Therapy

I absolutely love being pregnant.  I really do!! Even when I know at the beginning of the pregnancy I am probably going to spend 4 weeks {approximately} throwing up and an instant back pain that will last 9 months.  I mean this back pain is pretty excruciating even more so at about 8 months.  I even had to go to physical therapy the last month of pregnancy with Jax.  I know, sounds awful, but the thought of "it will pay off" get's me through it. You know, that sports mentality...it gets me through the game.  But do you know what I REALLY love about being pregnant besides the fact that I can get fat and have no excuse but "I am eating for two!" {I think this where my problem lies in getting so big}, the urge to CLEAN and COOK!  It doesn't happen often when not pregnant so I take full advantage.  It sometimes becomes a problem though.  For example, I could be sitting in my office working hard and all of a sudden it hits me...I need to clean my desk off and straighten the pens up.  Do I finish my work that I have been trying to complete for the past hour? NO! The impulse is too much. I begin to nest. OR the other morning I had 10 minutes before I could leave for work and I had yet to eat breakfast but the floor needed to be vacuumed.  Normally I would say, "nah, Jax will be okay if he eats the left over macarroni stuck in the carpet" {maybe a bit exaggeration, but you get the idea}.  However, I spent those 10 minutes vacuuming the floor and even thought about cleaning the fridge out.  Pretty random, huh?

Monday night, I had a craving for some good oatmeal.  Normally oatmeal makes me gag.  I ate it every morning that I was pregnant with J'Lee so oatmeal and I aren't usually good friends.  However, it was that impulse again that I couldn't hold back.  So I remember by sister-n-law mentioning a crockpot recipe for oatmeal.  Shoot yeah, I had to try it and I had to try it NOW! Wait, does crockpot cooking count as actual cooking?  In my head it does!  I found on Pintrest a great recipe..

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It is simple! I used Steel Cut Oats, water, milk, brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and cinnamon.  Throw those in, go to bed and you wake up to an amazing pot of greatness.  Really!! It was perfect and I didn't gag! I had to add more brown sugar, because, the baby needs that good stuff.  I added strawberries to J'Lee's bowl and Jax just couldn't stop eating it.  "More peese" he would say! I had leftovers as well. I am thinking about doubling the recipe so that we can have it all week.  My kids love any kind of oatmeal so it's perfect!

My next impulse and I may just go to Wal-mart right now to get the ingredients...

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Maybe I need therapy for this impulse that I carry while I am pregnant.  Therapy can't be justified with such a great impulse though.  EVERYBODY benefits from it! A clean house and food {every man's dream!} I also may have to go to therapy for the extra brown sugar and sweets that I always want to make and consume. Wait, that has blueberries in it...I WILL BE FINE!!!

Until next time my friends {just ignore crazy eyes down there}...