Amber’s Blog
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: ‘Crack baby’ study ends with unexpected but clear result, The Philadelphia Inquirer — It turns out that in-utero exposure to crack is significantly less harmful to children than is poverty From our 2006 archives: Why I no longer believe babies should cry themselves to sleep, the Globe and Mail — “When…
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Buttermilk Biscuits + Our Lovely New Kitchen
📍 WyomingI am in love with our new kitchen. It’s light and bright. It’s big and spacious. It’s the first kitchen we have ever had that actually fits every one of our appliances, kitchen tools and cooking utensils, with room to spare. It has double ovens, just waiting for Chris to fill with all sorts of…
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I Give Up — A.K.A The Photo Dump Post
I give up. I have finally accepted the fact that real, actual blogging is just not going to happen anytime soon — but what should I expect? I’m moving for the second time in six months, with a preschooler, a baby, and a husband who works 70+ hours per week. This life is not exactly…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Last (where are we…three?) Weeks: ‘A Beautiful Body’ Book Project: Jade Beall, Photographer, Celebrates Mothers’ Real Bodies (PHOTOS), Huffington Post — beautiful photos celebrating the less than “perfect” bodies of mothers. A Daddy’s Letter to his Little Girl About Her Future Husband, Viral Nova — Just wonderful. Former Insurance Exec Offers An…
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Red, White, and Blue Double Strawberry Shortcakes
📍 WyomingWe are out having lots of Fourth of July fun, (here’s a sneak peek) but I thought I might actually plan ahead and have a blog post appear anyway. (Imagine that!) This delicious little cupcake is what the big people in our family ate to celebrate Miss Zara being halfway to one (almost). We jumped…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: The Barbeque, Huffington Post — a wonderful piece about love and marriage. The Hidden Risk of Epidurals, Mothering — A leading Australian physician discusses how this invasive procedure actually impedes labor and harms both mother and baby. If Obesity is the Disease Then Why is My Child Diagnosed the Healthy Eater?, Homemade…
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Why I Am Waiting to Start Giving My Baby Solid Food
📍 WyomingIn a national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and released last April, 40 percent of parents surveyed said they gave their baby solid food before they were 4 months old, with 9 percent starting as early as 4 weeks. Doctors recommend breastfeeding as the sole source of nutrition for babies for…
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Building a Parenting Library — Recommended Reading
📍 WyomingI mentioned awhile ago that I received a $500 grant to start our La Leche League library. I had a lot of fun thinking about the books I would recommend to local moms and what was helpful to me the first or second time around. Of course, there were significantly more books that I wanted…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: After Newtown shooting, mourning parents enter into the lonely quiet, Washington Post — this is beautifully and heartbreakingly written, and brought me to tears…all we can do is send our love and get that gun legislation moving!! A queen’s message to girls: More than tiaras and cupcakes, CNN World — a…
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Saturday Surfing on Sunday
📍 WyomingI was so going to write this post on time and then I decided last night that it would be much better to curl up in bed with Zara for just an hour or two…and then the next thing I knew, it was 8:30 in the morning — which means that for the first time…
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Postpartum Care After a Home Birth
Now that Zara is most definitely not a newborn and I’m fairly certain that I have survived the postpartum period, I wanted to take a moment to finally write about my post home birth experience. This will be my last post about our home birth experience (at least until our next baby). If you missed them,…
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Five Months
Today, Miss Zara Bea is five months old. She has the darlingest smile and the most delicious little toes at the end of chunky little legs we just can’t get over. She is a rolly-polly plump baby girl, and after having tiny baby Nora, I’m in love with having a solid baby who quite visably…
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Blueberry Lemon Cream Pie
📍 WyomingToday was the first full day Chris had off in months. We slept in, ate pancakes at 10:30, then met the inspector at our almost new house (all’s well on that front), and spent a bunch of time together as a family. Chris got lots of lazy, put-up-his-feet time on the couch to make up…
