tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-279617332012-01-21T01:33:33.512-08:00not nehehehearly as annoying as herSonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.comBlogger5521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-7226988664966198992012-01-21T01:33:00.000-08:002012-01-21T01:33:33.525-08:00

Forgive me, blog people - I completely dropped the ball on telling you who won the print give-away during Brenda's book tour! Random.org chose comment number 6, which came from Christy at Jinxyisms. Christy, I'll be emailing you to find out your mailing address, and then you should get your print in the mail very soon! Congratulations!

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty: One of my Christmas presents - a quilt that was made by my mother-in-law's mom and grandma. Click on the picture to read the full story behind the gift. Happy: Noah at the airport, watching our plane being loaded up with luggage and food. Noah and I are in Germany, visiting family! We've recovered from our jet lag(s) (

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty: pyramid in motion window star oranges with cloves for smelling good There's been quite some decorating and crafting around here! The pyramid is imported from Germany - my parents brought it when they spent Christmas with us here two years ago. The best part of the pyramid was the look of wide-eyed wonder and happiness

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I'm jumping on the 7 Sachen* bandwagon - an idea from the lovely Frau Liebe. Every Sunday (or sometimes Monday), 7 photos of things I used my hands for that day. Unfortunately, I didn't remember the project until late this afternoon, so more than half the day went undocumented.  Baked gingerbread boys with my human boy. (Turned out delicious if a little spicy. Hello, Cardamom!) Rinsed a lot

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This has not been the Best Week Ever, so I've been reduced to bullet blogging. I'm blogging from my shiny new laptop (which of course is awesome and NOT part of the not-the-best-week-ever thing), so until I figure out some photo-related stuff, there are no photos. Sorry. I had a chiropractic adjustment yesterday. It involved a lot of massage and only gentle cracking (oxymoron?), but I'm really

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Happy first week of Advent!

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The pies are defrosting as we speak, the bread for the stuffing is drying out (aka being stale-ified), the turkey is defrosting in the fridge, and I have enough potatoes to make food for a small army. I made cranberry sauce on Sunday, and it turns out that making it ahead of time was a really good idea, because it gave me the chance to boil it again on Monday (when I realized it hadn't

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I'm so excited to be part of Brenda's (aka Secret Agent Josephine) super-stealthy book tour! Brenda has  written and illustrated three beautiful kid's books! I have a tendency to be picky, and I'm certainly picky about which books are on Noah's shelves (and not only because I'm the one who gets to read them over and over and over again). These three have my stamp of approval. stealthy

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I've been working on a big project for a while, and we're finally ready for a preliminary reveal: This little person is due to arrive early in May, which puts me at around 15 or 16 weeks. I've been feeling alive and human again since the first trimester ended, which is a pretty amazing feeling when you've spent a good two months constantly nauseated and a part of that time feeling that things

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... but it was really long and stressful, so I figured I'd just post a photo instead. I spotted this when we were in San Francisco in September: It was immediately clear to me: It's a miniature TARDIS! (It's bigger on the inside.) (If you don't understand this at all, do not worry. I'll be back to non-Doctor-Who-related content next week.)

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty: Apple peels from my apple pie making. My little helper happily munched on these (all the vitamins etc. are right under the peel you know!) while I cored and cut the apples. Happy: Sharing my third of the apple harvest from our back yard with my little buddy. It was delicious. (And yes, his hands were clean. His

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Sunday afternoon, we made our way to the General Sherman Tree. It's not the tallest, but still the largest tree (by volume). A moment after I snapped this photo, my mom (I think) said something along the lines of "IS THAT A BEAR?!!" and... sure enough, it was: He slowly made his way down the hill, across the paved walkway, under the fence, and toward the tree. He got really close to people

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I took home two (raw) pie crusts on Saturday, intending to make apple pies. I wasn't feeling great yesterday, so I put the project off until today. What made the pie-ing more challenging was that my apple pie recipe requires a second crust for a lid, so I needed to make more pie crust. Next, I made a mistake measuring the shortening and was forced to add almost a whole cup of extra flour,

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pies cooling on my counter We were invited to a pie making extravaganza yesterday. There were three of us making pie crusts (with "help" from the children) and two of us making pumpkin pie filling, and way too many children running around like crazy (aka "playing"). We'd cranked out about 20 pies by the time we sat down for dinner! It was sort of exhausting, but also really fun. I liked being

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty: The last (good) strawberries of this season meet the first (good) apples of the next season. Yum. Happy: A little dottery bowl I painted for Bethany with lyrics from the Scrubs musical. Basically, it's a flying-your-geek-flag way of saying "Hey, I'm glad you're my friend." More pottery - Noah drew a sun

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Last week, we met some friends at the pumpkin patch. It was a beautiful day, the kids got along great (as did the adults, haha), the petting zoo was filled with gentle creatures (it was the least scary petting zoo I've ever been to), and we only lost the kids in the corn maze for a very short moment. I call that a win. Pretty: I

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On day 3, we packed up early and headed back towards civilization. Our first stop was the (very busy with Sunday visitors) General Grant Tree, which is the second-largest sequoia. Those giant sequoias are really impressive, but it's hard (bordering on impossible with my photo equipment) to actually capture their hugeness in a picture. As a matter of fact, it's hard to grasp just how tall those

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty & Happy: I've been doing some knitting with super-exciting, beautiful Noro yarn. It's Japanese and expensive, but the pattern called for it and when I saw it in the yarn store, I couldn't resist it. I bought it for the hat I made for myself, but I had (more than) enough left over to make a stocking cap for Noah. He's not a

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Right after Labor Day, my parents flew in from Germany. The same week, we rented a minivan and hit the road.   We witnessed this beautiful sunset somewhere along my least favorite road in the universe. I had used google maps to plan our route, and we followed our directions through Bakersfield and Visalia, then made a left onto the CA 245. At first, we drove along orchards and farmland that were

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-912815583809586332011-09-02T18:32:00.001-07:002011-09-02T18:35:14.937-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I realize this isn't a white horse, but it was the only horse photo I found in my flickr stream. Every time I vacuum, I think of this story my grandpa used to tell about his time in the military. Today, I finally

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty:   I've been a little photo-lazy this past week, so I actually had to dig deeper into my pictures folder for this post. Earlier this month, I spent a lovely almost-whole-weekend in San Diego with a bunch of wonderful friends. We had a giggly slumber party and went on a photo-walk (among other things) the next day. This is one of

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~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Pretty:   I like the way the dew pearls on the edges of my butternut leaves. BTW, I've harvested my first butternut squashes, and they're delicious. Happy:     My little kitchen helper. Cheese-grating is not a new skill, but it still makes him happy and proud to contribute to a meal. Funny:   We took a bike ride into town for

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The Thing I've dreaded for so many months has happened. The Thing that other mothers have warned me about with wide-eyed looks of terror.* Noah no longer naps. And while I now deal with a tired boy for a couple of hours in the late afternoon (with the fit-throwing and the inability to deal with anything and the crying at the drop of a hat), and I lost my beautiful mid-afternoon break, I also

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We had a wedding to go to today, and while I had done my fair share of thinking about the gift, I stopped thinking about it when we decided to give cash. It wasn't until it was practically time to leave that we realized that we had cash, but not a card to put it into. So I made one. BAM! I was so pleased with myself! And then, later that afternoon, I made a bird bath! I did some googling and

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Since I cut dairy out of my diet last fall (almost a year ago!), I haven't had any pudding. I can't say that I missed it much (I'm just not that big on pudding), but I came across a fairy-food pudding recipe the other day which made me want pudding, so I figured I'd give it a try. I didn't have any tapioca or arrowroot starch, so I used regular old corn starch instead. It took the utmost

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-13781531600604083882011-08-08T21:56:00.000-07:002011-08-08T21:59:36.373-07:00

 This year, I decided to have two birthday parties for Noah. A lot of The Husband's family lives in the area, so having a family gathering can end up being over 30 people strong. I wanted to also invite a few friends and figured that two parties with around 25 guests would be more fun that one party with around 50 guests. It was an exhausting weekend with back-to-back parties, but it was also a

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 The child, he is now three.  He played with his train set for quite some time, which gave me a chance to bake millions of cupcakes (roughly) for the big birthday bash this weekend.  I'm thinking three is going to be fun. Happy birthday, kid!

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I love that our town has these wading pools in a few of the parks. Too bad they're only open while school's out for the summer and then only for two hours on weekdays. They're free though, so I won't complain too much.

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blurry but hilarious Tuesday night, I had a chance to get away and meet my friend Jen for dinner. Taking a break from mom-ing makes the actual mom-ing more fun the next day, ya know?! Jen is a good listener and a good talker and also pretty funny. She also happened to have the above-pictured nosey-things in her purse (they're nose-pieces for Jen's daughter's upcoming dental work, sent home by

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Noah playing in Annalie's pool last month - happy as a clam. Yesterday, Noah had his first swim lesson. He spent the entire 25 minutes we were in the (3 feet deep) water clinging to me for dear life and crying that he wanted to get out. I can't say that I was surprised - he loves to play with and in the water, but he's not a fan of deep water (and when you're not quite 3 feet tall, lots of

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I spent several hours yesterday working on a blog post. The harder I tried and the longer I sat there and thought about it, the less I was able to put my feelings into words. The problem, I think, is that I don't actually have any answers; I only have rudimentary ideas. This morning, I came to the conclusion that I needed to give up on eloquence and just say what I had to say without trying to be

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We've been having all kinds of fun. Sightseeing in DC, meeting up with Karyl, going to the National Zoo, taking a train to New York to meet Sarah (who's vacationing there - great timing!), painting pottery, hanging out with friends in Maryland, depriving our children of regular naps... Obviously, with all the doing of stuff, there hasn't been a whole lot of time for blogging (though I'm proud to

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Today, Noah drew something person-like for the first time. It's a sun! It has feet and shoes. After he'd drawn a few of those in different sizes and colors, he introduced a bit of variation: These suns have stripes, and the red sun has a baby sun. I'm in love with these drawings.

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 I snapped this photo of our dinner on the iPod, then decided to use it in a blog post, so I emailed it to the blog, intending to write the actual post once the photo was up. As I sat there typing, my internet connection went out, which makes blogging basically impossible. And then I was internetless for a good long while and went to bed. So here's what I'd have written/vented if I'd had a chance

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So, this happened today: hanging out by the basket with the cookbooks When we were saying goodbye to some friends who'd come to visit, a lizard ran into the house through the wide-open front door (note to self: get screen doors). When I tried to chase it back outside, it ran across Noah's feet underneath the fridge. Figuring that there was no way I could get to it, I put Noah down for an

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Thank you for all your kind comments, emails, mail, and phone calls! The long and short of it is that breaking down (in a small way, I assure you) made me think and talk, and thinking and talking made me feel better. And so things have been better. I've been working on sewing projects and in the yard, and I started working out again. Yesterday, we took advantage of the springy weather and used

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Life has been interesting - moving along just fine, with good days and not so good days, just as life is wont to do. But the undercurrent has changed over the last 5 months or so. Some big, non-happy things happened. (Yes, I hate it when bloggers are vague like that. The thing is, if you're close to me, you know what those things are. If you don't know what those things are, they're none of your

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I've officially been blogging for six years now!

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hydrating, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard.I was having a lovely lunch on a sunny bench next to a fountain yesterday (ALL ALONE, WHICH WAS MARVELOUS), when a hummingbird zoomed by, landed on the edge of the fountain,

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Noah likes animals. He often asks me if we can "go to the amables" today. Usually, the answer is one of my cleverly designed distractions, like "HEY! Wanna go to the ... (pregnant pause, excited voice) ... GROCERY STORE today?! It's going to be SO. MUCH. FUNNNN!"* Not today though - today, we met our friends at the LA Zoo. They have a membership and were nice enough to use one of their guest

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Noah and I have been a little cabin-fevery lately. We no longer work, and toddler gymnastics is on hiatus for a few more weeks.Cabin-fever makes it hard to get along, you guys! Noah is acting his age and I run out of patience quickly... we needed something to do! One thing I remember as a constant in my childhood (and I mean "one of many," not "the one and only" constant here) is crafting. We

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Noah wandered into the bathroom while I was showering this morning and decided that he wanted to "shower wif Mama." He then took off his pajamas and diaper and even went potty (unprompted!) before climbing into the shower. I was so proud! Though unfortunately, he'd pooped in the diaper first, so when I got out of the shower, I had the pleasure of cleaning toddler excrement off the floor and

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It's been pretty characteristically spring-like weather around here, so Noah and I have been hanging out in the back yard. He plays in the sand and mud and tells me long stories about mixing sand and dirt and about how he's not supposed to do that. Yesterday, I was weeding in my (currently defunct) vegetable beds (while my nemesis, the gopher, looked on from his hole that's in between the beds).

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Parenting has been kicking my butt lately. It seems that everything I do/say/cook/play/suggest is wrong. It feels like Noah's entire (impressive) vocabulary has been replaced by NEIN!!! (no) and ALLEINE!!!! (alone). Also, his voice can only whine, and loudly at that. He wakes up grumpy from his naps, he screams when I ask him to go potty, and he runs away from me in stores. He's even upset when

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-52635001649780697942011-01-13T22:44:00.000-08:002011-01-13T22:44:40.202-08:00

... I made something today!

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-28366311275921476892011-01-11T16:16:00.000-08:002011-01-11T16:38:09.521-08:00

Every time we get home from Germany, the change in our living environment (you know... going from my parents' house back to our own) makes it really apparent how much Noah has grown. Yesterday, for instance, I turned my back on him for a moment and found him sitting on the kitchen counter when I turned back. He couldn't get up there on his own six weeks ago! One of his new tricks is taking

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-83892717042116387162011-01-10T21:31:00.000-08:002011-01-10T21:35:33.170-08:00

Happy new year!

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taken at the San Diego Zoo I remember reading about the hilarity that Annalie produces on a regular basis a while ago, and being impatient for Noah to start being similarly funny... The funny has arrived! Flamingos have become a small-scale obsession for the boy. The other day, we were on the phone with my sister. A propos of nothing, Noah said "Flamingos are loud." Hee, hee. A little while

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-9150794019816504342010-10-30T14:59:00.000-07:002010-10-30T14:59:45.343-07:00

We're potty learning. It's working okay so far - Noah is diaper-free while he's awake and dry if I remember to make him go to the bathroom. It's a start. You can read all about it here.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-70233823164863740162010-10-21T15:27:00.001-07:002010-10-21T15:27:57.811-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Düne, originally uploaded by Inka's Redezeit. My sister just returned from vacationing in Juist, which is more or less the best island, ever. I'm barely containing my jealousy.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-66271048017082791842010-10-17T16:12:00.000-07:002010-10-17T20:02:02.558-07:00

Do you ever not write a blog post because there's something else you wanted to blog about that happened earlier? I'd love to tell you all about our mini-vacation adventures, but I haven't written about our visit to the county fair last month yet. And I can't tell you about my new vitamix until I've done the vacation post. In order to get current, I've decided to lob September into one post.

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So, this happened. Bethany and Annalie came to California for an epic two-week visit, and while they were here, we saw a lot of Brenda and Bug as well. The above is a shot taken by Bethany in the Ikea parking structure, because no sooner had Bethany arrived at my house from the airport that I made everyone go to Ikea. And then to Trader Joe's. We really didn't slow down much during this visit.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-48496889949574616042010-08-29T13:20:00.000-07:002010-08-29T13:27:34.673-07:00

One of my favorite things online is my 7days flickr group. Four times a year, we each take a self-portrait every day for a week, upload it to the group on flickr, and comment away. It's amazing how much you find out about a person and their lives in 7days. I first found the group through Elaine, then met Bethany there, got to know Bonnie better... basically, the 7days group is the bellybutton of

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-19212724202878086802010-08-25T09:50:00.001-07:002010-08-25T09:50:00.214-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } big one, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Only plant ONE zucchini plant next summer.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-6973381878159150192010-08-25T00:08:00.001-07:002010-08-25T00:16:33.757-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } I knitted that!, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!.A while ago, I found a knitting pattern online for a hat with a lace pattern. I had never knitted lace before, but my twitter peeps pledged their support

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-89871123616770501592010-08-23T21:54:00.000-07:002010-08-23T21:55:38.709-07:00

Bonnie and I have been trying (in vain) to meet in person for well over a year, and it finally, FINALLY worked out! I'm co-leading the local chapter of the Holistic Moms Network, and when we decided to hold our July meeting as an idea-share panel discussion about homeschooling, I realized that here was my chance! Bonnie homeschools, so I decided to invite her. And would you know it? She was

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-54951673874773532212010-08-16T22:51:00.001-07:002010-08-16T22:53:02.540-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hello, is this the squash hotline?, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!.Here's hoping that a cute photo of an adorable toddler doing something silly will tide you over until I scrape together enough brain

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-55520662553920093142010-07-11T17:16:00.001-07:002010-07-11T17:16:42.189-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } love!, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Yesterday, I jumped at the chance of babysitting two little chicks for a few hours. Those birds... they are so soft and sweet and chirpy! We let them run around

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-24669529473229163152010-07-08T22:46:00.000-07:002010-07-08T22:46:19.144-07:00

7/7/2008 7/7/2009 7/7/2010 Happy Birthday, sweet boy!

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-61170894631451583752010-07-07T23:10:00.001-07:002010-07-07T23:10:27.362-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } cracking up, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. The other day, we had lunch at a restaurant down in the OC. Noah got bored waiting for his food and started checking out the restaurant. Now, I get that

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Bethany told me to blog more, so here I am. Incidentally, if she told me to jump off a cliff, I don't think I'd do it. Unless it was one of those awesome jumping-off cliffs with delightful tropical waters below, and perhaps a lifeguard or two. Actually, even then I probably wouldn't jump. Scared of heights, I'm afraid. Bethany didn't tell me to watch Bones, but she did mention she liked it a lot,

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-55845526515587728322010-04-25T23:16:00.000-07:002010-04-25T23:16:00.662-07:00

Tonight, we took Noah out to dinner with Grandma and Grandpa. On the way back to the car, he demanded to hold Grandma's hand, then grabbed Grandpa's hand as well (say it with me - awwwww!). Of course, he took advantage of the situation and started swinging. Also of course, the grandparents were delighted. Then grandpa thought it would be funny to swing Noah up to lightly kick Papa's butt. Noah

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-45717230320293493232010-04-22T23:25:00.000-07:002010-04-23T07:28:30.661-07:00

A weird thing happened a few days ago: we had no plans for a whole Saturday. None. It was the perfect opportunity to go on a little family field trip to see some wildflowers. We hiked up and down and all around "Wildflower Hill." Noah impressed me by walking most of the trail on his own. There were sticks to carry around and big rocks to sit on, so he was a happy camper. This part was a little

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-63351649128826560162010-04-05T15:07:00.001-07:002010-04-05T15:17:53.385-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } chair-sitter, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Happy Easter, everybunny!We did an "egg" hunt/photoshoot in the front yard before church... Enjoy!

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-6521900098674005172010-04-02T20:00:00.000-07:002010-04-02T20:42:49.940-07:00

The child... he grows. Like a weed. We recently discovered a really nice park with a very cool play structure when we were invited to a birthday party there. Noah particularly liked the bridge.It also had a bunch of little slidey tunnels I really liked. I think we'll be back.(So. This is a new low, yes? A blog entry about a playground? I'll do better. But hey, cute photos. That counts for

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-42133560818799575372010-01-21T08:21:00.001-08:002010-01-21T08:21:40.003-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sewing on Brenda's machine, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Wednesday involved more epic rain, a blogger get-together, and a sparkly craft. A good day.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-53841137381809060462010-01-19T22:45:00.001-08:002010-01-19T22:50:55.726-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } smile, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Even though we had spectacular amounts of rain today (even including a bonus thunderstorm!), we actually managed to use a small window of sunshine for a quick walk

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-785000970746102092010-01-17T21:13:00.000-08:002010-01-17T21:37:40.269-08:00

We loafed around today. (Is that even a word?) (Oh, yes! It is. Good.) (Anyways.) We lingered over breakfast and played around on the internet. We took our time in the shower and watched half a movie. The nice thing about being woken up at 6:30am is that there is so much morning to loaf away... after all that loafing, it was still early (not even 11 yet), so we walked on down to the farmer's

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-23322768692640806932010-01-16T22:32:00.000-08:002010-01-16T23:07:08.098-08:00

My sister is visiting and I'm determined to blog every day-ish of her stay. Yesterday was completely unexciting - drive to LAX and back with a sick child, freaking out over a head injury*, early bedtime all around. But today! Today was interesting.First, Inka and I took Noah for a walk and to play in a park. There was a reassuring number of toddlers with bruises/band aids on their head, which

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-66739592586838085942010-01-13T08:43:00.001-08:002010-01-13T08:43:46.859-08:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fidel Castro?, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. We had the most awesome party to celebrate the return of Chuck this past weekend. More details later, when I have recovered sufficiently from staying up

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-77426065905094587602009-12-30T15:31:00.001-08:002009-12-30T15:32:47.129-08:00

rainy day boots, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!.I will eventually get back to regular blogging (anyone smell a 2010 resolution?!), but for now, this'll have to do.

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We don't have TV at home. I mean... we have a TV, but we have no TV reception. I used to get a fuzzy version of channel 9, but with the digital switch, that's gone too, so I'm down to zero channels. This works really well for our family.But.But when I have the chance, I TV-binge (It's one of the reasons why having no TV at home works so well for us - I just don't have it in me to turn the dang

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-13897431154128239692009-10-31T22:03:00.000-07:002009-10-31T22:49:34.043-07:00

Just over a week ago, The Husband had to attend a training in Atlanta, GA. Since I didn't feel much like single-parenting for a week and a friend of mine told me that Atlanta was a super-family-friendly, happy, delightful town, we decided that we'd all go together.I was envisioning a hotel in walking distance to, well, everything. I wanted to go see the zoo and the aquarium and perhaps check out

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-30122816229636006612009-10-30T15:05:00.000-07:002011-08-13T19:22:28.700-07:00

After considering and reconsidering several possibilities, I settled on making Noah's party a Very Hungry Caterpillar party. I spent a lot of time and effort on making the invitations. Brenda had the wonderful idea for making it an accordion-folded caterpillar, and I loved it, so I didn't mind slaving away cutting out ovals until the proverbial cows came home. As an added bonus, all the guests

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-91254408972109463802009-09-28T16:22:00.000-07:002009-10-27T21:44:03.811-07:00

(Hey, did you know that you can either raise a toddler (aka defend your house) or blog about living with one? Forgive my blog silence.)Noah's birthday was, of course, celebrated in a big way. I started thinking about party themes months and months before his birthday, which is amazing considering that I'm usually more of a "Oh, hey! Your birthday is next week. Should we call some people?" kind of

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-49639431765138397932009-08-19T23:19:00.001-07:002009-08-19T23:23:10.720-07:00

Ohhh, it splatters!, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!.I had the bright idea to make fingerpaint today. I googled how to, then mixed water, corn starch, and food coloring. I followed the directions, but my paints came out super runny (as you can see). I think next time I'd try to make a paste by adding slowly and gradually adding water to corn starch.However that may be, we "

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-20615535637284716682009-08-14T10:27:00.000-07:002009-08-14T10:43:15.494-07:00

Remember that bit about starting a couch-to-5k program?It all started with a good friend telling me that she was soooo excited to train for a 5k. My first thought was that this was a silly idea because, well, running is so... well, I hate running. The program she told me about sounded really good and easy enough, so thoughts of the possibility of training with her swirled in my head for a day or

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-15359443234795477812009-08-13T21:40:00.000-07:002009-08-13T21:50:39.121-07:00

twitter-ingfacebook-ingflickr-ingwatching Chuck, then re-watching Chucktalking other people into watching Chuckhanging out at the beachpainting pottery with Bethanyriding my bike with Noah on the back in his new bike seatcooking from my new cookbookstarting a couch to 5K program to prove that I can do itplaying board games with friendsre-arranging furniture (IKEA has new stuff! Squeeee!)working

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-66542515850069654402009-07-27T20:33:00.000-07:002009-08-03T20:54:05.049-07:00

We celebrated Noah's birthday by eating cake, playing in the newly built sandbox with brand-new super cool sand toysand having dinner at a Mexican restaurant in town where Noah got to eat his first few bites of restaurant food (he approved). After dinner, we tore into the pile of presents, played with the bounty, and then tucked a tired big boy-baby hybrid into bed.It was a good day, celebrating

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-14918050270428652542009-07-13T10:27:00.001-07:002009-07-13T10:27:07.606-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } easy rider, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. I know you're all angling for birthday photos, but those'll take some more time... Meanwhile, here's the big boy, ready to ride his new favorite thing.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-48755137901459627812009-07-07T00:09:00.001-07:002009-07-07T00:09:42.193-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } sleepy snugglefist, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Somebody is having a birthday today... maybe this mommyblogger will get around to writing a proper entry for the occasion later.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-74381093569201705052009-07-01T17:29:00.000-07:002009-07-01T17:31:12.656-07:00

I finally got my hair cut!(Click on photo to view decent size... a bigger flickr picture won't fit into my blog's template.)

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Someone found my blog by ask.com-ing "girl poops diaper." Uhh, okay then!

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-67281783086517249482009-06-10T21:14:00.000-07:002009-06-10T21:52:43.512-07:00

I was going to write a weepy how-can-my-baby-be-almost-a-year-old-already post, but then he interrupted me and, well, now I'm over it. ("It" being writing the post, not the general freaked-out-ness over the VERY OLD BABY I now mother.)Just for your information, though:one year agonowIt's officially crazy.But (as the Monty Python boys say) now for something completely different!I am once again

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-33301581545339205772009-06-08T23:18:00.000-07:002009-06-08T23:24:29.814-07:00

On Friday, Noah was taking things out of his diaper bag. When I checked back in on him a few moments later, he had found my apple and was TAKING BITES out of it. He loved it.(And now he's waking up and wants milkies and mama cuddles. Because he is a big boy during the day, but he's still a snugglebaby at night. Thank God!)

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-88270830284359489732009-06-04T19:53:00.000-07:002009-06-04T20:31:00.052-07:00

There. I crafted. You're welcome.

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-64228168883435217192009-06-03T09:52:00.000-07:002009-06-03T10:52:58.077-07:00

I have been wanting to make my own yogurt for years now. We always did when I was growing up, and the taste of home-made yogurt trumps even the best organic brands out there (sorry, Strauss Farms!).Most people would just get a yogurt maker (like this one) and call it a day. But oh, not us overthinkers! First, I was grumpy that I would have to pay some exorbitant sum of money for shipping ("

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-91654067640376884372009-06-02T07:05:00.000-07:002009-06-02T07:16:18.756-07:00

Just like that, I haven't blogged in over 2 months. I was just telling Bethany that I was having a hard time finding my way back into blogging. I feel like being gone for that long means that I should now have something spectacularly awesome to tell you (hint: I don't). Bethany is never one to be short on good advice, so I'm following it: Just post a picture of Noah.Well, there you go. My baby is

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-28571494626244156892009-03-25T22:44:00.001-07:002009-03-25T23:26:53.567-07:00

It's occurred to me that I haven't actually blogged in, uh, a while. So here we go with operation catch-up!My sister and her boyfriend (Inka & Kai, Inkai for short) are visiting right now, so we've been doing touristy things.We've gone to a regional park. I had never been there before, which is ridiculous because it's really close to my house and very pretty:We also went for a hike in the local

Sonjahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05796926184965080509noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27961733.post-63303309522634129312009-03-13T18:00:00.000-07:002009-03-13T18:02:33.057-07:00

After two of the worst nights of Noah's life, we have a tooth. It's one of the best teeth I've ever encountered, and I'm proud to have it. As a matter of fact, I think I will call him Fang.Now for the challenge of taking a picture of Fang...

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So, you know what's completely awesome?Having a friend like Bethany, actually.You see, we were emailing back and forth about something or other one of these days, and she sent me this:"Get in a good mood! How hard is it to just decide to get in a good mood, and then BE in a good mood?"And then, right away, this:"Uh, that was from Say Anything, in case you don't remember and think I'm just being

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I found a really cool website today, but I'm positive not everyone is going to be as excited about it as I am. Don't say I didn't warn you!It's a website with photos of one woman's cervix - one photo for every day of her cycle. If that grosses you out, don't follow the link. If not, here you go: beautiful cervix project(Oh, and let's not be rude: I found this via A Doula Too.)

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Teething is admittedly fun for none of us. Outside of teething, however, Noah is the most delightful little buddy I could ever have imagined. He is sweet and friendly and snuggely and makes me laugh all the time.Noah just learned how to sit last week. He is so excited about sitting! Look:The only time he's not in a sitting position is when he's sliding around the house on his belly. When I sit

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This has been my day. And my night. *sigh*

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The last word on laundry baskets isn't spoken (or typed, as it were) yet. First, my mom emailed these pictures, to prove that I am indeed a laundry basket pioneer (she said I climbed in by myself):Secondly and sadly, I have had to abandon the laundry basket technique because my little Houdini managed to tip the basket over and hit his head on the bathroom tile. We were both a little shaken, but

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Or perhaps:...one diaper at a time!

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } hand wash only!, originally uploaded by girlwithgreencard and fabric!. Laundry baskets. They don't tell you about the wonder of laundry baskets in the parenting books. Need to blow-dry your hair? Sit the boy in a laundry

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Noah has found a new favorite toy. Let me put this delicately. It is... attached to his body. (Got it? We keep it in his diaper, normally... okay, now you got it.) (Do you see where this is going?)Yesterday morning, when I changed the first diaper of the day, I was still a bit sleepy (read: stupid) and didn't follow my usual pattern of getting a wipe wet & ready first.I opened the diaper (which

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