I love the first paragraph of this article: “Mention that you are planning a home birth and it might be as if you had just brought up Sarah Palin or Palestine: brace for family feuds, public denunciations, and offhand remarks that imply you are selfish and stupid, your midwife is a quack, and your unborn …Continue Reading »
Baby Yoga: In and Out
May 29, 2010 By 7 Comments
Yoga is a huge part of my life and I hope that it will be a part of Penelope’s life as well. I started doing baby yoga with Penelope when she was just 4 weeks old. This pose is called In and Out and is a great first yoga pose for babies. It helps them …Continue Reading »
Our Edible Backyard
May 28, 2010 By 4 Comments
Well, it would be an edible back yard if we could figure out how to keep the birds from eating our strawberries, blueberries and plums. This is a picture of one of our 8 blueberry bushes. Almost ready! One of our plum trees. This was the first year we really had a good amount of …Continue Reading »
Oil Reaches Louisana Shores
May 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here’s the article and pictures. This makes my heart hurt. I have been putting my head in the sand all month regarding the oil spill. For some reason, now that I am mother, the wrongs of the world seem even more painful. Maybe I am just still hormonal and emotional. So to compensate, I have …Continue Reading »
Wait to Cut the Cord
May 26, 2010 By 12 Comments
This is a great article about why parents should wait to cut the cord, if they can. It’s short and sweet and easy to read. We waited to cut Penelope’s cord and it was one of the coolest things I have experienced. While I was holding my newborn daughter, staring into her eyes and basking …Continue Reading »
Recycle, Reuse…Refashion!
May 22, 2010 By 5 Comments
This is cute top that I bought while I was living in Spain, my sophomore year of college. Its been a long time since it fit, but I can’t bare to give it away. With my new post-partum mommy boobs, there is NO way it’s ever going to fit again, so I decided to cut …Continue Reading »
Sugar Snap Peas Baby Food
May 22, 2010 By 5 Comments
These are some super DELICIOUS sugar snap peas, from Turkey Hill Farm, that I got at the Lake Ella Farmer’s Market the other week. They were picked at the peak of their sweetness and they are oh so yummy. I got enough for me to munch on and to make some for Penelope. I once …Continue Reading »
Flowers
May 22, 2010 By 2 Comments
This is a picture of the flowers Peter and Penelope got me for my first Mother’s Day. I love that they had calla lilies in them, I have never had that kind of flower given to me before. I love regular lilies too. When Penelope was born, my Aunt sent a bouquet of lilies and …Continue Reading »
Handmade Crinkly Baby Toy
May 20, 2010 By 12 Comments
I recently made Penelope a cloth, crinkly, clutching toy (say that 3 times fast). I also made one for my friend Lia and her new baby Lucia. Penelope was given one, just like this, from a friend of mine and it was the first toy she showed any interest in. Because it was cloth, she …Continue Reading »
New Pregnancy Blog and other great links
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A new blog just started up, called Delightful Pregnancy. I heard about it from one of my favorite parenting blogs, Peaceful Parenting. When I went to her site to check it out, I saw a post calling for birth stories and I immediately sent mine in. Turns out I was the very first person to …Continue Reading »
Why We Use Cloth Diapers
May 16, 2010 By 22 Comments
I got Penelope’s size large cloth diapers this week and I thought I would take a moment to explain why we cloth diaper in the first place.Surprisingly, cloth diapering has actually been a very pleasant experience. I thought it was going to be much more work. It is more laundry, but other than that, its …Continue Reading »
42 Days of Pumping
May 12, 2010 By 24 Comments
That’s how much time I have spent pumping, cleaning and sterilizing pump parts and putting extra milk away in the last 6 months. Yes, that’s right folks, in the last 6 months, I have spent a month and half-straight- JUST PUMPING. This does not include how many times I have washed cloth diapers, changed diapers, …Continue Reading »
