Saturday, February 5, 2011
Smiling Baby
I definitely answer the phone less now that I have kids. Important things are going on!
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Unto us a child is born! Name TBA...
On Saturday Dec 4 (a few days after the Dec 1 guess date) I woke up at 2:03 with contractions. They were close together - mostly 3 minutes apart - and I called the midwife at about 3:45. I don't think I realized how close they were and I should have called an hour earlier. Who knew the baby would come in two and a half hours!
My water broke at 4:20 and pushing began almost immediately - I was afraid I couldn't make it to the birthing pool in the living room (but I did). Joseph called the midwife again and she was just getting off the freeway. The baby was crowning before she got in the house and we completed our first water birth at 4:34 am. He was calm and didn't cry for quite awhile. He was 8 lbs 8 oz of perfection and 21 1/2inches long.
With our midwife Nanci Stanley, Samuel, and baby no-name-yet.
He looks a lot like Luke, but that name is taken.
My water broke at 4:20 and pushing began almost immediately - I was afraid I couldn't make it to the birthing pool in the living room (but I did). Joseph called the midwife again and she was just getting off the freeway. The baby was crowning before she got in the house and we completed our first water birth at 4:34 am. He was calm and didn't cry for quite awhile. He was 8 lbs 8 oz of perfection and 21 1/2inches long.
With our midwife Nanci Stanley, Samuel, and baby no-name-yet.
He looks a lot like Luke, but that name is taken.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
More fall celebration pictures
We redeemed a free ice cream coupon on Samuel's birthday. He ALWAYS chooses chocolate. Luke and I shared a nutty coconut ice cream.
Jack-o-lantern pancakes (whole wheat of course). Samuel was so enthused he wanted one for every child in his class. I hope the parents weren't too weirded-out to find a pancake in the take-home treat bag.
Spiderweb cookies were fun to make. Last year I scored all kinds of free tube frosting at post-holiday sales and this was my chance to use it.
Samuel's idea of how I should cut out his Halloween costume.
This angle shows the shark fin in the back.
8 months pregnant
I look a little like a pumpkin in the rust-colored shirt, but I am okay with tha because I love my new haircut! I can feel the cool fall air rushing through one ear and right out the other.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Young Women at Camp
Here they are!
It was wonderful for us to have 9 YW at camp this year. We nearly had 12, but 3 weren't able to come at the last minute. Compare this to 5 last year (and 4 in my stake the year before that) and it was vastly different...better!
It was wonderful for us to have 9 YW at camp this year. We nearly had 12, but 3 weren't able to come at the last minute. Compare this to 5 last year (and 4 in my stake the year before that) and it was vastly different...better!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Wolf intervention
No, I am not talking about Jacob vs. Edward.
A 14-yr old recently told me that she had only ever read one book. I was shocked. But then as I thought about it, I have been in every room of her house and not seen a single book other than an old family bible found in the attic that the previous resident had left. It fills me with sadness. I had hundreds of childhoods, one with every book I read. And some I lived dozens of times over and she's only ever experienced that one lonely book.
She continually tells me what a terrible memory she has and has given me great reason to believe it. But I was amazed as she recounted to me the plot of "Lone Wolf" that she read years ago. She remembered it in great, vivid detail that brought her to tears. She is very interested in animals, so I immediately recommended to her "Julie of the Wolves" and its 2 sequels that are among my favorite books.
I think about how I grudgingly read "Old Yeller" when I was 25. I ended up using it, tearfully, in a Relief Society lesson. Books often bring me to tears, and although her tears were probably just felt in reaction to the tragedy in the plot, I read them as so much more. The tragedy to me was the struggle she has in school, her common problems with her family, her awkward age and challenge of teen social life. All of these could be alleviated and improved by reading. At a bare minimum it's a place to escape to. A private endeavor of the mind and soul that can elicit great emotion and learning.
I will be buying Julie of the Wolves very soon and I hope she will read her second book.
A 14-yr old recently told me that she had only ever read one book. I was shocked. But then as I thought about it, I have been in every room of her house and not seen a single book other than an old family bible found in the attic that the previous resident had left. It fills me with sadness. I had hundreds of childhoods, one with every book I read. And some I lived dozens of times over and she's only ever experienced that one lonely book.
She continually tells me what a terrible memory she has and has given me great reason to believe it. But I was amazed as she recounted to me the plot of "Lone Wolf" that she read years ago. She remembered it in great, vivid detail that brought her to tears. She is very interested in animals, so I immediately recommended to her "Julie of the Wolves" and its 2 sequels that are among my favorite books.
I think about how I grudgingly read "Old Yeller" when I was 25. I ended up using it, tearfully, in a Relief Society lesson. Books often bring me to tears, and although her tears were probably just felt in reaction to the tragedy in the plot, I read them as so much more. The tragedy to me was the struggle she has in school, her common problems with her family, her awkward age and challenge of teen social life. All of these could be alleviated and improved by reading. At a bare minimum it's a place to escape to. A private endeavor of the mind and soul that can elicit great emotion and learning.
I will be buying Julie of the Wolves very soon and I hope she will read her second book.
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