My mom and I went to my sister’s baby shower this weekend – fun!! It was good to see people I know, to spend time with my sister, and talk about babies. My mom was nice enough to drive the whole way so I got to snooze coming and going – totally essential, given how …
I don’t even have the energy to give this post a capital letter. t-i-r-e-d. It’s Wednesday, half way through a productive week. So far this week I’ve begun changing my work style (Thank you 4-hour workweek), finished a report I’d been avoiding, took action on transferring my US mutual funds to Canada, took care of …
Marriage is one of the most miraculous things I’ve ever experienced. Two people who were complete strangers get to know each other, grow to love each other, commit to each other and build a family. They now wake up in bed together, clean the house together, count up receipts and money, plan meals, make friends, …
Finally, I actually felt like cooking tonight! A combo of the hot weather and pregnancy stomach means I haven’t been into food preparation – or even eating – very much lately. And Mondays are particularly hard as I get home at 5 and have yoga at 6. But for some reason, on the way home …
This weekend we wandered into a baby store so M could show me a baby bed he liked. This store is a newer, cool, natural-focused baby & mom store in the downtown area and shall remain nameless for liability reasons. Turns out we have friends in com,mon with the owner who was a lovely, friendly …
I’ve been reading “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss, and quite honestly, I can highly recommend it. So far what I’ve read aligns very practically and directly with lots of basic truths about how we use our time, how our thoughts limit our lives, and the need to live life with passion and excitement rather …
We went to visit my in-laws the other night – brother & sister-in-law and their 2 kids, ages 5 and 8. I”m excited that our baby will have some cousins right in town to play with! We haven’t seen them a lot during the pregnancy, and I want them to know that this baby is …
Sleep, when I get it, is so great. I was struggling for a few days to get enough rest. Temperature was the main challenge – the weather was really hot, and we don’t have a/c so I was up swabbing myself down, hosing off my feet or setting the fan for most of the night. …
While we haven’t honed in on our top names for baby when he gets here, we have lots of names for cutie right now. The first favourite was Whump Whump or Little Whumper in honour of his tendency to “whump” me. New favourites are Tuk-Tuk (also Little Tuk-Tuk) and Munchkin. Baby is definitely growing! I …
Feeding a child is a big responsibility. And sometimes, a lot of work. With the warmer weather it’s felt like more work than usual, particularly coming up with healthy home-cooked meals with enough greens, iron, protein and calcium to keep baby growing (not that baby seems to mine – baby is getting bigger and bigger, …