Cloth Diapers, Baby Gear, Green Parenting
It seems like it is rainy here in Washington for a good nine months a year and during our first winter here we definitely got cabin fever. As much as you want to get creative in finding activities for the kids to do indoors, it can be hard to have the motivation as you start… [Continue Reading]
As I celebrated my fifth Mother’s Day this weekend it was a bit surreal. In some ways I still feel like I am twenty-four, but I know I have matured leaps and bounds in my five plus years as a mom. I have been pregnant and given birth three times, put my heart and soul… [Continue Reading]
Cooking and baking is something that I love to do but I have not had the time or energy to do much of the past month with a newborn in the house. After generous and loving meals from friends the past couple of weeks, I have started to feel human again and was itching to… [Continue Reading]
Although the to-do list is not getting shorter and I am growing anxious to get everything done before baby’s arrival, I found myself procrastinating some of my to-do list this past month by taking on a quilting project (I did hire a doula though, so that is one thing off my list). What started out… [Continue Reading]
My daughter and I have been baking a lot this week and I wanted to share a recipe I tried and modified from a magazine this week. The original recipe was for a banana-split cake with a chocolate ganache frosting, but I did not have any whipping cream to make a ganache so I turned… [Continue Reading]
I did it, I hired a doula. My husband and I had casually discussed it before he deployed in the fall and after he left we decided it was probably the best thing to do while he was away. Our families are far away and there is no way to time baby’s arrival with a… [Continue Reading]
As my due date approaches I am feeling more anxious and overwhelmed with my lengthy to-do list. Taxes, medical and dental appointments, certification audits and a list of other household business that lies on my shoulders while my husband is away is definitely feeling like a heavy load. It is the worst when the kids… [Continue Reading]
