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DIY Lion Costume
Halloween is around the corner. What fun!Henry’s costume is done. Here’s how it went down:… Read More- I ordered a white hoodie and tan dye from Amazon. In retrospect, I should have ordered two bottles to achieve the darker shade I was going for. But oh well!
- Henry and I followed the directions on the bottle to dye the sweatshirt. Easy!
- I dug through my friend’s yarn box of yard-to-be-donated and found three skeins of thick, brownish/tanish yarn.
- I followed this tutorial to make little pom-poms. I wrapped the yarn around the width of four of my fingers 20 times. Then I tied a separate piece of yarn around the middle
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Christmas Books!
After making my list of books to read in the weeks leading up to Halloween, I decided to do the same thing for Christmas! Henry and I have been having a lot of fun reading our Halloween books together.- The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story
- Christmas Day in the Morning
- Christmas Farm
- Christmas Tapestry
- The Trees of the Dancing Goats
- An Orange for Frankie
- The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
- Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia!
- The Christmas Truck
- Christmas Around the World
- Christmas in Noisy Village
- The Nutcracker
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Join Us!
We are getting ready to start the next round of Purposeful Conception: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy on Monday!… Read MoreAlthough I am on the other side of conception (I have a 15 month-old and a 3.5 year-old and my husband got a vasectomy), I still love talking about everything that surrounds conception, pregnancy, birth, and parenting.Just yesterday, I was talking with a pregnant friend/colleague who was explaining that she doesn’t feel like she’s “supposed” to feel in terms of the proverbial “maternal instinct.”I connected with another friend/colleague last week who got accidentally pregnant and didn’t know it until she had a miscarriage.Last weekend I
