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My mother asks me,
the pregnant lady
(who has been living off pizza rolls, gravy, and strawberry jelly),
what has happened to my face to have me so broke out?

i told her,
in rather a snoody fashion, i'm afraid,
That i couldn't, for the life of me, fathom any reason.

and promptly stormed off.

also, i cried today watching some pregnancy tv show where the Mother offered to be a surragate for her daughter's child. It was beautiful and uplifting and i cried.

pregnancy makes me crazy.

On the dot.

We finally moved Magda up into a big girl bed just a few days back. We figured it'd be better to go ahead and have her in a toddler bed well before i'm too fat and lazy to pick her up out of the crib. lol However, We were knucklehead parents who put together the toddler bed and took apart the crib all in the same day. We don't need no Transitional time. pfft.

Amazingly, Mags has taken to the new bed extremely well. She had a fet issues the very first night but naps and bedtime every day after that have been just fine. We are truely blessed to have such a laid back child.

Her first time playing in a ball pit. LOL She just didn't understand it. It was great watching her try to take it all in.

I'm about 14 weeks along, now. The doctor gave me a due date of Jan 8th. I'll be happy to make it into December. I just don't do pregnancy well.

So, life just kinda happens. That's all i've got.

<3

Pizza Bake

This has got to be the simplest recipe i've come across and it tastes wonderful! I love it and i thought I'd share.

Pizza Bake:

3 1/2 cups of Bisquick Mix
1 cup milk
(you could make your biscuits from scratch just as well if you prefer.)
Two 14 oz jars of Pizza Sauce
Pepperoni
2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
Any other toppings you regularly enjoy on pizza
If you're adding things like sausage or hamburger meat, you'll need to precook it before adding it into this recipe.

Preheat oven to 375. mix up the biscuits and drop spoonfulls into a greased 3 quart (13x9in) baking dish. Don't try to cover the bottom to make a crust. Just let them fall in spoonfulls. Use about half the dough you have made up.
Pour 1 jar of pizza sauce over dough in baking dish.
Now you add any toppings you'd like. Sausage, olives, pineapple, whatever you want then top with pepperoni.
Cover with half your cheese.
and start again. Drop in the rest of the dough, pour on sauce, toppings, pepperoni, cheese.

Bake for 20 to 25 mins or untill golden brown.


This is such a fun, open ended recipe. You can literally add anything to it and it's great. The biscuit dough rises and soaks in the sauce and comes out just scrumptiuos! I could make a meal just out of the pizza sauce dumplings. lol But i like to add black and green olives, hamburger, sausage, diced onion and a touch of Pizza season salt. That makes it spicey. hehe
okay, i'm thoroughly starving now.
I hope, if you try the recipe, you have fun making it and truely enjoy eating it! it is great!

<3
Leslie

God knows what he's doing

and he knew adoption wasn't the path for us right at this moment.

I found out last wednesday that i am probably around 8 weeks pregnant.

Due date is estimated to be December 16th, 2010.

What a beautiful gift.

We are so excited!! lol

Sometimes, the timing is just way off.

It's difficult to maintain this blog. Firstly, the reason i created it has passed on and even though it is fun to post here it is also tiresome and not fullfilling. Forced, i guess you could say. Secondly, since i had created this blog to follow our adoption, i had mainly used it to connect with others who are adopting so my Following page is just flooded with adoptive families. it is so hard to continue following all those lives. I am happy for each and every family and child, it's just difficult for me to be actively happy when i'm fighting that creeping ache and anger inside.

Being that i am well aware that this topic causes havok on my moods and thoughts and feelings just now, i'm just taking a nice long break from here, i think.

I have a facebook account that i play with daily and post pictures on. That'll have to do for now.
So, until such time as i am mentally healthy.
Love,
Leslie

happy birthday to me

Because My Husband is Handsome:

Maggie showing me the proper way to clean the stove:

Maggie being absolutely adorable:

Godzilla Magda!

<3

It's okay.

Life goes on =)
This is one of my fav pics of Charlie and Magda.
I love how it puts her into perspective!
btw: I was standing in a chair holding the camera up against the ceiling to take this. lol

hehe

Heavy Metal Half Pint.
Thank you Auntie Liz for the Tshirt. =)

Our new Fairy (Pixie?) Table! Just Magda Size!
So we can practice sitting at the table!

Magda and her Grandpa Baker (My Dad)
Looking out at the snow. =)

It's hard to be upset.