When I wrote my first, seasonal “Stuff I Like” post, I did not intend for it to take a whole year for me to write another one.  I have about zero creativity and mental space for “extra stuff” for some odd reason when I am pregnant, and then it all comes back about ten minutes postpartum.  But then there is the whole time factor so blogging was difficult for the first few months, and alas, here we are, and it’s been one year since I wrote about all the things I’m into lately!  So, here we go! [Read more…]

Part of me can hardly believe it, and part of me can totally believe it.  We are halfway through Isla Jane’s baby year!  I know I’ve said this once or twice, but I am not really a baby person.  I do really like my own babies, but I have to say, little toddlers and little kids (and even teenagers!) are probably more fun for me than babies.  But, this time around, I think I’ve been enjoying her “baby-ness” a lot more than Landon’s–probably because I know how short the time really is.  One year?  That’s not very much at all!

However, let it be known.  I have baby opinions.  (You probably guessed that…I’ve had two home births by now.)  And if there’s one thing that I have a fully formed opinion on, it’s sleep!

I am actually quite a huge fan of sleep.  I should have written the book on napping.  It’s kind of like, “Oh, what are my hobbies?  Oh, you know, cooking, photography, racing, hand lettering, and napping.”    (When my Hashimoto’s got better and I wasn’t so terribly tired all the time, I tried to take a nap just because it is fun!  I was so bummed that I couldn’t!  Ha!)

So, yes.  You could say, mama needs her sleep!  I was not cut out for night shift.  I am naturally an early to bed, early to rise kind of person.  So, hello, tiny human, but why are we looking at each other right now?  It’s 2 a.m.  You will be cuter when the sun comes up.

It is my goal from day 1 with new baby: get that baby sleeping!!  (Lots of you will say, well, yes.  That is always the goal for everyone.  But ask my husband.  I am fanatical.  I am putting my game face on as I crawl into bed at night: Baby, I will win. You will sleep.)

So, yes, we only have two kids which means I have only done this two times.  There will be someone out there who has had like 13 children and will claim the first 5 slept great, and then 8 were terrible.  There will be a baby out there who will be the exception to all the rules.  I know this.  Please don’t blow up my blog with nasty comments.  All I’m saying is what I did because some people seem to want to know.  Take it or leave it, but we are two kids in, and the first one slept 11 hours solid at 12 weeks, and the second one slept 12 hours solid at 10 weeks.  I don’t personally believe I got lucky.  Here’s what we did…

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Blog Readers!  I have not forgotten about you!  Life has been full…so, so good, but rather full, and I’m still trying to figure out how to do life with two tiny humans!

It seems that just when you think you’ve got things down to a pretty solid routine, something changes and you have to readjust and reevaluate.  I think that’s just called life.  Let’s be honest, I would get bored if things stayed the same all the time, and I like the challenge of change.

It was more than two years ago when I wrote about a day in my life and just over a year ago when I wrote about my experience logging my time.  So I thought I’d write a little update now that we have added another tiny human into our life! [Read more…]

Inspired by a blog that I read (who’s author I know in real life!), I thought I’d share a few of my favorite things with my readers.  People seem to like to know that stuff (at least, I like to know that about other people!), but particularly people seem to want to know what sort of weird, crunchy thing I’m trying at the moment.  But also, some fun stuff, because, believe it or not, I do some normal stuff, too.  So, here goes…stuff I’m into right now… [Read more…]