The Wilhelmsen Botanical Blog

So, my preggo brain is just about spent.  It seems that the closer I get to Lucas arriving the less I can remember.  🙂  I am 36 weeks today and we are pretty much prepared for his arrival in the way of clothes, a place to sleep, and other supplies.  I am not however quite prepared for the major change that is about to take place in our little family.  I don’t think anyone ever can be though.  While I don’t remember a whole lot about details of the week I do know that we are trying to keep ourselves fed and taken care of as well as getting out of the house as often as possible because once the baby is born it will be a bit more difficult, it is also just good practice to keep a new baby home away from the public for the first few weeks.

So Wednesday Brandon ended up being home all day, mostly to recuperate his voice which he had nearly lost subbing the day before.  We ended up going to eat lunch and then over to the dollar movie to see Planet 51.  Aiden did really well for the first hour of the movie and then he was ready to go.  Thankfully the theater was nearly empty and Brandon and I were able to take turns distracting Aiden and taking him out into the hall.  We will likely take Aiden to the movies again soon, just not during peak hours.  😉

I also made cookies on Wednesday.  My mom dropped by and suggested that we stick some in his oven on a make shift cookie sheet and let him discover them.  He thought it was pretty neat to be “baking” some cookies and took them in and out of his oven several times before finally eating them.

Friday we had an evening out and enjoyed $1.00 meatball plates at Ikea.  It was an awesome deal, especially when paired with 4 slices of garlic bread for $1.00 as well.

Saturday we spent a good portion of the morning cleaning and “getting ready for sunday”.  In the evening we called my cousin Mike and his wife and invited them over to play board games.  Aiden and their daughter played together while we all visited and played one round of Would You Rather.  We enjoyed their company and it was nice to socialize with other adults a little bit.  Thanks for coming to visit!

Sunday was our usual.  Church, a visit from my ever wonderful mom, and then after dinner we went out to Ferguson family night.  We stopped at my dad’s briefly beforehand so that Brandon could pick up his ski’s and ski boots and got to visit a little while Aiden got into mischief.  😉

As for other news our veggie of the week this past week was leeks.  We had creamy potato leek soup, green egg and ham cups, and greek ditalini.  Here is what we learned, leeks are great.  In my opinion they are just a milder version of an onion.  The other thing we learned is that I do NOT like romano cheese.  Two of the recipes we had this week included this offending cheese and I just could not stomach it.  Aiden and Brandon on the other hand gobbled it right up and Brandon mentioned on several occasions that he was glad we were branching out and trying new cheeses.  Not only did we test out leeks and romano cheese this past week but we also had gruyere cheese on our ham and egg cups.  The gruyere was milder and in the ham and egg cups barely noticeable.  I will likely try gruyere again.

Ok, so in ending I have had something on my mind that I feel like mentioning as a way of putting minds at ease.  Since my marriage to Brandon various people have noted concerns to me on many things such as jobs, kids, my decision to be a stay at home mom, the places we have lived, the number of kids we want and our timing to have them, our desire to adopt, etc.  I appreciate everyone’s concern and their desires for the absolute best for our family.  That is what we want too.  I just want to let people know that we are not making important decisions off the cuff.  We pray about them, we seek out all of our options, we weigh them against our priorities as well as those things of spiritual and temporal importance, we do our best to make decisions as fully informed as possible, and on top of it all we make sure that the decision we are making is in the absolute best interest of our family.  Sometimes there are factors in our decision making that may not be visible from the outside but that may need to be weighed more heavily then the obvious facts.   Just trust that we involve the Lord in our decision making and trust 100% that he will not steer us wrong.  Also know that especially since Brandon graduated that we have been praying more fervently then ever before about the future such as what Brandon should do for his lifetime career and in what city/state, and finding a home for us that is in the best place possible to meet the needs of our family.  We are always doing the best we can with the resources that we have and I am sure that all of you are too.  Thanks for reading…