February 15, 2009 - Week 18

My lower back has been bothering me, but I still tried to exercise a couple of times. It looks like this month I've been gaining about a pound a week. As part of selecting a delivery hospital, we are now going through the paperwork involved with switching doctors.

On Friday, our company held their annual international potluck lunch. I made Czech "Valentine's Day kisses" and Paul brought homemade ice cream. This year's ice cream flavor was "Nutty Maple" made from walnuts and maple syrup from the family sugar maple tree in Clarinda.

We received several inches of snow on Friday afternoon so there was some shoveling to do. Saturday was Valentine's Day and I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers. We went out for breakfast and then to the home and garden show in downtown. On Sunday, we had friends with their little two year old boy over for dinner. I tried two new Czech recipes, spinach soup and brocoli casarole.

Prestoze me boli zada, porad chodim do posilovny aspon dvakrat tydne. Zda se, ze tento mesic pribiram asi pul kila kazdy tyden. Protoze jsme si vybrali jinsi nemocnici, tak ted podavame nove formulare na zmenu doktora.

V patek nase spolecnost poradala rocni ochutnavku mezinarodnich jidel. Upekla jsem Valentynske pusinky a Paul udelal domaci zmrzlinu. Tentokrat prichut byla pojmenovana "Orechovy javor", protoze pouzil orechy a javorovy sirup z rodinneho sladkeho javoru pred domem rodicu v Clarinde. Znovu nam v patek vecer nasnezilo, tak jsme opet museli odhazovat snih. V sobotu bylo Valentyna. Od Paula jsem dostala krasne kvetiny. Sli jsme na snidani a pote jsme vyrazili do centra mesta na vystavu "Dum a zahrada". V nedeli u nas byli znami s dvourocnim synem na veceri. Vyzkousela jsem dva nove ceske recepty, spenatovou polevku a zapecenou brokolici.