I recently read The Alpha Strategy, by John A. Pugsley, which asserts that the best investment in an economy like ours is tangible goods, because of inflation and other eroders of value. A post at Coffee Tea Books and Me outlines basically the same strategy.
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I was reading in Nehemiah how debts with (if I [...]
There has been so much spiritual warfare stuff going on here this fall, impeding the completion of my book, and other projects that we are trying to get going. One thing after another; interruptions, illnesses, and we just now found out that some witless minion smashed out a window of our car TO STEAL [...]
As I mentioned in the previous post, the House health care bill has a bizarre little bit about freestanding birth centers buried in it. I was surprised to come across it when I was skimming the bill. Now I see why it’s there: Midwives are much cheaper than obstetricians. Birth centers [...]
He’s a little sweetheart. Big head, lots of blond hair. Still nursing along just fine. He only cries when he’s too full of gas.
1. That breastfeeding success rates for hospital births would significantly improve if they simply fed the mothers better. Not being allowed to eat or drink in labor, then having a good chance of not being fed a real meal until hours and hours after, probably does not help the milk to come in. [...]
People were asking how I was feeling, being so close to the due date. Most were surprised when I said that I felt pretty good, and that I wouldn’t mind being pregnant for a couple more weeks. The reason, really, is that at the moment I’m not sick, so I feel a lot [...]
Finally I’m getting some nesting energy, in the evenings. I’ve been using it to tie up some loose ends in the birth preparations, and finish various little projects. Last night I even did some of next week’s tasks from my things-to-do-before-labor list. I don’t feel like starting anything new right now.
The baby’s [...]
I don’t put much stock in the baby’s actual due date. OLC came at 42 weeks and 3 days, and wasn’t postmature at all. (On some of the hospital paperwork, they even put her down as “39 weeks”–I have no idea why.) For home birth purposes here, my midwife can attend births [...]
….for the Entwives desired order, and plenty, and peace (by which they meant that things should remain where they had set them).
That is precisely my mood today.
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Apparently I’ve reached the stage of pregnancy where I absolutely must have a good crossword puzzle book. This happened last time, too. Puzzle book has been obtained, [...]
Joy had a long, and good, post about being in Generation X. I could relate to much of it, though not all. Part of the reason, I think, is parental age: my dad is much too old to be a Boomer, and my mother falls right on the edge. So they [...]