A friend at church invited Scarlet and I to Truck Day. It was right down the street and I thought it would be so much fun for Scarlet, but she wasn't into it at all. I think all the horn honking was freaking her out. We both basically just stood there holding hands, sweating in the sun.

The only thing she was excited about was this tunnel, but she never got inside 'cause kids kept rushing past her and getting inside before she could, herself.

Playing in the rocks.

Watching tv, completely zoned in.

Alright, some of you may think this is genius, and probably most of you will think I'm waving a major freak flag by my face. This is a list of dishes that I can make. I saw a friend did this- she put it on her blog. At first, I sort of thought it was unnecessary and pointless, but then when I sat down to plan my weekly menu, I started to think she was a bit of a genius.

 I work really hard on my dinner planning. To a ridiculous degree. I don't think I could put more effort into it. I know that my sister in law, Laurel, is just as freakish when it comes to writing out our grocery lists. First we make the list of everything we need. Then we make ANOTHER list of everything we need, but ORGANIZED, so it makes the shopping quick and efficient. It's wonderful and makes shopping so much faster.

Since we've moved here and my food group isn't happening, I'm suddenly planning for 7 meals a week instead of 3 or 4. YIKES!!! So much more effort! I try really hard to make nice meals that are varied and can't bring myself to make the same things over and over. It takes me FOREVER just to decide what to make! And then when I'm bored, I search through my cookbooks and I see one and think, "I forgot about this! I used to make this all the time!" And after spending too long planning my menu ONCE AGAIN, I decided my friend might have something going on with this menu list she made. So I made one.

It took me a long time. But I did the bulk of it when I had to sit for 3 hours for my glucose test. Perfect timing. I would have been so mad if I spent that time away from my family. By the end of it I didn't want to even look at it and thought, "Did I just waste 3 hours of my life for NOTHING?!?!?!" But I'm pretty sure this thing is going to save me SO MUCH TIME in the future. There are 80 meals on this thing for dinner. 70 or 80, I can't remember. That's more than 2 months of meals, without a repeat. Granted, there's a handful of dishes that I try not to make at all- steak, all the meat centered dishes, or something that's time consuming like chicken pot pie or lasagna. But I put them on there, just because. But MOST of them we love and I can whip up no problem. I even put the page number and cookbook they're in for convenience. I organized them into salad, pasta, stir fry, soup, mexican, meat and other. There's also a breakfast, lunch and snack list, but I'm not including those in my numbers. I even made a list of sides, because I gotta say- I get pretty stumped and can't think of them on the spot and I'm really trying to change our one pot dinners. Sides make dinners last longer and give more left overs, which we like. A lot of the sides are repeats, but I organized them by different types of cuisine so it would be easier to sort through.

I seriously think this is going to change my life! I'm pretty pumped about it. Next week will be the first time I actually use it for planning. I'm anxious to see if it makes my menu planning super fast. That's the plan.

29 weeks along. I gotta say, I really appreciate the way I look from the side. I think I look really skinny with a pregnant belly. Nice. But from the front, I so don't feel this way at all. I just feel wide and more fat looking. Oh well, what can you do about it.

OH YEAH!!!! Scarlet pooped in her potty. Crazy. She was in the tub and I don't know if I heard a grunt or just saw her face, but I said, "Scarlet, are you going to poop?" And she said yes, so I grabbed her and put her on her potty. She didn't want to, but I tried to encourage her and then asked if she wanted me to sing songs. She said yes and a couple songs later she pooped in the potty! AMAZING!!!! I had her stand up to look at it and cheer her on and she seemed a little freaked out by the whole experience and just started pointing and saying, "EW!!! Yucky!" I'm so glad it wasn't in the tub. That is the WORST. It be one thing if there weren't any toys in there, but in one swift kick you suddenly have to sanitize all the toys and wipe down the tub and fill it up AGAIN 'cause she was only in there for 3 minutes. YES! We're still not trying to force anything, especially with the baby coming to shake things up in a couple months, but I'm thinking when the time comes, potty training this girl is gonna be a cinch!!! She hasn't even peed in it yet and she's only 20 months!