Pregnancy Update: Week 26 How To Make A Fast, Easy and Inexpensive Maternity Dress

Week 26 means only 2.5 weeks before Christmas!!! Yikes! I still haven’t finished making all of the Christmas gifts for everyone.  I did do a fasting blood sugar test this week and that number came back at 72.  I’m thrilled with that number.  I’ll check it another time or two in the next few weeks,…

Pregnancy Update: Week 25 – Blood test results and Thanksgiving

After having a whole week of being sick, this week I really felt like I needed to play catch up.  There was so much do to before Thanksgiving, including cooking, cleaning and lots of shopping.  I was really overwhelmed but took it one day at a time and managed to get everything done! The big…

Pregnancy Update: Week 22 Home Birth Necessities, Arnica Montana

For week 22, I have had occasional nausea return.  I’ve been eating well and the weight gain seems to be around 12lbs for the pregnancy so far.  But, after feeling well from 16 weeks to 21 weeks, I got spoiled by feel so good and eating lots of good food.  I can’t help but wonder…

Pregnancy: Ravings and Cravings About Food

Last night, I was just getting ready to upload my next vlog to YouTube and I was doing some final editing when I just started to laugh at myself.  Of course, I know how much I love food mentally, but I had forgotten that I had videoed so much about it and had captured my…

Pregnancy Update: Week 21 Home birth Supplies

Week 21 was a crazy busy week!!! Just the fact of eating out at restaurants four different times was tiring, but that didn’t included being out of the house for almost 8 hours twice this week. Talk about exhausting!!! The big thing that I am going to start to cover is birth supplies that I’m…

Simple, Easy, Homemade Birthday Gift For An Elderly Lady

This past week, I celebrated my great-aunt’s 96th birthday. She lives in assisted living and really has very little need for much. Puzzled by not knowing what to do to show my remembrance of her birthday, I searched the web for some ideas. Originally, I was going to just make a nice card and have…