Nearing the end

I have been so sick the past two weeks. This week is week two and I feel quite a bit better than last week. I can see why they have signs up at the OB office that children under the age of 4 are not allowed to visit during the cold and flu months. However... I am really bummed that Margaux will not be able to come at all to the hospital to see the baby. I'm going to miss her so much. We will have to try to do something special for her when we come home from the hospital with baby boy.

36 weeks

The girls threw me a surprise little sprinkle last week and we received some of the sweetest and most necessary items to help bring home baby boy. I'm getting pretty anxious to meet him.

I've been trying to plan ahead, but I don't think I'm going to be able to plan for everything. I have some things that will have me checking in here at the office. We will be moving. We have Christmas coming up. There's just a lot of things on the plate but we will make it all work. I'm having a hard time believing that Thanksgiving is next week. Where did the month of November go?

In my planning ahead I had worked on Margaux's little gifts for her friends. We don't really buy all our friends and their kids Christmas presents. We usually just bake each other something and do something really small for the kiddos. I found a pin on pinterest for bath crayons. (here's the link). I had been putting the project off for fear of a huge clean up afterwards. However, I looked at the stuff last night and decided I was tired of looking at it and went for it. Super easy! and the clean up... not much at all. I'm not sure what I was so worried about? It's soap for goodness sake. How hard is it to clean up soap? I'll have to try them out in the tub. I tried them on the stove top and they didn't leave a mark so the kids may just be getting some red and green glycerin soap, unless I feel like melting them down again.

step 1: put glycerin soap in microwave safe container. I used a bowl first but then went for the pyrex measuring cup because the bowl was hard to pour into the molds. 

step 2: microwave for 30 seconds at a time until liquid.

step 3: add food coloring

step 4: pour into molds

step 5: the easiest clean up ever while allowing the molds cool a bit.

step 6: place the molds in the fridge for a few minutes to finish up hardening process wait about 5 minutes and pop those bad boys out.