Category Archives: family life
Making Slings and Using Them, Too
I have made a fair number of slings lately, mostly for locals, and am perfecting the process. It’s fun and rewarding to see people out and about using them! I am making both adjustable ring slings and pouches. I still … Continue reading
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Moving On Up…
I had the pleasure of having coffee with Ellen during a quick jaunt to Chapel Hill on Saturday for a bridal shower. Pictoral evidence can be found here. And now, she’s gotten the big promotion to the “people we’ve met” … Continue reading
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Great Book!
Parents, have you seen I Believe? It’s the text of the Nicene Creed, illustrated by Pauline Baynes, who also illustrated the Chronicles of Narnia and much of Tolkein’s work. It’s fabulous! We are perma-borrowing one from the library until we … Continue reading
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Yes, I am neurotic
I switched my pregnancy ticker because the one I had bothered me on two levels. (1) the babies are shown breech. Visualizing the baby head down is a statistically significant way of turning breeched babies, and I don’t want to … Continue reading
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Fifty Things I Love
Gideon inspired me to do this several years back, before I was married and all that jazz. It was good to do it again. Here’s fifty things I love in no particular order
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Thanks everyone!
Thanks for all of your well wishes. I had a fabulous birthday. I blew out candles twice and became a virtual Old Navy maternity model overnight. Mike took me out for a nice dinner and gave me a gift certificate … Continue reading
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Baby Registry
I really like thethingsiwant.com, it’s convenient to be able to add things with pictures from a whole host of sites and have it show up on ONE list. Here’s my registry for Lexi so far.
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Kate and Kristen’s Road Trip Adventure
The trip in numbers: Nights away: 7 Places we slept: 4 Friends visited: over a dozen Miles travelled: 1698 Gallons of gas pumped: 61.472 Cheapest gas found: $2.369/gallon in Greenville, SC on 8/23 States traversed: 5 Texas license plates spotted: … Continue reading
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The Life and Times
Since the ultrasound, I have reorganized Kate’s room and closet, reorganized the storage closet in the hall and reorganized our closet. I finished sewing a Mei Tai baby carrier to easily carry Kate on my back. I have been stain … Continue reading
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She’s a Girl!
Kathryn Lilia and her parents are pleased to announce that her in utero sibling is a girl named Alexine Antoinette, which are both family names. Lexi is expected to make her debut this Christmas season (or in the very last … Continue reading
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Pregnancy Update
I’m 19.5 weeks along now. I kicked the Zofran habit a month ago (praise God!) and have been feeling much better, though still pretty tired. I started feeling the baby move at week 15 and now Mike can feel the … Continue reading
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