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Archive for March, 2008

You have been warned.  :)
I think that throwing up is part of getting ready for a baby’s arrival. After-all once the baby comes one will have to deal with those types of occurrences on a regular basis. Well God must be preparing me. This morning a few minutes after my Dad called to ask how I [...]

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Learning

It is a in God’s love that He allows and even appoints disapointment to come into our lives. He knows if we didn’t have it we would try and find our satisfaction in the things of this life and world instead of in more solid and eternal things as Himself. With Him is true joy and life. [...]

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 LIME!!! 
According to my husband comparing our baby to fruit and vegetables is silly. I on the other hand appreciate size comparisons as I don’t as readily think in inches and centimeters as my engineering minded guy does. These comparisons I found quite helpful albeit a bit humorous.
So last night my darling was playing chemist and making homemade laundry [...]

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Well, things are getting back to normal at our quiet little household. A bit too quiet for my liking. Mom left for Columbus yesterday and I felt lonely that evening. Andrew had several things to do and I ended up with a crying spell. I tell you I don’t do this normally. Pregnancy does weird things to ones tear ducts. [...]

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 I am supposed to start showing a bit in a few weeks at least. Right now I don’t see too much difference. Just more fullness in the ab region. I can feel my uterus if I poke around in my low ab region it is just a firm spot and the midwife said it will [...]

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AMAZING

WE HEARD THE HEART BEAT TODAY!
170 beats per minute and a healthy baby according to our midwife!
We are thanking the Lord. It was truly one of the most emotion packed and amazing experiences of my life. It made me get so excited about actually giving birth. The morning sickness was so worth this. We are [...]

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recycle

This is interesting
Personally I prefer just reusing cloth bags. Trader Joes makes some nice ones. Too bad they are soo far away now.

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The house

These are the pictures of the house before the family moved out. It is a bit more modern than I am used to but I figure that is why you decorate….To make a house more a kin to your families style. Thus tons and tons of pictures are put up and you add COLOR. Color [...]

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Baby news

This is day number 69 and you’re 9 weeks pregnant!
You have 211 days or 30 weeks left, and are 24.6% of the way there.
Baby’s age is 55 days or 7 weeks. You are due on 10/10/2008.
Tomorrow we are 10 weeks…
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This broadcast is amazing!! [A Man Called Norman Part 1 & 2]

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Please Pray for Zimbabwe…
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Today we found out some good news. First the water I have been drinking for about the baby’s entire life  is perfectly safe. There was a scare in which we realized that this area of town the water is high in nitrates. Nitrates cause problems for pregnant women and babies under 6 months of [...]

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Crazy 8

First some pictures from this week: Bet they’ll make you laugh–I tell you this dog!

8 Things I’m passionate about
1. Christ
2. Andrew
3. Motherhood
4. Creativity
5. My extended family
6. Love
7. Natural Health
8. Finding humor in my life

8 Things I want to do before I die
1. Home-school our children [I know scary-but exciting!]
2. Go to Israel
3. Study Homeopathy in-depth
4. Hold [...]

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This is heart breaking but how often is this the norm?
 I miss my family. On a typical day I am with my son (awake) for about 30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes at lunch, and about 2 hours in the evenings for a grand total of 3 hours per day. I spend more time [...]

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Green

I would like to reccomend this, this and this website for recipe ideas. I miss my green smoothies. Right now with the morning sickness I can’t stomach the raw greens like I used to. Hopefully later in the preganancy.

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My digestive system HATES me.
I have to pee  C O N S T A N T L Y.
My rant is over.

Today has been an exceedingly productive 1st trimester day. I woke up a bit distraught over the massive pile of dishes overflowing almost the entire counter. The carpet covered with unreasonable amounts of dead flies, spiders and pale ladybugs. (The [...]

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This is hilarious. Good prep for those days around the corner.
In other news amazingly Andrew and I went out for a date last night and actually ate something! GASP! Although I was a bit apprehensive about which Blizzard I should decide on to share with Andrew I finally decided on a double chocolate one as the [...]

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