Happy New Year! More in that vein coming, particularly our 2016 vision board. 🙂 But for now, I want to briefly review some of my attempts at cooking in November and December. Regularly preparing healthy meals and eating at home more are a couple of goals A. and I continually have and never really feel… Continue reading Meals I’ve Made
I started this month with some good intentions for cooking at home! We’ve had a couple of Costco trips recently and always feel like we spend too much money there, and this last time I wanted to be sure to use all the food we bought. And I want us to eat more healthy food.… Continue reading August 2015 – Ari at 26 Months Old
This time, pictures first! Out to breakfast (an increasingly rarer scene, now that he throws food and wants to run around): Shielding his eyes while napping: One day I was ignoring him, trying to get something done, and when I realized the whining had stopped I looked to see what he was doing and discovered… Continue reading Ari, 17 Months Old – And Beyond!
Yes, I know, we’re well past Halloween. Getting on the computer seems to get harder and harder for me! Anyway, here are some pictures from the last couple weeks of October. Ari’s grandparents on his daddy’s side came to visit and took him to OMSI! I dressed him up in his new rain suit for… Continue reading 16 1/2 Months – Happy Halloween!
I read a blog called Feeding the Soil, by a blogger I’ve been following since she first started blogging about planning her wedding on 2000dollarwedding, when I was planning my own wedding. She had her first son right around the time I first started thinking seriously about getting pregnant, and her (hyper-analyzed) journey inspired a… Continue reading Ari is 16 Months Old: A Motherhood Turning Point?
Quite a while ago I was feeling stressed and overworked and I picked up this book for $1 from the thrift store sale section, titled with a phrase I’ve heard before to describe working mothers’ home life: The Second Shift. It’s been published in many editions, and the one I picked up looks like this:… Continue reading Book Review: The Second Shift. Also thoughts on the division of labor at home and “family-friendly” workplaces.
When I posted Ari’s 15-month update, I didn’t include his basic growth stats or much of his developmental “milestones.” I want to write about some of those things now (he’s at daycare so I have time!), partly because I haven’t been updating a baby book or any other record. At 12 months, the doctor was… Continue reading Ari at 15 1/2 months: a developmental growth spurt?
This month felt SO LONG! It was an epic month and a whirlwind at the same time. Is that because I have a toddler? I don’t know, but this is pretty much what the month from mid-August to mid-September looked like for me: Not hanging out at IKEA, but with 14-month-old Ari toddling away from… Continue reading Ari’s 15th Month: Keeping Busy, Riding Electric Cargo Bikes, and Watching Dogs Have Fun
In this post I’m going to get you all caught up on the rest of Ari’s developmental progress in the past month! I covered walking and climbing in my last post. After we got back from Canada I had a bunch of work days that added up to about 65 hours over seven days, followed… Continue reading Ari is 14 Months Old!
Okay, this is still a catch-up post. This summer is so busy! Ari is such a big boy now I just can’t believe it. Ever since our mid-July trip – so just before he turned 13 months old – he’s been feeding himself pretty well with silverware. I now let him feed himself his multigrain… Continue reading We Have a Toddler! And We Took Him To Canada!
Bungalow Blooming 