beginning to feel really pregnant
I am now 21 weeks pregnant. As with my other pregnancies, I look and feel thoroughly pregnant now, although some women are barely showing at this point. Me, I'm huge.I am starting to feel quite...
View Articleyour unmedicated birth stories
Care to share?I would like to have an unmedicated birth this time around. I'd like to read more folks' stories of birth without meds. If you feel like sharing yours, comment below.Thanks!Katie
View Articlehot fuzz
Jon and I went to see "HOT FUZZ" last night and I laughed my arse off.I am no fan of action movies, cop movies or slasher movies, and yet somehow I found this clever send-up of the three genres the...
View Articlethose third seats in station wagons?
YOu know those third row seats you can fold up and down that come in some station wagons? Are they safe, do you think?Katie, still trying to figure out the whole car-with-even-more-children-situation....
View Articlechildcare
So Jon and I haven't been quite sure how childcare for the baby would work out once my 8 weeks of maternity leave are up. We figured his mom might help some (she's a teacher, retiring at the end of...
View Articlestart your week off right....
...with Big Star playing SEPTEMBER GURLS, live.Pure pop perfection.Which reminds me, I have been discussing with some friends what the best pop song ever recorded is. My vote is for "God Only Knows" by...
View Articleanti-obesity infant formula?
This sounds creepy to me.It's actually just the latest attempt to manufacture the living properties of human bresatmilk (available free to the vast majority of human infants, straight from their...
View Articleare you an east tennessee blogger?
Do you blog at least part of the time about your life as a parent?If so, I want to know of your existence. Let me know about your blog by commenting below.Thanks-Katie
View Articlenew car
After going 'round and 'round about our car situation, we finally decided to bite the bullet and buy a new car. Last night we brought home a 2007 HONDA ODYSSEY. It's very scary signing off on such a...
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The Farm at 36
Hard to believe it, but The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee is NEARLY 40 YEARS OLD this year.Given my parents' inclinations, and the fact that we moved to (very) rural Tennessee from the west coast in...
View Articleglass half-full kid
J. is my glass half-full kid. No matter what life hands her, she manages to find the best in it, shake off what's bothering her, and move on. She doesn't cling to the negative, or let things get her...
View Articlewhich childbirth prep class did you take?
Which childbirth prep class did you take (Bradley, Lamaze, the standard class offered by hospital, HypnoBirthing, Birthing from Within, etc) and why? What did you think of it? How well did it serve you...
View Articlemoody
After 6-8 weeks of feeling rather calm and happy (after feeling tired, slightly ill and nauseated during the first trimester), I am finding myself a bit moodier and short-tempered in the past few days....
View Articlealec baldwin
Have you ACTUALLY LISTENED TO the nasty voicemail message Alec Baldwin left for his 11 year old daughter? The one in which he insults her mother, refers to her as a "pig," and threatens her?If you...
View Articlebeautiful writing
Just discovered this blog. Her various POSTS ABOUT CHILDBIRTH are gorgeously written, and capture a lot of my fears and ambivalence.
View Articlefound a childbirth class
Well, I finally found a one-day, 8 hour childbirth class that's do-able for Jon and me. It's a BIRTHING FROM WITHIN class taught at the freestanding birth center in MADISONVILLE, TN.I don't think I'm...
View Articlekaren
Someone I loved very much has died. Karen was my next door neighbor for 7 years, and she died of complications from breast cancer. She leaves behind her 12 year old daughter and her husband of 25...
View Articlea vol abroad
I love THIS BLOG. I wish I knew this blogger. I also wish I lived in London - as she does - which I did for a semester in college, while I interned with a Member of the British Parliament. I love...
View Articlepoor wife
I am very pleased that this sportswriter finally feels okay about revealing that he's actually A WOMAN. She writes beautifully of the pain this gender confusion has caused her for her entire life. But...
View Articlemidwife visit
Things I learned:-My belly is measuring "large for dates" (my belly always measures "large for dates" and I always have small babies)-I now weigh as much as I did when I gave birth to my other three...
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i'm a-movin' on up!
My blog is moving.If you’ve bookmarked katieallisongranju.blogspot.com, take out the blogspot in the URL. If you’ve bookmarked katieallisongranju.com, ignore me.Either way, my feed has changed. At some...
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