It's Hot

Wow, it's ridiculously hot outside right now. I just got back from the working out at the gym and I think I sweat more waking to my car than in the gym! Sorry for the insane lack of posting lately. I've been trying to catch up with things at work and around the house. It just started raining and I'm not happy at all because I washed my car last night. It wasn't supposed to be above a 20% chance of rain until Sunday! Oh well, it's the summer - these showers pop up all the time. My car needed to be washed to get the thousands of bugs off the car. Every time I travel to Savannah or the St Simons area I think I kill entire populations of bugs. Those things are everywhere down there and they always end up in large numbers on my car. We had a great time at the beach and I'll post some pictures and a more detailed account of what we did later.

There hasn't been too much going on the Patterson household this week. We did some much needed grocery shopping last night and came home to cook a great (and easy) Mexican meal. We just had tacos (hard and soft) with various topping and some cheese dip. We found some queso cheese in the store and used it to make some great tasting cheese dip. It was pretty easy - just add some milk and melt in the microwave. I was skeptical but it was really tasty. I think it would be just as easy to melt in a small pot on the stove, but since it was our first time we followed the directions on the package. I'm sure there are similar brand cheeses out there so if you saw some in the store and were curious if they were any good, I say go give it a shot - ours tasted good. I think next time we will use a little more cheese or a little less milk to get it a little bit thicker. As it cooled it thickened up, but I prefer it a little less runny.

Christi is now in her 15th week or pregnancy. Time is flying by. We ran into the lady who was her daycare director while in line at the grocery store. We talked to her for a little while and turns out she is still in the daycare business. She is the director of the daycare that is literally right next to our subdivision entrance. We've heard it's pretty good so I think we are going to check it out. There is also another place across the street that we want to check out. It is new and looks nice, but we heard it might not be as nice as it looks. Daycare is a really difficult decision. It is something we definitely do not want to do, but right now we think that is the best course of action for us. Hopefully Christi will be able to stay at home full-time soon, but we're still looking at the costs/benefits of all of this and honestly we aren't 100% sure all the expenses a baby will bring. We know there will be tons of diapers, food, toys, furniture, etc. I guess since we're first time parents we aren't 100% what to expect, except a severe lack of sleep for the first few months.

Christi has still been sick. We were hoping the sickness would have stopped by now but hasn't. She's on Zofran, which is supposed to be a miracle drug but so far it has only helped slightly. As we've fought being sick, we've learned that Christi can only really have vegetable at night. Obviously, that gets old fast so we've tried some other food with mixed results. A bowl of rice works most of the time as does grits. Breakfast food generally works well also, except if it's something greasy like a sausage patty or hash browns. Surprisingly, Mexican food also sits really well with her stomach; soda crackers do not. Some soups work well and fruit is also good; however, I've also seen fruit really upset her stomach. So basically the sure fire dinner to have is vegetable, rice, or Taco Bell.

Please keep her in your thoughts. Christi is very tired of getting sick and I can tell it is really wearing her out. It was to the point where when we were at Cracker Barrel the other night she teared up some because she knew whatever she got was going to come back up (and she was tired of eating veggies - it was probably the 5th veggie plate of the week.) Times like this are when I feel completely helpless? What can do you? All I know is that our baby is going to be the next President or something after all the stuff he/she has put Christi through.

I think we are about to go get look at some baby furniture and other items such as strollers and whatnot so I'm going to end this post here. I enjoy going to look at all of these things even though I'm not really certain what a lot of these things are for. I'll find out soon enough, I suppose. It's hard to believe that the pregnancy is almost halfway over! I owe you all some baby pictures and posts about my work trip and the beach. I promise to post them by the weekend is over. Have a good evening.