After my 6 week (already?!) postpartum check up on Thursday, the doctor gave me the green light to begin exercising. Â At first, I thought, I'll start on Monday. Then I realized that I was just putting it off. Â Why not start now? Â What was so special about Monday? source So instead, I just started. ...
Archives for January 2012
Orange Almond Energy Balls
Let's face it. Â We all could use a little more energy. Â Everyone has something in their life that steals their energy, whether it's a demanding career, school, or being a mom. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â 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. Â Meghan was just getting back from a walk around the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights with her grandparents as we were leaving. Â Tim rolled down my window and I managed to say a quick good-bye, ...