if you can’t say something nice {GUEST POST by Jenny Ramsey}

 

I’ve talked about this, I know. It’s nothing new. And it’s nothing unique.

If you have three children, “you have your hands full.”

If you have two children who are not separated by half a decade, your hands are full.

If you have four children, you obviously don’t know what causes pregnancy.

(You can stop having kids now, I’ve solved the mystery. Enjoy sex too much? Never fear, evidently the solution is to buy a television.)

I’ve said this before too, most of the time these comments don’t bother me. In fact it’s sort of become a game. I reward myself with treats for every silly comment or question I get.

“Are they all yours?”

“All except the brunettes.”

“Do you know what causes that?”

“Lemonade.”

“Are you having more?”

“Thanks for reminding me, I’m late to meet my husband.”

I’ve...

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lightened up vegan gluten free pecan brownies {RECIPE}

Only a few more weeks until we leave Texas for good & head west for a few months before we venture overseas.

We don’t have our official orders yet (if you’re in the military, you know you can’t do *anything* without these), which means we don’t have our movers scheduled yet. (And we’re supposed to be moving in a little over two weeks!)

 We have been prepping Salem for our move from Texas to Washington & then Japan by talking about it every day. A few days ago, Joseph spent a few minutes explaining that we had only three more weeks until we move. I came downstairs right after this particular conversation. Salem was jumping on our couch as she blurted out, with all the excitement only a four year old can have–“Mom, in three weeks !!!”

These days, my house often looks like a bomb went...

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how to find your natural weight (without losing your mind)–15 month post-baby update

A much needed life update (homeschooling (again)! learning Japanese! preparing to move overseas!), .

(Just scroll down a bit, if you just want to read the life update.)

1/11/2014, the day I gave birth to Tyndale

I haven’t talked a lot about my weight since my beyond size & scale post last fall. At that time, I came to a happy place with my weight–I had lost 45 or so pounds from my post-pregnancy starting point of 204 lbs. (recall that this was my weight a week after I had the baby), putting me squarely in the 160’s weight range.

[Click here to see my entire weight loss journey, after baby #5.]

For a person of 5’9″, this is healthy weight. My goal from the beginning was to focus on health, rather than numbers anyway, though I knew I did have a significant amount to lose & used the...

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