Vegan Pregnancy...2nd Trimester and Buying a Home

Well, for the most part, I have kept to my veganism. I craved a cheese burger, ate one and was not satisfied and felt like crap the rest of the day. I occasionally have eaten some products with milk in them. Working 12 hour shifts, sometimes I just need to eat what is available because I get so hungry. But most of the time, I've been good, resulting in feeling good. With a little bit of backaches and heartburn, I barely feel pregnant at 20 weeks. Nothing like my first pregnancy. I ate everything and was very sick, and gained a ton of weight. Up until a week ago, I was running a mile a couple days a week and doing yoga and a little bit of weight lifting. I started slacking after closing on the new house, we are sooo busy which leads me to my second topic.

We bought a house. This is very frustrating for me because it's a fixer upper. I'm having trouble affording and convincing my husband to use natural products. I am trying to work with him and give on somethings and hope he gives on some others. Once we are moved in, I won't be giving in anymore. I am not living with paint fumes or new floor smells and such. Things that are done before we move it, I'm going with some of the more cost efficient things. This weekend I plan on doing a ton of cleaning with my natural products. And I'm investing in some good odor free paint so when the dry wall is up I can start painting. I've advertised that my daughter wants home depot gift cards for her birthday next week!! I have been cleared (by my husband) to do a completely bamboo bathroom, but that is sometime in the future. The bathroom we are doing now and the kitchen are being done by a contractor, as per our mortgage agreement and will be done before we move in, so hopefully it can air out enough for me. Tile floors and wood cabinets, granite counter tops and a bunch of appliances from scratch and dent from Queen Appliance Wholesale. The roof has a rubber section that needs fixed, there is a tiny weeny crack in the foundation. Then on to paint the aluminum siding and gardening. I already got poison oak over most of my body from trying to rescue a tree from over grown ivy. It can only get better from here right!?

I'll keep you posted. I'll be scrubbing the whole house worth of wood flooring this weekend and vacuuming out windows and vents and such (yuck), the house has not been lived in for a year and carpenter ants took out a section of the kitchen, so I have my work cut out for me.