A few things on my mind…

Tomorrow I will be 14 weeks pregnant. I am still wearing my jeans without discomfort. Amazing! The other amazing thing is that I can definately feel the baby moving, but I can't feel the top of my uterus. I've always been able to tell the baby is growing by the fact that I can feel my uterus growing upward. Not this time, I can't even tell where it is. So strange. Funny thought, we were going to wait until Sept to tell people we were pregnant and my thought was then that we couldn't wait that long because people would already be able to tell!

The cool thing is that I am also not as hungry as I was last two times. And I am going to make it my goal not to eat cereal at 1:00 am when I am feeling ravenously hungry! Also, instead of eating a lunch, we are doing a light lunch of mostly veggies and fruit or tortilla chips and salsa. That makes it easier for me (not really having to prepare the middle meal) and then I feel hungry for dinner when Chris comes home. This is my plan, so far so good. I know that I don't need three full meals a day but a good veggie snack or an apple is refreshing and ties me over until dinner. In addittion to trying to eat differently I am doing my back exercises in the morning. My thought is that if I can get my back stronger than maybe I can walk again for exercise, that would be really great but at this point I walk and I pay for it later. If you want to pray for something you can pray that these exercises will really help to strengthen my back!


Also, last night at 10:30 pm I started tonight's dinner. Black Bean Soup. The only thing I changed was that I added more water and left out the two jars of salsa. I added thyme, oregano, and basil as my spices as well as salt and peper. I just tasted my first taste a few minutes ago and it tastes wonderful! I am going to make some corn bread to eat with it and I think Chris is going to love it! He has been working really hard the last two days, last night he worked 4 hours of over-time and got home at 11 totally wiped out. I love to make him a really good meal when he has been working hard. I want him to feel appreciated and to feel like a king when he comes in the door. I especially like having it all ready for him when he gets home so he can just sit down and eat and not have to worry about helping keep the kids out of the kitchen. But this doesn't always happen. I love my husband, he takes such good care of me. I wish for every woman a husband as loving and honorable as my man. He makes serving him so much fun! And I love staying home so that I can take care of him and his children, it is really a dream come true!