I am online again! I didn’t mind being offline a few days as we moved. I enjoy being ‘unplugged‘. It’s great to be able to blog again though! What better to start the week than with food? {Don’t worry, I’ll get back to birth soon.} This morning instead of cereal or waffles or eggs and bacon, this is what we…
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Being in the Picture Challenge
I decided to take Huffington Posts challenge and be in the picture. I’m sick, tired, no make up and packing. Mini just got done eating frozen wild blueberries and has a scratch on his head {have no idea how it got there…his nickname is ‘the bull’ for a reason!}. But here we are together in some pictures and I love…
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10 Things I’ve Discovered in 10 Days Off Facebook
As many of you know, I went off Facebook last week. I don’t care if anyone else is on it, I care that I was. FB is absolutely brilliant at sucking people in. What was supposed to be a convienent way of staying in touch with friends and family has turned into an adult playground fight {regular meeting times at…
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Lose the Post Partum Pounds Dancing to Kid DVD’s…
Not kidding. So, I’ve had a lot more free time the last week being off Facebook. It’s been rad. Really. My days are low stress with extra time to focus on things I like to do (read, play with kids, make yummy food, blog) and even for things I don’t like so much (cleaning anyone?!). One of the things I’ve…
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Mothering the Mother: 40 Days of Rest
“The role of the midwife is to be mother to the mother.” (Unknown) We’ve all heard that ‘all that matters is a healthy baby’. We hear it before we give birth, and we hear it after. We hear it when a mother’s had a cesarean and a subsequent infection, when she has Post-Partum Depression and when she is reeling from…
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Just a Sexy Pic
This picture is just gorgeous to me. Shared by Hannah and via http://awelltraveledwoman.tumblr.com/
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Balance in Motherhood…A Mother vs. the World
I was in emotional turmoil today. After texting with my sister who has no children (yet) about how hard her life is, I started thinking about all I would do if I was single or had no children. I mean, seriously, I could sleep in, work out, go back to school, go to the coffee shop and read for hours on…
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A Million Ways to be a Good Mother
I remember the reaction I had when I first read this quote long ago. With all the ‘mommy wars‘ on social media and division among women (which makes me deeply sad), this quote sums up how I feel so simply. There is no perfect way to be a mother, but my goodness there are a million ways to be a good…
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10 Things Wrong With Anti-Bed-Sharing Campaigns
A few weeks ago, this picture popped up in my newsfeed. As the happily bed-sharing mama of a very healthy 18 month-old, I was floored. It made my blood boil. Like the majority of parents worldwide, I do not believe it is safer for a small infant to sleep alone in a crib. I believe it is safer and healthier…