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Fort Collins, CO
Birth
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June 20, 2017

Adelaide’s Birth Story

Adelaide is 6 weeks old today.  I started writing this blog post two weeks ago, but today it's getting posted, no matter what. After both Nora's birth and Zara's birth, I had their stories written within a week, but this time around it's[...]

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Gillette, WY
Birth, Breastfeeding, Motherhood, Parenting
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June 19, 2013

Building a Parenting Library — Recommended Reading

I 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 cou[...]

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Gillette, WY
Birth
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June 8, 2013

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 hom[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Birth
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January 26, 2013

Managing Pain in Labor

One of the best things about having a photographer take pictures at Zara's birth is that through the photographs, I'm able to see parts of the birth that I was oblivious to at the time.  I'm able to see things that went on in other rooms a[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Birth
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January 23, 2013

Zara’s (Peach’s) Birth Story

First a note:  This is a birth story.  While there are no direct pictures of nudity, there are, of course, some in which I am not clothed and all that is blocking nudity is a baby or camera angle.  In addition, this describes Zara's birth an[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Birth
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January 22, 2013

Planning A Home Birth, Safety And Supplies

I am excited to be sharing Zara's birth story later this week, but first I wanted to write a little about the preparations we  took to get ready for her birth, most especially the supplies that we gathered and that were brought b[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Birth
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January 15, 2013

Preparing a Sibling to Participate in a Birth

One of the biggest reasons we chose to have a home birth is because we wanted to make the transition into a family of four as easy as possible on Nora.  I didn't want to just disappear for two days to the hospital and then bring a baby ho[...]

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Nantucket, MA
Birth, Wordless Wednesday
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January 9, 2013

Wordless Wednesday: Birth Photo Sneak Peak

More photos and Zara's birth story to come, but I cannot wait to share this photo of her getting weighed for the first time. Her little toes and tiny feet are just way too adorable.

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It's that time again... Girl Scout cookies! And this year we have two selling. Help them meet their cookies sales goals by ordering online. 

If you live nearby, choose girl delivery and help get cookie boxes out of our garage... Otherwise we're going to be giving them Girl Scout  Cookies for birthday and Christmas presents all year.

Addie's link: https://tinyurl.com/2os3rmdy

Zara's link: https://tinyurl.com/2nev4fs3

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Bus stop selfie with Nora. This week she moved from her tiny charter school with only 18 eighth graders to the public middle school with over 200. And now she rides the bus.

The charter school wasn't challenging her enough, has a huge percentage of students who are disruptive in the classroom, and has been having trouble keeping teachers. Last year she loved it. But this year it was one thing after another, so right before Thanksgiving she and I went to go tour our neighborhood  middle school, and she immediately wanted to make the switch.

We've never had a kid in public school and I was nervous about how the transition would go from such a small school to a big one, but so far she's loving it and is glad she decided to move schools. It helps that she knows kids there already from her dance team. Hopefully she'll still be happy when she starts getting homework. Coming from a no homework school that may be a shock to us all.

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My three year old girl. 💕

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Halloween 2022. Two witches, a murderous cat, and a creepy Victorian doll. 

Zara's costume was my favorite this year - Nora did her makeup and she wore my flower girl dress from my mom and step-dad's wedding. She might have worn it better. 😂

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Visiting my sweet tiny niece. I had the honor of being the doula at her birth and helping her come into the world. Her parents did amazingly (especially her mama) and everyone is excited to have another little girl in the family.
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