I forgot to mention previously that I’m not scheduling any posts now. So if you see something go live, that means I’m still here to write them 🙂

About every third night I seem to get a good set of contractions that make us think ‘ok this might be it!’ but then I go to bed and they go away. Last night they were 4 minutes apart for two hours, but only a bit painful… obviously they went away again! One of these days…

Lately we’ve tried a few new recipes as I try to find more foods without tomatoes in them or spiciness to keep the heartburn in check. Let’s start with the big FAIL. Coconut rice and beans, can’t recommend it, we even ended up throwing the last bit out after eating it 3 times, it was just that unappetizing. Maybe it would have been better if I had made it with white rice per the recipe, but we only had brown rice in the house. It was just entirely bland and a chore to eat. Onto the successes!

To usher in the fall season, we made pumpkin muffins today. They are yummy and sweet, Josie called them cupcakes. Dairy free for my mom too. I intend to make some cream cheese frosting for them to make them extra good, but they might be good enough without it.

Last week we also made banana, oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies. This is a fun one for a couple of reasons, a) there’s no eggs, so it’s easy to make with small people who want to lick their fingers and not get sick, b) it has no butter (but does have oil) or sugar (discounting the chocolate), yet they’re still sweet and gooey, and c) it’s loaded with fiber (good for my fellow pregnant ladies!). Josie repeatedly proclaims her excitement for them, but takes one bite and then leaves the rest every time. I’ve enjoyed them as did my parents and Jordi.

I’ve had my eye on this recipe for pecan pie muffins, although it’s hard to imagine calling them muffins when they’ve got more sugar and butter than flour. Just gotta get to costco for some cheap pecans for pie season!

The second is bumpy, sorry, I was holding the bag and had to hand it over.

Sunday we went out apple picking at honey pot hill orchard in Stowe. It was a quintessential fall day, although a bit hot by the time we were done. We parked in a field, bought our bags, rode on a hay ride pulled by a tractor, saw some animals (chickens, goats, pigs, sheep, and bunnies), ate cider donuts and rode on the hay ride again before actually picking some apples. In the end, the actual picking was a very small amount of  time. Josie got right into it and was super speedy at ripping the apples off the tree (video to come later). She picked our whole bag for us except maybe one apple. She was also unfortunately a bit under the weather as well and so Jordi carried her most of the time to help her conserve energy. We got home and dismantled most of the apples into crisp, pie and applesauce form. With one crisp nicely stashed away in my freezer for after the baby is here. Here’s a couple of photos of the beautiful weather and friendly people.