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Catching Up: The Arrival of Adventure Baby!!
After much sitting and waiting, Adventure Baby arrived on March 30, 2013. What follows is a birth story I originally wrote as a note on my iPhone a few nights later when the only way she would sleep was on … Continue reading
Following Your Gut and Challenging Your Doctors
This post is going to veer way off the usual adventure theme. As discussed in my last post, we had some adventures of a different kind – threatened preterm labor and two separate trips to labor and delivery at 33 … Continue reading
Curve Balls
Or, when things don’t go as planned. Hi there, sorry for the long hiatus. Life got busy – or busier, as the case may be. As it turns out, though, life is now slowing way down, though not necessarily by … Continue reading
On Skiing While Pregnant
Winter came and I couldn’t take it – I had to ski. We’ve been out twice now and I have some thoughts/observations to share. You may remember that I was having trouble deciding if skiing (the cross-country variety) was a … Continue reading
Snowshoeing Adventures
Here we are, nearly at Christmas and nearly 26 weeks into this pregnancy, and I still haven’t decided if I really feel safe cross-country skiing this winter. What I do feel safe doing, though, is snowshoeing. So far we haven’t … Continue reading
A Tough Day
The interwebs are all aflutter today with talk of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. There’s nothing I can say that will make this event less horrifying or help the families affected by this tragedy cope with what has … Continue reading
(Mis)Adventures in Baking
Howdy, folks. It’s the end of the semester and the holiday season, and that can only mean one thing – baking. My mom has always baked up a storm in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and now, as an … Continue reading
Gear Review: Mountain Mama Maternity Lassen Hooded Maternity Jacket
Howdy. Finding good maternity gear for a real mountain winter has been a challenge. I’m only 21 weeks at this point so I can still stuff myself into at least some of my pre-pregnancy clothes, and I can wear some … Continue reading
Our Version of Acceptable Risk
One part of becoming a committed couple is reconciling differing opinions about all kinds of things. Adventure Guy and I did this without much trouble throughout our relationship…or maybe our opinions about the major things didn’t differ enough to cause … Continue reading