I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
First order of business, I think it’s high time someone started a blog-roll for the Wives Of Perpetual Students. So I’m taking it upon myself to do so. We’ll call ourselves the WOPS, or maybe WOPSters. We’ll make a cute little button for our sidebars and so we can be connected. Most importantly, we’ll be [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 19th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I did it again! Another $40 week at the grocery store! (Nevermind that last week was a $50 week. Some weeks my husband just requires more meat.) Monday – Spaghetti with meat sauce and homemade garlic bread (Cheap Tip: Buy ground beef on sale ($1.47/lb last week!), cook, and freeze in 1lb increments. Also, when [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 19th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Because I’m nursing at [the] keyboard (N.A.K.) and therefore am typing one-handedly. I tried to pick some interesting shots from this past week – have fun! (Be sure to include the photo number with your caption so we can laugh with you.) Photo # 1: Photo # 2: Photo #3: Photo # 4: Photo # [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on February 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Now I just have to wait for them to come in the mail. Today, my bloggy friends, I clicked “submit” on an order of High Speed Internet. And, though it took three hours of hassling a representative through online chatting (I do love that they give me that option), I even got it for the [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
So, recently, I’ve been ceaselessly and shamelessly selling my soul promoting my blog to the numerous blogging directories that help increase your bloggy traffic. All under the pretense that I have bloggy traffic. And all under the delusion that I will be able to increase said non-existant traffic in hopes of earning some money through [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on February 15th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Here’s a tip I learned just today: Melt 7/8 tablespoon butter, cool a minute, then add to 7/8 cup milk. Mix well, and you’ve got yourself a full cup of half and half! I’ve got a recipe that calls for one cup half and half. The smallest container I can find at the store holds [...]
Filed under: Frugal Fridays on February 14th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
If all they had done was weigh him, measure him, listen to his heart and breathing, and sent us on our way with a clean bill of health, that would be one thing. But no. They asked the most ridiculous questions. Like: How often does he nurse? How long on each side? How many wet [...]
Filed under: The Benjamin on February 13th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The HIB vaccine is recommended by the AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) to be administered at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 15 months. It is used to treat Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (henceforth referred to as HIB – because I just can’t type that phrase more than once a day.) HIB is serious. [...]
Filed under: The Vaccination Lessons on February 13th, 2008 | 45 Comments »
When you own a bread machine, making your own bread can be a very simple task. But, you know, I’m all about making it easier. So I started making my bread mixes in advance: Here’s how it works: Each bag contains all the dry ingredients (flour, oats, dry milk, salt), everything but the yeast. Throw [...]
Filed under: Works For Me on February 13th, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Benjamin likes the bubbles. His sister does not. Remember the snowman from last week? This is him 24 hours later. I made cheesecake for the second time in my life. It still didn’t look the prettiest (it’s a chocolate swirl cheesecake) from the top. But much better than last time. Apparently I didn’t swirl it [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on February 11th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
