Banana CC Muffins: A new recipe

I love breakfast and I love having time to make breakfast.  Spring break makes this easier (and has given me time to run a lot of errands and work on some grad school too!).  I came across this recipe on pinterest and decided to try it.

Banana CC muffins
from Fit and Healthy with Debbie
Ingredients:
2.5 cups old fashioned oats 

1 cup plain low fat greek yogurt

2 eggs

1/2 cup honey

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 TBSP ground flax seed

1 tsp vanilla

2 ripe bananas 

*I also added in 1/2 c. mini cc



Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray tin with non-stick cooking spray or line 12 muffin tins with silicone or foil liners.
2. Place the oats in the food processor and pulse for about 10 seconds.  Add remaining ingredients to the food processor.
3. Process until everything is mixed together and oats are smooth. (Then add the chocolate chips/walnuts if you so desire)
4. Divide batter among cupcake liners, and bake for 18-20 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean.
*Let them cool before eating, otherwise they will stick to the paper (no flour or oil in them) or put them in the pan vs. in paper.  

Each muffin is approximately 30 g of carbohydrates.

Dresser Update

Our parents have been beyond generous as we have prepared for Miss Sadie's arrival.  Cody's parents gave us the dresser that had been in his bedroom growing up to use for her room.  It was a perfect dresser for a boys room.

I decided to make a few changes to it so that it would be ready for a little girl.  I used a few different blogs/pins to figure out exactly how to do this.
1. I wore a mask, so no worries

 2. With gloves on my hands (there are crazy skin warnings on this stuff), I used a degreaser (from Lowe's) to clean the dresser well, removed the drawers from the chest and handles from the drawers.

  

3. Using Zinsser cover stain primer that we found at Lowe's and a cabinet brush, I covered the entire thing.  It took me three coats, but saved me the labor and clean up of sanding. 

 

4. The dresser needed to dry before I could paint it, so I went shopping for a few hours : )

5. I wanted the dresser to be glossy and had read that latex enamel was the best for furniture, so we went with Valspar gloss white latex enamel.  I used another cabinet roller to apply this and it took just two layers. 

 6.  I also primed and painted two of these wooden decorative pieces from Hobby Lobby (that we attached with Liquid Nails) as well as the 4 feet (from Home Depot..you need to buy the metal plates that attach to the furniture which are right by the feet in the store) as I went along. 

  

7.  I picked up some new cabinet pulls when I was at Home Depot also to give it another little face lift. 

 8.  The final product.  I was so pleased with the way it turned out!  It will be Sadie's dresser and changing table.

Before

After

30 weeks

Some weeks as a pregnant diabetic are harder than others and this just happens to be one.  I knew that there would be a point where I needed a lot more insulin than previously and my well regulated blood sugars would go crazy.  Unfortunately for me, that was this week.  I had a day when I could not get my blood sugars down, which was very stressful.  Fortunately, after a small breakdown, I was able to get ahold of my doctors and make some changes that brought my blood sugars back to normal.

How far along:  30 weeks
How big is baby: cucumber, 3 lbs 8oz and 15 inches!
Maternity clothes:  A mixture..almost always for pants though
Sleep:  Not a lot.  I am exhausted.   I wake up a few times a night one of the times is consistently 4:30.  Hooray for Spring Break next week! I am planning on getting some rest.
Food cravings: Sweets still and Freebird's Nachos after seeing Emily's post yesterday

Food aversions:  None really
Symptoms: Back pain, heartburn and high blood sugars.  Bath time is my favorite because its the time in the day my back does not hurt at all.

Movement: Little girl is moving quite a bit.   I found out that she is head down, so I am assuming most of the movement that I see is her hiney and her feet : )
Gender:  Girl
What I’m looking forward to: Finally having time to put the pieces together for her nursery (I have a vision of where I want everything)! Pics to come soon : )

What I miss:  nothing
Best part of the week:  Seeing her sweet little face!!  Celebrating her with two showers (the one in Longview and one at school for all the new mommas today).  

 

Showered with love

I cannot even begin to tell you how overwhelmed I am by the sweet generosity shown to us this weekend at Sadie's Longview shower!  What a blessing of sweet faces who came to celebrate, hostess who gave their time to make everything perfect and baby supplies to give Sadie a cush life : ) 

 The hostesses + mom and me

 I had lots of help opening presents : ) They were so fun!

  

 Some sweet friends that I have grown up with (two of them since we were teeny)

 The grandmas

 Sadie's sweet aunts

 The great grandmothers! (The 7th great grandbaby for my Mamaw and the first for both of the Nannys)

What a fun morning! We are so blessed! Baby girl, we are one big step closer to being ready for you! : )

29 weeks

and I should really be working on grad school right now, but it is getting so much harder to focus on that.   And I apologize for only having baby posts.  I swear I am doing more than just day dreaming about her arrival and getting things ready, but unfortunately most of the other things that I am doing involve graduate school in one manner or another and I am sure that would be of no interest to you : )

How far along:  29 weeks
How big is baby: Acorn Squash
Maternity clothes:  A mixture..almost always for pants though
Sleep:  I've slept better this week.  Haven't accomplished near as much as I need to though...at least I'm getting rest : )
Food cravings: Chocolate, sweets in general

Food aversions:  None really
Symptoms: Back pain and heartburn

Movement: Sadie is moving a lot, like constantly and she is starting to wake with noises (like my alarm to get up in the mornings and when the students are too loud)
Gender:  Girl
What I’m looking forward to:  Her first shower Saturday, seeing her little self again on Monday

What I miss:  nothing
Best part of the week: Taking more steps to get ready for her arrival.  So excited!

You, me and the baby makes 3

We are officially in the 3rd trimester, which means 11ish weeks until we meet our sweet girl.  We were home this weekend and because my dad is awesome,  he was able to take some maternity pics for us (thank you pinterest for photo ideas). 

 

And our baby girl will be named Sadie! We cannot wait to meet her : )

28 weeks

Hello 3rd trimester! We are only 12 weeks away from Baby Girls due date!!  I cannot believe it!  In the past week, we have painted (with low VOC paint), found a day care and met with Maternity leave.  We are getting ready for her!

 

How far along:  28 weeks
How big is baby: Eggplant
Maternity clothes:  A mixture..almost always for pants though (except the ones I'm wearing in the picture, thank you belly band).  Its funny how differently the maternity clothes fit now from when I first bought them!
Sleep:  I'm exhausted.  School + grad school + growing a human leaves me beat every night.  I guess I'm sleeping fairly well though...just not a ton of time to sleep
Food cravings: Chocolate consumption is getting out of control...  and Chick-fil-a!  Pregnant girl found out last night that the only fast food restaurant that has both caffeine free diet coke and diet lemonade (the CFA closest to me) will be closed for a month! A whole month for renovation...sad day!

Food aversions:  None really
Symptoms: Back pain.  I'm not sure the arch of my back is good for my spine..but as long as baby girl is growing like she's supposed to, I can put a pillow behind my back and lay down when I need to.  Heartburn is still my companion too. 
Movement: Watching my belly move and loving knowing she is doing well.  I think she's found my ribs..
Gender:  Girl
What I’m looking forward to:  Hearing her heartbeat next week!  Putting the crib together.  Getting aa few crafts/furniture DIYs  going for her room. 

What I miss:  nothing
Best part of the week: Still loving the movement...also loving that her room is painted..the nursery is taking shape!