Reflections for 2012
I love New Year’s Resolutions. It is such a wonderful time of year for self reflection and goal setting. This year I am wonderfully beginning my life as a SAHM and I’m so excited to live what I feel is my authentic calling. After all the sadness of infertility, the difficulties with my pregnancies, being in a wonderful job with a horrible boss – in 2012 I’ll be doing the most important work in the world: raising the next generation. I’m just…fricking giddy! So, this year, my thoughts were much more philosophical than concrete. I wanted a theme...
Read MoreMake Your Own “Vicks” Chest Rub
It is so easy to make a safe and natural chest rub you’ll wonder why you haven’t been doing it all along! Maybe you’d rather boycott Procter and Gamble or you don’t like that Vicks is made with petroleum jelly. Or, maybe you just want to save some money. Whatever your reason making a rub that soothes and opens your airways is super easy. I’ve seen recipes online that we’re a little more complicated but I use this simple method and love it. Take 2 tablespoons of coconut oil and mix 10 drops if eucalyptus essential oil in. Add more eucalyptus a few drops at a...
Read More2011 A Horrible, Wonderful Year
Ah 2011. What can I say about you? My first reaction is that 2011 SUCKED BIG TIME. I mean at least 70% of the days of this year were some of the hardest of my life. And yet, in all the ways that really matter, you know those ways that will matter in 5, 10, 20 years, 2011 was full of life-changing blessings. I mean I welcomed two baby boys into my family AND I became (at last) a stay at home mom. I guess the problem was, as will most things, my blessings came with much blood, sweat and tears. I started the year with an extended hospital stay to keep my babies from being born too...
Read More30 Days of Thanks
I started doing one a day but it got to be too much. So here’s my list of what I’m thankful for this year (in no particular order): I am thankful for; My wonderful husband who dares to think outside society’s box to create the life we want. Sometimes going against the grain is an act of sheer heroism. The Partnership for Families that funded our IVF and FET when all hope seemed lost. My beautiful daughter, Aellyn. Sometimes I look at her and I can already see the caring and wonderful adult she’ll be. Other times I can’t fathom the complexity of human spirit that she...
Read MoreHib Vaccination: Missing the Forest for the Trees
I realize that I kind of dropped the ball on writing about vaccines. I wrote about it a lot when I was researching it to make a decision for my family. Then, there came a point where I was 100% convinced not to vaccinate and I stopped writing about it. I would like to continue sharing my research about vaccines in the context of why we made the choice not to vaccinate. Please use the information as a launching point for your own research. Remeber you can always decide to vaccinate later but you can never unvaccinate. What is Hib? Haemophilus influenza type b is a bacterium that...
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