Amber’s Blog
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Saturday Surfing
Weekly Finds: Becoming Nana By Julianne Glatz for the Illinois Times – a great piece about becoming a grandma through adoption. Also wonderful, because Julianne’s daughter is breastfeeding the adopted baby and Julianne brags about it as a proud grandma! Yes, adoptive breastfeeding is possible and awesome!! The Incredible Shrinking Baby – The Baker’s Dozen…
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Lightening the Mood
It’s been a pretty serious week around here, with my post about Christmas and the last post. I have to thank everyone for the incredibly supportive response to my discussion of abortion; it took my breath away. I had been hemming and hawing about that post for over a week, but finally decided to…
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No Easy Decision
Many of you may know that I have a slight obsession with MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, which I watch online. It’s a show just like it sounds — reality TV that follows teenagers through pregnancy, birth, and either initial months of parenthood or adoption. It’s supposed to be a PSA of sorts for safe sex.…
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Reflections on Christmas
We’re well into January now, the tree is down, and our Christmas decorations have been packed back into the attic for another year. Most people have moved on to resolutions and are maybe even starting to think about Valentine’s Day (or so one might surmise from looking at the grocery store shelves). But I’m still…
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Report Card
Happy Sunday and happy first report card of the year…go New Year’s resolutions! This week was an interesting mix of mostly being on track and a few small disasters…largely in the kitchen. We’ve been talking about spending our our Christmas money and some of my consulting money on a portable dishwasher, which I would love!! …
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Fudge-Frosted Banana Cake
Related post: Report Card (9 January 2011)Adapted (barely) from Better Homes & Gardens New CookbookSee more recipes here For the Cake: Ingredients Directions Allow eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grease and lightly flour two 8 inch round or one 9×13 inch cake pan(s). In a large mixing bowl stir together…
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Saturday Surfing
It’s been a busy week: Effort to Restore Children’s Play Gains Momentum – NY Times. Messy houses are good — it means your child is playing! That’s all I needed to hear. 🙂 For Capitol’s Nursing Mothers, an Escape From Politics – NY Times (Lactation rooms, yay!) and a follow up by Politics Daily: Capitol…
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Homemade (My First Giveaway!)
I love making homemade everything. I’m a little bit crazy about it in fact…I always have at four or five projects going at once. (Which really makes my husband crazy.) I dabble in sewingbaking
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Resolutions
It’s a little late, but I do have some New Year’s resolutions. I’ve been thinking about setting realistic goals for the new year (Simple Mom has a great post on this) and decided just to set three of them: Do better at the Housewife Challenges. Stop being a housewife. Don’t let 2 get in the…
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Pumpkin-Cranberry Pancakes
Pumpkin-Cranberry Pancakes RecipeRelated post: ResolutionsAdapted from Bon Appetit, December 1996See more recipes here Ingredients Directions Preheat oven to 250°F. Mix first 6 ingredients in large bowl to blend. Whisk buttermilk, pumpkin, eggs and oil in medium bowl until well blended. Add to dry ingredients and whisk until smooth. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large nonstick…
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Saturday Surfing
Finds of the Week: Abortion pills prescribed via Net targeted – Washington Post Iraq Study Links U.S. Weaponry to Birth Defects in Falluja, Guardian Says – Bloomberg Mom defies doctor, has baby her way – CNN Health Prudent Advice #212 Remember that most fairy tales were written by men. – This is short and sweet…from…
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Last Week
This last week of 2010 has flown by — and it’s really going out with a bang. I had thought that I would be back to regular blogging this week, but with preparing for Christmas, Christmas, my family visit, and late nights working on my New Year’s resolution (to be discussed Sunday)…I didn’t have much…
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Saturday Surfing
It’s Christmas, and the time of year when people think about what they’re going to tell their children about Santa. I shared recently about my struggles with what the holiday will mean to our family, and since then have been doing a lot of reading. So, today’s Saturday Surf will highlight some of the most…
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In Training
I’ve finally found a few minutes to write about last week and my experience taking The Center for Breastfeeding‘s class to become a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC).
