Rebecca was wondering if “the strike is still on”, and it most definitely is.
I’ve given up trying now and my milk supply has diminished rapidly (almost too rapidly- it makes me wonder how much I even had before she quit); so there is not much hope for us at this point. If Grace were much [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Easy Natural Cleaners That I Use Everyday
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 11th, 2008
All Purpose Cleaners:
1) Equal parts water and vinegar in a spray bottle- easy clean-ups (I use this all the time)
2) Vinegar and Salt. Mix together for a good surface cleaner.
3) Baking soda on a damp sponge. Baking soda cleans and deodorizes all kitchen and bathroom surfaces.
Found this one online: 3 tbsp. vinegar, 1/2 tsp. washing [...]
Six Random Things Meme
Posted in meme on Jul 10th, 2008
From Emma:
Here are the rules :
- Link to the person who tagged you.
- Post the rules on your blog.
- Write six random things about yourself.
- Tag six people at the end of your post.
- Let each person know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
- Let the tagger know when your entry [...]
Going Green
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 10th, 2008
We’ve been “going green” for several years now- basically since I found out I was pregnant with my son.
Here are a few ways that we started:
Washing our clothes in cold water
Making natural cleaners
Using cleaning products without a lot of (or any) chemicals (laundry detergent, hand soap, shampoo, toothpaste, etc)
Buying organic and natural foods
Using less plastic [...]
Grace woke up this morning and decided NOT to nurse at all!
Before today, she was nursing about 5 times a day; sometimes more. I am shocked! And a little bummed. We couldn’t make it to your 1st birthday? It is less than a month away.
David weaned himself right after I was pregnant with Grace [...]
Found on Mimi’s blog.
What books have you read? Bold the ones you have read, italicize the ones you are planning on reading and underline the ones you loved:
1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -One of my favorite of Austen’s
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – I think I’ve started it at least [...]
Saint Euphrosyne
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 7th, 2008
Saint Euphrosyne, in the world Eudokia, was the daughter of the Suzdal prince Demetrius Constantovich (+ 1383), and from 1367 was the wife of the Moscow Great Prince Demetrius of the Don. Their happy union was for Russia a pledge of unity and peace between Moscow and Suzdal.h
The holy princess was a builder of churches. [...]
Grand Duchess Elizabeth the New Martyr
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 5th, 2008
Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna of Russia (February 24, 1864 – July 18, 1918) Elizabeth was the second child and daughter of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, a daughter of Queen Victoria. In the winter of 1878, diphtheria swept through the Hesse household, killing both Elizabeth’s youngest [...]
Saints Who Were Mothers: St Martha
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2008
St Martha the Mother of St. Simeon the Stylite- Commemorated on July 4
Saint Martha lived in Cilicia of Asia Minor during the fourth and fifth centuries and came from a poor family. She and her husband, Sisotion, were the parents of St. Simeon the Stylite.
At the age of eighteen, Simeon received the monastic tonsure without [...]
Saints Who Were Mothers: Introduction
Posted in Saints, Saints Who Were Mothers on Jul 3rd, 2008
This is the beginning of something that I have been thinking about for a while: focusing on saints who were mothers.
Since many of my readers are mothers, I think it would be nice to look at saints who walked a similar path to ours. So often, I think of saints as people who were unmarried [...]
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