Thanksgiving with Claira

We had an early thanksgiving dinner today. In the past, preparing our dinner took a long time which end up having almost a midnight dinner and finish at almost 1 am. Today I started cooking this morning then hubby helped me cooking with the turkey which he normally do. It's Claira's first thanksgiving so I planned to give her a little bit of turkey, cranberry sauce and mashed sweet potato. I think she's not ready with the next step of solid foods coz she's kinda choking when I fed her the mashed sweet potato. I end up giving her the milk after she gave me the facial expression that she didn't like what I fed her. She had a little bit of cranberry sauce though but not the turkey. Our thanksgiving was a good one. I made candied sweet potato, peas, pearl onions, brownie, green bean casserole, stuffing, and now I'm looking forward for more thanksgiving to come. So thankful for all the blessings I received. Hope you had a good one too. :)

Our Big Baby

Here she is a couple weeks ago when it was cold outside. She's not a little baby anymore and people are telling me that she's too big for me. Maybe she got her daddy's height and not mine. She now knows how to hold her bottle without any help which makes it easier for me to do something else while she's feeding herself. She's eating solid foods too, the first foods. I was thinking of making her some chicken soup with rice but her Doctor prefer to wait til she's one year coz some people are allergic to chicken. It seems that her solid food is not enough for her and it doesn't taste good too but the book that I was reading said that babies will get used to the taste and would prefer the food they eat when they're little once they grow up. My Aunt told me to give Claira the chicken soup, no salt and spices but boiled chicken bones only so Claira will get use to the taste. I think it's too early for her to have the chicken soup at that time coz my Aunt told me to do it when Claira was only 4 months old. I don't know but babies in my country where I'm originally from eat anything as what I noticed as long as it's good for babies, here there are do's and don'ts.

Properly Connected

For weeks we've been using the phone line outside to connect the internet and have a phone signal. Hubby found a way so we can still use the internet and phone if we want to coz the electrician forgot to put a wire from inside the house to the outside of the house. Yeah, it was a mess and we didn't know it til the phone company person came here to hook up our phone line. He told hubby that there's no wire for him to hook the line up so he just showed hubby how to connect the wire if the builder fix the problem already. Today the electrician came to fix the problem which thankfully he did at last but the problem is there's a green wire from the ceiling (i think) to the ground as if somebody's just dropping a wire from the house to the ground and that doesn't look good at all. It makes our house look cheap or in a remote area. Grrrrrrrr Now hubby said he'll find a way to hide the wire but he's too busy to do it at the moment. Kainis! Buying this house gives us problem after problem. I don't know when the problems will end. I hope it will be soon.

Music

... makes the people come together. I'm not sure if that's the exact lyrics but that's a song I'm singing right now. In my previous post I think it's obvious that I wasn't in a good mood but today I'm back to normal. ngek! (abnormal diay ko gahapon) haha Yeah, I was reading an article in the magazine a few days ago about stress and one suggestion to beat the stress is to turn on the music and dance. I remembered it today so I turn ON the music and it worked even if I didn't dance coz I was working in the house again trying to do something about the clutter. It feels good when I accomplish something everyday. I was thinking I can do de clutter the house today but it didn't happen. I guess I'm too ambitious to finish everything without hubby's help but at least I was able to de-clutter some areas. Tomorrow is another day to do more work in the house and I hope I'll be able to finish the 1 year work into weeks only. I know I'm too ambitious to do this but that's my goal. Who knows, it will happen. Good luck to me. ^_^

Frustrated

It's been 3 weeks since we move in our new house and our stuff is still not properly arranged. Hubby is busy at work and at home and I don't know where to start arranging coz hubby's stuff are everywhere even in the kitchen. The two bedrooms are already full of our stuff and part of the family room and dining room have some stuff that shouldn't be there too. It's really frustrating to see the slow improvement of arranging our stuff coz I want to have an organized house. Sometimes I think that I'll tell hubby to have a schedule or goal of when he wanted to finish arranging his stuff coz I'm really tired of looking at them. I sometimes ask him of what he wanna do or his plan for the day or the next day so I know what to do also but he doesn't want to promise anything coz he's afraid that he might not be able to finish on time and I'll get mad. It doesn't feel good living in a clutter house but what can I do? I prefer to play games online to escape from watching the clutter around or else I'll end up being mad and become a nagger. That's why I'm trying to control my emotions so I won't be arguing with hubby. I was thinking that our relationship is more important than the house or the clutter in our house. Claira also need some attention and care. It's tough but I think Claira is more important than the clutter. Though there are times that I work a little bit in the house when Claira wanted me to play with her. It's just very overwhelming to see all the stuff we have and hubby doesn't want to give them away or sell them coz they are his inheritance or needed for his job. Grrrrrr I'm trying to fight my feelings so I can't say things that hubby won't like and I might regret later on once everything's finish. I did make some arrangement in the house and putting hubby's stuff somewhere but I'm tired of being asked where I put his stuff. I hope we'll be working a little faster in the house instead of slowwwwwww coz I'm really tired of watching the clutter. I wish I can hide all them and know where I put them. (sigh)

Too many Accounts

I mean, online accounts that I can't manage to update them all the time. I was closing some accounts before and yesterday I was closing my friendster account so I can concentrate on facebook. Yeah, I enjoyed facebook better than friendster because of the games plus most of my family and relatives are also in FB. I just hope that my friends and classmates are in FB also so we can continue to keep in touch though we're a thousand miles apart. Happy weekend!!! ^_^

Little Tooth

I'm talking about Claira's little tooth. I noticed the other day when she tried to bite the spoon that she already have a little tooth. Then yesterday while she was fussy, I allow her to nibble my finger and there I knew that she really have that little tooth coming coz it's sharp. We started giving her the cold teethers from the fridge hoping that it will help her swollen gums numb for a little while. It works though but only for a few minutes. Yesterday afternoon I looked at her gums coz I'm curious where her little tooth is. It's in the lower part and I can see it showing just the top part of the tooth. I am excited! Soon she'll have more teeth coming and will be eating what hubby and I eat. :)

H1N1 shot

Claira had an appointment this morning for the H1N1 shot. We thought she won't get it coz the last time we visit her Pediatrician for her second Flu shot the Doctor said that they don't have it yet coz the high risk people are the priority. Then the Doctor called hubby and said that they have the H1N1 for Claira. Hubby scheduled an appointment right away so Claira can get it. Claira cried after she had the shot today and stopped crying when hubby was carrying her. She's now a good baby even after her shots. She did the same thing in her second flu shot too, cried for seconds then done. In her previous shots she's fussy, wanted mom and dad's attention all the time and cried for 2 days or so. What a big relief! :)

Yummy Crabs

Had a chance to go to the Asian Market before the big move. I was lucky that the Asian Market had these blue crabs when I went there. These crabs were still alive and kickin' when I bought them. I cooked the crabs when I arrived home and had delish meals for I think 3 days. Yum! ^_^

Cooking again

We've been eating at fast food resto and fine dining resto since we started moving coz I don't have time to cook. We're busy packing things and cooking takes time so we end up going out to eat. I now started cooking again even if I don't know where I put all my kitchen stuff. Going out is so expensive so I decided to cook again. Besides, the weather here is getting colder which makes me too lazy to go out. I miss the home cooked meals after eating out for more than a week. I was glad that Ilocana and my other friend came to visit me and bring me food so I don't need to cook. Sweet! :) Yeah, after their visit I decided to cook again. My only complain is that it takes time for me to cook now coz my cooking tools are everywhere in the kitchen. I'm not finish arranging the kitchen yet so every time I cook, I have to open almost all the kitchen cabinets and drawers looking for the tools I need in cooking. What a waste of time but I'm hoping that I'll soon be able to memorize where I put all my kitchen tools.

My kitchen, my favorite place in the house.