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this is us

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Apfel-Pfannkuchen

AKA Apple Pancakes.
My husbands favorite german dish! 
He had been asking  his mom to make it, so last week she did. 
And she taught me how too :) 

It's fairly simple!






However  I have no measurements, because she just makes it. 
Depending on how many you are making you would add more eggs and milk.
The goal is to make a batter that looks like this: 



Then heat some oil in a frying pan 
add some apples 


pour on the batter 


Cook until it's a beautiful brown and will with-hold a flip


Flip & cook 


Plate


Make more 



Eat! 


Of course serve HOT! 

The boys like to add sugar on top. 
Then it's kinda like a funnel cake. Kinda. 

You can mix it up and add anything to the pancake you want (instead of apples) it will just have a different name ;) 

The next day we had them with bacon. 

Sometimes she makes them really thin, then we roll them up with butter lettuce and some kind of dressing on the lettuce. 


So if you want some, come over and I'll make my first batch by myself :) 




Thursday, February 6, 2014

Hormone Problems

Today I need to just do a small vent.
On my to do list for blogs is, the reveal, cloth diapers and other happenings.
 But for today I need to be vulnerable, selfish and pregnant.

Some days things just seem to get to me more. To really get under my skin more than normal. Today seems to be one of those days. I think, in my own view of my world, I haven't had too many days like this, so that's good for C :)

Today, pants don't fit.
I don't have enough pants.
Long sleeve warm shirts are not long enough for my enormous belly.
    (I can usually be creative in this department but apparently hormones prevent that and just cause break        downs.)
I sneezed and had to change out of my last clean maternity pants into sweat pants that just happen to still fit.

I have become a mouth breather and it is the worse at night, thus causing NO Sleep.Which seems to have caught up with me today. Thus causing a hormonal Kelsey to be super pleasurable.
My poor sweet husband who can sleep through EVERYTHING is also being kept up by my tossing and turning. Sorry boo!

We are also fostering a 1yr old dog, who is super sweet, but not quite trained to all the Haltermann house rules, like chasing the cat's is a no no, esp when a pregnant woman is trying to eat breakfast, and the cat runs up the stairs to a hallway with no where to go, and the pregnant woman has to run up said stairs ,[ which she can barely WALK up w/o loosing her breath], to save the cat! 
 Now the cats don't want to go outside at all, and we had to put a litter box inside. (Only after finding the rug they turned into their own pee spot w/o our knowledge! )
Oh and Abby taught the new dog how to go swimming in the fish pond....when its 27* outside!!!!

Picture now all of this happening in the a 1-2hr span while in trying to get ready to go to work and do normal things like switch out laundry, eat breakfast , feed all animals, do hair and makeup, pick up the living room & kitchen after the nightly tornado called C tears through it. Then picture my usually smiling face turned into something that the dogs don't even want to mess with anymore. And re-doing makeup, specifically in the eye region.


Ok enough about my morning hormone breakdown!
Let's be grateful for what we have.

***A healthy baby boy!
***A understanding and flexible place of work!
***A husband who somehow can still put up with me and make me smile!
***A pregnancy that I have been blessed with
***A pregnancy that has been fairly easy going
***A reliable car to get to and from work.
***Pet's who are loving and despite my breakdowns still come up to me to show love and comfort.
***Friends who I'm in contact daily who show me love and put me in my place when I get too hormonal

Thanks for reading my rant :) Please know how thankful for this sweet baby I am,  I really am and I know I am blessed. I will take all that comes with it just to get to meet and hold him!