The battle against the post baby belly rages on. Who is winning, you ask? ME! Well, this week at least. My little Reeserton is now 3.5 months old. At 14 weeks post-partum I am well into the time-frame to think about seriously taking off the flubber. Youv’e heard it all before from other new mom’s I’m sure: 1. I want to be able to fit into all my pre-preggo jeans not just that one pair that was all ready a... Read more
Congrats to Jess Fick of Sidewalk Theologian, who won my caption contest! Jess gets to pick any 6 products of her choice from CLEAN + green, the only eco-friendly pet cleaning products on the planet. Jess, email me the 6 products you’d like to try & thanks for playing! Now, to the rest of you lazy bums who didn’t come up with up something, next time I’m hosting a giveaway, you’ll think twice! 🙂 Meanwhile, I’ve got so. many. blog... Read more
I apologize that I am, by nature, unable to get to things on time. I am perpetually late for: work meetings, Church, movies, blog topics, life in general. *Sigh* A day late & a dollar short, that’s me. However, today I had to follow the advice of this little ditty: better late than never. In honor of yesterday, the day in which we honor the great Martin Luther King, Jr. I leave with you the video of his famous I... Read more
Okay, here’s the prize to yesterdays caption contest: If I pick you as wittiest, funniest, captioneer you get to choose any 6 products of your choice from CLEAN + green, the only eco-friendly pet cleaning products on the planet. As for me, I’m excited to try to the Cat Litterbox Odor Eliminator & Cleaner, cuz if you’ve ever been to the Biskie abode you know -sweet as they may be, yeah right– Little Jerri Seinfeld & Putty can sho stink... Read more
Winner gets… Well, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. 🙂 Read more
Yesterday, my husband Dave, our son Ransom & I got together to discuss our response to the disaster in Haiti. We began by watching videos of the better times in Haiti, followed by footage and images of the devastation. It’s hard to know how much is too much for a four year old but we have tended not to shy away from letting him see real life. I grew up poor in the hood and saw many horrible things with... Read more
Several progress reports… Progress on Responding to Haiti: Being someone who strongly empathizes with the suffering of others I have to monitor what I take in. If I get too emotionally invested in horrible human atrocities it takes me out of the ball game. (Especially those in which I am completely powerless). In some ways I’ve watched quietly at Haiti’s peril with a brief prayer here and there, in other ways I’m ashamed to say I’ve tried to look away,... Read more
In the next few weeks I’m hoping to unload a few things on ebay & craigslist… 1. End-Note (a program to help you write papers). 2. A brand new (really big) tent –sleeps 8 & you can stand up in it 3. An older camera 4. Rosetta Stone Computer software for Greek (not Ancient, that was the problem). 5. A herd of my DVD’s. 6. Most of my textbooks which I paid about $900 from last year when I was... Read more
It’s been 3 months since I couldn’t tie my own shoes I had Rhys. Doesn’t time fly? In another 3 he’ll be sitting up and giving us hearty belly laughs. Rhys is in the 90% for height and weight and I am loving every minute of his delicious chubby-ness. Most especially when it’s hanging out over his diaper, giving him the cutest little muffin-top you ever did see… A Christmas gift from my Ma to Rhys… The 3 month update:... Read more
As I mentioned last week, I have now begun my 20 hrs. a week at home/20 hrs. a week working in my transition to part-time InterVarsity Staff. So far, so good with all the myriad of snafu’s you can imagine. Last week, when I had an all day meeting in Grand Rapids I remembered to bring the breast pump ~ hurrah! Unfortunately, I forgot to bring enough bottles to pump the milk into, and kept having to wash them over... Read more
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