20 weeks

Thanksgiving week and halfway mark for baby La Rosa to be here!

Alberto has been gone at the American Academy of Religion conference in Atlanta this past weekend and I will meet him in Chicago tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving with the La Rosa-Rojas clan. He has been really busy writing applications for PhD programs and now hopefully making some connections while he is in Atlanta.

We celebrated Thanksgiving at church last Wednesday and I made crockpot sweet potatoes! I find it difficult to bring anything but a dessert to weeknight activities so I found that the crockpot is a great assist in prepping food for an event where some actual food is needed. It turned out really sweet but pretty still delicious!

Also, we had some apples that needed to be used last weekend so I made these amazing apple dumplings! Super easy and so so so good! I forget that I love baking and it's such a stress reliever (most of the time).

With Alberto out of town, I use this time to catch up with friends and tv. I had a coffee date on Friday and numerous phone dates over the weekend. Saturday it snowed a bit so staying inside was definitely the way to go. Iowa played Purdue so I watched that and then I started Gilmore Girls over from the beginning. I don't remember the first couple of seasons so I'm excited to relive the early 2000s :)


Everyone keeps telling me it's fine that I'm feeling so lazy because there is a human growing inside of me but it really bothers me that I don't have more gumption (or "no tengo ganas" as they say in Spanish). Maybe energy will come in the third trimester? I don't know but it sure would be nice. I got out all the Christmas stuff and now we shall see if it actually gets put up. :-/

20 week tummy!