On a lighter note. Yesterday, I found myself in the bathroom putting on a rubber glove to flick poop off of a cloth diaper, into the toilet. I am still thoroughly dedicated to our use of cloth diapers – for the past… I don’t know how long… 9 months? – we use only 7 disposable […]
In theory, I’m psyched about Christmas – it’s Nugget’s first real Christmas and I’m thrilled to create Christmas memories for him. In practice, I’m having a really hard time getting into the Christmas spirit. I’m having a hard time even just writing about it, quite frankly. Some days are better than others, some weeks are […]
Warning – you may find this post to be a bit of a downer and if you’re easily triggered by talk of things like suicide, move along. And NO! No, I am not writing a post about me feeling suicidal, don’t jump to conclusions. But it is about my memories of someone else, so like […]
Wow. I’m sitting here looking out the window at the whiteness outside. It’s beautiful. And, in Seattle, apparently very dangerous. There’s barely an inch of snow on the ground – in some places they’re talking about TWO inches! I kid you not, people are calling this a “snow storm” (uh…?), they closed schools, and the […]
By the way… my baby turned ONE this past Saturday! (He was born on Friday the 13th.) It’s true – no one can prepare you for the realization that your tiny little slug of a person is a walking, babbling, crawling, moving 1 year old. And a terribly handsome one, at that. I was going […]
I’ve always been a very carefree fly by the seat of your pants kind of person. I hate schedules with a passion and suffer anxiety any time I have to make plans (and I almost always break them). I moved to Europe with $500 to my name, counting on my usual luck & good fortune […]
Pardon me for the politics, but a friend of mine shared this on Facebook today and I think it’s worth a read. I’ve avoided reading about & talking about politics the past couple years, because I don’t enjoy being in a constant state of rage & disbelief. Even now, I avoid it because, truth be […]
Mr Nikki’s company offers 100 hours per year of subsidized childcare – this can be either at home or in a daycare. I won’t tell you how much it costs, because you’d probably weep. It’s cheap. And oh, yes, we are using every single minute of it. We started using it because our regular sitter, […]
I’ve often said that I think that feminism has caused a lot of damage to birth, mothering, and breastfeeding. I feel as though it’s been the WORST contributor to current problems, actually. Feminists were the ones who rallied around, “Why does childbirth have to hurt!” This was in response to religious people saying it hurts […]
I marvel, I ooh and aah in awe, but rarely do I outright brag. So, forgive me for doing so now – but when it comes to my son, there will be none of this modesty bullsh*t. A few months ago, we discovered Ricicli kids’ clothes at Monster Art & Clothing, one of my favorite […]
I’m still livid over the comments to that article I wrote about yesterday. Partially because I keep going back to read all the stupid comments. Anyway. This is a fabulously well-written, knowledgeable, fact-based response (something the opponents have yet to come up with.)
This was one of my favorite comments of the day: I’ve come to the conclusion that the majority of the OB’s are being trained in such a way that they are commiting malpractice everytime they deliver a baby. The number of ‘tricks’ my midwife had up her sleeve for all kinds of difficult birth situations […]
