Overdue

So, it has now been 4 days since my due date has come and gone, and I'm ok with that.  Baby will come when baby is ready (and it feels like it will be soon.  I've got the lovely pelvic pains, Braxtons, and baby was squirming so much last night I was convinced she'd break my water!).  However, I am finding myself in a place of exhaustion coupled with longing to organize everything, put up shelves and picture frames, and do all the things that I do not really need to do while ignoring those I should (like farm bookwork... year end, how I hate thee).  I'd rather bake mini cupcakes to bring to the hospital for the nurses when I inevitably go in.  Or calculate how much wood I need to build shelves/picture ledges for our bedroom.  Or go to Ikea and just buy said shelves since it is cheaper than using real wood (and that is what I work with, not that mdf stuff) and get my hubby to put them up so we can put our collections out and about in our room instead of having empty bland walls and collections in boxes in the closet.  And hang cute little baby clothes as well.  Sigh.  I love little baby girl clothes.


I'm still getting up at 6:30am each morning to make sure everything is ready for school (and only going to bed close to midnight it seems... can never get to bed early... might explain my need for naps).  Yesterday I decided to do a little extra something in my fridge to help my daughter with packing her school lunches.  On Sundays I prep and bag 5 each of a snack, protein, veggie, fruit, and bread product (well... not always 5 of those as I don't think sandwiches sitting in the fridge all week are much fun).  I took a clear shoe box I recently purchased in a pack of 10 on sale (yay sales!) and made card-stock dividers to place each of the food items into (last week I just had them all sitting in one corner of the fridge... not very contained, and M was having trouble determining what she should put in her lunch).  This is what I came up with.

She is thrilled.  Hasn't used it yet as she had already packed today's lunch, but I'm convinced this will make things much easier over the coming weeks.  And I must say, those little snack baggies are fantastic for prechopped apples and other fruits.  I like using containers, but who has 25 tiny little containers kicking around?  Not me!

Now if only fruit wasn't so expensive!  I would love to do something besides apples.  I do 1/2 an apple per day, and usually one other fruit besides for the other 2 or 3 days (like berries, grapes if they were on sale which they haven't been, cantaloupe if on sale, which it recently was, etc).  Veggies... basically just celery and carrots.  We haven't had peppers or cukes or anything in the house for  a long time, and she has been asking for broccoli now.

Speaking of organizing, I also recently organized and labelled my pantry containers (trashed a bunch of old stuff), and this morning I went through all my lids and got rid of a LOT of them.  The cabinet is so nice and clean in there now!  Got rid of some jars, too.  I should just put the jar lids on each of the jars and get rid of the rest of them.  I think I have twice as many lids as jars right now.  And last week I organized my recipes!  So happy!  The recipe box was overhauled and I made dividers for it.  Trashed at least 1/3 of what was in there.  As for the binder, I have no idea how much I got rid of, but it was a considerable pile.  Now to get rid of recipe books... except that I like them so much.  :(

I love organized kitchens!