Good Morning Peeps :)
I am having a FANTASTIC morning! Hope your's is the same. Camron is at my parents right now having a sleepover at the cabin. I am a little jealous.. Then Shawn is gone to work. So I'm sitting here, just my dog, cat, and myself and I am having a great morning. Want to know why? Well regardless, I don't care if you want to know, I'm going to tell you why because I want to! hahaha
So it all started a couple days ago when I was cruising on one of the many baby forums I'm enrolled in. Someone mentioned freezer meals for after baby is born. I thought to myself "hey, that's a fantastic idea. I'll have to check it out". Well this morning I actually had time to check it out and let me tell you, I am amazed.
I have no idea how this new baby is going to be, or how much energy/time I'm going to have afterwards. And feeding my family and myself good wholesome meals is really important to me. Not to mention I will be breastfeeding and want our newest addition to be getting great nutrition from mom for her to grow and thrive. In the back of my mind I was panicking to tell you the truth. I lived with my parents after having Cam and I didn't have to cook for myself. It was never a worry. Now all of the sudden I'm going to have a 6 year old (at the time baby comes) just fresh out of school whom I imagine will get bored very easily after having such busy days and being accustomed to a school routine. Not to mention a newborn. I have no idea if she will be colic, or need to feed every hour, or if she will be a really easy baby like Cam was. I don't imagine I will get lucky enough to have another easy baby. Regardless, I wont have any idea till she is here. I have no clue whether or not I will have the energy to be preparing home cooked meals, keeping the house clean or even be able to shower. I will get lucky tho, when baby is born Shawn gets 4 days off which will accumulate to 12 days at home being able to help me out and help me get into the groove of having having two kids.
I'll get to the point now. How awesome would it be to have a month worth the meals sitting in the freezer? It would free up my time. All I'd have to do is put it in the oven and viola I have a balanced meal for my fam.. Sounds like a pretty great idea hey? Well to tell you the truth I'm not a horrible cook, but I most definitely am not a chef. But on the bright side I've found some websites with freezer recipes. Who doesn't like to try something new? So not only do I plan on having a month worth the meals in the freezer but we get to try out new recipes at the same time.
The first website I've found is http://onceamonthmom.com/ . Let me tell you, this site is amazing. There are all sorts of different menus to choose from. Traditional menus, gluten/dairy free menus, diet menus, whole foods menu, vegetarian menus, as well as home made baby food menus. How fantastic. I do plan on making baby food this time around. I do not like the idea of all the preservatives in jarred food. If I make it, I know what's in it. I plan on taking recipes from the whole foods, traditional, diet, and vegetarian menus. Just to have a little spice in life. As well as try new things.
The second website I found was http://budgetbytes.blogspot.com/2012/01/smoothie-packs-my-favorite-smoothie.html. What a great way to have a snack ready to be prepared. Camron and I love smoothies. I hate the time it takes to chop up the fruits and get them ready. This way I could do it all at once, freeze, then toss in the blender with some milk and again viola. A quick healthy snack when we need a pick me up.
I wish you could all see how super excited I am about this. I am actually giddy right now! :)
Is this a one time thing or will I continue it to make life a little easier? This I'm not too sure of. I'm hoping Linda and my mom won't mind helping me out with this. We will try it out once. If we like it we will keep it up. But I can't always rely on help from others. So if we decide that this is a great fit into our family life I will keep doing it. But I will most likely do a week or two at a time. Which will make it a little easier for one person to handle.
Well, that's all for now folks.
TTFN have a great day
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