Just a little thing, just a tiny thing: CAN YOU BELIEVE I ACTUALLY MADE THIS? AmIRight?
Friday, July 13, 2012
Finished Blanket!
I finished my goddaughter's blanket! It took me months, but now it's done. *And to think I agreed to make another one...I am literally insane. Hindsight is 20/20, I'll have to crochet until my fingers bleed to finish this one in time! Oy Vey*
Just a little thing, just a tiny thing: CAN YOU BELIEVE I ACTUALLY MADE THIS? AmIRight?
Just a little thing, just a tiny thing: CAN YOU BELIEVE I ACTUALLY MADE THIS? AmIRight?
Update
Wow, it's been a while! Things have been pretty crazy in the past month. We moved onto base housing in the beginning of June, and it's been a bit of an adjustment. We're about 20 minutes further away from base than we used to be...but we have a house now! Our house is humongous...I'm going to say probably 2.5 times as big as our apartment was! Oh my gosh, it's amazing what having space can do for your relationship! We are not nearly as snarky to each other, and we've hardly fought at all since moving in. We were so on top of each other in our apartment, and now whenever there's any irritation, it's easy to just go into a separate room and just cool off! Here's a picture of our house:
Also, Archer is really big now, or so I hear. He always looks small to me! We got him neutered a few weeks ago, and those were a hard couple of weeks! Try having a 70 pound cooped up baby. He acts just like a toddler...but he's a lot bigger. I'm really glad that we can go back to walking every day and playing at the dog park. He's much better behaved when he's tired. He really enjoys the house. We have almost no furniture, so there's lots of empty space for him to run around in.
It's July here, and while the weather should be hot and sunny...it's not. It has been cold, foggy, and dreary ever since the beginning of July. I would figuratively kill someone for a week of gorgeous hot, sunny weather!
I had my first birth, as a doula! It was really really amazing, but in some ways I feel like I'm still recovering. My sleep schedule is still off, from being up for 30 some straight hours, but mainly it was just such an experience to watch someone labor, and I feel like it was a little life changing? I didn't actually get to see her deliver, because she needed a c-section last minute, but we got all the way dilated together. It was definitely an experience.
Also, I am working on a new business venture! I am now a coach and a member of Team Beachbody! It got started because I was interested in one of the fitness programs, and my fabulous coach Lisa let me know that because we're military, I can be a coach for free. SO that's how that got started. I've gotten the Brazil Butt Lift program (there's an awesome trial during the month of July to try it for 14.95 for 30 days, if you get the results you were looking for, you buy the program, if not, you send it back!). I'm starting a challenge on August 1st, and I'm trying to get 5 other people to do it with me...so if anybody actually reads this blog and knows someone who would like to get healthy and lose weight, send them my way! my website for beachbody is this: Robin's Beachbody Website!
I want to take my blog in a little bit of a different direction...like an actual blog about my thoughts and such, instead of just life updates.
Also, Archer is really big now, or so I hear. He always looks small to me! We got him neutered a few weeks ago, and those were a hard couple of weeks! Try having a 70 pound cooped up baby. He acts just like a toddler...but he's a lot bigger. I'm really glad that we can go back to walking every day and playing at the dog park. He's much better behaved when he's tired. He really enjoys the house. We have almost no furniture, so there's lots of empty space for him to run around in.
It's July here, and while the weather should be hot and sunny...it's not. It has been cold, foggy, and dreary ever since the beginning of July. I would figuratively kill someone for a week of gorgeous hot, sunny weather!
I had my first birth, as a doula! It was really really amazing, but in some ways I feel like I'm still recovering. My sleep schedule is still off, from being up for 30 some straight hours, but mainly it was just such an experience to watch someone labor, and I feel like it was a little life changing? I didn't actually get to see her deliver, because she needed a c-section last minute, but we got all the way dilated together. It was definitely an experience.
Also, I am working on a new business venture! I am now a coach and a member of Team Beachbody! It got started because I was interested in one of the fitness programs, and my fabulous coach Lisa let me know that because we're military, I can be a coach for free. SO that's how that got started. I've gotten the Brazil Butt Lift program (there's an awesome trial during the month of July to try it for 14.95 for 30 days, if you get the results you were looking for, you buy the program, if not, you send it back!). I'm starting a challenge on August 1st, and I'm trying to get 5 other people to do it with me...so if anybody actually reads this blog and knows someone who would like to get healthy and lose weight, send them my way! my website for beachbody is this: Robin's Beachbody Website!
I want to take my blog in a little bit of a different direction...like an actual blog about my thoughts and such, instead of just life updates.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Yay!
I lost 5 pounds! I still need to lose a lot more, but I feel a lot more comfortable with the idea of hanging out at the pool in Vegas now! woohoo!
I'm starting a program called Brazil Butt Lift in about 2 weeks...very excited about that! It's a 90 day challenge so I should look pretty good when I head home in August to go to the beach!
I'm starting a program called Brazil Butt Lift in about 2 weeks...very excited about that! It's a 90 day challenge so I should look pretty good when I head home in August to go to the beach!
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Archer
He's such a goofball! Puppies are the biggest pains in the world, but also such a joy! I have a love/hate relationship with him...I love him all the time but I hate how he wants to chew on everything (including me!).
He's gained almost 10 pounds since we've had him! And everyday I wake up, and he looks taller!
He's gained almost 10 pounds since we've had him! And everyday I wake up, and he looks taller!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Doula Workshop
This post is a long time coming! It will probably be brief, because a lot of what I experienced doesn't feel like it can be explained (as far as emotionally)!
It was a long drive up to Nevada City, and when I finally arrived at the host house I was staying at, it was dark (and rainy!). Also, it was in the middle of the woods, so I felt a little creeped out when I first arrived, but the people who I stayed with were so nice! I basically just tried to settle down that night (Thursday), because I had absolutely no idea of what to expect from the weekend! Friday morning came early, but I got out of bed fairly quickly because of my nerves! The space where the workshop was was only about 5 minutes away. The first couple of hours that morning was all introductions! We ran really long, doing what Janine (the instructor) called "emptying our baskets."The first day was all Introduction To Childbirth, and there was a binder which we went through, and we watched videos, etc. etc. The main thing that I took away from that day was that as women, our bodies are meant to do this! Intervention is mostly unnecessary, and there are a lot of really awful side effects that can come along with said interventions. So we mainly just talked about and looked at what a normal, natural birth is and what it looks like. I left feeling like I learned a lot, and just basically feeling in awe about the miracle that is childbirth, and excited about learning some actual Doula skills!
Day 2 (Saturday) was the first day of Doula Training. It's really hard to describe...there was another binder (much bigger!) and we went through certain parts of it throughout the day. We watched a TON of videos, and we picked apart what could have been done better and what could have made the birth better. Seriously, the biggest problem with birth in America (besides the insurance companies having doctors hands tied behind their backs, basically forcing them to do unnecessary interventions) is that women go to the hospital WAY too early! Then they lay in bed, flipping the baby around, closing up the cervix, and prolonging labor and making it more painful! Then, labor slows, so they get Pitocin. Once they get Pitocin, labor becomes so painful that they need an epidural, which slows labor again! Or, vice versa, labor is already too painful, so they get an epidural, which slows labor and then they need Pitocin. That is now the "normal" birth. It's horrible! I left that day with my head crammed full of information that I desperately wanted to remember, so I could share it with all the pregnant women I know!
Day 3 (Sunday) was a very loooong day. We had been sitting on the ground (on pillows, but still) and my butt was hurting, my back was hurting, and I was having trouble still focusing. Each day was like 8 hours long and it is really really hard to concentrate on the same thing for THAT LONG! (I got a lot more empathy for what Jake has to do in school!) Sunday we started talking about the things that go wrong in birth, and going into what each intervention actually is. I saw a video of a c-section...it was gross looking! I hate seeing surgeons cut into skin...eeesh! We also had a breastfeeding consultant come and talk to us for a couple of hours. Breast feeding is SO SO SO SO SO important and I really hate how formula is pushed onto new moms! Most women stop breastfeeding in America at 6 weeks! They need to keep breastfeeding for at least a year! It was a long last day, but at the end I kind of wished that we could keep going.
Unfortunately that night I got very very sick and I think that's why I avoided writing this! My weekend was marred by that, and so it's hard for me to think about. Overall, the weekend really made me in awe of what women's bodies can accomplish! I just felt so inspired! I really want to be able to help women in this special special time of their lives. No one forgets their birth experience...it's something that really stays with women throughout their entire lives. It's important to make it the best experience possible.
It was a long drive up to Nevada City, and when I finally arrived at the host house I was staying at, it was dark (and rainy!). Also, it was in the middle of the woods, so I felt a little creeped out when I first arrived, but the people who I stayed with were so nice! I basically just tried to settle down that night (Thursday), because I had absolutely no idea of what to expect from the weekend! Friday morning came early, but I got out of bed fairly quickly because of my nerves! The space where the workshop was was only about 5 minutes away. The first couple of hours that morning was all introductions! We ran really long, doing what Janine (the instructor) called "emptying our baskets."The first day was all Introduction To Childbirth, and there was a binder which we went through, and we watched videos, etc. etc. The main thing that I took away from that day was that as women, our bodies are meant to do this! Intervention is mostly unnecessary, and there are a lot of really awful side effects that can come along with said interventions. So we mainly just talked about and looked at what a normal, natural birth is and what it looks like. I left feeling like I learned a lot, and just basically feeling in awe about the miracle that is childbirth, and excited about learning some actual Doula skills!
Day 2 (Saturday) was the first day of Doula Training. It's really hard to describe...there was another binder (much bigger!) and we went through certain parts of it throughout the day. We watched a TON of videos, and we picked apart what could have been done better and what could have made the birth better. Seriously, the biggest problem with birth in America (besides the insurance companies having doctors hands tied behind their backs, basically forcing them to do unnecessary interventions) is that women go to the hospital WAY too early! Then they lay in bed, flipping the baby around, closing up the cervix, and prolonging labor and making it more painful! Then, labor slows, so they get Pitocin. Once they get Pitocin, labor becomes so painful that they need an epidural, which slows labor again! Or, vice versa, labor is already too painful, so they get an epidural, which slows labor and then they need Pitocin. That is now the "normal" birth. It's horrible! I left that day with my head crammed full of information that I desperately wanted to remember, so I could share it with all the pregnant women I know!
Day 3 (Sunday) was a very loooong day. We had been sitting on the ground (on pillows, but still) and my butt was hurting, my back was hurting, and I was having trouble still focusing. Each day was like 8 hours long and it is really really hard to concentrate on the same thing for THAT LONG! (I got a lot more empathy for what Jake has to do in school!) Sunday we started talking about the things that go wrong in birth, and going into what each intervention actually is. I saw a video of a c-section...it was gross looking! I hate seeing surgeons cut into skin...eeesh! We also had a breastfeeding consultant come and talk to us for a couple of hours. Breast feeding is SO SO SO SO SO important and I really hate how formula is pushed onto new moms! Most women stop breastfeeding in America at 6 weeks! They need to keep breastfeeding for at least a year! It was a long last day, but at the end I kind of wished that we could keep going.
Unfortunately that night I got very very sick and I think that's why I avoided writing this! My weekend was marred by that, and so it's hard for me to think about. Overall, the weekend really made me in awe of what women's bodies can accomplish! I just felt so inspired! I really want to be able to help women in this special special time of their lives. No one forgets their birth experience...it's something that really stays with women throughout their entire lives. It's important to make it the best experience possible.
Baby Blanket: update!
I'm a 1/3 of the way done! There will be 12 rows total, and I am currently on row 5. Here's the most recent picture I took! (this is just the first 4 rows)
I am sad that I can't finish this blanket faster...I just get so tired after about 3 flowers!
Saturday, March 17, 2012
New Family Member!
This is our adorable puppy Archer! We got him a few days ago, and he's a really good boy! He's picking up the crate training and potty training really quickly, and already knows a few commands! He's mastered sit, come, and he's pretty good at stay. He's also learning down and shake, and I'm trying to teach him to army crawl! He also fetches, and doesn't bark when people come to the door! That is NICE. The cats are taking it okay, surprisingly, Lily better than Twinkie. He just wants to play with them, which of course they do not understand. But, they are doing better than when he first arrived, so they'll all be friends soon. I'm glad that they haven't decided that the best way to get back at us is to pee on things! Here's a pic of our new boy
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