We’ve hardly begun to settle in to a routine again since the birth of Adalyn and now it is about time to start transitioning the homestead in preparation for the colder months. It is not surprising but the last six weeks have basically flown by, fall totally crept up and surprised us. It was the...

Ignorance and judgment abound in the world of a breastfeeding mom, I know first hand. These days with the popularity of social media more and more people are sharing their opinions and points of view, in this case a number of people in my network were in an uproar about comments a radio show host,...

In light of the recent anti-breastfeeding tweet drama I’ve been talking with others about and also doing quite a bit of thinking about breastfeeding. I get it, we are an overly sexual culture that has made boobs more of an sexual prop than a life sustaining mechanism. I know the reality is that many people...

Whew! After a week on the road we needed a day to decompress after getting back to Evansville. Yesterday we sat around in our PJ’s, did many loads of laundry, scrubbed cat vomit from the carpets, cleaned cat boxes… You know all the chores and stuff that go undone while you are away. Everly was...

I am a huge advocate for breastfeeding because: Breast milk protects babies from viruses and keeps them healthy thanks to the lactating woman’s antibodies that are produced when she comes in contact with germs and viruses. Breastfeeding lowers risk for heart disease, juvenile diabetes, multiple sclerosis, asthma and allergies. It’s also thought to prevent diseases...

For those of you following on Twitter, Poop Watch 2009 brings good news today! After a week and a visit to the doctor Everly has finally pooed. Remember last week when N and E hung out at home and scarfed a jar of sweet potato in absence of boob? Well, she hasn’t pooped since then....

I am not a huge fan of flying. We don’t travel by plane often, thankfully. We’ve never really had to as most places we visit are within reasonable driving distance. Unfortunately, now that we’ve moved so far away that’s changed. We are heading back to Arizona very shortly for a visit with friends/ family and...

One of the things I’ve failed to share with you is that we’ve recently introduced Everly to sweet potatoes. Over the weekend while we were shopping at Target we decided to poke around the baby food aisle to see the different kinds of first stage cereals and the organic/ natural options. She’s not a huge...

Over the weekend we had our first meal out since Everly was born… We went to Steak N Shake where they asked if we needed a high chair and presented us with a kids menu and crayons. Don’t they know 5-month-olds typically don’t order off the kids menu or color? She did bang on the...

Right after Everly was born our midwife suggested I drink a tea of catnip and lemon balm to help us both relax and sleep. You see in those first few days I was all keyed up and could only stare at Everly in awe when I should have been sleeping and Everly was pretty fussy...