If
you are a regular reader you might have noticed that I haven’t been posting as
often over the past few months. I’ve
been holding off mentioning anything but my husband tells me that I should tell you what has been going on. So here goes.
First
the good news:
We are expecting Baby
Lorimer #4 in early May. The doctor says that the baby is healthy and
is developing correctly. We are very
excited to welcome this new little one into our family.
My kids have even started a list of names for
the new baby, none of which are actually in the running, because honestly if we
named the baby Zelda, Twilight Sparkle, or Captain Hook our naming privileges
should be revoked.
The
bad news: This has been a difficult
pregnancy (are there any easy ones?). It
has been much harder physically than my other three.
In
case you want to know the detail read on (if you would rather not know skip bulleted
list)
- I have had a couple of rounds of kidney stones. I had always heard people say that having kidney stones is like having a baby. They were wrong it is worse. When you are in labor you have a hard contraction and then you get a second to breathe before the next one. With kidney stones it just hurts super badly all the time, no break, oh and no baby at the end. There is also pretty much nothing they can do for you when you have kidney stones and are pregnant, but wait for you to pass them.
- The entire family had the flu, which went on for weeks. I thought it was never going to end.
- With previous pregnancies I have had morning sickness for the first trimester but around 20 weeks I start feeling good. With this pregnancy it looks like I’ll be sick the entire time (not a good sign when you are throwing up at 30 weeks).
Can
you see why the postings are few and far between?
Yet we are eating a lot of our food
storage. I’m so grateful for all of the
fruit we froze and canned last summer. We have been using our frozen fruit in muffins
and smoothies, and we are eating bottled fruit almost every day. We
have also been going through a lot of freeze dried meat. It is so easy to use and quick to cook that
it works well in my quick pregnancy dinner routine.
I do have a couple of posts in the works, and
it looks like I will be able to get back to a more regular posting
schedule. In the mean time if you have a recipe that you
would like to see converted to using food storage ingredients send it my way heather@teamshelfreliance.com
and I’ll get working on it.
