38 Weeks

The bun is still in the oven. At times you start thinking there's no end in sight. At most, we have just about 3 weeks till he's here (induction if needed). Hopefully, he'll be here on his own before then. Last week I was put back on bed rest. Blood pressure was high again and my swelling has gotten worse. I figured my blood pressure would get higher since they took me off the blood pressure meds. Unfortunately, it's only a minor concern for the doctor. She's not willing to induce early unless it gets worse. She's pretty strict on when she's comfortable inducing. To me this is frustrating since Ollie's considered full term and the blood pressure is enough of a concern that they put me on bed rest. I wish they would just take him out or put me back on the meds. I'm a bit more effaced but haven't dilated much more yet. Time to look into some ways to speed up this process!

While on bed rest this weekend, I spent my time knitting new born beanies. I've been making a few here and there for Ollie, but started making some for girls. A lot of our friends had girls within the past few months. I'm a bit sick of boy colors so it's been fun to switch it up to pink :) I made about 20 beanies! Can't wait to get them mailed out.

Today I finished up Thanksgiving shopping. I definitely didn't want to wait till the last minute. It's hard enough trying to shop when the stores aren't busy. We're making garlic cream cheese smashed red potatoes,  pumpkin chocolate chip cupcakes with homemade cream cheese frosting, Oreo cheesecake balls and hot coco candy cane stirrers. I figue if we tackle one item a day so it wont be as bad. Today I made the coco stirrers. I found them on Pinterest a while back and they looked really yummy and festive. They are marshmallows dipped in white chocolate and rolled in sugar. Then you insert a candy cane into the top and you have a yummy, sweet, stirrer for your hot chocolate. It didn't seem like they'd be too hard to make.... but I ran into some problems at first. Pintrest only gave ingredients... no directions for smooth sailing. The marshmallows were melting from the warm melted white chocolate and too much white chocolate caused a "dripping" look. Then, spearing the candy cane through the top caused the hardened white chocolate on the outside to break from the marshmallow expanding. Finally, I got the technique down. Didn't take too long and they are pretty cute. Tomorrow I'm making the Oreo cheesecake balls! I've been making those forever, so they should be pretty easy :)