Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
World War II veteran takes flight into the past on B-17 | Local News | The Seattle Times
I can brag right? I mean she is my daughter!
World War II veteran takes flight into the past on B-17 | Local News | The Seattle Times
World War II veteran takes flight into the past on B-17 | Local News | The Seattle Times
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
SQUAT Birth Journal: Chia Seeds in Pregnancy and Labor
SQUAT Birth Journal: Chia Seeds in Pregnancy and Labor: (From SQUAT: Here is a great article from the SQUAT archives--originally featured in the Fall 2010 Issue of SQUAT, available here . We'll ...
All Sunscreens | EWG's Skin Deep® | 2012 Sunscreen Report
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All Sunscreens | EWG's Skin Deep® | 2012 Sunscreen Report
Sunday, May 13, 2012
I am Loved
Today has been a day of really feeling I was loved by those who matter most to me, my family. Conversations with my kids, smiles, giggles, a picture sent from afar. The only thing that could have made today better was to have Alexa and Eric here.
You give birth to them, thinking they will stay small forever, but they grow, they move, they become adults that you are so proud to say "Hey, they are mine!"
I gave them life and they in turn give me life, the best gifts you can ever get from you children are: Their smiles, their happiness and most of all their love.
Alexa, Ian, Eric, Oliver, Isaac and Alanna, thank you for loving me.
Love you.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Breast-feeding a 3-year-old is normal, anthropologist says – USATODAY.com
Breast-feeding a 3-year-old is normal, anthropologist says – USATODAY.com
" Though some online are calling it "perverted" and "dangerous" to nurse a 3-year-old, "It's normal for our species. It's not perverted; it's not sex; it's not women doing it for some perverse need. It's normal like a nine-month pregnancy is normal," says Katherine Dettwyler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del."
" Though some online are calling it "perverted" and "dangerous" to nurse a 3-year-old, "It's normal for our species. It's not perverted; it's not sex; it's not women doing it for some perverse need. It's normal like a nine-month pregnancy is normal," says Katherine Dettwyler, a professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del."
From Breasts to Boobs and Back Again
From Breasts to Boobs and Back Again
" I was breastfed as a baby. Honestly, I feel squirmy even typing “breast.” Twelve years after I stopped nursing, breasts became boobs, and then in high school they became tits (and a plethora of other names), and now, as a husband and father, they’re back to breasts. I’ve come full circle. I see them as a means of nourishing children, and as sexual objects. I’m not sure how I feel about that. The fact that I sexualize the one piece of female anatomy from which I once fed, makes me feel grotesquely simple. I think that feeling is at the heart of why people are uncomfortable with the recent image on the cover of Time Magazine."
" I was breastfed as a baby. Honestly, I feel squirmy even typing “breast.” Twelve years after I stopped nursing, breasts became boobs, and then in high school they became tits (and a plethora of other names), and now, as a husband and father, they’re back to breasts. I’ve come full circle. I see them as a means of nourishing children, and as sexual objects. I’m not sure how I feel about that. The fact that I sexualize the one piece of female anatomy from which I once fed, makes me feel grotesquely simple. I think that feeling is at the heart of why people are uncomfortable with the recent image on the cover of Time Magazine."
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Top 10 Pregnancy Procedures to Reject - Consumer Reports
Top 10 Pregnancy Procedures to Reject - Consumer Reports
Despite a health-care system that outspends those in the rest of the world, infants and mothers fare worse in the U.S. than in many other industrialized nations. The infant mortality rate in Canada is 25 percent lower than it is in the U.S.; the Japanese rate, more than 60 percent lower. According to the World Health Organization, America ranks behind 41 other countries in preventing mothers from dying during childbirth.
Friday, May 4, 2012
Baby of Mine
Life as a mom is always challenging and changing. Yesterday was our firstborn's 27th birthday, where does the time go? Weren't we just 15 and falling in love at PHS? Now our 4th will be graduating from PHS in a few weeks.
27 years ago today, we brought Alexa home from the hospital and today she left home again, but this time so far away. She is on her way to Seattle where she will be a reporter. We are proud of her and want her to do really well so she can get a job back in California! Can't believe we have TWO kids who live out of state.
You want to them to grow up and move out and do the things they should do, only it should be close to home!
Boy, my arms feel empty. . . but my heart is ever so full.
27 years ago today, we brought Alexa home from the hospital and today she left home again, but this time so far away. She is on her way to Seattle where she will be a reporter. We are proud of her and want her to do really well so she can get a job back in California! Can't believe we have TWO kids who live out of state.
You want to them to grow up and move out and do the things they should do, only it should be close to home!
Boy, my arms feel empty. . . but my heart is ever so full.
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