Monday, November 20, 2006

I’ve been checking Craigs List daily for a couple of weeks now for a freezer that we could put in the basement. Originally, we found a 5 cu ft chest freezer for about $50, but the guy never responded to our emails. So I kept looking and I found one on Friday - $50 for a 10.5 cu ft upright freezer.

Beau picked it up that afternoon after talking with the owner and was working it down the stairs when I got home. It’s about 2/3 the size of a regular frig and seems to work well. We immediately moved some stuff from the frig-freezer down there that night. And then I went to Wegmans on Saturday morning to buy groceries and stocked up on meat since they had good stuff for good prices. I bought a huge 7 lbs pack of ground beef and once home I separated it into 5 smaller vacuum packs using the FoodSaver we also found on Craigs List a little while ago.

I also bought the stuff I need to make the dessert that we’re taking to the in-laws’ for Thanksgiving. I won’t say what it is so that Beau’s Sis and Beau’s parents are surprised should they read the blog before we see them on Wednesday. I’ll be making the same dessert and my chili for the office Christmas pot luck lunch in a couple of weeks. And now that I have the APO address for Beau’s nephew who is in Iraq, I plan to bake a bunch of cookies to send to him for Christmas.

In the next few weeks, I’m hoping to put together some prepared meals to freeze so that we’ll have stuff on hand after the baby arrives. I need to get it done before Christmas because I’m already starting to lose the energy I had in the 2nd trimester - yesterday I did too much and it made me feel sick by the time we went to bed. I have a feeling that by the time we get to Christmas, I’ll not have much motivation to do anything other than lay around waiting for Jesse’s arrival.