let the coffee bonging begin

Someone should have told me to buy some stock in Folgers before this baby got here.  I think I have consumed 6 cups of coffee today.  My head is pounding both in the front and back and my whole body is aching.
I worked from 10pm last night to 7 this morning, and Violet was bright [...]

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Chickpea Cauliflower Curry

This meal is not only gluten free and dairy free and totally appropriate for my husband’s UC, but it is inexpensive and easy.
INGREDIENTS

1 cup uncooked brown rice
5 cups cauliflowerets – I use frozen if needed
2 medium onion, chopped
2 large carrot, diced – i use frozen if needed
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons minced [...]

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dread

Next Wednesday I start back to work at the vet clinic, two days a week. I enjoy working at the vet clinic part time because the extra money is nice, we get an amazing discount on ALL SEVEN animals (Golden – I swear), and there is always something new to learn. And as [...]

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Babycapades

The last few days have been a total blur. I am racing around at lightening speed, working nights, and trying to keep us all fed, bathed, and happy. To top it all off, temperatures are topping one hundred degrees and the cooler decided to go out yesterday. So aside from being busy, [...]

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Leaking Emotion

Worked last night my first miserable fifteen hour shift. I arrived an impressive fifteen minutes early armed with breast pump, breast liners, nipple cream, and enough food to satiate me until the morning. If there is a dairy farm in need of supplies within a 100 mile radius.. I’m ready.
At times, my [...]

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suggestion

Just a suggestion, but why does the hospital send you home with a nasal aspirator for Snuffalufagus?  I mean, it won’t fit in those tiny little nasal cavities.  And trying, just makes things WAY WORST.

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back to work round I

So maternity leave is officially over. Work is posing new challenges already. We have one car. Enough said. Plus, I want to continue breastfeeding Violet, which means YAY I get to PUMP. If there is anything more miserable than sitting with a plastic pump attached to a breast squeezing fluid [...]

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Hands Off!

Seriously?  Possibly the only thing that screams “touch me” more than a pregnant belly is a newborn baby.  I swear everyone single person at the grocery store asked to HOLD my baby.  I always wear Violet in my trusty sling, so as to discourage people from trying to touch her since it is so close [...]

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Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
I swear I should have bought Violet’s swing a Mother’s Day gift.  Sometimes I feel guilty about how much work it does.  Today I even got her out of it, half asleep, and hauled her into the nursery so that I could rock her.
Jealous of a plastic machine?  Maybe.

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end of maternity leave.

I wish this was my only job.

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