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.
Now that we’re back in Indiana, August 22 through November 22 seems less than a bad dream. Her sickness, her fading, her last day, her visitation, her funeral, her name on that crypt. Was that real? Was that her? Will she really not be there the next time we visit? My life here is so separated from [...]
Filed under: My Mom on December 14th, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’ve been avoiding the blog. You know I’m not afraid to dig deep. And this is where I do that. But I don’t want to dig yet. I know I need to. Part of me does want to. But I can’t; not while surrounded by a swarm of children. When I start this, it needs [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on December 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I worked my way through the automated menu, but nothing matched my needs of a missing power cord for our modem. After pressing 0 repeatedly, (when the given options were 3 or 4), I finally got a human. I told her my life story, working in the fact I am missing a power cord and [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on December 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This is the stuff Christmas movies are made of. We woke up to 2/3 of our children cuddling us in bed. The third joined eventually (she’s a late sleeper). Looking out the window, we were excited to see a winter wonderland awaiting. We made our way to the kitchen and listened to Christmas music while [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, The Levi on December 4th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
