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So...is anyone ready to play the, 'Is that a line' game?
I'm 10 DPO. Originally I wasn't going to test today. Actually, I was going to try to wait until Sunday to test but I figured hell, why not. So I took a test. The photo was taken within 5 minutes. The 'I don't think I see a line but I kinda see something' is on the left of
Month: September 2015
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To vlog or not to vlog...
I've been going back and forth if I want to do this. It has nothing to do with valuing privacy or selling my family out. Let's be clear, if I vlog, it'll be primarily Bear and I featured (M. works full-time so he won't be available). I started looking up some prominent YouTube families to kinda get a feel of what they do
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Sometimes I'm Black Betty Crocker. Sometimes I'm just Shitty Crocker, LOL.
So remember that recipe I posted yesterday? Well, things turned out interesting.
Now, the recipe had European measurements which meant I had to spend more time Googling that I'd originally intended. That's fine. I can still do a little something something.
So the first thing I had to do is chop up the mushrooms and sauté them. No biggies. I
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Russian Soul Sundays.
It was a term M. and I came up with when we first got married. We would have one day a week where we'll have soul food and Russian cuisine. It was a great idea at first and we did employ it a few times. Then after a while, laziness (I'll keep it real) came in and well, Russian Soul Sundays was out.
Now, it's back!
As Bear
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Sometimes, it really doesn't matter.
I try to eat healthy. I try to cut my intake of alcohol to twice a week and even then that might be too much. I constantly walk everywhere with Bo in tow. I meditate. I pray. Mentally, I'm probably the healthiest I've been in a long while. Physically, I'm getting there.
But sometimes, it doesn't matter.
Because it can all be taken away in an
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Does it ever get better?
As tomorrow is the first official day of fall (today, if you're reading this on September 23rd), I'm always reminded of four years ago. You see, right around this time, I was newly pregnant with Ethan. I was about seven weeks, I believe. I belonged to an April 2012 moms board, a board I'm still active on. The ladies were talking about their pregnancies
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I've been stressing about my fertility and come to think of it, I shouldn't have.
I'm sure we've all heard that once a woman reaches 35, the chances of her getting pregnant significantly decreases. It's not necessarily good news to a lot of women who start trying to have a family in their mid-to-late thirties. The fact that a woman is officially called AMA - Advanced Maternal Age -
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I know I've been slacking on my Throwback posts but I promise to make them up to y'all.
Here's an oldie but goodie:
This was taken, I believe Labor Day weekend 2011. We went up to Santa Barbara for the day and came home. Come to think of it, we need to do that more often. I was about 6 weeks pregnant with Ethan in this pic. I don't know
Sometimes I feel like I'm not like the others.
Not that I'm some anomaly or I'm some sort of speshul or uneek (deliberately misspelled, grammar and spelling nazis). Sometimes I feel there's me and then there's....everyone else.
Case in point, I have no qualms with not having a VBAC (Vaginal Birth after Cesarean).
Again, I'm not pregnant. I'm currently on CD 8 and we're going to start doing the Humpty Dance soon for TTC
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M. and I are a rare couple. He's Ukrainian, I'm Black American. There are a lot of differences between us. There is a lot of common ground between us. Obviously, it works since we've been together for seven years, five married. We survived two notable miscarriages in one year, a stressful but very uneventful pregnancy with Bear, and trying to conceive our second rainbow baby. We mesh.
We also