Day 137...Mountain O' Crap!

We finished the great purge! After hours of cleaning, sorting, and reorganizing, we ended up donating 7 garbage bags full of old clothes and items we never use. We also had nearly an equal size mountain of trash built up too!

When everything had been dumped and donated, and the house was cleaned over once more, if finally felt like a home again. Our closets finally had space to move about, and our little apartment felt twice as big! It almost felt a little empty after all the holiday decorations were packed away, but honestly, I'm ready for the holidays to be over. In my mind, forget the rest of winter. Bring on Spring!

After the great purge was finished, I was able to relax with my husband and watch some more Lost (we've been plowing through the past few seasons on DVD so we can be caught up for the new season coming out soon. It's both addicting and maddening!) and enjoy the evening in our clean home. Other than that, I did some more reading in my awesome new book "What to expect before you're expecting" and learned more ways to prep for pregnancy. Mostly I've been reading about dieting tips on helping to conceive. Mostly it emphasises eating a healthy balanced diet (duh!) and having smaller more frequent meals high in protein and complex carbs to keep blood sugar and energy up. But I also learned more about fertility friendly foods such as oysters (for their zinc) and yams (for some reason, studies have shown that high consumption of yams can lead to higher fertility rates, and even more so, higher chances on conceiving twins). So my husband and I walked to the store and loaded up on lots of fruits, veggies, oysters, whole wheat grains, and yams. Also, thanks to our new dehydrator my parents got me for Christmas, we've been dehydrating fruits like mad so that we have more healthy sweet snacks and so that our produce doesn't go bad before we eat it (as it often does. Yay for organic foods spoiling fast!).

Pickle: part of this complete balanced breakfast.