After my 6 week (already?!) postpartum check up on Thursday, the doctor gave me the green light to begin exercising. At first, I thought, I'll start on Monday. Then I realized that I was just putting it off. Why not start now? What was so special about Monday? source So instead, I just started. ...
Archives for January 2012
Orange Almond Energy Balls
Let's face it. We all could use a little more energy. Everyone has something in their life that steals their energy, whether it's a demanding career, school, or being a mom. For me, it's juggling being a wife and mother to a 3 year old and newborn that is robbing me of my usual energy ...
Postpartum update: one month later
The last four weeks have passed by in a wonderful, exhausting fog. It really is true that with motherhood comes amnesia and as time passes, you forget what the newborn stage is really like. You forget what it means to operate on a small amount of fragmented sleep on an everyday basis. You ...
New year’s resolution: master homemade sandwich bread
I'm not posting about my experiences with homemade bread because I'm a bread expert or even remotely know what I'm doing when it comes to making yeast bread from scratch. I'm a novice at best. I'm posting about making homemade bread because I know there must be a number of my readers who are in ...
Luke’s birth story: part 2
You can read Luke's birth story: part 1 here The hospital is a 20 minute drive from our house. Meghan was just getting back from a walk around the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights with her grandparents as we were leaving. Tim rolled down my window and I managed to say a quick good-bye, ...
