What a month! I’ve had some better days at work along with some more exhausting ones with one 30-minute pumping and eating break in each 13-hr shift. But I’ve made peace with that. Sometimes Sam gets formula but nursing at night and all day on my days off is keeping my supply up for now… Continue reading Family Update, Halloween, Sam at 4 to 5 Months Old
The other day I stayed home sick from work. After sleeping all morning (hooray for daycare!), I had an urge to make a healthy, healing, fall soup. I found this recipe for inspiration and then proceeded to substitute just about everything in it. I didn’t have fresh pumpkin (aside from our jack-o’-lanterns) so I used… Continue reading A Healing Pumpkin, Carrot, Lentil Soup
The other day I made a delicious vegan (and gluten free!) soup and I want to share it! How to make it, that is. First I like to get all the ingredients out where I can see them! Also, I chopped stuff up while the kids were at school but then I left to go… Continue reading A Winter Soup Recipe
I have some “big feelings” to share. Ari also has been having some big feelings this morning, lying face down on the floor in the hall at school while I dropped Sam off, then yelling loudly but not talking or using any words in his own classroom before I sad goodbye. I’m assuming it’s related… Continue reading Back to Work (the Life of a Working Breastfeeding Mom!), Family Update, and Sam at 4 Months Old
I’ve been meaning to post about making tomato sauce and I keep not doing it, so I now have photos from three different occasions to share! I love spaghetti and my grandma’s stovetop bolognese sauce used to be my favorite. Since I stopped eating meat (except fish) and I’m more health conscious, I’ve been trying… Continue reading My Favorite Homemade Tomato Sauce
Ugh. WHY do I wait so long between posts? Well, I know, it’s because there’s no shortage of other things to get done. But now it’s going to be another super long post! It’s amazing how much can happen in three weeks and how hard it can be to remember things that happened less than… Continue reading Family Update, Sam at 16 Weeks Old, Goodbye Summer!
Some of this will be repeated from other blog posts, but I want to write a post dedicated to Sam’s pyloric stenosis in case anyone else out there finds it helpful. Ultimately, it was reading other people’s real experiences that convinced me that our baby Sam might have it, in spite of his not fitting… Continue reading Our Experience with Pyloric Stenosis
We’ve been out of town for most of the past two and a half weeks, and today school started again and we’re getting back into our home routines. First, we had a six-day trip to Sunriver, Oregon for our annual get-together with my extended family. Then we had a weekend at home, then school was… Continue reading Family Update, Sam at 3 Months Old
Just some quick notes on what we’ve been up to since my last post! We went to the Clark County Fair with a childhood friend of mine and her two-year-old daughter. She and I rode horses together and used to do 4-H activities at our county fair and now we got to see our kids… Continue reading Family Update, Sam at 10 Weeks Old
When I’m doing photos or blogging now, I’m often wearing Sam in the wrap, because he is now taking after his older brother and not sleeping unless he’s being held. Here’s a photo I took while working on the computer with him: The weekend after Sam’s vomiting started and I got mastitis, A.’s brother and… Continue reading Family Update, Sam at 2 Months Old
Bungalow Blooming 