Hello, friends! How was your weekend? Did you get any snow?! We got about 2 feet, more or less. Seriously, Saturday it felt like it would never.stop.snowing. Ryan and I are definitely feeling cabin feverish, so I’m hoping by today the roads are clear enough for me to feel confident driving – not a fan of driving in any kind of in climate weather/with stuff on the roads. Though to be honest, this was our first big snowstorm in the house/town, and they’re really good at plowing. They were plowing all day as it fell on Saturday! Anyway, we’ll talk about snow later in the post!
Let’s start with Friday, shall we? Friday morning something crazy happened. Well, crazy for me. I mentioned here that I needed to do some grocery shopping for the weekend Friday morning, and I did.. by myself. Since Ryan and I didn’t see much of Alex Thursday due to leaving early for my OB appt, Alex offered to watch Ryan while I did the shopping, and for once I took him up on it. He offers a lot, but I never actually do it because I’m weird. Well, it was super nice! BUT I did miss my little sidekick a LOT. Like, I kept talking to myself as if I was talking to Ryan and I’m pretty sure everyone thought I was insane?
On a different note, thanks for all of the wishes for a smooth, non-crazy shopping trip. Your good vibes worked and it was pretty uneventful, considering the storm that was imminent! After my grocery trip, family time was had, and a toddler nap was… not taken. This has been a trend lately, and I’m NOT a fan. I need to figure out what is going on. But I did finally finish this print I was playing with for Ryan. I’ll probably one day redo it, since there are some mess ups and things I’m not crazy about, but I dig it!
Instead of a nap, there was some crazy toddler time. We’ve been putting the chairs on the floor as a deterrent from Ryan getting onto counters, and this is how it usually ends.
I snacked on some fruit, since these blueberries were on sale and shockingly tasty, and Ryan played with this RC car/train my uncle got him for Christmas. He’s OBSESSED, but it seriously makes the most annoying noises…..
For some reason after Ryan fell asleep, I felt the need to do ALL THE THINGS so I took out our snow boots, made some cold brew (<- updated this post this weekend!), some overnight oats in a jar, popcorn and blueberry muffins for Alex. I felt pretty accomplished. (in regards to the cold brew: my coffee maker broke. I’m learning all different ways to make coffee without one now because for now I’m too lazy to buy a new machine.. I pour hot water onto the concentrate to make it warm, if you’re wondering!)
The next morning we woke up to a blizzard. I was pretty stressed because Alex went into work (45 minutes away, about) at 6, but he got there okay. Turns out the power failed soon into his shift, so he was home early, which I’m very thankful for since he said the drive home was very, very bad. I wasn’t too hungry all morning/afternoon so I basically munched on those overnight oats (plus blueberries!) all morning.
I also got an unbearable urge to clean/organize all of our closets and pantry. #nesting To be honest, I don’t keep much ‘stuff’ and I pride myself on getting rid of crap. Somehow I had about 2 bags of garbage. How?!?!? To be fair, I also went through Ryan’s old clothes for the baby and threw out anything stained or with even a teeny hole. Apparently I was very nostalgic when boxing away his too small clothes.
Dinner was stew since that’s what you eat on snow days..
And once Ryan went to bed, (at 8 since he took a super late nap…. but I couldn’t tell you what time he stopped talking and playing around in his crib before actually falling asleep…) we made chocolate chip cookies. Now you’re thinking – wait! Gluten! Yes. I know. There’s a long story and an update impending, but the short version is, my eczema got a LOT worse, maybe because I increased other things in an effort to cut gluten, maybe not. Because of that, and our doctor mentioning that sometimes restricting a food group/known allergen while pregnant can make a babe predisposed to said allergy, I’m back on the glutens- for now. After baby I may see an allergist/dermatologist/whoever and try an elimination diet. But until then, I’m feeding the babe chocolate chip cookies.
In case you’re wondering – during the week I do plan on cutting WAY back on gluten and sticking to more whole foods etc, if only to make it easier if/when I try no gluten again.
Regardless of gluten, something BIG happened Sunday morning – you guys, Ryan slept until NINE THIRTY. Let’s bask in the fact that I more or less slept from 10:30-9:30. He was actually up at 5:45, and after I rocked him/tried to put him back down to what seemed to be no avail, I turned up the heat to warm up the house and laid in bed for a bit like I normally do while he whined a bit. And then I woke up at 8:30. I figured I’d let it be and go back to sleep because no way was he sleeping much longer, but then he slept in! Amazing.
We woke up to this. A lot of damn snow. I really wanted t shovel, but Alex said that at 30 weeks pregnant, it wasn’t smart. I was bummed. There was also some (read: a lot, mostly pregnant tears) drama about my finding Alex’s gloves on Saturday, and then somehow losing them by Sunday (HOW. JUST HOW.) so there’s that. He had to go into work for 2, so I was stressing trying to find them before he had to go. (spoiler: I didn’t. Still haven’t. No clue where they are. I even went through the trash, people.)
Ryan ate breakfast/snack at the kitchen table and thought it was cool. Rather than giving him a whole, super late breakfast, I just gave him his smoothie x 2 plus snacks until lunchtime. I wanted to keep him on a semi-schedule, but then he didn’t fall asleep for his nap until 4:30. I smell some serious sleep problems coming, you guys. This is like the calm before the storm.
You may have seen this weirdness on Instagram. I pushed the laptop out of his reach so he said, “Oh yeah mom? You think you’re so smart?” Also, he’s obsessed with toothbrushes.
Tell me – did you get a lot of snow?!?! Do your pets photobomb everything? Ideal snow day food? Leave it in the comments!!
Also, if you missed it some posts went up last weekend! Be sure to check ’em out!
Heather @ Polyglot Jot says
We got about 2 feet where I live…now its melting during the day and refreezing and causing black ice for the morning commute…waaahh 🙁
I ate my fair share of sweets this blizzard weekend…the blizzards bring out my need for sweets i guess! haha!
Morgan says
Oh, ICK. the whole melting and refreezing thing is NOT okay. Black ice is no joke! Although I wouldn’t mind osme of our 2 feet melting, I would be okay with it staying if it meant no refreezing/dangerous roads!
Susie @ SuzLyfe says
Holy Crow that is a lot of snow. We got… none 😀 I’m ok with this. We got more than our fair share in the past!
Now hand over the cookie.
Morgan says
Blech to snow. My family loves it, but I’m so not into it. Give me sand!!!
Emily says
Soups and muffins are the best things for snowstorms! 🙂 So thankful that God made snowstorms and that He made them to come and go. 🙂 Snow is the BEST! 🙂
Whitney & Blaire says
We barely had any snow and the grocery stores were a nightmare on Friday. I had to go with an infant because we had no food! Looks like you had a great snow weekend!
Xoxo,
Whitney & Blaire
Peaches In A Pod
Morgan says
Oh man! That’s no fun. Shopping with an infant is stressful enough as it is, much less adding in the craziness of pre-storm shopping!!
[email protected] says
Holy snow storm Batman!! We got a few inches last Wednesday, but that was all.
Cutting out gluten is HARD especially if you’re the only one doing it! I think you are being smart in the way you are going about this! And, I mean come on! Why does everything delicious have to have gluten in it!
Also that picture of Ryan on the table!!! I die!!!!
PS You are so good at lettering!!!!
Morgan says
I don’t think it would be THAT bad if I wasn’t pregnant, since alllll I want is Chinese food and bread and chocolate chip cookies. In a super serious way. So add in the fact that I could be causing the babe an allergy and I have little to no desire, hahaha.
Aren’t toddlers so weird? He just climbs on freaking everything now! It drives me nuts.
Kaitie says
We’ve been pretty luck so far this winter and have only had a couple snowstorms. However, it was around this time last year that we started to get lots of snow. I’m crossing my fingers we get less this year!
Those cookies look delicious!!
Gabby @ gogabbith says
Those muffins look so good! I love cleaning out my closets. There is something so satisfying with throwing out a bunch of junk. We got about a half foot of snow but I was definitely hoping for more!
Morgan says
Nothing makes me happier than seeing a huge garbage bag of stuff and having no idea where it came from, but knowing it will be gonneeee and I’ll be left with an organized closet. So great!
Heather @ HeatherRunsFast.com says
Those prints are awesome!!! Great work!. No snow here in Tampa, but they did get some at the FL/GA border. I’ve been enjoying our 50 degree weather, though. I like chili and hot cocoa when its cold. Sucks I can’t have the hot cocoa now, haha
Morgan says
So jealous of your warm weather and lack of snow! Send it this say! Also, when I was soy/dairy free for breastfeeding, I used cashew milk for hot cocoa! 8 oz milk, 2 tbs cocoa powder and 2 tbs sugar (more or less to taste) plus some vanilla and a pinch of salt. SO good! It keeps it really creamy and delicious.
Mecca says
Since a recent move to the west coast, I did not get any snow … and wouldn’t you know I was kind of sad about it? Had I been there, I probably would have been over it after the first 12 hours, ha!
Anyway, love that handwritten print you did. It’s awesome! I’m definitely heading up to today’s post so I can practice doing my own. I love penmanship and handwriting notes.