Welcome to March

We woke up to snow today! Fortunately it's only sticking to the cars and the grass but it was still quite the surprise. Ok Spring... anytime now.

We had quite the productive day yesterday. We slept in a bit and then I made a blueberry coffee cake. It turned out pretty nice! The recipe has yogurt and orange juice and (obviously) blueberries in it so it feels sort of healthy too. After breakfast I caught up on some bill paying. We received our federal tax refund Friday so we paid our state and local taxes out of that. Add to that the mortgage and the credit card balance and our tax return dwindled significantly. It still felt terrific to take care of all that in one day, whew. We really are responsible adults, haha.

We threw in a load of laundry and Peter did some dishes. We decided to get Vonage for the house and then in the near future exchange our cell phone plan for emergency only cells. We'll fill you in on number changes when all that happens. We ran to Walmart for a phone because this will be our first landline phone we've had... ever. In the end we should save a good chunk of change every month and that's the point of this switch.

While we were out we grabbed lunch and then watched some Gilmore Girls once we got home. I updated my pregnancy journal a bit. I think I felt hiccups for the first time on Friday! Peter and I read through chapter 1 of a book we're discussing in our small group and we worked through the daily devotion from our church. They put together a Lent devotional book and it's pretty interesting. I can't believe how early Daylight Savings and Easter are this year!

We wrote a letter to our Compassion girl, Unchittha "Plai" in Thailand. She's our new girl that we started sponsoring after the girl I had been sponsoring since something like 1998, Mueyfha, went to college and was no longer part of the Compassion project. Peter and I have also sponsored a little boy in El Salvador, Jose Alexander, since 2004 I think.

We had dinner, I did some reading, we watched some TV (or Peter watched TV while I fell asleep). A very busy, very good, very productive Saturday.

And while we did all this the cats slept in the sun.

Life is Good

...but not much to write about. Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the nice, slow boring patch we've hit here lately but I can imagine it makes for less-than-thrilling reading.

Friday I took a personal day. I wanted a day to clean the house, my boss was going to be out and I was all caught up on my work. It's a good thing I cleaned the house Thursday night because I had a headache Friday that kept me in bed more than I had planned. It was pretty nice - aside from the headache. I got my hair cut in the afternoon and Peter and I had Pizza Hut for dinner. A successful day.

Saturday we slept in and then went grocery shopping. After lunch I cleaned out our coat closet (too small a space and too much stuff crammed in it). Some of it was moved to the laundry room and then the rest we ran to Salvation Army. We stopped by the library and I came across "Diary of a Mad Mom-To-Be". Considering I found "Diary of a Mad Bride" so amusing (and at times a little familiar) while planning our wedding, I knew I had to read this sequel.

After the library we ran to Old Navy to find me some comfy pants. I have one pair of pajama pants I wear all night every night as soon as I'm home from work so I bought another pair in lime green (my current pair is hot pink). I found a wonderful pair of yoga pants too. However, mom will need to hem both pairs before I wear them... and she's in Punta Cana for the week so I guess I'll just have to wait.

Sunday we taught Sunday school and went to church. I was craving coffee so I grabbed a cup of decaf (3 french vanilla creamers) and it was so, so good. I don't know what they do to our church coffee but it is always awesome. We grabbed a Wendy's lunch and then we put drawer liners in the dresser in the nursery. It just looks a little more finished and feminine (the liners are a blue/green floral-type design). Peter's parents visited on their way home to Rochester from Baltimore. His mom made us an adorable blanket and a little knit outfit. We love baby gifts. Later I fell asleep during the Oscars (sorry Hugh).

Tonight I made donuts after work for Fat Tuesday tomorrow. I already know that Pumpkin likes them - she's been kicking like crazy since I ate one! Life is so very good.

PS - I realize I wrote about Pizza Hut, coffee, Wendy's and donuts in one entry but I promise that Pumpkin is getting lots of healthy cereal and fruit juice and salad too.