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Recipe for “Laborade”
Today marks the start of my 34th week of pregnancy! Can you believe it? It’s been a simultaneously long year (with the miscarriage and then another pregnancy three months later) and a simultaneously incredibly fast pregnancy.It’s time to make sure we’re prepared for our impending home birth (fingers crossed!). We transferred to the hospital for Pitocin after laboring at home for 40 hours with Henry. We’ll see what happens this time.I’ve been going through the handbook provided by the midwives. I have quite a few supplies to purchase at Goodwill.I also need to gather the ingredients for “Laborade,” which is a homemade electrolyte drink… Read More -
Baby Routines
Oh, I can only begin to imagine the controversy that this post will inspire! There are many people who think I’m a bad mother because of my penchant for routine. They think that I try to control every aspect of Henry’s life and get him to fit within a neat little box.But I want to write this post anyway because each of us needs to figure out what makes sense to us and our families. The more we share information with each other, the more we can expose ourselves to different ideas. We can sift and sort through them to uncover what resonates with us.I still remember the… Read More -
Bathroom Tile
One of the nice things about the builder we chose for our house is that the company is a one-stop shop from real estate to architecture to construction. Of course there are definite drawbacks to this set-up (for example, I met with another architect who argued that it was better to separate out the architecture from the construction), but Matt and I have appreciated the simplicity of the process.Part of their process includes limiting our choices (which I sometimes appreciate and sometimes feel constricted by). For example, we had a choice between two bathtubs, two types of faucets, two types of pendant lights, etc.When it comes to bathroom… Read More
