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To Every Mother Who Didn’t Overwhelmingly Love Her Baby Right Away
What a title, huh?… Read MoreI have to confess that I didn’t feel overwhelming love for my baby right away. When my bonus father (i.e., my father-in-law) asked Matt, “Could you ever imagine yourself loving someone so much?” right after Henry was born, I was just thankful that he hadn’t asked me. I didn’t want to lie, but I also didn’t want to seem like a bad, indifferent mother.
I didn’t beat myself up (literally or figuratively) about the fact that I didn’t feel overwhelming love for my son when he first entered the world. I know that I can’t control my emotional reactions to things; I can only control my
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Birthday Presents!
Oh how I love life when I have time to think of good birthday presents for friends and then wrap them. Hooray! One of my intentions for this month was to put together a good present for my friend’s birthday party. Well, I went ahead and got a good present for my other friend, too.… Read MoreThe first friend works for a non-profit organization that coordinates farmers’ markets and school gardens throughout Houston. I thought she might like this book, written by the folks over at Sunset Magazine:
The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table
My other friend works as an instructional coach and leader at a
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DIY: Picnic Blanket
Henry performing his post-nap stretching routine on our favorite quilt … Read More
Sadly, this post is not a tutorial about how to make your own picnic blanket; it’s a request for tutorials!Henry and I are still following the routine I learned from Baby Wise: breastfeed, awake time, nap time approximately every three hours. During at least one of Henry’s awake times, we love to spread a blanket out on the grass and just stare at the trees (well, Henry stares at the trees; I usually try to get in a little reading).
The problem is that our lovely blanket (a quilt I picked up at a flea market while I
