7 Quick Takes Friday

Last updated on: October 1, 2010 at 11:29 am by Sarah Babbs

7 Quick Takes Friday 2010-10-01T11:29:18-04:00 Sarah Babbs

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Today is the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux! Hooray for the little flower. We will pray some special prayers to her today, and maybe get some roses for the house. But I think the best way to celebrate this saint’s day is by doing little unseen things for the people in our lives. After all, that’s what got her to Heaven.

Shower of Roses (a really cute blog!) has a wonderful roundup of recipes, craft, and prayer ideas for St. Therese’s day! Go on over and check it out (after you finish reading my post, then leave a comment, right?)

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I need to read a book that is not (a) baby related or (b) deep theology. I am already reading one of each of those. What I need is some good fiction. I am thinking of going back to a Flannery O’Connor collection of stories I read in college. Any recommendations?

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On Tuesday I had my 26 week appointment with the doctor. It was pretty uneventful, for the most part. Until we had an ultrasound to see how the baby is growing. (Since the major risk for me is a huge baby, I’ll basically be getting an u/s pretty much every appointment from here on out — they call them “growth scans”.)

Baby girl is smack in the middle of the growth range for 26 weeks. Everything looks good, and she weighs 2 pounds. We also got to see her adorable little feet (I can’t wait to kiss those toes!), and her face, which looks way less skeletal and much more cute and newborn-ish than at the last u/s (which was at 18 weeks). And yes, she’s still a girl!

Remember how at my last appointment I had gained 8 pounds in one month? Well, between that appointment and Tuesday, I gained….Zero pounds! Ha! This brings my grand total of weight gain from weeks 1-26 to approx. 10-12 pounds (I approximate because I don’t actually know how much I weighed when we conceived). I’m very excited about this because I know I will put more weight on during the last trimester, and I was so scared of going over the 25 pound recommendation that my doctor made. But it seems like I will probably manage to stay in that range! 🙂

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The nursery is coming along pretty well. We finished painting the changing table/dresser. We are almost done updating the curtain rods (they were bright pink, we are painting them purple) so we can hang up the awesome light and noise blocking curtains I found that match the changing table perfectly.

Then the next big order of business will be putting together the crib! Atticus and his dad will be working on that project in a few weeks. With the number of advanced degrees between them (Atticus’ dad is a college professor), I figure it should only take them about 5 hours to put it together. ;P

I’ll try and take some pictures this weekend, once we get the drop cloth and all the painting stuff out of the room!

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Date night! What are you all doing for date night this week? We’re having date night on Saturday. I think we’re going to eat at our favorite greasy burger place, Five Guys (my reward for not gaining any weight in a month?), and probably going to watch a movie. We have “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” from NetFlix, and we also have “Fireproof”, which we are supposed to watch before the marriage prep classes we’re helping with. Maybe we’ll flip a coin.

I’d love to know what you all are doing for date night (or have done recently). Dinner and a movie is easy, but it can get old. Maybe this way I can steal some of your great ideas and wow Atticus next week.

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I was planning to make several pies on Wednesday for the feast of the angels. I had no pie crust at home, so I pulled out a recipe to make some. Then the recipe called for 9 sticks of butter. Does anyone (especially anyone without children) ever have 9 sticks of butter around at once? I had 4. Lame.

So, I improvised. I found this recipe for “Mom’s apple cake” on Smitten Kitchen. If you’ve never been to smitten kitchen, prepare yourself. The recipes and photos are so enticing! The cake is a bit on the labor intensive side (really just the peeling, coring and chopping 6 apples part), but the cake was so very good! Atticus loved it, as did the friends we had dinner with on Wednesday evening. I would make it again for sure. Yum!

Last night, I bought pie crust from the store, and today I’m going to make the promised apple pie. Atticus loves pie. I’m pretty fond of it myself.

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That’s all folks! Have a blessed weekend!

7 QT

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