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Healthy Living

Taking Back the Night

November 11, 2010 Chow
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“Hi, my name is Tim and it’s been ten months since my last solid night’s sleep without overnight feedings.” “Hi Tim.” “My youngest daughter is now ten months old and I am ready to take back the night.” “Admitting you need help is the first step, now we can get to work.” This was my [...]

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On the Run

July 22, 2010 Healthy Living
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Making a life altering decision like leaving full time work to be a primary caregiver at home becomes an interesting time to take audit of nearly every aspect of your life. Suddenly I find myself much more aware of how I spend my time and value the hours that I can stash away for myself [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: The spoon is mightier than the sword

July 21, 2010 All in a Day
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Here’s my entry for this week’s “Wordless Wednesday” at Dad Blogs. Julia has taken to solid food with excitement. Just set her in her Bumbo seat and toss the bib on and she starts be-bopping away ready for the action to start. So far she’s tried all sorts of fruits and vegetables; peas, squash, sweet [...]

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Thinking Organically

May 18, 2010 Chow
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The topics of buying organic food and limiting the amount of toxins and chemicals used around the house have been at the forefront of conversation in our house over the past few months. While our family on the whole has always been fairly health conscious — in that we have limited the “overtly bad” traps [...]

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Rolling Right Along

May 11, 2010 Milestones
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After finding a natural flow during my first week at home with the girls and doing a — pat myself on the back — good job keeping everyone at the top of their games, nature decided that week two deserved more of a challenge. Enter “the rollover”. Here I find myself riding the high of [...]

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Chicken Soup for My Soul

May 10, 2010 Chow
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One staple in our family’s diet is the simple roast chicken. We get a 4-6 pound roast chicken at the grocery store each week and it serves as a simple no fuss dinner option one night that week. Coat the chicken with some olive oil, salt and pepper and add some diced vegetables and spices to the chest cavity and an hour and a half later dinner is ready. If you are like us however, the whole chicken is a little overkill. Jen and I will eat the chicken breast for dinner and maybe some of the dark meat of the leg, but there is so much meat left on the bone unused. Not wanting it to go to waste, I’ve perfected the following soup recipe to turn the remains of a weekly dinner into many lunches to follow.

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Fear of the Unknown

April 17, 2010 Sleep
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There is nothing as peaceful as a sleeping child, for both the child and the relieved parent blessed with the few moments of silence that accompany it. There is little as frustrating as watching a child struggle to find peaceful sleep. Whether it be a baby fighting their nap (more on that topic in further [...]

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