Wyoming
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Staying in the Room
The longer I go between blog posts, the harder it gets to start back up again. A lapse in blogging starts with family. A welcome visit from one of my brothers and my maternal grandmother,who came bearing gifts and three days of love for our little girls.Then, when things were settling back into our…
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Impromptu Road Trip
Saturday, we took an impromptu road trip up to a local food expo (more on that tomorrow) in another town over. This was the first time either of us had been west of our town and I was grateful to have the chance to see a little bit more of our new state on top of some much needed…
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Saturday Surfing
📍 WyomingFinds of the Week: Breast Pumps in Jail: Kudos to Taos!, Sustainable Mothering — A County jail in New Mexico is providing accommodations for a breastfeeding mother to pump her breasts every few hours and have the product picked up by a family member for her four month old daughter. Awesome! (There’s a video from a news report…
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Breathless
in Motherhood📍 WyomingThere are moments as a parent when I just don’t know how to breathe. Sweet moments when the breathlessness accompanies deep rivers of love, like when I melt at the perfect baby girl nursing in my arms. When her dark gray eyes lock into mine and she pauses to give me a magical milky grin.…
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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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Wordless Wednesday: 11 weeks, Side-by-Side
I cannot get over how completely unique and different our two girls are.
