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Sweet friends, I’m offering a little branch off from my blog for subscribers. This series is a little special news from me to you. If you want to be in the know early about sale prices on my smash hit leggings, or my super soft wool blankets, or you want to hear my tips & techniques on selecting quality threads and yarns and how to approach your projects with gusto, you’re in the right place. I’ll also dish when I’m offering a sponsored giveaway & you’ll be the first ones to know! And gosh, I’m so in love with fabric and yarn. Thank you for taking a look around my shoppe. You make it happen. I want to tell you all about my process, but I’ll save that for the…
READ MOREIt’s that time of the week. Week Eats is your friendly meal plan. Okay, really it is all for the sake of my poor husband who has been married almost six years and eaten by the skin of his teeth every single night. As in, it’s 4pm and no meat is defrosted 😉 See our other volumes here. Your part? Comment with what you’re eating or link your blog post about food. Help each other find new recipes! I’m going to focus on lunch & snacks as dinners have been going very smoothly around here. Something I learned about myself in my month fast from processed sugar is that I don’t eat a nutritional lunch. Therefore by mid afternoon, a handful of chocolate chips, or…
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1. Web reads. Did you read Anna’s article over at In Honor of Design about Motherhood & the School of Virtue? It’s breathtaking. Or a different Anna’s take on her first child & the attachment parenting approach? Honest and depthful. Or what Anne says about cost-per-wear on clothing purchases. I’m in the cost-per-wear camp. Solid. SweetPea agrees. 2. Babies My sister-in-law and brother welcomed their second boy this week. Our hearts all doubled in size. He is everything perfect about a baby. The kids are obsessed with pictures of him and keep asking all kinds of questions like what size are his diapers and will we be allowed to hold him?? We’re planning an East Coast trip to visit Molly & go to the baptism but I am so lucky I get to go for a week visit…
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When you’re pregnant with your third, people say a lot of things. Some women have the shocking inability to control their jaws and tell you about their horrific birthing and postpartum health issues. Others say–many say–you’re outnumbered now–or the very confusing–you’re playing zone defense. People smile, sigh, and if they already have three or more, they give this sort of look. This look like you have no idea what you’re in for. Of course you don’t. Because you’ve never had three kids before. Don’t forget my sample day with three kids under 5. Or how to juggle them. And if you’re like me and your kids are about two years apart, you soon realize that the newborn isn’t the issue. Newborns you can do in your sleep. And,…
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We had the stomach plague this past week. It incrementally swept over everyone except BabyLoves. Thank God for antibodies in breastmilk because my heart couldn’t have handled another sad pup puking. Nothing sadder than vomiting kids. Except maybe really bad captions on food photos. You decide. Of course, I wasn’t actually with them while they were vomiting because I was in the midst of extraordinary sickness myself. I’ll spare you the details but suffice it to say, when I was blacked out on the bathroom floor with very cold feet, and came for one about thirty seconds in between sessions, I thought about this family. And what how to die gracefully. And how this didn’t count as dying. It only counted as seriously sick-ing. Nothing like…
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The other night, we’re doing dishes and watching the baby on the monitor, listening to our favorite band’s new album, and I turn to AA: Is this how you thought you’d live your life? He snorted and kept scrubbing the few plastic dishes we use that I refuse to put in the high heat of the dishwasher for fear it will ignite their secret BPA ingredients and kill my kids. Then he asked me what I thought my life looked like in theory versus practice, which is a way better way of stating my same question. No surprise. He’s definitely the brainier of us. And I’m more rigid. I explained my present life in my mind looks like this: Homemade food eaten by children wearing all…
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