Great news! I passed the CPN exam! I am now a Certified Pediatric Nurse and I get to put extra letters after my name. Wahoo! Cindy Lou Who...
Great news! I passed the CPN exam! I am now a Certified Pediatric Nurse and I get to put extra letters after my name. Wahoo! Cindy Lou Who...
Ice cream is a big comfort food for me, and unfortunately with baby's reflux I can't have it. My husband who loves me found a recipe...
I created this recipe with my extremely limiting dietary restrictions in mind using things I happened to have in my fridge and pantry. So if...
October was a crap shoot: newborn with pretty bad reflux, 4 surgeries, a root canal, Halloween, ring-around-the-rosie with the insurance com...
When Thing 1 and Thing 2 were infants they had clogged tear ducts. They almost constantly produced these really thick tears that would dry ...
Lately I haven't been doing much with my food storage because there is so much of it that I can't eat due to the fact it makes my b...
First of all I have to say thank you to all of my readers who have stuck with me despite the fact that my posts have been very sporadic. Li...
Whether you choose to breast-feed your infant or not, is a very personal decision. When I first started working on a Postpartum unit the ...
Several weeks ago we found ourselves with a surplus of plums from our Bountiful Basket. I remember when I was growing up my mom and grandmo...
When I was nineteen I started developing varicose veins. It's genetic. I started wearing support stocking religiously, but let's fa...
Postpartum blues effects up to 85% of women in the period after they have given birth. Postpartum depression is a more severe condition tha...
For those of you just tuning in, every week I try to do something to get my house in order (fix things, get out of debt, etc) and purchase s...
When you move somewhere new, it can be hard to know where to go for various goods and services. It certainly took me awhile to figure it ou...
I swear I have a dozen blog posts bouncing around in my head, but not enough time to write them. That is, time where I'm in the 'wr...
Maintaining a clean house is just about that, maintaining . You've got to keep the mess at a certain level. If you aren't constantly...
You may have noticed that my posts have been a little more sporadic lately. I'm still here, still buying and using food storage, still ...
I didn't quite make my typical preparedness goals, but I feel entirely justified because it was over 100 degrees here every single day o...
Cindy Lou-Who modeling the W brand diaper Through personal experience and talking to other moms I have determined that when it comes small ...
So last week, a few hours after delivering Miss Cindy Lou-Who, I got online to order a Bountiful Basket (which btw was an awesome basket). O...
Miss Cindy Lou Who arrived Monday afternoon weighing 7 pounds even. Everything went perfectly (I was pretty shocked). Now I'm at home re...
With any luck by the time you are reading this I will no longer be pregnant. Hooray! Pregnancy itself is a generally an unpleasant experienc...
Whenever I have made chile verde sauce my family pretty much inhales it. Here's the secret to my awesome chile verde sauce: I throw in ...
So a few years ago I opened a Upromise account to get a head start on saving for my kids college. It's somewhat like Ebates . You get a ...
Sometime in the last month we got green beans in our Bountiful Basket. My husband has a tendency to turn his nose up at green beans and my k...
Recently a neighbor asked me where I find my coupons. Here's my list. Newspapers - I take a subscription to the Deseret News and Salt La...
Last week I wrote a post with a vegetarian recipe and some good reasons to consider becoming a vegetarian, or at least eating less meat. A...