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Biruk weaned a little after he turned two.  And of course, he’d only been nursing as a supplement for a while, by then.  He’s 5 now, so that’s 3+ years between nursing him any significant amount and nursing this […]

I let the boys’ birthdays pass without mention.  Bad mommy.  What can I say?  I don’t have the time or emotional energy to write each one of them a long, emotionally deep, memory-filled blog letter.  I did keep up […]

Of course it’s always nice to have an excuse to show off my baby.  But as I was making this pj set I thought it would be a fun project to share, it’s so easy.

If you do your cutting right, you won’t have to […]

And oh, so sweet.  The newborn is all gone.  The unique little personality emerging.  Every indication points to the probability that we’re going to have a little firecracker on our hands as she grows and gets […]

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Your food is becoming lumps of green because the food has expired past the expiring dates.  Everyone hates your food except the racoons and flies.  Yesterday the Mayor […]

Six people.  Wow.  That sounds like a lot.  It’s not so bad really.  Mihiret just slid right into the family without too many hiccups.  I am a lot busier now.  Mostly because she went from sleeping all the time to […]

Well, part of it.  Excuse the shoddy camera work.  I was jostling a fussy baby while trying to take video.  I am Queen of Multitasking.

Nothing super special.  No crazy antics this year.  I guess the […]

I’ve been aquainted with Crystal Paine for a long time now.  First through her blogging, and then a short period working under her direction at The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.  She’s got energy that most of us can […]

People keep asking if it’s different having a girl.  Aside from the pink and frills (I admit to having fun with that), not so much.  Well, diaper changes.  Diaper changes are definitely different.  I’m sure it will get “different” as she gets older.  But mostly right now, she’s just a baby, same as her brothers once [...]

I was happy about finally getting a “sleepy baby” And then she stopped sleeping. Either she was paying attention when the lactation consultant told me she needed to eat more at night in order to put on some more weight, or she doesn’t like second-hand chocolate in her milk. Whichever it is, I’m in trouble.  [...]

When they came to see her in the hospital, they got all mushy-faced and teary-eyed.  I’m sure some of that was seeing Mama after 3 days without me, but the gooshy feelings were undeniable when they each got to hold her in their arms. Now we are home, and they still adore her, each in [...]

  She’s here! Napping in her carseat as I write, like a little turtle with her arms and legs pulled into the body of her outfit. She is so tiny and everything is so big on her, even newborn sizes.  I was not expecting to have such a tiny baby. Was not expecting to have [...]

Biruk will be five in a few months.  Time flies!  Of all the boys, his pre-school experience has been by far the least formal and most relaxed.  He knew his alphabet by age two, and recognized and wrote his name at 3, but those were things that happened naturally, not with sit-down lessons.  Same for math.  He [...]