Hydrogen peroxide saves the day

Wednesday night Daniel nocked a glass of red wine over on the carpet at like 3 in the morning when he woke up to get a sip of water. Poor Daniel, he stayed up for an hour trying to scrub it out of the carpet! His alarm went off at 4am and off he went to work, stain still intact. When he gets home from work yesterday he shows me the dilema. So I tried looking on the internet and found this awesome remedy that worked! You can look at this page for better info, but the gist of it is this: Combine some sort of soap (dawn, laundry detergent, carpet cleaner) with hydrogen peroxide, scrub it in a little, let it sit, and boom! Your stain is gone!! This is what i did: I poured hydrogen peroxide all over the stain and then squirted resolve carpet cleaner on it. Scrubbed in, waited, gone! YAY!! Then I just sort of absorbed as much of the wetness as possible with a towel and let it dry.

While we are on the subject of stain removal, I have a great remmedy for oil/grease stains. As soon as possible, rub a whole lot of baby powder into the stain. Then squirt some sort of stain remover on, rub in, let it sit. Then wash as normal. This has gotten not only fresh oil stains out for me, but really old ones as well. Even ones that have been washed/dried before.

Onto other subjects, my wedding ring doesn't fit anymore. I noticed it was really tight last night and made a herculean effort to get it off. Finally I did, after much pain and suffering. But I don't like appearing to be pregnant without being married, so I am going to go pick up a cheap-o fake ring today to make myself feel better. I will put a picture of my new fake ring, as well as a new belly picture, soon!

20 weeks

So I am just so hungry all the time now. It is only 2 in the afternoon and already I am ravishingly hungry, after two meals. Breakfast(at 9:30): 1 scrambled egg with some sausage mixed in, a handful of cherries, and some plain yogurt with maple syrup mixed in (yum yum yum!). Snack: small cup of coffee and 3 hersheys kisses. Lunch (just an hour ago): Half a steak, sweet potato, zuchini and squash. And now I am thinking, hmmm... what's down there in the kitchen? Seriously I can't believe how hungry I am. I made homemade meatballs for the first time the other day and I might go eat some of those with spaghetti. That sounds good for my second lunch. :) Yes, I think I will have that. Too bad it's not homemade spaghetti, too.

Well this is my first official week as a housewife. Daniel says that isn't true since we've been married for 4 years now, but I feel like it's the first week since I am now jobless. It's pretty lonely being all alone in the house. Luckily Daniel and our friend Kyle always come home for lunch, so that's nice. I'm going to have to start doing things with friends in the middle of the day to keep from going stir-crazy. I have been cooking a lot more, though. This morning I made a batch of kombucha, and I am currently baking a batch of bread-- one loaf banana, one loaf appricot. Yum yum yum. I should post the recipe here because this bread is soooo moist, extremely healthy, and delicious. :) I also feel justified in sitting on the computer for a minute because there is a load of laundry in both the washer and dryer, so really I am multi-tasking like crazy!!

Alright, hunger pains are taking over. More updates later!

Healthy food

Here is an EXCELLENT article on eating healthy. Daniel and I have agreed with these standards for a while now and try to follow them, although it isn't always easy. Enjoy!

This was interesting :)

Sooo... how many of you still have beanie babies lying around in a closet somewhere? I am at my moms visiting, and I still have 2 rubbermaid boxes full of them in her basement. I decided I wanted to pick out 2 or 3 for my little baby to take back to Texas. So I'm sifting through them and wondering if I should just stick them back in the basement or what. I found this website! It sends beanies over to the troops so they can distribute them to the children in Iraq! I think that is so sweet. I'm not sure if I will do it or not, but I thought someone out there might be interested. :)

18 weeks and a day

Hello bloggers in blogland. I haven't written for a while here now! I've been bad about this on my trip, I think my blog is getting really boring.... I figured out why. Everything interesting that happens I e-mail to Daniel before I blog, and by the time I've written him I don't want to write the same stuff again. That makes sense to me.

There have been crazy storms here (ie of boring.. talking about the weather on your blog!) and I love it! That's one thing I miss about Ohio. We get some storms in Texas, but whenever it storms there I am worried about flooding and I can never really enjoy the storm. Here flooding isn't a problem and so it is nice!

I had a baby bird adventure the last two days. There was a baby robin in the yard who kept hopping all around the house. He had his feathers, he just couldn't fly yet. But he seemed perfectly healthy. Anyway, I kept a close eye on him for the two days because there are so many cats in the neigborhood. It was nice because he chirped every 5 seconds very loudly, so he kind of had his own radar-- I could always tell where he was from in the house with all the windows open. Anyway, I looked out yesterday and saw him flipped on his back and he couldn't get back over. I went out and turned him over only to discover that he couldn't walk anymore! I don't know what happened! I think he must have been malnourished. I guess parent birds will push their babies out of the nest if they know they won't make it. I just assumed his parents were around and taking care of him (I read that is what they do) but I guess not. Now I feel bad because if I had taken him in a day earlier I could have rescued him! There is an old lady down the street from my moms who works for some wildlife rescue place. My whole life she always had a large assortment of animals that she was rehabilitating. As a kid, whenever she would go out of town she would pay me to come take care of her animals. Anyway, I took my little bird to her house (when I picked him up he just relaxed in my hand and closed his eyes, it was so sad) but she wasn't there! Her husband said to put him in a dark place with water, so I did. I got a few drops of water in his mouth with my finger, but it didn't seem to help. A few hours later he died! It was so sad, because he had seemed perfectly healthy earlier that day, and he was so soo cute. I wish I had taken care of him when I first found him. And I wish birds went to heaven! Maybe they do, I guess we don't really know.

17 weeks

Today our little baby is a full 17 weeks old. Yay baby! So this next week we will be working on 18 weeks. I feel like I get a little bit bigger every single day....

I am in Ohio now, I've been here since Sunday. It's nice to see my family, although I do miss being in Kentucky, I just love it there. It's so beautiful. :)

This picture is from 2 weeks ago or so, but I still wanted to post it up here. (Teresa I totally stole this picture from your blog.... )

This is when we (L2R Martina, me, Teresa) went to the Lexington Whole Foods to give out samples of Pike Valley Farm organic pastured chicken. This isn't just any random farm-- it's our family farm! It rocks. I will be doing a sampling this week at the Columbus Whole Foods, but I am a little nervous because I will be by myself. I will let you all know how it goes. :)

16 weeks

Yay little baby! He is getting so big, I really do need a new belly picture to put up here. My mother-in-law Teresa came out to breakfast a few days ago and said, "I had a dream last night your baby's name was -------!" To my surprise..... SHE WAS RIGHT!! Isn't that amazing??! I was shocked! It's not a usual name. It was God telling her. I think that was just so cool.

I am missing Daniel a lot. I've talked to him a few times and gotten a few e-mails. 3-and-a-half more weeks...