I am sorry, but “Me-Time” is a myth. We are mothers. We do not put ourselves first; we make sacrifices because that is how God has created us. Jesus is the best example we have of sacrifice, and we will certainly not be called to make the sacrifices he did, but, just as he did, [...]
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Me time?
Posted in Homemaking, baby, motherhood on May 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Protected: 6 months (in 2 days)
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Protected: Update
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Education
Posted in Homemaking, homeschooling, motherhood, parenting on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There have been several interesting articles on homeschooling of late. Here are the links.
10 Reasons to Criminalize Homeschooling (caught your attention didn’t it?!)
Homeschooling is Our Lifestyle
Why I am so thankful we homeschool
Protected: Lately
Posted in baby, motherhood, parenting, photos, tagged baby, pictures on March 25, 2009 | Enter your password to view comments
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diaper link
Posted in baby, link, motherhood, parenting, tagged cloth diapering on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Well Pumpkin is in bed and Andrew is at a deacon’s meeting and I was just perusing diapering sites and things and I saw this diaper reviewed as excellent. I think it does make a lot of sense and would save money on the pocket diaper system. Maybe our next baby we will try one [...]
Birth
Posted in baby, motherhood, parenting on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article is so right. On that note I want to encourage people to not let fear factor into their births.
Protected: Michaela got a little sun yesterday
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Protected: Past few days
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Protected: Milestones
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Cloth diapering
Posted in Homemaking, baby, cloth diapering, health, motherhood, parenting, tagged baby, cloth diapering, diapers, motherhood, pocket diapers on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is an email I sent to a friend recently who asked about cloth diapers. It chronicles our journey so far so I thought I would share it for those of you interested in cloth diapering. Although of late I have started to wonder if I should just break down and start a cloth diaper [...]
teething
Posted in baby, marriage, motherhood, parenting, tagged motherhood on February 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Baby cries.
Mommy wants to cry
Baby SCREAMS.
Mommy wants to scream.
Baby pulls Mommies hair out.
Mommy wants to pull her hair out.
Baby jabbers.
Mommy jabbers.
Mommy calls daddy at work at 5:30pm “COME HOME PLEASE!”
Daddy hears baby screaming in background.
Daddy comes home.
Hands baby to Daddy.
Mommy acting strange.
Daddy puts baby down.
Baby screams.
Mommy can’t take it.
Mommy feels like screaming.
There are days Mommy [...]
lately links
Posted in Homemaking, baby, cooking, green, health, hypno birthing, hypnobabies, link, marriage, motherhood, natural health, parenting, women, tagged coconut oil, kombucha, links, nourishing traditions, sea salt on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here are a few links I have been enjoying.
Will the real sea salt please stand up? When you go to the grocery store they have those packages of Hain brand “sea salt” that cost like 99 cents. Well, they sound like a great deal until I found out that that is the same stuff as [...]
MHS 4 months!
Posted in baby, motherhood, parenting, photos, tagged 4 months, pictures on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few pictures from the past few days
Aunt Jacque gave Michaela her first ball! :) How fitting!
Michaela holds her bottle and plays with it. It is a toy in her view.
Michaela got to visit her second cousin Abby last week. And I enjoyed visiting with Abby’s Mom Rachel while my Andrew was in [...]
Schedules
Posted in Homemaking, baby, motherhood, newborn, parenting, women on February 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
First of all a bit of a disclaimer: I believe that “on demand” feeding is a good idea early on in the breastfeeding experience in order to get a good supply established also I agree with this post on how it is hard to “spoil” a baby. I just think that there is a balance [...]
fluffy mail is addictive
Posted in baby, green, motherhood, tagged babies, cloth diapers, co sleeping, green living, night time diapering on January 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Otherwise titled…I love cloth diapering.
I have been exploring night time diapering simply because Michaela is a night time muncher and she nurses so much at night that she is also a SUPER soaker. It means I need to change her at least once before 6 am. If she were sleeping through the night I probably [...]
Almost 3 months
Posted in Homemaking, baby, marriage, motherhood, parenting, women on January 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Ironic but true nearly 3 month old Michaela is lending her outgrown clothes to a 7 month old friends baby girl.
In other news we have officially started trying to get Michaela to take a bottle of breast milk. Andrew and I are going to be leaving for a long evening for the yearly company party [...]
Pictures
Posted in baby, marriage, motherhood, photos, tagged baby, photos on January 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few of these are my sister in law’s pictures as I didn’t take many that day (Plus they are so darn cute). So thanks Lydia!
These three are Lydia’s pictures.
Snuggling with Grandma in Ohio.
Day after Christmas getting ready to visit Grandma’s. Michaela wasn’t interested in getting dressed.
Daddy is a good reader he does all the [...]
Good days, bad days
Posted in Homemaking, devotion, marriage, motherhood, parenting, prayer, women, tagged baby, motherhood, parenting, prayer, quotes, reading, Scripture, women on December 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The spoiler called “instant satisfaction” surfaced clearly one day when I stopped to evaluate why some days ended in satisfaction while others ended with a vague sense of dissipation and discouragement. Finally it dawned on me that “good” days were those when I scratched off my “to do list.” “Bad” days were those days when [...]
no pain no gain?
Posted in Homemaking, baby, marriage, motherhood, newborn, parenting, prayer, women, tagged babies, life with baby, motherhood, wife on December 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s what I have been learning…
1. Love is hard.
2. Love is worth it.
3. Love has it’s easy moments too.
4. I really didn’t want to admit these things or write this post. But I am trying to be honest here.
5. Sometimes I feel like I am on the verge of losing my sanity. Going 2 days [...]
