fine with us, however, since we don't have much overlap in our movie tastes!
The cats continue to chill and co-exist amidst the house madness. They are both getting check-ups and shots at the vet before the babies arrive, and Salvador will get a long overdue teeth cleaning next month. They have no idea what's ahead for us all in the fall!
Other staples of the share so far have been radishes, spring garlic, swiss chard, and beets. We are eating lots of sauteed chard and beet greens with garlic, onions, and red pepper flakes. Delicious! This was our first week of new potatoes, so we did those on the grill along with the chicken breasts. The babies are indirectly getting lots of local, seasonal, organic produce this summer! We received the Beaba Babycook (aka, the magic baby food maker) as a shower gift, so we are hoping to make our own baby food when the time comes!
Everyone asks if I have any pregnancy food cravings. The strangest thing for me is how much I crave SUGAR. For someone who has never had a sweet tooth, it's a big change to enjoy a little sweetness every day. Some weeks Derek will bake me something, I enjoy a Klondike bar here and there, and I can always count on some kind of dessert showing up in the lunch room at work. Everything in moderation, of course, but this is definitely a pregnancy defined by sugar cravings!
Derek finished painting the nursery walls "new grass green" this week! He also decided to paint the ceiling, so as soon as that is done we will be ready to assemble the cribs and set things up!
I'm 24 weeks along right now and things are going well. I am so thankful that I've had such a good pregnancy so far. I'm taking a prenatal yoga class on Sunday mornings and that has been so helpful in keeping me in a good state of physical and mental being. Unfortunately I've been having symptoms of carpal tunnel, which is apparently more prevalent during pregnancy. I'll be talking to the midwife about that at my checkup this week, and my yoga instructor gave me a pose that should help as well. My belly is big enough now that I can't really sit on our couch anymore -- it's just too hard to get up because it sits so low! So I'm very glad we bought the recliner when we did, as that is my best seating option right now :) I continue to walk as much as possible, although at a much slower pace... Derek is great about picking me up from work when he can, so that is much appreciated.
Derek has been working tons of overtime and there is so much to do around the house. We decided last weekend to have a date night on Saturday. We had a nice dinner out and then went to the movies. Believe it or not, we have never gone to a movie in a theatre together before! We figured we should do it while we can! When we get babysitters in the future, our priority will be to see our friends or have a nice dinner out, so there likely won't be many movies in theatres to come. This is fine with us, however, since we don't have much overlap in our movie tastes!
The cats continue to chill and co-exist amidst the house madness. They are both getting check-ups and shots at the vet before the babies arrive, and Salvador will get a long overdue teeth cleaning next month. They have no idea what's ahead for us all in the fall!
The room & the salad look great! Jen & I totally going to check out a farm share next year.
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