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Contrary to the way my I have portrayed myself, I don’t actually sit around watching TV day in and day out. The arrival of a baby to this house has actually awoken my hibernating nesting instinct! So here are some domestic updates for you, aka boring things that I’m now excited about. Meredith is wearing cloth diapers now! At a little over ten pounds, she finally fits into her small Fuzzibunz. She’s been wearing them for about a week now and I love it SO much. I was worried about the transition, but it has been extremely easy! Honestly, I would choose cloth diapers just because of how much fun it is for me, to say nothing about the money-and-planet-saving…
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August has been an excellent month. I didn’t have to work at all, got so much done around the house, and made lots of progress on this whole motherhood thing. It was easy to come up with one good thing each day! 1 – Organizing the nursery more thoroughly and getting my nails done 2 – Lots of relaxing and reading 3 – Newborn pics with Cio and going through the birth pics 4 – Watching David hold Meredith and sing her to sleep 5 – My mother-in-law meeting Meredith for the first time (she was out of town by necessity when M. was born) 6 – Making a Moby wrap and wearing Meredith in it successfully 7 – My…
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Since I’ve been on maternity leave I’ve had a lot more time on my hands. It’s not always time that can be used on just anything, though, because the baby refuses to be put down for any stretch of time. So I’ve found myself watching a lot more TV than usual. And since I started writing reviews for ApeDonkey, an entertainment blog run by my brother and his friend, I’ve become even more interested in TV in general. So my thing is that I refuse to jump in on a show in the middle if it is a serialized drama. That’s why I’ve been watching a lot of competitive reality shows, since they start new every season. (But I do…
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For the first several weeks of maternity leave we had a network of wonderful people bringing us dinner. I can’t recommend this enough. Delicious food would just magically appear! And then, all of a sudden, it stopped. Another couple weeks later and we ran out of leftovers and frozen meals. After a few days of really pathetic meals I realized that there is nothing stopping me from cooking. I’ve never been “into” cooking and haven’t done all that much of it. The preparation overwhelms me, I’ve never had anyone teach me anything,  and my husband is kind of a picky eater. BUT, we can’t afford to eat out much and convenience foods are unhealthy, so I know that cooking is…
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I’ve seen a lot of “what’s in my diaper bag” posts lately, which I love, but most of them are for older babies or toddlers and I still have a (basically) newborn. So here’s what’s in my diaper bag for a little bitty baby, and I’ll do another post of this sort later on when she’s grown some and our supplies have changed. Here’s our diaper bag, the Skip Hop Duo. So far I think it’s great. I chose basic black so it would go with anything and David wouldn’t feel weird carrying it. I still dream of super cute diaper bags but they are also super expensive. This one has all the function we need, with plenty of inside…
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