Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Homemade beefy oatmeal puppy bites

Ingredients:
Fresh beef stock
Oatmeal
Whole wheat flour
One egg

Equal parts oatmeal and flour, pour in beef stock and whisk to combine. Achieve a sticky cookie dough consistency. Whisk in the egg.
Use two spoons to drop walnut sized balls of batter onto greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for 11 minutes. Let cool. Treat your pups to these healthy little snacks. They'll love you forever!



Tuesday, January 7, 2014

I fixed my own dryer!!!

Yesterday I watched a couple YouTube videos and grabbed some random tools. I headed out to my clothes dryer armed with minimal knowledge, inadequate tools and the gumption to disassemble this big machine that won't get hot enough to dry even the smallest load!  Although I had a few frustrations, a few hiccups and a few yelps from dropping things on my bare feet, I successfully accessed the inner workings of my fifteen year old machine and vaccines it out. I pulled a dense six pounds of lint, sand and dirt from the inner vent. Luckily by the time I needed to put it back together, my big strong Mike woke up and helped me piece the puzzle back together... Our reward? Our first successfully hot, dry load of clean laundry in close to a year!!! Cheers to energy, gumption and YouTube! We've been wanting to splurge on a new dryer but it has been far from in our budget. Now we can use that money for something for the baby! Yay!

I'm gonna be a momma!

The word is out! I'm 11weeks and 6 days preggers! I got my first sonogram a week ago. My little peanut was rolling around, arms and leggies flailing about. I am so excited! I've wanted to be a mom since my mid twenties. I never imagined myself into my thirties without child. This baby has changed my life, maybe even saved my life! For sure he/she has saved my sanity!  I've been tired for a couple months now. A lot of lounging around and sleeping. I've had no alcohol, caffeine or any medication of any kind since I found out at two weeks. I splurged on a shopping trip to Sprouts recently, I bought every healthy food I crave without feeling guilty for spending extra money. Either I'm early arriving into my second trimester of all the good food I've been consuming has awoken me from my lazy, uncaffeinated, uninspired state. I can't wait to hold my baby!!!