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.
We like our orchards. Especially those with pumpkin patches. So, while in Illinois, we visited two. Olivia, winding her way through a gourd maze. All three kids developed very special and unique relationships with Grandpa during our three month stay at his house. It was fun to watch. Benjamin’s favorite part of the orchard. They [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on January 31st, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Olivia and I have been gluten-free for a year. I wrote about the reason here. Sunday, I sporadically decided it was time for an in depth experiment to see if it was still a necessary diet. It may have had something to do with the fact that I was sitting in O’Charley’s buttering unslicably soft rolls for Levi and [...]
Filed under: The Gluten-Free on January 28th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
So I’ve been realizing that I may have never given the last update on San Diego. Due to questions I’ve been getting, like: “Hey, so whatever happened with San Diego?” And this makes since, since we got the news in the airport as we were waiting to leave for Colorado. And the day after we [...]
Filed under: The News on January 27th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Hello, Blogging World! Nothing like being gone three months and going through a life-changing experience to hinder the blogging bug! I’ve been thinking lately that if all you have to go on is the blog, you might get the impression that I am laying glassy-eyed on the couch, contemplating life without my mom. But I [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on January 26th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I have to keep refocusing. I want to slip into the grief the world knows. The permanent good-bye. The self-pity so deep it sucks you in and suffocates. Yes, I miss her. And parts of my life will be worse because she is no longer in it. She was a resource of infinite possibilities. Gardening, sewing, [...]
Filed under: My Mom on January 12th, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Here are two gems for you. I wish I could remember more. I love the words that come out of my three-year-old’s mouth. ———————————- Levi thought Benjamin had a fruit snack in his hand and tried to open it. To which Benjamin responded: “I don’t have anything. I only have blood inside my skin. That is [...]
Filed under: The Benjamin on January 11th, 2011 | 1 Comment »
