Feeling Quite Domestic These Days

My resolve to "blog around once a week, or something like that" was obviously not specific enough, since I'm going on 7 weeks here. I actually DID write a blog post when we got back from vacation, but didn't completely finish it, and thus, it was never posted.

I've been feeling so lazy the last couple months! I would like to blame it on first-trimester fatigue, which was probably 50% of the problem. The other 50% was just pure laziness, plain and simple. I like playing around online, and reading other people's blogs, but writing my own posts is just too daunting of a task.

I have finally gotten my energy back in the last week or so, though. Between going to bed a little earlier most nights and nearing the 13th week of pregnancy, I have finally been able to pick myself up off my bed, do laundry, clean my kitchen, cook, and clean my toilets. I'm getting ready to start on my Christmas cards (yes, a little early, but last year I was scrambling to get them out at the last minute and I'm tentatively planning on making them my own, so I really need to get going on that!)

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Speaking of handmade Christmas cards - I've decided I'm going to (eventually) open an Etsy shop for handmade cards and birth announcements. I've seen a lot of shops that will create a card for you and you can print them off at home, but very few people sell handmade ones. The store is actually "open"... but I have nothing listed. I'm waiting until I get a few other projects done around here before I come up with a few cards to list in my shop.

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One of the projects I'm currently working on is diaper inserts - FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY officially making the switch to cloth diapers. It's tempting to stay in disposables when your hubby brings home 10 packs that are the perfect size because they were clearanced out and were priced at under $5 a pack. But we're almost to the end of them, so I'm working on getting the inserts finished by the end of the week. I'm going to order a pattern for newborn diapers ASAP so I can get going on those before May. (I am very anti-pattern - nothing I make while following a pattern ever seems to turn out quite right - but this is one item I am finding I cannot sew without some type of guidance that involves measurements.)

I also made homemade applesauce and apple butter last week. The apple butter is for a Christmas gift... but I was SO proud of myself for doing it all from scratch AND for the fact that the can actually sealed properly! And I don't even have "real" canning equipment.

Thus far are my domestic and crafty ventures... I hope this phase doesn't end soon. I'm feeling so motivated these days.

Oh, and one more thing - I started a blog specifically for Nate (well, it's called The Little Dunns, so eventually it will be MORE than just about Nate) so that I have a place where I can put every. little. thing. about him, if I want - and then those of you who read this blog who don't particularly want to know EVERY detail don't have to get disgusted by posts about poop. (And yes, my most recent post was about his lack of poop. Don't worry, nothing really gross or gag-worthy. No pictures, either.) I will still mention him on this blog, of course - but I'm using the other blog as more of a day-to-day journal (well at this point it's still in week-to-week mode) so that I can eventually print out the posts and put them in a book. I'm much more likely to journal on the computer than writing in a book, sadly.

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I just realized after I posted this that I never actually came out and announced it - but we're expecting another baby! I'm due May 28 - on Nate's first birthday.
But I think you all knew that already. Just in case you didn't figure it out. :D