Archive for August, 2007

Nesting, labor, and delivery - an odyssey!

Niki on Aug 27th 2007

I was thinking this morning, while I was out on my daily Home Depot run, that all of this has kind of been like another pregnancy.  Sure, it hasn’t lasted 9 months, and I haven’t gained (much) weight, but the last seven weeks of labor have been hard.  My other 2 were only 13.5 hours [...]

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The legend of Bigfoot

Niki on Aug 11th 2007

So, when I was younger, there was a point in time where my feet grew a whole lot faster than the rest of me.  My dad thought it funny to call me Sasquatch, though of course I did not see the humor in that.  Now I’m fully grown (I hope), and have a pretty normal [...]

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Exercising the grateful muscles

Niki on Aug 3rd 2007

Crazy Aunt Purl is a little sad and introspective in this post, but she ends with a great line that I (and maybe you) really needed today:
Work with what I’ve got. Exercise the grateful muscles. Stop waiting. Conditions are right now, and that is what I have to work with.
Exercise the grateful muscles - how [...]

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