Read Before Labor Began back here. Tuesday, October 6th – Josie’s Birthday In the wee hours of Tuesday morning I was lying in bed with major contractions ~15 minutes apart while everyone else slumbered peacefully. I had a 7 am induction scheduled and a friend coming over to watch my children at 6:30 am. I really wasn’t sure what to […]
Josie’s Birth Story – Before Labor Began
The days leading up to Josie’s birth were a bit of an emotional roller coaster. I gave some brief updates previously about various false starts for this labor, but this post fills in the details. Saturday, October 3rd Despite having experienced labor three times before, this time around things didn’t seem very clear cut. I knew none of the “false […]
Home Ghoul
I owe this blog a birth story(!), an updated cookbook and about 9 months of catchup posts… but instead I wrote up something simple and fun we did yesterday. I surprised my kids with these papers slipped in the fronts of their binders when they came to the table for memory work: I drew their attention to the Home Ghoul […]