Just give it time. It's gonna get better. Now is not forever at all.

Matt and I kicked off the day sleeping in super late. We didn't end up heading to Starbucks til about noon, but it was still so good!


When we got home we watched the Illini lose horribly. I think a lot of people stopped watching, but it was so bad I just couldn't look away. I had to know just how bad it ended. (51-74...ouch) But at least I know!

After the game I don't know why but I got really tired. I had already slept in til like 11 something and done next to nothing. I even had coffee! (Decaf, but there's still some caffeine in decaf) But I felt like I was hit by a tranquilizer dart and had to lie down in the bed. I slept for like 2 hours! Come on, Vincent!!

So when I woke up, of course, I was hungry. I had recently made this mac and cheese I had found on Pinterest where you cook the noodles in milk instead of water. Then you don't drain the milk, you just stir in cheese, and it's sooo creamy! Sooo good! And the best part is, no butter, no weird chemicals from the powder of Kraft mac and cheese, just noodles, milk, and cheese. And it's like the best mac and cheese I've ever had. So I had this idea that I was going to make Alfredo that way. I started the same, milk and noodles on medium low heat. Then instead of adding cheddar cheese I added shredded Parmesan cheese. I sauteed a little garlic and stirred that in, and sprinkled on some parsley. The sauce was sooo good! It tasted like Olive Garden Alfredo sauce and was just as thick. Really...it was just like it. And no butter! No heavy whipping cream! The only problem was the noodles were awful! I will never again get Great Value whole wheat pasta. It was grainy and gritty. It almost tasted like the noodles weren't cooked all the way, but they were all plumped up, and they weren't gonna plump anymore. I ended up toughing thru and eating a little less than half of it just because the sauce was that good. I ended up fishing out the rest of the noodles, throwing them away, and saving the sauce to perhaps dip garlic bread in or something. Live and learn!


To end the night Matt and I sat out on our deck because it was so nice out. Matt smoked one of his cigars downwind of me and we just talked about how much our lives are going to change once Vincent comes. I love when we just sit out there and talk! It's so much better than zoning out in front of the TV. It's pretty late in the game, but I think Matt is finally calming down a little about Vincent coming and him becoming a dad. Better late than never!

I'm 38 weeks and 6 days pregnant with 8 more days til due date!!

I think we're going somewhere. We're on to something good here, and we're gonna make it after all.

I woke up this morning with the worst charley horse ever!! It felt like a knife and didn't subside as fast as mine normally do. It was NOT the best way to start the day, but at least I haven't really been having that many. That was probably like my 5th one all pregnancy. Can't complain too much.

We spent pretty much the whole day with the Vincents which would have been fine except when we left the house Matt said we were going to be there for about an hour while he helped Aaron put together a swing set and it turned into about 5 hours. It's all about your expectations. And I hate hinting around that I want to leave somewhere. I just feel rude. Therefore I hate being put in situations where I have to hint that I want to leave. I like to have a time frame and I like to stick to it....yaaaa....Anyways! I really do like the Vincents. I wouldn't be naming my son Vincent if I didn't like them. Although that doesn't mean he's named AFTER them....that would be creepy. So while we were there we went to Revive which is a consignment store and I found 6 really cute outfits for Vincent for only 20 dollars total so that was great! And we ran into some people that I kind of knew thru Jessica and it felt great to finally be able to tell people I'm about 2 weeks away from my due date! (2 weeks tomorrow) Two weeks away just sounds so much more legit than 3 weeks away. When we got back Jessica said she was tired and wanted to take a nap. I was tired too, but I was really hungry too and well hungry trumps tired pretty much every time. Unfortunately all they seemed to have was hamburger that they had had for lunch. I had already passed on that around lunch time since I do not like hamburgers like at all, and I had a Cliff bar instead that I had brought in my purse. The Cliff bar carried me thru about 5 hours, and I brought two, but when I got hungry again I just couldn't eat another Cliff bar. I bit the bullet and asked Matt if we could go home.

When we got home we ate spinach salads! Yay! Go us!! Then we watched the Illini game which was on earlier in the day but we taped it and yay! They played awesome and beat Ohio State. They killed them really. It was like the best game ever.

I'm 37 weeks and 6 days pregnant with 15 left to go!