Amber’s Blog
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Changing Two Lives, Then the World, NY Times — a heartbreaking story of Modern Love written by a soldier serving in Afghanistan. Exhaustion is not a status symbol, Washington Post — An interview with University of Houston professor Brené Brown on how today’s workplace and our work culture too often hinders our pursuit of a…
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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins
Halloween is only a week away and I can’t quite believe that I made it this long without talking about pumpkins…because I love pumpkins. Pumpkins we eat: (that’s my pumpkin stew) at awesome pumpkin themed potluck parties. Locally grown pumpkins we carefully choose (sometimes by testing their worthiness as a seat) and bring home.…
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Labeling a Life of Work and Family
It seems I’ve forgotten how to blog…and maybe dial the phone, too. Thank goodness for Facebook where I can at least post an occasional status update or photo as a means of reassuring my mother (all the way down in Texas) that, yes, we’re still here and still doing fine. I had realized toward the…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Fostering Self-Directed Play: ten tips to help pre-schoolers entertain themselves, Loving Earth Mama — I liked this mama’s take on getting kids to play on their own better and longer. Hospitals Ditch Formula Samples to Promote Breast-Feeding, NY Times — Another look at formula samples in hospital take-home bags How often…
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Film Friday: A Dinner Conversation
in Film FridayI was going through some videos from this summer and I found this clip from one of my dinner table conversations with Nora. We were talking about being a grown up when I decided to get out the camera (hence the “I told you already!” when I asked her what she would do as a…
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Cranberry Wild Rice Soup
Apparently I’m making up for lost time (and proving just how obsessed with soup I am) because I have not only another recipe to share this week, but another soup recipe. What can I say…it’s October and Nantucket isn’t letting us forget it. We’ve we’ve seen clouds more than blue sky since the beginning of the…
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Cashew Chili (and Baked Sweet Potatoes)
Rainy fall weather means I can pull out my stock pot and cook up giant batches of soups and stews without looking like a crazy person who would happily eat a bowl of piping hot whatever all year-round, no matter the temperature. Creamy and rich Lobster bisque on a sweltering 90 degree day? Spicy hot…
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Finding Joy
I started this post a week ago exactly. It was midnight Sunday night and I’d finally torn myself away from the living room to blog. My dad’s mother, Mim, was visiting and we had spent the previous two nights talking until the wee hours of the morning, after which it was all I can do…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Bottle-feeding and the Risk of Pyloric Stenosis, Pediatrics — Study published in the October issue of Pediatrics: “Bottle-fed infants experienced a 4.6-fold higher risk of [pyloric stenosis, a narrowing of the opening from the stomach into the small intestine] compared with infants who were not bottle-fed.” Another reason to be thankful…
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Film Friday: Nora at Three
in Film FridayI’m posting! It might be about a week late and it might be 3 in the morning, but I am doing it and I’m going to pretend that’s all that matters…especially because I’m posting a Film Friday video. (Remember Film Friday? I used to be so good about that.) Anyway I’m taking five quick minutes…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Being a Mom Is Not a Job, The Juggle — Motherhood as a relationship not a job, despite what politicians might tell you about how their wives have the hardest jobs. The Bond of Blueberry Jam, Motherlode — I love this post about a mother canning with her daughter. Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes?, NY…
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Friends, Yoga, Love and a Whole Lot of Gratitude
Six months have flown by and now that summer’s over and I’m 15lbs heavier with a belly out-to-here, we’re just about in countdown mode for Peach’s arrival. Everyday, Nora tells me, “Wow, Mama, your tummy is getting really, really big!” and perfect strangers now feel comfortable asking me when I’m due and what I’m having…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Association Between Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration and Obesity Prevalence in Children and Adolescents, The Journal of the American Medical Association — New study which found that BPA concentration was significantly associated with obesity in children and adolescents. Avoiding Sugared Drinks Limits Weight Gain in Two Studies, NY Times — Just as NYC…
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Exciting Changes
Over the past couple months, in between and around client sites, parenting, World Breastfeeding Week and the rest of, well, life, I have been secretly cooking up some changes for my own blog. For a while now, I’ve felt like the plumber with a leaky faucet: always working on other people’s websites while my own…
