Good evening everyone!
I had a REALLY busy day today. My SIL and I left at 8am this morning to drive 2.5-3 hours up to Pittsburgh PA to the nearest Costco. We also hit up IKEA and Trader Joes while we were there. Thankfully, this week I really found the key to managing my morning sickness. I need to eat at least every 2-3 hours during the day to keep from feeling horribly sick. We managed to keep the trip under $1000 and only spent $40 at IKEA. Going to IKEA was mainly a fact-finding tour to get ideas. My SIL just put a contract down on a house and she'll be moving in January. It is a really nice house set up as a duplex. It has a fairly large storage area in the half basement, and she is thinking of converting that into a tiny house/studio apartment for herself and renting out the other 2 units for 3 times what her mortgage payments will be. I was looking for ideas for things we'll need to get once we get our new house, new bed for the Milk Drinker, desks, etc. It was a fun day, but I'm pooped.
We aren't going to church tomorrow because the Milk Drinker has been sick and has a runny nose and periodically runs a low grade fever. That will be good for me because Monday will be a busy day for me (first Midwife appointment). At least this way, I'll have tomorrow to relax.
For Thanksgiving, DH, the Milk Drinker, my SIL and I will be going up to PA again to go to my MIL's extended family annual Thanksgiving reunion. For years, they have been renting a house near one of my DH's Great Aunt/Uncle's house (since they sold their house and moved into a retirement community). Sadly, it sounds like this will be the last hurrah for the family reunion. The rental house that they have gotten every year is going out of business, and since members of my DH's grandmother's generation are getting up in their 80s-90s, it is getting harder for them to make it out for the festivities, especially since they are spread out from SE PA all the way up to Rochester, NY. This is sad, my first introduction to my DH's extended family was at one of these reunions. We had only been dating 5 months and we weren't even engaged yet. My DH thought it was very daring of me to agree to come. My MIL only really wanted to come for the second half of the trip (Saturday/Sunday) to visit her mother. Since we moved to the farm, she's become a bit reclusive and doesn't want to deal with the politics that are talked about during the festivities.
food..
