I’m still surprised that this birth went so easily! After my 60 hour labor I had prepared for another long one. I bought snacks and made 3 meals for the midwives. I figured “shorter” than 60 hours, would still be a day or 2. But 3 hours was not something I’d prepared for! I’d been…
If you are struggling with your milk supply… I am so sorry. I hope and pray you do not have to deal with supply issues long and that you can get your supply flowing quickly and reach your breastfeeding goals. And, there is the reality that it might just not happen for you, and I…
After a decently long silence, such is life when traveling between countries with a toddler, I thought I’d ease back into blogging with a Paleo Pumpkin Pancake recipe. I’ve tried several of pumpkin pancake attempts but they have turned out sub-par as a bland imitation to the magical pumpkin pancakes of Austin’s Kirby Lane that…
Ah expectations. No matter what you do you can’t avoid forming some kind of expectations for any situation you are entering into. Our time of being back in the states is no different. Even though I tried to prepare for the reverse culture shock, there have been several things that have taken me by surprise.…
Preparations for returning to the States for the next 6 months are underway. I love that we live in a world where I can find an apartment, sign a contract for it, make payments, and change over utility bills all without making a single phone call. As part of my preparations I am starting to…
I’ve acknowledged that I have stepped into life overseas with my own set of expectations and been smacked upside the head with some serious reality checks. You think that I would have learned by now to enter every new phase of my life with openness and without expectations, but alas I am still waiting to…
This story is super long, but then again so was my labor and delivery! My labor if you count from the time that my water broke was 60 hours or if you want to count from when I started having active labor then it was 40 hours. After giving birth, I talked with an American…
So I’ve learned something during this pregnancy. Month 9 should be its own special category! My body has changed significantly in this final month and its totally not fair to lump month 9 of my fitness into the 3rd trimester category. So to continue from my previous Pregnancy Fitness post, I will do the first…
So, when you obviously don’t blend into the culture you are living in it can get a bit interesting walking down the street and doing your shopping. Most foreigners living here deal with some level of chatter about them as they go about their day. A normal day for a foreigner is usually filled with: “Munu,…
So I can’t claim these pancakes as Paleo since they have oats in them. Oats are a bit of a grey area in the Paleo world, some people like them if you ferment them first (soak overnight in yogurt or acidic medium) and some avoid them all together avoid dealing with the insulin spike they…
In my experience as a personal trainer I’ve had a decent amount of pregnant clients which has always been …. interesting. A lot of advice given to expecting mothers tends to be outdated in terms of fitness, or the same advice is given to everyone, which means it has to cover the lowest level of…
Short term teams…. I had no idea that short term teams (STT) were becoming so controversial. Here are the concerns about STT’s that we’ve ran across from others/blogs/books since we moved here: Are they really helping anyone? Are they just taking pictures of themselves holding little African babies for people to like on their Facebook profiles? Will…
We eat a lot of Mexican food. We can’t help ourselves. I’ve realized that its just what happens when people are living in another country that has such different foods from your own. When you find yourself surrounded by a local diet that has a limited number of combinations (most of which containing peanut butter…
We just had a team come through Uganda. They were such a blessing to us and to the Ugandans that we work with! One thing I found that particularly blesses long-term workers is that we get to treat the short term team like a team of pack mules. 😉 Fortunately, they didn’t need those extra…
True to my Texas roots I finally got fed up with the BBQ sauce that you can buy in Uganda. I’m from the home of artisan BBQ sauces and I just couldn’t stand buying another container of the overly sweet syrup they’re trying to pass off as BBQ sauce. I know, for some, you just…
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