Make something creative! Eric has worked up this awesome budget for us. He’s the only one bringing home the bacon so we have to be careful about what we spend. This month I tried really hard to stick to the grocery budget and buy as little as possible and use what we have in the [...]
Archive for August, 2008
When life hands you Ramen
Posted in Other Sites on Thursday, August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Time Out
Posted in Other Sites on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, today I had my first “time out” and man, was it nice. I met my friend T at Chili’s for happy hour. This is the first time that I have really left Corban. Twice when he was smaller, I went to the store and left him home with Eric, but those trips didn’t turn [...]
On my soapbox
Posted in Current Events, tagged advocate, Congo, fight, genocide, rape on Sunday, August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight, as I lay on the couch watching 60 minutes, I cried. Anderson Cooper did a special report on the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo. For those of you that did not get to see this, I am sorry for you. I think that every person in these great United States of ours [...]
A pic of the teeth!
Posted in Other Sites on Saturday, August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finally! I was able to snap a shot of the teeth. This is a really hard thing to do when you have a squirmy 5 month old! Click on the pic and it will be bigger so you can really see. Do you feel the pain I have?
Real Quick Update
Posted in Other Sites on Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well, Corban now has 2, count them, 2 teeth! They have made for some sleepless nights, but he’s seems to be back on track with his normal sleep/wake up pattern. I can handle that. I just can’t handle the every hour, hour and a half thing. Makes for a really grumpy mom!
Anyway, not much more [...]
New foods and their aftermath
Posted in Everyday Life, tagged baby, bath, food, poop on Monday, August 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Corban has been eating rice cereal now for a few weeks and has loved it. So, we decided to try new things. He is now eating oatmeal and trying different fruits & vegetables. He LOVES oatmeal and bananas. We have a schedule that we feed him by.
Breakfast: breastmilk, oatmeal
Mid morning snack: breastmilk, fruit
Lunch: breastmilk, veggie, [...]
