Filed under: Get All Mushy, Holidays, In The Kitchen, My Kids, Things I Do, Things I Make | Tags: burn-out, Christmas, gifts, holiday, shopping, strategies, thrifting
When I was a kid I loved Christmas — I adored the cheesy music, the month-long anticipation of The Big Day had me unable to sit still, I couldn’t get enough of the various preparations for family meals, church services, concerts, and school break. This love of the Holiday was still so strong with me that when I met DH we had to strike a compromise in which I could only start listening to Christmas music on December 1st or as soon as the first snow fell — whichever came first. Given we lived in Nova Scotia, I never got to start early (though the arrangement had to be modified once we moved to Ottawa!).
As an adult, though, I started losing the excitement and joy — there wasn’t any fun in picking out gifts for people, the malls were a torture to be avoided if at all possible, and I even stopped loving the music as much. Christmas had become a chore. I was done. Once the kids were here, we kept it pretty simple but a big part of me craved to recapture the excitement I remembered from my own childhood.
Filed under: Baby!, Dwell On Things, Health Stuff, Ladyfest, Make Lists of Things, Overanalyze, Purge, The Urban Jungle, Things I Eat, Things I Make | Tags: cravings, endometriosis, fertility, garden, pregnancy, ultrasound
Sorry to keep you all in suspense, but I had a good ultrasound (for the most part). There’s a real live baby in there, with a real live beating heart. Yay!
That said, I’m still not totally stress-free about this whole pregnancy thing. The baby measures 9 days behind “dates” — I typically ovulate late, so this isn’t necessarily “abnormal” — but has a good strong heartbeat. I will feel better when this u/s is followed up with the midwives and I can see that growth is remaining consistent, though. My EDD based on gestational age is May 18, 2010.
Filed under: Hippy Shit, In The Kitchen, People I Know, Recipes, Things I Eat | Tags: Baking, beet cake, cake, CSA, Rae, Recipes, vegetables
I’ve been pretty big into making desserts with vegetables as the late summer harvest goes into overdrive — making a beet cake to use up those prolific, purple roots appearing in my CSA order seemed a no-brainer.
Filed under: Health Stuff, Hippy Shit, How-To, In The Kitchen, Recipes, Things I Make | Tags: DIY, exfoliate, health and beauty, homemade, How-To, natural products, Recipes
With all the warning coming out about this chemical or that chemical, I thought I’d share a ‘recipe’ for a simple exfoliating scrub that you can make with ingredients found in your kitchen. This product is super-effective and so safe you could eat it — quite literally!
