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Shelves In My Mind: September 2014
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014. It's not about the icecream. Being a parent is crazy hard work. A lot of the time, I am planning ahead - dinner, dishes, laundry, sweep this and tidy that, take him there, her here, rush rush rush, collapse on the sofa, wake up with a jerk, collect people from school, start it all again tomorrow. She wasn't really able to cope with disappointment at that moment. The missing cone was just too much. But it was more than that - the ice cream cone represented not only wh...I thi...
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Shelves In My Mind: November 2013
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013. This is my life now. I should probably update all 4 of my readers on how things are going with me and baby Rosie. :). Poor baby gets all the blame). Getting the tongue tie fixed was an important step in rectifying the situation, but it wasn't a magic panacea that I had secretly hoped it would be. She was gaining weight, but far too slowly; in a four day stretch, she had gained 9 grams, when babies should be gaining 20 grams per day, at minimum. She prefers milk from me, which...
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Shelves In My Mind: June 2014
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Friday, 20 June 2014. This is what I believe. As a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who is pretty plugged into the internet, it has been hard to miss the slew of blog posts, major news outlet articles, and general chatter on social media about the controversial Ordain Women movement. I don't feel good or happy about the Ordain Women bashing that I see online. It hurts me to see the almost gleeful, self-righteous back-patting that's going on. Aren't we all imperfect? And then we b...
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Shelves In My Mind: December 2013
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Saturday, 21 December 2013. The best Christmas present ever! It just goes to show that everything can change in the blink of an eye with babies - as of Thursday, Rosie hasn't needed any more bottled milk! Last week, I was giving her about 13 oz of bottled expressed milk each day, but starting from last Sunday her intake started reducing. She had 9 oz on Sunday and Monday, 8.5 oz on Tuesday, 4 oz on Wednesday and then nothing from then on! Seriously. This is an amazing turn of events for me - I had ac...
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Shelves In My Mind: May 2015
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Saturday, 23 May 2015. 19 months old and out of nappies! Ever heard of Elimination Communication / EC / Infant Pottying? I first heard about it 12 years ago and thought it was kind of mental. How does that even work. She wasn't dry at night for another year , but I was cool with that. So how does this work, exactly? Basically, she trained me. But that's okay! I liked not having dirty nappies to change, and less laundry to wash. (we use cloth). I left her to it. Back to nappies full time, but I kept u...
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Shelves In My Mind: September 2013
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Sunday, 15 September 2013. Week Two: 7-Layer Taco Dip. 4 cups shredded lettuce. 3 avocadoes, mashed and mixed with 2 Tbs lemon juice. 1 ½ cups greek yogurt, mixed with taco seasoning (1 packet, or equivalent home-made). 1 tin black beans, drained. 3 medium diced tomatoes. 2 cans sliced black olives. Starting with lettuce on the bottom of your dish, add each layer on top of the next, ending with cheese on top. Serve with corn chips. So that took me a while. Links to this post. Labels: meal planning series.
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Shelves In My Mind: Losing it
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Thursday, 30 July 2015. So I've lost a bit of weight recently - no idea how much, since I point blank refuse to weigh myself - and have needed to buy some new clothes. Lucky for me, I've hit upon a few charity shops (think Goodwill type places) that had sales on and I've bought new items for £2 each! So far I've purchased 2 trousers, 2 tops and a skirt for a grand total of 10 pounds. Not bad at all. But it's enough for me to notice and a few other people, as well. I've been doing yoga daily in addition t...
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Shelves In My Mind: January 2014
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Sunday, 19 January 2014. It was in a church in Munich that I saw him, a balding heavy-set man in a gray overcoat, a brown felt hat clutched between his hands. People were filing out of the basement room where I had just spoken. It was 1947 and I had come from Holland to defeated Germany with the message that God forgives. . You mentioned Ravensbruck in your talk," he was saying. "I was a guard in there." No, he did not remember me. His hand came out, . "will you forgive me? It could not have been many se...
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Shelves In My Mind: 19 months old and out of nappies!
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Saturday, 23 May 2015. 19 months old and out of nappies! Ever heard of Elimination Communication / EC / Infant Pottying? I first heard about it 12 years ago and thought it was kind of mental. How does that even work. She wasn't dry at night for another year , but I was cool with that. So how does this work, exactly? Basically, she trained me. But that's okay! I liked not having dirty nappies to change, and less laundry to wash. (we use cloth). I left her to it. Back to nappies full time, but I kept u...
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