postpartum

The Annual Calendar, The 10 Month Fog, and Postpartum Depression

In 2005, I started making calendars for the grandparents (and for ourselves) every Christmas. It's this wonderful, neck cricking tradition…

9 years ago

How I Lose the Pregnancy Weight

  What I look like, every single time, right after giving birth:  This was a few days after I had…

10 years ago

Fall: Taking Stock

Three months out from the new baby:  This is what my closet actually looks like right now.  Ah, Fall.  Who…

11 years ago

Rainy Day Review

As I was de-cluttering our bedroom yesterday, I came across this highly detailed Google art that Joshua did this past…

11 years ago

Summer Progress

11th Wedding Anniversary   I can't believe it, but here we are with only three weeks of summer vacation left.…

11 years ago

The New Normal Postpartum

 John David and me 6 weeks postpartum I have returned to wearing make-up --finally-- but my hair straightener will probably…

11 years ago

The Miracle of Iron for Postpartum Anemia

If you have read the blog lately you know I have had a hard time with anemia for a while.…

11 years ago

Six Weeks Postpartum C-Section: Anemia, Sleepless, & Happy

For six weeks I've been dragging around this house like a zombie I kept thinking of six weeks as the…

11 years ago

Newborn Parenting

....because sometimes reality looks like this   Phew!  What a week.  I usually live for the weekend, but this weekend…

11 years ago

Summer Fun

4 1/2 weeks. This Sunday I went back to Sunday School for the first time, had friends over for lunch,…

11 years ago