The title pretty much sums it up. Randy and I are tired of our standard meals so we have started internet crock potting!!!! My firefighter husband will not permit the crock pot to be on all day while we are at work, he has seen too many houses burn down from crock pots. So for us crock pot cooking is something only done on weekends. Well I guess once I start working weekends that will change as I will be home all week to cook....hmmmmm anyone have CP recipes to share. I tend to like EASY!
Two weeks ago we had pork chops
5 to 6 pork chops
1 med onion chopped
1 pkg of dry Ranch seasoning
1 pkg of dry brown gravy mix
1 can of cream of celery soup
layer pork chops at bottom, onions on top, dry seasonings over and the can of soup on top. Cook in crock pot 5 to 6 hours. We served over egg noodles.
I must say it was pretty good...a little salty, so next time I will try low salt soup.
Last weekend Randy made Chicken Cattatorie.....it really is too much for me to type out, so I'm sure you can google it if you like! It was ok....a little watery and needed salt. I was not a huge fan.
Today...pork chops again! The last ones came out SOOOO tender that I just had to have them in the crock pot again!!!
5-6pork chops
1 can crm mushroom soup (I used low salt jsut in case)
8oz of softened cream cheese
1/3 can of water
garlic
salt and pepper
Mix softened cheese, water, garlic and soup together. place in CP. layer pork chops on top. salt and pepper to taste. Cook for 5 to 6 hours.
Since this one is still cooking, I have no review, but will come back later to post.
UPDATE....so the last one was ok...it was missing something, but we can't figure out what jsut yet!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Number...LAST (cont)
Where was I....oh that's right. I was looking up and seeing ceiling tiles and the faces of 15 coworkers. Fun times! It seems as if I passed out, but when they found me I was purple. Pretty sure now that purple is not MY color! They called 911 and the ambulance came for me. I was awake and alert at this point and someone asked "Is this your 1st pregnancy" To which I answered, "No, it's my LAST!"
At the hospital they decided prettly quickly that I would be admitted. As a nurse I must say, nurses, or at least this one, don't make good patients. My nurses were GREAT, the aides ok (including the girl who was SO chipper and happy I wanted to kick her puppy) and the Doctors....well, we won't go there. They had a cardio-electrophysiologist come and see me. Wondering what that is? It's a fancy name for a heart doctor that works on the 'electrical' conduction of your heart (oppsosed to the 'plumbing' of your heart). He talked about putting in a stimulator, somewhat like a pacemaker, but he doesn't want to do it until the baby comes. So the next day they gave me the option of staying another night or going home (it was NYE)....my Mamma didn't raise no fool, I went home!
The following week my 3 week long heart monitor came. I'm not sure if the goal of it is to stress you out with the beeping and lack of sleep, but that pretty much sums it up. I was NEVER so happy to get rid of something as I was that heart monitor.
I had my AFP ( a blood test to check for neural tube and comosonal defects) done Xmas Eve and it took several weeks to come back, but it was NORMAL!!! WOOT WOOT! The nex hurdle was my level 2 ultra sound. Randy didn't want to take the day off (sicne he will need his time when I have the baby) so my mom came with me. Happy to report I am having a.......................
Healthy Baby.........................................................
No, that is all, a healthy baby! We didn't find out the sex with the boys and will follow suit for this one as well.
The high risk OB who I saw for the u/s said I was special!!!! Isn't that nice? Not really. He meant that with my health issues they worry about not only me, but the baby, so they will keep a close eye on me by doing u/s every 4 weeks to check the baby and to see me. I guess if I HAD to find a silver lining in all this, it would be that I get to see my baby every 4 weeks, which will reassure me s/he is fine!
After my u/s and the all clear that the baby was pretty much healthy, Mom and I went to register. There are some people who think it is in bad taste to have a shower for a 2nd or 3rd baby. They can kiss my arse! (Just to clairify, I only had 1 shower so far, and that was for my 1st). My best friends wanted to throw one for me, and who am I to deny them that?
I am now feeling ok. I have good days and bad days, but there are more good then bad. I am able to get excited now, rather than be resentful. I will admit, early on I really resented this pregnancy and found it hard to attach to this baby. For one, I was sick...all the time. Second I couldn't attach to this baby until I knew everything was ok. Been there, done that and have a piece of heart missing to prove it. But now, things seem to be good.
The boys....Oh, my boys are SO excited to be big brothers. Cody says he will help me change dirty diapers, which is more than I can say for his father! Shane last night took one of his stuffies and showed me how he will burp the baby and feed it, although he was a little shocked when I told him the baby will drink mommy's milk for awhile (his eyes got HUGE when he found out where that milk came from!). I really want it to be May (oh, I'm due May 20th!) so I can see and hold this lil bugger and to see my boys become big brothers. They REALLY want a sister, but my gut tells me they will just have to be happy with a brother (I am pretty sure I can only make boys!) .
Starting in March I will be working weekends only. Remember in my last post how we said we had to wait for the boys to be done with daycare to afford another one.....even with the older 2 in aftercare, daycare would still cost us an arm and a leg (not to mention a kidney) with the baby. So I will be working Sat and Sun for VNA, 8am to 9pm and Randy will stay home with 3 kids, then during the week I will be home with the 3 kids while Randy is at work. SO NO MORE DAYCARE!!!! I will be home with my kids allllllllll summer (wow.....not sure how sane I will be by the end of it!). Thankfully I ahve plently of teacher friends who will also be off in the summer and we will have to plan outings (as in free outings to the Park and such!).
Pretty sure that catches everyone up on the pregnancy..................... not sure what will be up next, but I promist it won't take my 6 months to write it!
At the hospital they decided prettly quickly that I would be admitted. As a nurse I must say, nurses, or at least this one, don't make good patients. My nurses were GREAT, the aides ok (including the girl who was SO chipper and happy I wanted to kick her puppy) and the Doctors....well, we won't go there. They had a cardio-electrophysiologist come and see me. Wondering what that is? It's a fancy name for a heart doctor that works on the 'electrical' conduction of your heart (oppsosed to the 'plumbing' of your heart). He talked about putting in a stimulator, somewhat like a pacemaker, but he doesn't want to do it until the baby comes. So the next day they gave me the option of staying another night or going home (it was NYE)....my Mamma didn't raise no fool, I went home!
The following week my 3 week long heart monitor came. I'm not sure if the goal of it is to stress you out with the beeping and lack of sleep, but that pretty much sums it up. I was NEVER so happy to get rid of something as I was that heart monitor.
I had my AFP ( a blood test to check for neural tube and comosonal defects) done Xmas Eve and it took several weeks to come back, but it was NORMAL!!! WOOT WOOT! The nex hurdle was my level 2 ultra sound. Randy didn't want to take the day off (sicne he will need his time when I have the baby) so my mom came with me. Happy to report I am having a.......................
Healthy Baby.........................................................
No, that is all, a healthy baby! We didn't find out the sex with the boys and will follow suit for this one as well.
The high risk OB who I saw for the u/s said I was special!!!! Isn't that nice? Not really. He meant that with my health issues they worry about not only me, but the baby, so they will keep a close eye on me by doing u/s every 4 weeks to check the baby and to see me. I guess if I HAD to find a silver lining in all this, it would be that I get to see my baby every 4 weeks, which will reassure me s/he is fine!
After my u/s and the all clear that the baby was pretty much healthy, Mom and I went to register. There are some people who think it is in bad taste to have a shower for a 2nd or 3rd baby. They can kiss my arse! (Just to clairify, I only had 1 shower so far, and that was for my 1st). My best friends wanted to throw one for me, and who am I to deny them that?
I am now feeling ok. I have good days and bad days, but there are more good then bad. I am able to get excited now, rather than be resentful. I will admit, early on I really resented this pregnancy and found it hard to attach to this baby. For one, I was sick...all the time. Second I couldn't attach to this baby until I knew everything was ok. Been there, done that and have a piece of heart missing to prove it. But now, things seem to be good.
The boys....Oh, my boys are SO excited to be big brothers. Cody says he will help me change dirty diapers, which is more than I can say for his father! Shane last night took one of his stuffies and showed me how he will burp the baby and feed it, although he was a little shocked when I told him the baby will drink mommy's milk for awhile (his eyes got HUGE when he found out where that milk came from!). I really want it to be May (oh, I'm due May 20th!) so I can see and hold this lil bugger and to see my boys become big brothers. They REALLY want a sister, but my gut tells me they will just have to be happy with a brother (I am pretty sure I can only make boys!) .
Starting in March I will be working weekends only. Remember in my last post how we said we had to wait for the boys to be done with daycare to afford another one.....even with the older 2 in aftercare, daycare would still cost us an arm and a leg (not to mention a kidney) with the baby. So I will be working Sat and Sun for VNA, 8am to 9pm and Randy will stay home with 3 kids, then during the week I will be home with the 3 kids while Randy is at work. SO NO MORE DAYCARE!!!! I will be home with my kids allllllllll summer (wow.....not sure how sane I will be by the end of it!). Thankfully I ahve plently of teacher friends who will also be off in the summer and we will have to plan outings (as in free outings to the Park and such!).
Pretty sure that catches everyone up on the pregnancy..................... not sure what will be up next, but I promist it won't take my 6 months to write it!
Pregnant with baby Number.............LAST!
So as promised I will post about my pregnancy.
Randy and have always wanted a 3rd, esp with the boys being so close together I really feel as if I missed out on so much with baby-ness. we knew we had to wait until the boys were older as daycare for 3 would KILL us. We talked about trying after our Disney trip, but then the baby would be due in the Summer and I did NOT want to be pregnant in the summer. I figured if we tried right before Disney I would be due in the early Summer and I would jsut have to deal with being pregnant in Disney and HOPE I didn't have the nausea I had before. I had an i-phone app that tracked my cycles and told me when I was ovulating. The only thing regular about my cycles is that I am ALWAYS irregular. We did the deed ONE time during the 'green' zone on my phone. Of course I couldn't wait to see if it worked. Having never tried to get pregnant before (every other time was a surprise!) I was sure that it would drive me crazy.
I tested one day and By Golly, there was a slight 2nd line...that was it, I knew I was pregnant. Fertile Mytrle ME! I am VERY grateful that getting pregnant has never been an issue for me. I have so many friends who struggle with infertility and I almost feel bad that I can get pregnant so easily.
I called my OB, told them the news and they told me to have fun in Disney, I was early enough that any ride I chose to ride on would not harm the baby, they told me to make sure I was drinking and eating enough (were they kidding....I had reservations for meals made 6 months prior to our trip!).
We had a great time in WDW, and I only occassionally had nausea. One night it was bad enough for me not to eat most of my dinner, but that was ok cause Shane loved the French Onion soup at T-Rex! I was tired and a little bummed there was no alcohol on this trip (I have a friend who is a bartender in WDW and couldn't even have him make more more than a Cherry Coke!).
Pretty much when we came home it went down hill and this pregnancy became far from easy. I started throwing up....and throwing up.....and throwing up. I couldn't eat I as the nausea was so bad and when I did, I would throw up. The drs ordered oral Zofran, a anti-nausea med that they use for cancer patients. It helped....for about a week. Then I started feeling really awful and called the Dr. They ordered me a Zofran pump to be given to me thru a needle in my belly continusouly and diagnosed me with hyperemesis gravidarium...meaning SEVERE nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. At this point I had 20 pounds in 3 weeks, I was in ketosis (meaning my body no longer was getting 'new' nutrition, but was using what I had in stores). Randy urged me to eat for the baby, but what he didn't understand at that point the baby was getting EVERYTHING I had and I was getting nothing, so there was no need to eat more (to only throw it all up later).
Around Thanksgiving I was able to get rid of the pump!!!! I had started eating, was no longer in ketosis and could keep food down. I still wasn't gaining weight, but I hadn't lost anymore either. I was finally thinking I could enjoy this prengnacy rather than think "What were you thinking."
That feeling was short lived. I got a upper respirtory infection, sinus infection and tolsilitits in the beginging of December which made me feel yucky! Thankfully I had off of work for planned time off, too bad I spent it sick! Around this time I started getting short of breath, having heart palpatations and a racing heart. I saw the family dr who ordered a heart monitor overnight. I did that and waited for the results. I have had them i nthe past and they have showed my heart goes all over the place....40 beats (which is WAY LOW) up to 150 beats per minute. It just seemed like now it was staying high a lot more.
One day in addition to all that stuff I started with chest pressure. Being the nurse I am, I waited until I was done with seeing my patients, then called my dr who told me to go to the ER. Oh, YAY! They did some tests and sent me home, and told me to follow up with my dr the next day. The pressure went away and I went about my life. We got thru Christmas just fine. I was still dealing with the tachycardia but was learning to 'deal with it'. I had good days and bad days.
It was a bad day on the 30th. I felt awful but went about my day....until I woke up on the floor surrounded by 15 coworkers!
lunch break over...more later!
Randy and have always wanted a 3rd, esp with the boys being so close together I really feel as if I missed out on so much with baby-ness. we knew we had to wait until the boys were older as daycare for 3 would KILL us. We talked about trying after our Disney trip, but then the baby would be due in the Summer and I did NOT want to be pregnant in the summer. I figured if we tried right before Disney I would be due in the early Summer and I would jsut have to deal with being pregnant in Disney and HOPE I didn't have the nausea I had before. I had an i-phone app that tracked my cycles and told me when I was ovulating. The only thing regular about my cycles is that I am ALWAYS irregular. We did the deed ONE time during the 'green' zone on my phone. Of course I couldn't wait to see if it worked. Having never tried to get pregnant before (every other time was a surprise!) I was sure that it would drive me crazy.
I tested one day and By Golly, there was a slight 2nd line...that was it, I knew I was pregnant. Fertile Mytrle ME! I am VERY grateful that getting pregnant has never been an issue for me. I have so many friends who struggle with infertility and I almost feel bad that I can get pregnant so easily.
I called my OB, told them the news and they told me to have fun in Disney, I was early enough that any ride I chose to ride on would not harm the baby, they told me to make sure I was drinking and eating enough (were they kidding....I had reservations for meals made 6 months prior to our trip!).
We had a great time in WDW, and I only occassionally had nausea. One night it was bad enough for me not to eat most of my dinner, but that was ok cause Shane loved the French Onion soup at T-Rex! I was tired and a little bummed there was no alcohol on this trip (I have a friend who is a bartender in WDW and couldn't even have him make more more than a Cherry Coke!).
Pretty much when we came home it went down hill and this pregnancy became far from easy. I started throwing up....and throwing up.....and throwing up. I couldn't eat I as the nausea was so bad and when I did, I would throw up. The drs ordered oral Zofran, a anti-nausea med that they use for cancer patients. It helped....for about a week. Then I started feeling really awful and called the Dr. They ordered me a Zofran pump to be given to me thru a needle in my belly continusouly and diagnosed me with hyperemesis gravidarium...meaning SEVERE nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. At this point I had 20 pounds in 3 weeks, I was in ketosis (meaning my body no longer was getting 'new' nutrition, but was using what I had in stores). Randy urged me to eat for the baby, but what he didn't understand at that point the baby was getting EVERYTHING I had and I was getting nothing, so there was no need to eat more (to only throw it all up later).
Around Thanksgiving I was able to get rid of the pump!!!! I had started eating, was no longer in ketosis and could keep food down. I still wasn't gaining weight, but I hadn't lost anymore either. I was finally thinking I could enjoy this prengnacy rather than think "What were you thinking."
That feeling was short lived. I got a upper respirtory infection, sinus infection and tolsilitits in the beginging of December which made me feel yucky! Thankfully I had off of work for planned time off, too bad I spent it sick! Around this time I started getting short of breath, having heart palpatations and a racing heart. I saw the family dr who ordered a heart monitor overnight. I did that and waited for the results. I have had them i nthe past and they have showed my heart goes all over the place....40 beats (which is WAY LOW) up to 150 beats per minute. It just seemed like now it was staying high a lot more.
One day in addition to all that stuff I started with chest pressure. Being the nurse I am, I waited until I was done with seeing my patients, then called my dr who told me to go to the ER. Oh, YAY! They did some tests and sent me home, and told me to follow up with my dr the next day. The pressure went away and I went about my life. We got thru Christmas just fine. I was still dealing with the tachycardia but was learning to 'deal with it'. I had good days and bad days.
It was a bad day on the 30th. I felt awful but went about my day....until I woke up on the floor surrounded by 15 coworkers!
lunch break over...more later!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Catching up....again
I hope to be more active with this blog.....it always seems as if live throws me 100 things but the time to do only 3 of them. So this post will serve as an update............
Our trip to Disney was GREAT! I actually came back not wanting to plan another trip...meaning this trip was great and I didn't feel the need to 'top it'
Cody is in 1st grade and doing pretty good! He ready a Captian Underpants books cover to cover in a few nights. Bless him, he is just like his Momma (I used to read with the light of the hallway when I was younger, which is probably how I ruined my eyes!). He joined the Cub Scouts, while I am not thrilled on their unwelcoming of Gays, (that is a lesson I will have to teach him) there are other great things about them. Infact this past weekend was the Pinewood Derby races and Cody came in 3rd in his Den!!!
Shane is a sponge when it comes to education...he loves to soak it all up! He goes to den and pack meetings with Randy and Cody, so he is excited to start Cubs next year.
Randy is still working as a fire inspector and seems to enjoy it. The winter is here now, which means no Firetruck shows (YAY!) so he is in his down time.
As for me, I will be starting to work weekends ONLY in March!!!! Which means I will be a SAHM (with plently to blog about!). Oh the reason....we are having another baby in May!!! Oh, did I leave that out? Oppsie!
My next blog post will be all about my pregnancy....it has been a doozy!
Our trip to Disney was GREAT! I actually came back not wanting to plan another trip...meaning this trip was great and I didn't feel the need to 'top it'
Cody is in 1st grade and doing pretty good! He ready a Captian Underpants books cover to cover in a few nights. Bless him, he is just like his Momma (I used to read with the light of the hallway when I was younger, which is probably how I ruined my eyes!). He joined the Cub Scouts, while I am not thrilled on their unwelcoming of Gays, (that is a lesson I will have to teach him) there are other great things about them. Infact this past weekend was the Pinewood Derby races and Cody came in 3rd in his Den!!!
Shane is a sponge when it comes to education...he loves to soak it all up! He goes to den and pack meetings with Randy and Cody, so he is excited to start Cubs next year.
Randy is still working as a fire inspector and seems to enjoy it. The winter is here now, which means no Firetruck shows (YAY!) so he is in his down time.
As for me, I will be starting to work weekends ONLY in March!!!! Which means I will be a SAHM (with plently to blog about!). Oh the reason....we are having another baby in May!!! Oh, did I leave that out? Oppsie!
My next blog post will be all about my pregnancy....it has been a doozy!
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