I decided that I’m not interesting in starting a whole new blog on frugal baby tips (especially since that is already being competently covered by another member of the Body of Christ at The Frugal Baby), but I do have a few things on the subject to blog about, so I created a new category [...]
Today I’m quite tired, and probably coming down with something. TLG woke up all bright and happy at 4 am this morning, but I was awake then anyway–I’ve reached the phase where I’m starting to shift to the baby’s sleep schedule. The baby was kicking with gusto at 4 am too.
Last [...]
Last week, I was stupid and gave my computer a virus. It took more than a day to fight it off; I’m watching now to see if it’s really gone.
Before Christmas, I had a project of covering the plywood side of my enclosed loft/personal space, which is behind the couch. Originally, I was [...]
I got the employer health care packet for 2011 to review. Riveting reading, as always.
For once, our health insurance premiums are staying flat. The HMO accomplished this amazing feat by jacking the out-of-network deductibles Through the Flipping Roof. They compensated for this (slightly) by increasing the percentages of out-of-network expenses covered after [...]
Just read an article about newborn screening in an old issue of a parenting magazine from last spring. There’s a little steam coming out of my ears now, because the article lays out all the benefits of the newborn screen, but none of the risks, and paints parents who opt out as reckless and [...]
(Here I am thinking mostly of the next five to ten years; a lot depends on what happens with health care reform.)
Prediction Three-A: The childbirth scene will become increasingly polarized; the c-section rate will continue to rise (at least until government takes over health care and starts slashing costs), but so will the natural [...]
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.