tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824969648593560702024-11-01T04:34:12.598-06:00Shayehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14573996898102475477noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-582496964859356070.post-75214708145898778052012-05-03T00:48:00.001-06:002012-05-03T00:48:58.406-06:00

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Goodmorning! Today is Brighton's birthday. He's turning four. FOUR!! In short, his birth was a very special one for this family. And this may be an unusual birthday post (especially compared to previous years posts), but since I spoke specifically about his home birth in my testimony for LB 712 last month, this is the post where I show a short homemade video (complete with the scrolling

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So, I've told you all about my Phase Seven wake up routine before. But there's another morning routine that we have around here. It's the "saying goodbye to Daddy" routine. Actually, any time either of us leave the house to head to a meeting or run a quick errand, we always have to go through the goodbye routine. It goes something like this: 1) Daddy goes around to every person in the house (

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Her name is Brittany. She was born to a family outside of town who already had too many pups on their hands. They said the mother wandered up one day, so they sorta took her in. She got pregnant by another stray dog in their area and they had no idea what type of dog he was, either. When the pups were born, the family left them outside and provided food/water. They thought one of them had died

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One of my New Year's Resolutions for 2012 is to work harder on organizing and recording our family memories. Now, I'll be honest: I don't usually do resolutions. I've never seen January 1st as any more important a day for making changes than, say, May 13th or September 3rd. In any case, I'm looking forward to blogging again. It's so easy to forget the little things and this is one way I have to

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Several of my blogging buddies have been posting on their cloth diaper experiences, lately. Maybe it has something to do with Earth Day, but it kinda feels like National Cloth Diaper Month. So with baby #4 on the way, I'm just going to invite myself to the party and re-cap some of our experiences with cloth diapers. You no longer have to try very hard to convince anyone to go to cloth. Cloth

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It's been a very enjoyable week...passing my oral exams, attending Brayla's first dance recital, celebrating Brighton's 2nd birthday, and doing my first giveaway (packages are on their way, girls!). But I just couldn't let the month slip away before sharing a few pix of our little birthday celebration. You can click the collage above to see the pictures MUCH bigger. I thought I'd go ahead and add

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First, I wanted to thank everyone for playing along. I was so delighted to see this mentioned all over Facebook, too. You all are amazing...now I just wish I had a whole bunch of these to give out to every one of you!! *IF* you didn't win and you're still interested in seeing this flick, Netflix still has it available for instant view on your computer. If you've never used Netflix before, they

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Oh what fun we had last weekend! This year, Brayla started taking dance in November and her very first recital (ever) was this Saturday. All the girls were SO cute and you could sure feel the energy and excitement throughout the show. I thought I'd include a few videos I shot during the production (particularly for all of our family). Our daughter is the tall one (with an enormous hair bun) on

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This coming weekend is pretty HUGE for the Millers. First, my oral comprehensive exams are this Friday afternoon. Second, this Saturday my daughter has her very first dance recital. And third, I am thrilled to announce that my HBA2C baby's birthday (and my first "birth"day) is this weekend. With all this big stuff happening, I figured it's a great time to do a fun lil' giveaway. As our punkin is

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I’ve been coming to grips with the fact that I am getting older...that my body cannot do the beautiful things it did in my younger years…and that perhaps I’m moving into a new phase of life. Honestly, none of these things bother me all that much, except for the fact that I’ve loved being pregnant and raising babies.I've been gifted with an amazing body –- I’ve had the pleasure of using it to love

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There's an amazing room in our home with a section of wall running along the south edge of our property. It spans from east to west and is outfitted with six windows where I grow our plants and garden starters each spring. During this time of winter, when our outside temperatures regularly sink to the single digits, the sun falls far south in our sky and we are rarely dazzled with its brilliance.

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Nebraska Friends of Midwives (NFOM) is a consumer-based organization working to educate women in an attempt to better our prenatal care and birthing outcomes. We're currently lobbying for three proposed bills that would allow more options and greater safety measures in our state. Niecey of The Monkeys and Me created the following video for our group, leaving us breathless in her wake. As you'll

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The Federal Do Not Call list once worked very well. I rarely received phone calls from people or companies I didn't already have a working relationship with. But lately, our phone rings off the hook with unsolicited callers. When I tell callers that we're on the Do Not Call list, I get a variety of reactions: (1) they may say their business is exempt because they are non-profit or (2) they're

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My long-term readers, friends, and family are already aware of my experience-based stance on labor inductions and augmentations. Lately we're (finally) seeing an influx of doctors and researchers openly discussing the serious risks that these types of interventions impose on both mother and baby, despite their generally accepted usage. The effects might be something as common as fetal

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I'm a continuing participant in Tot Talk Tuesdays started by Niecey of The Monkeys and Me. This week I shot a quick video that was just too cute. This is my 21 month old "reading" with daddy. So sweet!Please save up your weekly quotes and join in the fun next week HERE.

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I wanted to make sure I preserved some of our family memories from Christmas 2009. This year we had three separate celebrations:The first was spent with my parents from Texas. Since they were already here for Thanksgiving, we opened many of the gifts they brought from Texas just the weekend after Thanksgiving. Here's a collage of some of those memories (you can click on ANY of the pictures or

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It's been a long while since I've posted one, but... Believe it or not, I AM still a participant in Tot Talk Tuesdays started by Niecey of The Monkeys and Me. I've gathered up a few from the last month or two.Scenario #1:My son and I were hanging out one day and he said to me:Brandon: "Mommy, I want a kiss."So I leaned forward and gave him a peck on his lips. But he didn't seem very happy about

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January: In early January we were finishing up our holiday trip to Texas. While there, we spent time with our families and with our friends Marc and Christy (a college roomie and dear friend). We also made the decision to become a TV-free family by selling our two TVs and canceling our service (we now only do Netflix or Hulu, which is FREE). It was a really wonderful way to start off our year and

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It had been a particularly packed summer. During those long months of swimming, gardening, and travel, I had understandably fallen out of touch with some of my blogging pals. So just before the school year started again, I decided to visit an old friend's blog to touch base and, hopefully, reconnect.I really should back up. I originally met Maya at her blog Springtree Road a little over a year

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Yep, we're looking a little different these days. I'm just trying on a new layout that I've been eying since last summer. If you're confused, our old header is pictured to the right. I may still be doing a little shifting here and there as I have a few add-ons lined up (if you remember our previous discussion about Disqus, that's still a serious consideration), but things should look relatively

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I just wanted to let all our friends, family, and fellow advocates know our summary of a midwife-assisted home birth just went global this morning. This is a first for me, so I'm just thrilled! Please check out the full story, below, if you have a few moments:    http://www.blackhillsportal.com/npps/story.cfm?ID=3466UPDATE: I was just told yesterday (Saturday) that this story

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This is just about the most hectic time of year. I tend to get overwhelmed frequently. But today...today is different, thanks to a brief moment of clarity. And I hope the way I feel right now, this very moment, will spill into tomorrow and next week and next month and on and on. I've been having a bout of vertigo this week. My very first episode of vertigo came just two days after 9-11-01. At the

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This will be my final post for National Breastfeeding Month in 2009. I purposefully saved the best for last. ::GRIN::If you know me, or if you've been reading my blog for very long, you know I strive to take the most natural approach to daily living. I only came to this approach after first attempting all else and finally discovering what it was doing to me (and many others I loved). But now, I

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Today my oldest is SIX. She's just amazing and beautiful and intelligent and kind-hearted and curious and THANK HEAVENS she's ours. Be sure to hop on over to my mom's blog where she has a fabulous birthday post. I just love that woman!!P.S. THANK YOU to Niecey for fixing this photo for me. She did a lovely job!Please click ♥ thoughtful comments ♥ (below) to let me know you stopped by. If you

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