Daily Menu

Since many people ask me about what we eat as I am Japanese and my husband is American, I thought I would keep track of the menu and post it. Well, it is not quite as usual since I am expecting but you'll get a glimpse of daily menu. Come take a peek.

Sunday- Breakfast hash brown, broccoli, and oranges

Hash brown is actually quite easy to make from scratch. I found a recipe on Japanese cooking site and have been making it often. My gourmet son likes the store bought one better but other kids eat them just fine.

-lunch cereal

-dinner BBQ pork riblets, shredded cabbage, rice

Monday- Breakfast pancake with whipped topping and raspberry syrup

- lunch Mochi with soysauce and red azuki beans

- dinner Progresso Chicken noodle soup & toast

Since I was very exhausted and needed to lie down after taking the kids around
the stores, this is what I had in mind and what my husband followed. Thanks.

Tuesday-breakfast Spam musubi

Hawaiian food. Yum yum.

-lunch butter sandwich That's all I wanted and could eat.

-dinner baked potato(spam, sour cream, broccoli, egg, cheese, chives), alfredo fettucine

Actually my husband made dinner that night. I was very grateful.

Wednesday- breakfast chicken noodle soup(campbells chunky kind), toast

- lunch Sushi(cream cheese, smoke salmon, cucumber)

-dinner okonomiyaki(cabbage pancake)

This is typically more like lunch menu but since I like to have griddle on the table and cook with the family, we have it for dinner once in a while. The ingredients are shredded cabbage, flour, egg, tofu, seasoning powder, cheese and beef. Normally pork is used but I made it with beef yesterday because I had just bought a chunk. I sliced the top and fried it before pouring the dough on top.

Thursday- breakfast toast, sunny-side egg, cucumber, and strawberry

With these colors on the plate, it looked so pretty. Gotta get 30 items per day.

- lunch cream cheese pound cake.

I was craving for this and since I had enough eggs and was feeling good enough to make it, I made it in the morning. Yum.

- dinner stuffed double baked potato, left overs

Again, I was craving. The sad thing is that I couldn't add evaporated milk that the recipe called for. The one we had was bad... separated inside. My husband suggested to mix sourcream and milk in place and I did. It was better than expected but I still yearned for the certain flavor that evaporated milk gives.

Friday-breakfast my brain refuses to remember

- lunch did I have one??

-dinner Taco rice. Basically the topping for tacos.

Instead of the taco shells, we eat with rice. Yum.

Saturday- absolutely, no memory...

Yes! I am one step closer to food storage by keeping the daily menu! I think I will do the 2 weeks rotation thing my friend Crystal is doing. It seems like we ate more potatoes the week than we normally do. Well, looking at this, we eat about half Japanese and half American. I go through a cooking phase here and there so maybe next time I keep track, it could be better? Definitely more to come... Anyone is welcome to share theirs! It would be fun and inspiring. Please?

Visit with the doctor

I was excited for this day. I would finally get to see the doctor, hopefully ultrasound, and find out what the choices are for my situation. All I know is that it is better for me to have a c-section but with the due date so unsure, it will be difficult to know the timing. All my children are born on 37 weeks.


Well, after weighing and answering a few questions and getting the blood pressure taken, the assistant nurse left, telling me I needed to change into the gown with nothing underneath... Oh..... nothing. My husband asked me if I wanted him to go out even... as if! After a while, the nurse came in. Oh, she was the lady who I saw at church when I went to do some service work!!! It was so nice to see her. Anyway, she said she would look for the heartbeat and with doppler, she listened around and ...found it. There was a strong heartbeat. Tears came in my eyes. Definately, a human was growing in me. It was certainly the moment that I would never forget. I am responsible for not only my body but my little one growing in me as well. What I do, eat, listen, and so on is going to affect this baby. It is just not me anymore.


Anyway, she told me that they don't schedule the c-section until you are 39 weeks pregnant. Great. I knew I will not last that long for sure. Then she said with my case, it might be better to do the test to see the lung is fully developed as soon as I hit 37 weeks. If it is, I will have the operation on the day or the day after. Sounds good to me... although thinking about surgery makes me very nervous. They are going to open me. Scary.


Hearing me talk about my concerns, she felt my uterus and did ultrasound for me. There it was, my little one. It was only about 3.5cm (1 1/2inches). So she pushed back my due date to beginning of June and thus I am 10weeks pregnant instead of 12 now. I just hope everything goes smoothly and okay- Yes, this is a blessing.

head on the right with two hands in the middle then body and feet.

It will be a BOY;-)

Shopping for...

So, I needed to buy some new cloth etc to adjust my growing needs.
I had 30% off coupon for a good department store and the kids needed a few things so
the whole family and 11yrs. old Zenmaster's friend went together.

I needed to get new bra for my girls(check out my friend's site about her girls... quite hilarious!)
I felt a little awkward thinking my kids, especially my boys might notice this but well, I needed them anyway (and I was NOT going to take another trip just for that!!!) so while the boys were at toy section, I went and grabbed some.

Here's the reaction.

Zenmaster and his friend- saw what was sitting on the counter, turned away embarrassed, and didn't say anything.

Mr. S(needs a nickname!)- saw it and acted quite normal. I take a note for myself, "he might be my shopping buddy one day"

Miss S(needs a nickname also!) -As soon as she saw me going to the bra section, she gets very excited, takes one off the rack and put it around her stomach. Then she starts dancing and sings "♪ I look so beautiful". Embarrassed, my husband tells her to put it down (while grinning) and reluctantly she goes with him to get bath towels. She comes back again and gets excited(again). This time she didn't sing and dance but begs to stay with me. I say no because I needed to go try them on and didn't really need any of those innocent curious questions, not in the department store anyway! While I was talking with my husband, she starts to try various bra on again (of course around her stomach) and wonders why she cannot put them on yet. One more thing, she decides, that she has to wait until she becomes a mommy.

She was so funky! Shame on me for having no camera with me!! Now I just hope she would know where to put her bra on when she gets to the age... NOT!!!

1st visit!

...to the medical assistant that is.
I needed to go 15 min. earlier to do some paperworks but of course, I got lost.
After asking 2 people for direction, I finally get there 5 min. earlier. Oh well, that is just me.

Receptionist was very nice. She was from somewhere I used to live so it was fun
talking with her.

Then the nurse took me while I was still trying to complete the paper and talking with the receptionist. She said I would like the doctor because she is really nice. If the nurse has been working there for 2 months and really likes the doctor, I maybe able to trust her. Anyway.

She asked me a bunch of questions regarding my medical history and about each children. Gee, I had a hard time remembering all the details about how long the delivery was for each of my 3 kids. Well, the last one I remember really well since it was only 2hours!

Then, she told me to go get the blood drawn for lab works so I obediently went to the other room with the urine cup. I asked lab worker if they would call me if I am not pregnant. She grinned and said the doctor will. I also asked the receptionist to call me if actually nothing is happening. She said she would. Well, like my friend said, maybe I am in denial still. Some days, I just cannot wait to hold this little one but some days, I get very nervous. The other day I hysterically tried to find the baby's heartbeat with the good quality stethoscope I have, in vain.
Maybe I just want some kind of proof... or what. I am just still so confused! Then at times when I finally convince I am, I start thinking about all the "what if"s. Hmmmmmm........

According to them, I am 11 weeks pregnant and am due on May 20th. We will see about that since it sounds all suspicious... I will find out more when I actually go see the doctor next week!

More to come...