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Update on Holiday Traditions
My resolution to be more festive and create new traditions this year has been both good and bad. I’ll start with the bad: it’s been a little stressful to try to fit a holiday activity into every evening.… Read MoreOn most nights, Matt gets home at 6:30. By the time we cook, eat, and clean up, it’s usually around 8. That gives us approximately 1.5 hours before our ideal bed time (we have to wake up at 5:30 every morning). Matt has to write a blog post every night, and we also like to do things like watch movies, read to “Coconut,” putz around on our computers, play with Hoss, etc.
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Cooking with Friends
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Last weekend, we had friends over for pancakes, and it reminded me how much I love cooking with friends. Instead of stressing about preparing everything in advance, I simply set up different cooking stations with everything our friends would need to help us prepare. Very Montessori! (Hoss, of course, set us his own station on our bed. That boy loves the sun.)For example, my friend was bringing the pancake recipe, so I put out all the ingredients that she requested in advance, as well as the measuring cups, etc. Then I set up another station for making fresh-squeezed orange juice. While our friends got busy at their stations, Matt
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DVD Review: Laugh and Learn About Breast Feeding
Recently, I’ve commandeered our Netflix queue and have been moving a bunch of baby-related films to the top. Last week, we watched Orgasmic Birth (which I recommend for positive images of birthing, even though it has a general aura of hokeyness to it), and then I watched Laugh and Learn About Breast Feeding.… Read MoreInitially, I wasn’t going to put the movie into my queue because of the cover, but the description sounded useful. I’m so glad I did! It was like taking a real breast feeding course for free (I even practiced along by using a sock monkey as my pretend baby).
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