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I'm feeling pulled in too many directions tonight. Mostly with my needlework. What to knit, the eternal question. I finished up these today (finished knitting the ribbed one, and wove the ends in on both:) These are both meant for a preemie baby granddaughter of a sister at our new Kingdom Hall. She said the baby is a whole 2 pounds!  So tiny! The top one should fit, or maybe it's a tad too small, but I'm not sure. The bottom one should fit now with the brim folded up and then keep on stretching and fitting, with the brim being folded down more and more, till at least newborn size. I started a pair of booties to match too. I'm not sure what to work on right now though. Winter is coming and so I am getting the "must prepare!" urge I get every fall. I want to knit things for charity, Tiri's school has said they would love some things. Plus there are several other places in town that I could donate things to. And there's the Haiti baby effort....

Update number three: Tiri is a big school girl now!! She started Head Start last week. She goes for 4 half days a week. She really likes it so far. :) I can't believe she's so big already. She turned 4 years old on Saturday. <3 <3

Another day, another post. Catching up, catching up! We moved. (You might have guessed that from the post title.) We found a nice 1980 trailer home in Menomonie, the town where Jerek works and where he will be going to school, and we packed up all our junk and we moved. We now live in a dwelling that is just US. No neighbors upstairs dropping things. No mammoths stomping up the stairs on the other side of our living room wall. Just our wee family. It. Is. GLORIOUS. Get this. We also got a washer and dryer. I think that might be even better than the trailer itself, though without one there wouldn't be the other. The other night, I took my clothes off and put on my nightclothes, and then I toddled out to the washer and put them in it, and they were clean and waiting for me to wear again the next day. (I didn't wear the whole outfit, but they are my favorite pants.) It was like magic. :) Tiri chose her room, and we are working on getting her to sleep in it all night. (Th...

Hi! Wow. Long time, no blog. There is so much newness that it's going to take a few blog posts to cover it all. What shall we start with... how about a Fritzy update? He's big! As of a couple of weeks ago at his WIC appointment, he was 14 and a half pounds and around 24" long. This kid is wearing onesies at 3.5 months that Tiri wore at 10 months! See? Tiri at 10.5 months Fritz at 3.5 months. He smiles, laughs, rolls over, props himself up on his elbows and looks around, babbles and squeals, chews his fingers, and scoots himself along on his tummy (though he doesn't scoot to any particular destination yet.) He's definitely a little charmer. <3

Hey! Life is trucking along here. Feeding the baby and taking care of Tiri and just being mommy and wife. I found a new project to knit for. When I was in the hospital after Fritz was born, my nurse saw my knitting and commented on it. (Actually pretty much all the nurses commented on it, but this one was special.) I told her I knit mainly for charity and she says “I’d love some of your hats. I’m going to Haiti this summer and I’d love to take some with, they need everything.” ::rubs hands together in delight:: So I come home and I’m doing my nursing and knitting, and eventually I decide to call the hospital and see if I can get ahold of this nurse, her name is Chris. I left my info and eventually she called me back, and we set up a meeting. We met on June 13 th and I gave her 33 baby hats, 4 pairs of booties, and 2 pairs of baby mitts. She was impressed. ;) We were chatting then and she says “I will take whatever you can make me.” :-D CHALLENGE A...

This is Fritz. :) He was born May 11th at 1:23 pm. Labor was long and I ended up getting an epidural so I could calm down and deal. (Fear+tension+pain cycle is totally real, though my fear was about something happening to Fritz rather than labor itself.) I almost caved and asked for a cesarean, but ended up having the epidural instead. I apparently am really good at pushing out babies. I pushed a whole ***three minutes*** to birth my 8 pound 2 ounce son. With nary a tear. Hardest part of recovery was a backache from the epidural hitting the place my chiropractor always says is out of place and making it spasm and be sore. He's a great little guy. I've been having lots of fun taking pictures. ;)

VBAC Birth Plan  ● Unmedicated as possible, with as few interventions as possible.  I don’t know what I will want for pain relief yet, but I prefer as  many natural options to be made available as possible. ● Use of water/shower for pain management. ● Unrestricted movement. ● Self­guided pushing. I’ve done this before, and pant­pushing  works best for me. I will NOT be doing the “hold my breath and  push as hard as possible” method. ● Upright or however I am comfortable for birth. NOT on my back. ● Minimal cervical checks. ● Minimal monitoring. After Baby is born:  ● Skin to skin right away. If I can’t do it for whatever reason, put  him with his dad, he’s prepared for skin to skin as well. ● NO circumcision. ● Vitamin K is fine, but NO eye ointment. I’m disease­-free. ● If any supplementation is needed, I will express colostrum or  milk instead of using formula. ● Do not bathe, etc, till I can be there. I missed that experience ...