Being held captive by my kids...
​CRAVING adult contact...
I sit at the table this morning drinking my water and watch the sunrise. As the sun peaks over the horizon and gets higher and higher, it hits my face, blinds my eyes and kisses my skin with its gorgeous golden glow. A gift from God. A gorgeous wake up call saying "good morning child, you are a blessing. Today is a new day. A gift. Be the light I give you. Live it and love it. Share it with others."
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New babies are hard, am I right!? You new momma's know what I am talking about!
I've had four newborns in my house, and through trial and error, I have found some must-have essentials that worked great for me, and I would like to share them with you, hopefully you'll love them as much as I do and they will make life a little bit easier 😉 Honest essentials - incase you aren't familiar Honest is a company created by celebrity and, most importantly, mom, Jessica Alba. She was looking for 'honest to goodness' safe, effective products to use on her babies, when unable to find what she wanted she set out to make her own and launched the Honest empire! There are so many Honest products I love and many I need for my newborn, from the organic baby powder to the shampoo/body wash & conditioner, diapers, baby DHA... And the prenatal vitamins are amazing! We use almost all their products around the house as well, and we just love them. I can't say enough good things about these products! Go get them!! www.honest.com Woombie! - oh my are these things ever amazing! My first baby constantly broke out of her swaddle, so she wasn't getting any sleep and neither were we. I was introduced to the Woombie by my sister in law. Woombie is its name, a swaddle sack that provides and nice tight swaddle with just enough wiggle room so baby feels like she is still inside momma's womb! How awesome is that!? The transition from womb to world is hard enough on baby, and we as moms are constantly looking for ways to make life easier on them. The Woombie also has a double zipper, so at you don't have to completely undo the swaddle and make a nighttime changing any more disruptive than it needs to be. MUST HAVE! I even take them to the hospital and baby goes straight into the Woombie once they are born and we are done with our skin to skin contact. www.woombie.com Zipadee Zip. This is a swaddle transition sleep sack. How hard is it to transition baby from sleeping swaddled to sleeping with their arms flailing about? Hard! And once baby can roll from back to tummy they certainly can't flip back over if their hands are all confined under their chest. Zipadee Zip is basically like a loose swaddle. It offers the comfort of a snug swaddle with the freedom of sleeping arms free! It is also like a sleep sack, so you can rest easy knowing baby isn't cold in the night. You can even use these on babies who haven't been swaddled. The just help baby sleep. It's awesome! www.sleepingbaby.com Aleva Nursing Balm. I was all ready bragging about Honest, and they do provide an awesome nursing balm, but I had fallen in love with Aleva before Honest was around. Aleva is a lanolin free, organic product, so there is no reason to wipe off before feedings. It's thick so you only require a little with each application and it has a lovely citrus scent! Love it!! www.alevnaturals.com Bobee Inc Diaper and Wipe dispenser. This is a unique product! It is a place to put diapers and wipes that hangs on the wall!! I know, awesome right!? It gets all the clutter off your change table and keeps diapers and wipes at easy access! Awesome! http://www.amazon.com/Bobee-Dispenser-Changing-Nursery-Organizer/dp/B00YNK7QZ0 www.bobeeinc.com Blooming Bath. This is a very unique product. It turns your kitchen sink into a cozy place to bath baby! The petals are foam, soft and cushy, and independent making it easily manipulated to fit any sink. The best part is, you can hang it up on a hook in the tub to dry, and it's completely washable, if it gets dirty just throw it in the washing machine! www.bloomingbath.com I love that most of these products aren't from big corporations, they were created by regular parents, looking for solutions to typical problems and created their own. "Genius is the ability to recognize the obvious" - unknown. Not only are these products practical I feel great knowing I am supporting another regular family like mine! This topic is getting a lot of attention and I have a lot to say about it...
At the first thought of this, I was uncomfortable for the same reasons as everyone else... As a parent I understand the fear of my daughters having to share a bathroom at the same time as 'men'. This seems to be the only scenario getting attention lately, but, there is also fear of the accusations to come of my sons or husband in a bathroom with girls/women. Before I go any further I will tell you, I am a Christian. I believe in God and Jesus. The death and the resurrection. I read the Bible. As a Christian I feel stereotyped. That because I believe in God and the Bible that I mustn't like transgender people (amoung a plethora of other things). That I must fear them or hate them. This is simply not true. This might be a bit of a surprise for those of you that aren't Christians, and maybe to some of you who are, being a Christian means loving and accepting people, all people, as Jesus did. (This is the part where most would quote scripture. I'm not going to do that. If you don't believe me, or want to disprove this statement, go read a Bible. I suggest starting with a NCV or NIV). No one is excluded from Jesus' love. This fact is so important for me as a Christian, for the way I live my life and how I raise my family. I feel like God has called us to be lovers. And we seem to be forgetting one very important detail, nothing surprises The Lord. He has created everything. He knows everything. This 'issue' is not new to Him. You don't have to agree with everything other people do. And others don't have to agree with everything you (or I) do. But we need to accept and love one another. No matter what. Plain and simple. It's starting to feel like a lot of hate is being thrown at the transgender community. I know this 'hate' is coming from a place of fear. Change is uncomfortable and people fear what they do not understand. I don't think the fear is so much as sharing the washroom with a transgender person, the fear is of the concept being abused by those who are not, in fact, transgender. Subsequently, and rather unfortunately, this fear is translating into hate and is being directed at a group that doesn't even deserve it. That, I am quite certain, didn't ask for it. This makes me sad. My hope is that once the initial shock subsides, this 'hate' won't be felt as much. The world is changing, and if this means we have to have transgender washrooms then so be it. Having transgender washrooms is not going to eliminate the 'boys only' or 'girls only' rooms, and, guess what, you can choose to not use a transgender washroom. On a more personal level (yes, it gets even MORE personal) I have to be honest. This is ridiculous! Is it not? I feel like having transgender washrooms should not even be an issue. It's like we're going back in time to when there was 'black washrooms ' and 'white washrooms'!! Transgenders are getting the horrible label of 'pervert'. This is so upsetting and awful! We need to get something straight, transgender people are just people that want what everyone wants, to be accepted for who we are. Once a man or woman has transitioned, can you honestly tell when you're in a stall next to them? Washing your hands next to them? No, not likely. Many men and women have probably all ready been in a public bathroom at the same time as a transgender person, you just never noticed. There is talk of adding these washrooms to schools so all kids feel comfortable. Do you really think that will make a difference? So few children feel comfortable enough with themselves to make such a bold statement that they won't use the 'trans specific' bathroom anyway, even if it were an emergency. They will feel it will make a statement that they either aren't ready to make or that simply isn't true! And this opens a whole new bottle of insecurities... I just don't feel this is something we should even be putting on our children. They are not emotionally or mentally ready for it at such young ages. Now. If you want to make everyone comfortable and feel included in the washroom, I have a solution. Eliminate stalls. Make all public washrooms the same. One toilet, one sink and one locking door. Don't have 'boy' or 'girl' on the door, just have 'washroom'. Problem solved. |
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