Busy Belly Button

From car trouble to mouse trouble (both computer and animal) to insurance trouble (thanks a lot Doc) to wall paper trouble to sleep trouble (currently 3:30 AM), I have felt a little stressed lately, but this is life and you just roll with it.  And of course my current troubles aren't true troubles, just tiny bumps in the road.  Luckily all these problems can be fixed!  And I always find the sweet side of life...

Smores seemed like a good way to use up some of the leftover Halloween candy - Hershey bars.  I haven't had many pregnancy cravings, but my sweet tooth which of course has always been there, has kicked it into overdrive.  I probably need to cut back a bit...

One thing I have definitely gotten a kick out of lately is my ever shrinking belly button.  I think I'll have an "outie" in the near future.  In fact, if I gently push in around my belly button, poof, it turns into an outie just like that - constant entertainment around here I tell ya!

You might recall my puzzle find back in September.  I've slowly been working away at it here and there.  Pat gave me a gentle hint that I should probably finish it by Thanksgiving, so I've picked up the pace.  Just a couple hundred blue pieces and I'll be done.   Each time I work on it I feel like I'm going on a little mini vacation to Greece. :o)

Tomorrow we'll be returning the steam cleaner (for wallpaper border remover), cleaning the walls, patching them, and throwing up a couple paint samples.  Then we're heading to Hoboken for some football viewing in the afternoon, hosted by the newlyweds Dave and Dia. 

Surely there are a lot of runners waking up right now to get ready for the New York City Marathon.  I think they'll have perfect weather for it and I wish all the runners well.  I can't believe that 2 years ago Pat and I were among them.  The best race ever!  Here we are before the start in Staten Island:

Hope you're all having a nice weekend and enjoy that extra hour of sleep from the end of Daylight Savings Time. xoxo