Amber’s Blog
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: Association Between State Laws Governing School Meal Nutrition Content and Student Weight Status Implications for New USDA School Meal Standards, JAMA Pediatrics — Newly released study found that stricter school lunch regulation has better health outcomes for kids. Living With Less. A Lot Less., NY Times– An essay by Graham Hill,…
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Nursing in Public
📍 WyomingYes, that’s an arbitrary nursing picture with ***gasp*** a boob in it. Given the topic of this post, it only seems appropriate to share a picture of my little Zara Bea doing her favorite thing. If that offends you, then you might not want to read this post. Every now and then, a news report…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingPart of getting back into my blogging routine (thanks to me getting a few extra hours each night while Zara sleeps) is me having a chance to catch up on both my online reading and my online sharing. I’m hoping to get back to doing weekly Saturday Surfing posts, but we’ll see how that…
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Film Friday: Little Sack of Sugar
📍 WyomingThis ridiculously cute and adorable baby girl will be three months old tomorrow. And, oh, does she melt my heart. I don’t have any weight or length info to report because we’re still waiting on our insurance to be set up, but each day it seems Zara gets a little chubbier and I think I could…
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Playing Catch Up
I know, I know…that last blog post was a total cop-out. I kind of love Wednesdays because it lets me post something even when I don’t have time to type — which was especially lovely last week because I was able to play photo dump catch-up and this week when I had a bunch of…
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Pumping and Time Apart
📍 WyomingTonight, I pumped for the first time since Zara’s birth. I sat on my bedroom floor, answering question after question from my curious preschooler as I followed a ritual at once both familiar and foreign. Unzip the black bag that was once my daily companion: in the office, on the train, through airports, and across…
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Twenty-Eight and Three
Today I turned twenty-eight. Somewhere around last week, I had my three year “blogiversary.” My how life has changed. I never wear make-up but I decided to celebrate today with some very red lipstick and a trip to the DMV. I am now an official Wyoming resident with a Wyoming driver’s license and cowboy license…
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Revisiting Homeschooling
One of the first things we did after moving to Wyoming was tour preschools. I had thought getting Nora started with a school would be the best way for her to meet other kids while giving me more time to get things done around the house and work on a few websites. I hadn’t found…
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Chocolate Velvet 3.14 (Pie)
📍 WyomingIf you’re nerdy like me, there is only one way to celebrate March 14th, a.k.a. ∏ day. And that’s with a delicious homemade pie, of course. I almost baked a “healthier” fruit pie (the kind that I have been known to also let Nora eat for breakfast), but since my father-in-law is visiting and I…
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Exploring
We’ve finally started exploring our town and finding lots of fun things to do. Sunday, I made good on my promise to keep walking and walked the girls to a park and the library. There were lots of fun things to see along the way.I really am quite pleased with our location. There wasn’t much…
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A Bigger Footprint
Remember when we went an entire month (in the middle of winter, no less) without using our car? And remember how, as part of our 2012 New Year’s resolutions, we then tried to sell it because we wanted to pay off as much debt as possible? (But couldn’t sell it because it was worth too…
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Restaurant Sneak Peek
We moved to Wyoming so Chris could be the executive chef of a new 350 seat steak house. He started work not long after the last box left the truck; luckily most of the work has been from home as the restaurant is still under construction, which means Chris has been around to help with…
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Moving, Part Whatever
It is now safe to say that we are officially done moving. We made it through 11 states, through sunshine, rain and snow in an SUV packed full clothes, toys, kids and a dog, to new life in a new city far, far away. We have a house that is 99% put together with only…
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Family Love
I’ve fallen farther behind on posts than I expected to, what with juggling two little girls, social events with Chris’ bosses, and making our house livable. There’s a million and one things I want to share, but once again I am only finding the time to type later than planned. It’s funny how we moved…
