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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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 »
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 [...]
Long road–less traveled
Posted in Scripture, devotion, marriage, prayer, women, tagged learning, love, marriage on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This first year of marriage has been a year of learning. A year filled with learning more about my husband and most especially learning more about myself and how I operate. It has been a year of going “oh yeah!” to what people had said for so long. I finally would “get” the advice married [...]
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 [...]
Food for thought
Posted in baby, health, natural health, parenting, pregnancy, women, tagged baby, natural health, nutrition, vitamins, weston price foundation, women on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ch-ch-changes…
Posted in baby, marriage, newborn, parenting, women on December 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
A thousand I love you’s
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, parenting, women, tagged baby, Homemaking, love, mother, wife on December 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Talk is cheap. This article needs to be taken to heart especially in marriages. A thought that hit me the other day is that one action can shout louder than a thousand “I love you’s”. It really made me desire to be authentically remade by the Author of Love. No wonder I have 1 Cor. [...]
Favorite links & five week pictures
Posted in Homemaking, baby, link, parenting, women, tagged babies, birth, blogs, Homemaking, hypnobabies, learning, links, minerals, natural health, nutrition on November 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well it took a few days to get this post publish ready. :) Poor Michaela caught a cold this week and has been snuffling and not feeling so great. It is really hard on mommies to see their little ones sick! I can’t believe next week she will be 6 WEEKS OLD! We go [...]
Peaceable Fruit
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, link, parenting, photos, women, tagged books, children, Homemaking, motherhood on November 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mom gave Andrew and I an excellent book she had read and used years ago. It is called Peaceable Fruit by Gertrude Hoeksema. It is an older book but a jewel on parenting from pre-conception, pregnancy to the first 9 months and all the way through adolescence. I am still in the infant chapters but enjoying it much. There are so [...]
Life
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, women, tagged children, Jesus, life, love, Scripture on November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Late at night after feeding Michaela I look down at her and trace her peaceful sweet chubby features. I study her contented face and watch as she falls quickly into a blissful sleep and listen to her little grunts and rythmic breathing. She clasps her tiny finger around my own and I am overwelmed with the preciousness of her life. [...]
Protected: 11 days and a cloud of dust!
Posted in Homemaking, baby, parenting, women, tagged baby, baby pictures, change, newborn, parenting, postpartum, priorities on October 31, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Little faith and being 4 days “over”
Posted in Homemaking, baby, link, pregnancy, women, tagged baby, birth, waiting on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My sister in law recently told me she went 10 days over with her last and ended up being induced! Oy. I hear from random places the norm is to go somewhere from 5 to 10 days over. I have decided that I will go approximately forever over. The constant thought running through my mind: “This baby [...]
First of 6
Posted in baby, parenting, pregnancy, women, tagged 29 weeks, baby, birth class, cloth diapers, exercise, hypnobabies, midwife, pregnancy on July 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Last night was our first birth class. I picked Andrew up at work a little after 3 as we had things to drop of earlier in Topeka for friends. Andrew was thoroughly distracted the entire drive down and I decided I was unable to distract him from his distractions even by trying to talk about what the [...]
Something Changed
Posted in Homemaking, Scripture, baby, morning sickness, parenting, pregnancy, women, tagged 18 weeks on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Listening to Sara Groves is such a therapeutic experience. Her songs remind me of old journal entries and life lessons learned. Hearing her live in college was unforgettable. Not because she was showy and put on a performance but because she was the opposite she invited us to go deeper with her and think about life, people and [...]
Questions
Posted in baby, morning sickness, natural health, newborn, pregnancy, women, tagged homeopathy, medical treatments, midwives, morning sickness, newborn, pregnancy on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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. [...]
11 weeks today
Posted in baby, photos, pregnancy, women, tagged 11 weeks, belly pictures, mother in law, pregnancy, visit on March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Wannabe Soccer Mom
Posted in Homemaking, baby, link, parenting, prayer, women, tagged election, life, president on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
