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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

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I have so many diapers I want to try. If I want to have a cloth diaper blog someday-cough cough-I have to try a lot out. How else can I recommend diapers?! So just for fun I would compile links to several diapers I am  eager to try. I am thinking at some point I [...]

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diaper link

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 [...]

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Protected: Peaceful sleep

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Birth

This article is so right.  On that note I want to encourage people to not let fear factor into their births.

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Protected: Past few days

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Protected: Milestones

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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 [...]

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teething

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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MHS 4 months!

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 [...]

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Schedules

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 [...]

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2 times

Michaela only got up 2 times last night!!! For this girl that is record breaking! She slept in the co sleeper also. She slept from 10:30 to 3:30 this morning and then got up again at 5:30 for an early breakfast.  In bad news my husband’s car keys are missing it’s only set of keys. [...]

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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 [...]

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I have been reading about traditional foods diets benefits for children and have been finding in so many places the benefits and importance of vitamin D in the diets of both mothers and infants. I bought cod liver oil and started taking it as it is an excellent source of vitamin D. Recently I found [...]

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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 [...]

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Ch-ch-changes…

It is silent in our house–amazing! Michaela is being bounced in her bouncer with my foot. I offered to finish feeding her like 3 times and each time she cried hysterically when I offered her her lunch. It was strange because I had been in the middle of nursing her and she was voraciously snarfing [...]

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December 16th

Just because

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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 [...]

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