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    Registration Is Now Open!

    I’m very excited to announce that registration is now open for the next Purposeful Conception: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy online course, which begins October 3 and runs through November 5. This course will be the last one of the year.

    Here’s some of the positive feedback from the last course:

    “This was an excellent course and a lot of thought, research, hard work, and love went into it – that is obvious. It was comforting to find a community of others who are really taking the time to plan for conception and parenthood, because I don’t find that among my local community. Great job, Sara. Really
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    Purposeful Nurseries: Planning Stage

    From Finn’s room over at Sew Liberated

    Matt and I have started the preliminary planning for converting our office/craft room into a nursery/office/craft room. We’ve decided that we want to set aside some space for ourselves in the room (for using our laptops, sewing, etc.). We’re guessing that we’ll spend a lot of time in the first several months hanging out in there for breastfeeding, diaper changing, and tummy time. It also happens to be my favorite room in the house, which is another reason why we’ll probably spend so much time in there.

    Once little “Coconut” (I have no idea why we’ve taken to calling the baby by that

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    Cookie Party


    Matt and I attended a fun birthday party this past weekend. The theme was “Cookies and Beer.”

    As a person who is sixteen weeks pregnant, I am neither partaking in sugar nor beer, but I wanted to go nonetheless. (Did I mention that Matt is also not eating sugar in my presence, out of solidarity?)

    I decided that I would make ice-cream cookie sandwiches as my contribution to the party, while Matt took a different route and opted to make cookies without sugar. I was skeptical, but, fortunately, he proved me wrong. He used mashed up bananas, butter, soy milk, dried cherries, oatmeal, sundry spices, and sunflower seeds (following this

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