Our fourth baby arrived 12 days overdue, after 47 hours of labour and a medical emergency! This is the conclusion to our crazy long labour birth story. You can read Part One of our story here, if you haven't already. Here is Part Two: We were on hour 33 of labour, and my … [Read more...] about Everett’s 47-hour Labour & Birth Story (Part Two)
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Everett’s 47-hour Labour & Birth Story (Part One)
Our fourth baby arrived twelve days overdue, after 47 hours of labour and a brief medical emergency! This is his crazy long labour birth story. I love birth stories, but I don’t love mine. I’m telling it anyway, because I think it matters. How women give birth matters. Not just … [Read more...] about Everett’s 47-hour Labour & Birth Story (Part One)
At The End of the Day (A Note About Our Marriage)
This post is sponsored by Hallmark Signature. All opinions are my own, as always. Dear Honey: Our wedding was the day after a massive rainstorm, and it seems that our married life has followed suit. Indeed, the blissful days of deep connection and love seem to always be right on … [Read more...] about At The End of the Day (A Note About Our Marriage)
I Like Your Face (Thoughts on Raising a Confident Daughter)
She’s absolutely gorgeous, in my personal and biased opinion. Most of the time I feel totally unequipped in raising my five-year-old daughter to become a confident and secure woman with a positive body image, especially in today's world. “Complex” doesn’t even begin to cover … [Read more...] about I Like Your Face (Thoughts on Raising a Confident Daughter)
What is Adrenal Fatigue? An Introduction & My Story
I. am. exhausted. Second cup of coffee in the morning, and I'm barely able to drag myself around doing my everyday activities. (Regular fatigue? Or adrenal fatigue? That is the question.) Why? Well, here's the thing: there's no big reason in particular. I didn't run a marathon … [Read more...] about What is Adrenal Fatigue? An Introduction & My Story
Dear Sweet Baby Snoring On My Chest at 1:14am
Dear little one, You are just 3 months old. A whisper, really, and it was just yesterday that I birthed you in the dim candle-lit room with loud bellowing and moaning. You gave me a hard time in your entrance to the world, but you were a breeze from then on. A good sleeper, unlike … [Read more...] about Dear Sweet Baby Snoring On My Chest at 1:14am
The Birth Story of Canaan Maverick
(FYI: I'm saving most of my labour & birth photos to share in a slideshow. I wanted to include it in this post, but my technical support is out at a guys movie night thing this evening and I didn't want to wait to post the story.. so the slideshow will be a separate post... and … [Read more...] about The Birth Story of Canaan Maverick
Dear Middle Class America: I Have a Bone to Pick With You…
Dear Middle-Class America: Guess what? I make my own chicken stock. I even blogged about it. I buy organic, free-range chicken carcasses to make it with, and that's pretty well the extent of what I am able to afford from our organic/grass-fed/free-range/humane meat supplier as of … [Read more...] about Dear Middle Class America: I Have a Bone to Pick With You…
The Domestic Monastery
This post was originally published on March 25, 2010. I am recycling it today for your enjoyment, as it is so relevant to what I'm learning (still) in this season of life. *** A while ago I stumbled across this article online, but for the life of me, cannot remember how or … [Read more...] about The Domestic Monastery