These days I mostly try not to write. My life is so full of work and family and weeding. But every now and then, my brain starts to itch and the only way to scratch that itch is writing. This is where you will find my most recent scratchings.
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Bread Evangelizing
I was on my way to the Whole Wallet, errr, Foods the other day to stock up on ingredients for another baking day, when I ran into one of the meetup mamas. As soon as I said “baking day” she got a gleam in her eye and said, “Do you bake your own bread?” When I said yes, she practically jumped up and down, saying, “Will you teach me? Maybe we could do a meetup..?” So that’s the plan, for this next Monday. Six mamas will come over with kiddos in tow and hopefully things will be un-chaotic enough that…
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A Typical Day
Ever wonder what everyone else does with their day? Here’s our Today, a typical day for us of late. Not so typically, I got a full hour to myself this morning, before the toddler woke up. I used it to write a blog that got sucked away into the internet version of the sock-black-hole. Goddamn it. Toddler woke up. Breakfast of Green Eggs and Salm(on)– (This is a modified version of my dad’s invention to get kids to eat healthy. The special name and hoopla is unnecessary for Toddler who loves salmon and spinach. But it’s a tasty brekky, so…
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Grant Me The Serenity
Nothing in this world takes patience like motherhood, Holy Smokes! Now that I have two, I’m getting quite the test. Each day is a new opportunity to learn…. (That last bit was not through an angelic smile, but more like gritted teeth) It’s a rollercoaster, for sure. Motherhood has been twice as joyful and rewarding as I ever imagined anything could be, and also twice as hard. We get the full ride every day, sometimes all in one hour. Today was a typical mother of two day. We went to the store. Yes, only you mothers out there can understand…
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Is Your Toilet Running?
Maybe everybody already knows this, but just in case, it seems worth a quickie post. I’m no handyman, but I can fix a few simple household problems, and it’s good for us housewifely types to pool our knowledge on this front. I woke up this morning to the sound of the toilet running*. Like it does after it gets flushed, only it hadn’t gotten flushed, and it just ran and ran and ran. Has this ever happened to you? If not, here’s the secret ahead of time, so maybe I can save you from having to ask some man to…
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Homebirth: The Ultimate DIY
It just occured to me this morning, as I was waking up. On my new DIY housewife blog, hadn’t I better post about homebirth?!?! How much more DIY can you get than creating and giving birth to a new soul in the world? Nothing on this earth is like birthing a baby. Nothing else is half so hard, or half so beautiful, or a quarter so rewarding. And when a woman is in charge of her own birth, and does the work herself, nothing is so empowering. Before I get started, I have to insert a defense of hospitals, and…
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