Thankful

I think it's been nearly a month since my last post.  I've enjoyed reading the 30 days of thankfulness that have been on a few of your blogs.  Thank you so much for your positive posts, I find myself drawn to them and want to read more!  That's when I realized, wow, maybe I should write on my own blog for a change! So, here goes. 

I am officially considered full term this week and couldn't be more happy. Thank you, sweet Jesus! I have a midwife appointment today and our last childbirth class (YAY!). My husband and I are both so ready to be finished with the classes, so we'll be very happy after the last class tonight.  

Right now, I'm sitting on our living room floor while our wood stove warms the room.  Remember that old thing from a year ago?  I think I probably wrote about it in every post of mine until Spring.  :)  Well, it's back in business and working like a charm.  In fact, friends of ours are looking into buying a wood stove insert for their own home, they like ours so much.  We live in the east coast, and with last year's snow storm in October causing power outages for a week or more, and then this year, with Sandy hitting NY, NJ and CT pretty badly, we are so very thankful that we can always depend on having heat no matter what happens with the electricity.  So if you had any question about how I feel towards our wood stove, you can rest assured, I really still LOVE IT!

Speaking of things that are warm, last night, I made homemade chicken vegetable soup.  My Grandma had a really simple recipe of just chicken, water, celery, carrots, onion and salt.  It's delicious.  The key, in my opinion, is to by organic carrots and celery.  Then you can leave the skins of the carrots on and add the leaves of the celery to the pot.  You really only need to scrub the veggies before you cut them, because they are organic.  Oh yeah, and use sea salt, it tastes better and is better for you than table salt.

I got my haircut the other day.  I'm really happy I did, because I don't know how long it will be until I can get it cut again, after sweet one arrives.  The only downer is that now it's kinda short and falls out of my elastic band when I try to put it up.  So I'm using bobby pins for my bangs and stuff like that.  Oh well.  I'm happy that he cut most of my old highlight out, so now my hair is soft and bouncy because the old processed, highlighted areas are gone.  That's great news, but I find myself thinking about highlighting again in the Spring.  My heart says "Yes, do it!!" but my head says "No! Be strong and resist the highlights!" :)  We shall see which wins out.

Oh my, I can't believe our baby bear will be here so soon.  We are as ready as we will ever be, I guess.  One thing that has changed many times is the name.  Oh, the name.  Please say a prayer I will find peace about a name, any name!!  Well, not ANY name.  You know what I mean.  I think I'll need to meet her first and then I'll have peace about her name.  I'm still open to suggestions though, so if you've got them, I want them! :)