moving day #128493

Ah, yes. I woke up this morning to a familiar feeling in the air. Anticipation mixed with dread, mixed with a healthy dose of deja vu. Could it be?
It's Moving Day again!
This will be the easiest and most relaxed moving day so far, as all of our things from storage are already over in the [...]

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remembering a champion

Dr. Thomas Brewer, author of Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy and creator of The Brewer Medical Diet for Normal and High-Risk Pregnancy, has died. He was 80 years old.
Dr. Brewer's research and influence have affected millions of mothers and babies. He advocated a whole foods, high protein diet for pregnant women when it was [...]

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oh, the redness

I have a new thing to discover: fair-skinned lasses. Ellery is such an anomaly, what with her red hair and pale ivory skin. We’re all hardy and tough here, the rest of us. Every season is a learning process. Summer brought the crazy, obsessive covering up of the ivory skin to prevent Lobster Elle. It [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.
O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts [...]

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redemption

I was just reading this birth story about a mom who gave birth at home to a twelve pound baby, and I'm feeling some pretty overwhelming emotions.
What struck me tonight was that overwhelming feeling of seeing your baby for the first time. Maya was my first, and I'll never, ever forget the moment that [...]

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ah, snow

A couple of days ago, we had our first snow as Pittsburghers! It was light and fluffy, and of course it didn't stick. The past few days have been low thirties here. Whew!
Our apartment (which remains our primary residence) has the insulation of a cardboard box. We're on the first floor, and our sliding glass [...]

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Pictures!

New Maya & Ellery pictures. I just added eight from their late October Sears photo shoot.

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Challies Giveaway

Great giveaways that you can really win! I know people who've won, so go on and click to put yourself in the running.

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little reader–and where from here?

While reading with Maya before bed, she pointed to the word “moo” and said, “M-O-O. That spells 'moo!'” It was so nonchalant, as if she reads words every day, and of course she would know that that word said “moo.” The spelling part was no surprise; she's known the alphabet for well over a year [...]

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ah, the madness

Here I am, alive and (relatively) well. We move in this weekend, so all the lead safety things are taking place in a very rushed fashion. We hired a carpenter to move our porch door, so he's over there making a mess right now. Jason's replacing some interior doors and jambs, and is about as [...]

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