Friday, September 29, 2006
sourdough starters and a feasty feast....huh? :)
I learned how to make a sourdough starter this week. My first attempt at actaul sourdough bread was a disaster though. It was soooo sour that we had to throw it away.
But I've got the hang of it now.
We have been feasting on sourdough delections all week... sourdough bread with homemade honey butter, sourdough blueberry pancakes, sourdough biscuits...
yum.
By the way, as a postscript to my last post, I have slowly added yeast and natural sugars back into my diet over the past week, now that I am on the natural meds from Flora. Supposedly, you don't have to follow the diet when you are on the special probiotics... Whoo-Hoo! :)
But I made it two and a half weeks with no bread, no sugar!
Anyone who knows me, knows that was by the grace of God. :)
Speaking of feasts, Chloe has decided that our "kitchen" table (where we eat) is to be rechristined the "feast" table.
Really.
She also has decided that it is appropriate to say the word feast as many times as humanly possible during said "feast."
For example,
"Mommy, are we gonna sit at the feast table again tonight?"
"This is such a feast, Mommy"
"Nini, hurry up and eat your feast"
"This sure is a yummy feasty feast!"
"We are feasting at the feasting table!!"
"This is the best feast ever!"
And so on and so forth....the whole night!
Too cute.
"
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done.
Sorry for the blogging pause, but things have been crazy 'round here.
The fight for pain-free nursing has now become a spiritual one. After finally reaching the end of my mental and physical rope late last week, I told Tim that I was officially "done."
Actually it was more like "D-O-N-E done" with all the drama. No more vertiginous monomania!!!I said that he needed to just pray that God would just make it stop, that I wasn't willing to take any more pain. I decided that I wasn't going to give it any more attention, that I was just going to ignore it and leave it alone...no more hot compresses, aspiration attempts, ointments, pumping, etc... NOTHING.
So, the next day I woke up and I was FINE.
And the next day I was FINE.
Then I went to church home group and shared what had happened and gave glory to GOD!
That night at 4 AM it came back with a vengeance.
I prayed harder...and went to sleep
The next day it was better.
Last night, 2 AM, couldn't sleep due to the pain.
Today...slightly hurting but I am still trying to stay positive.
Pray that I can stay strong for this battle. This has gone on long enough.
I want to enjoy my daughter with no pain or problems, FINALLY!!!
And I believe that God wants that for us.
Thank you to all of you who have been such an encouragement to me...
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monomania...
Word of the Day for Friday, September 29, 2006
monomania \mon-uh-MAY-nee-uh; -nyuh\, noun:
1. Pathological obsession with a single subject or idea.
2. Excessive concentration of interest upon one particular subject or idea.
One of the themes in the book was the necessity for a leader to be passionate about the work. And sometimes in a corporate setting, passion becomes monomania. -- "Balancing the Personal and the Professional", New York Times, October 10, 1999
It is a monomania that approaches a frenzy in which girlfriends or wife, family and sleep, mean nothing. -- Newgate Callendar, "Crime", New York Times, January 4, 1987
He was . . . a rather impossible person -- self-absorbed to the point of monomania (when lesser beings presumed to take part in his monologues, he would say "Quite" and then continue along his solitary path). -- Thomas M. Disch, "Later Auden", Washington Post, July 4, 1999
After visiting American prisons Tocqueville and his traveling companion, Gustave de Beaumont, wrote that social reformers in the United States had been swept up in "the monomania of the penitentiary system," convinced that prisons were "a remedy for all the evils of society." -- Eric Schlosser, "The Prison-Industrial Complex", The Atlantic, December 1998
Monomania is derived from the Greek elements mono-, "one, single, alone" + mania, "madness, frenzy, enthusiasm."
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
vertiginous...
Word of the Day for Sunday, September 24, 2006
vertiginous \vur-TIJ-uh-nuhs\, adjective:
1. Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy.
2. Causing or tending to cause dizziness.
3. Turning round; whirling; revolving.
4. Inclined to change quickly or frequently; inconstant.
But up close the building is impossibly steep, vertiginous, hostile. -- Neil Baldwln, Legends of the Plumed Serpent
He did us no good when, without permission, he entered Tibetan air space and flew up over central China, explaining that it was impossible to comply with the authorities' instructions to land because of the vertiginous mountain terrain. -- Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones, Around the World in 20 Days
. . .the bouldery ruins of vertiginous cliffs pounded and lashed by the fury of wind and water. -- Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker, The Beach
Vertiginous derives from Latin vertigo, "a turning round, a whirling round; giddiness," from vertere, "to turn." Related words include reverse, "to turn back (re-) or around"; subvert, "to undermine" (from sub-, "under" + vertere -- at root "to turn from under, to overturn"); and versus, "against" (from versus, "turned towards," hence "facing, opposed," from the past participle of vertere).
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
improvident...
Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 19, 2006
improvident \im-PROV-uh-duhnt; -dent\, adjective:
Lacking foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent or thoughtless.
Elizabeth's husband . . . had been a reckless, improvident man, who left many debts behind him when he died suddenly of a consumption in September 1704. -- David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life
Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado. -- Elizabeth Hardwick, Sight-Readings: American Fictions He called the decision "an exercise in raw judicial power" that was "improvident and extravagant." -- Linda Greenhouse, "White Announces He'll Step Down From High Court", New York Times, March 20, 1993
Improvident derives from Latin improvidens, improvident-, from im- (for in-), "not" + providens, provident-, present participle of providere, "to see beforehand, to provide for," from pro-, "before, forward" + videre, "to see."
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Monday, September 18, 2006
health update...
Emma had her opthamologist appt. last week and he said for us to wait before considering the surgery, because her eye looks so much better! It actually started getting better the day after my prayer request post. So....thank you for those prayers, and thank you Lord, for your mercy.
I am still fighting this yeast, and actually stayed up until 4:45 AM with severe pain last night. I took some Tylenol finally and was able to sleep some when I wasn't nursing Emma. It seems to hurt much, much more at night for some reason.
Anyway, my sister-in-law ordered me some new natural medicine that should be here before Wednesday, and hopefully it will knock it out like it has on all the testimonials for the product, including her. I'm planning on calling LaLeche League today too to get their opinion...but thank you again, Flora. May God bless you abundantly for your compassion.
But suffice to say, that those of you that prayed for Emma, need to pray for my "lactation devices" just as hard!!! (tee hee) No, really, please pray for relief and that this new stuff will work quickly.
Love to everyone,
Jen
:)
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
you mean i can't make my cupcake and eat it too?
Yeah, you heard right, I made cupcakes, FROM SCRATCH, and didn't eat them.
:0
I hosted a baby shower for my good friend Audrea today, and so yesterday we spent the day getting ready for the party. Best way to get hubbie to mow the yard, and kids to clean up the house....Throw a Party! Just Kidding, sort of.
Anyway, I spent the day in the kitchen baking cupcakes. I did some cupcake research online and found out that:
1. Cupcakes are obviously the new fad in the big cities. There are even cupcake bakeries...
2. Many, Many people are obsessed with cupcakes...
3. I LOVE CUPCAKES! They are soooo fun.
Check out the following links in your free time to see some outrageous cupcake lovers...incudes photos and some pretty interesting recipes...
http://www.cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/
(3 gals who are obsessed with everything cupcakes...)
(very informative baking blog)
http://www.52cupcakes.blogspot.com/
(one cupcake recipe a week, all year long...)
Anyway, I made vanilla bean cupcakes with spearmint laced buttercream frosting and pink-tinted white chocolate decorative M's. Whew.
No, really, I had so much fun making them. I really love being creative. It is totally therapeutic for me. I did allow myself one bite of a finished cupcake when we were done yesterday, just to make sure it tasted okay.
It did. :)
Oh, and something else that was so neat... My friend Nichole, who has been my encourager during this crazy diet, decided to join me in having no sugar today... just to support me, because as she said, "I knew today was going to be really hard for you..."
She made me cry.
Anyway,
Here are some pics from the baking and from the shower... and yes, there are LOTS of pictures of my cupcakes, but if you knew how many OTHER times I have baked and ended up with nothing but a frosting and flour covered kitchen and self, and nothing worth showing at the end...you would understand the pride in THESE cupcakes. (Noelle, you are with me on this, right? I remember in particular a certain birthday at the Lincolnton house, with a "flower" cake and many, many icing colors and well...disaster of course...but it has always been fun, and I truly missed you yesterday.)
Also, I just thought that the pictures looked cool! Tim took the ones of me squeezing the icing... those are particularly neat.
So, all that to say, NO HARD TIMES ALLOWED!!! :)
Audrea and I
Audrea is about to pop! I think she's ready to be done, don't you?
It was a diaper shower, so a break from the diapers was welcome...
More diapers!
Nichole and her new 5 week old, Hank Adam II
I just though this was so sweet... It is a doorknob hanger thingee!
That's all folks!
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time for tea, anyone?
Chloe invited us all to a tea party last night, so we trooped upstairs and got comfy while she served us all full plates of play food, played a song for us on her xylophone, and then served us tea. When we were ready to leave, she insisted that we each feed one of her babies before going... The whole thing was a riot. After the pictures below, click to hear her "recipe for tea".
And be prepared for laughter, of course...
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picnics and such...
Here are some pictures from our church picnic and baptism last Sunday.
Tim and Emma on the "beach"...
We are in a drought and so the water wasn't the prettiest, but the kids had a ball anyway.
Chloe kept trying to help Tim as he played the little djembe for worship.
Chloe and Emma watching the cabbage ball game...
Chloe decided that she was cheering for only one that day... see for yourself...
(Hank is a guy from our church... He and his wife Nicole are very good friends of ours, but obviously Chloe has a special place in her heart for him...) (When asked, she said she was cheering for him because he was her best friend...) She pretty much jumped up and down the entire game, screaming "GO HANK, GO HANK, GO HANK!"... the WHOLE time... :)
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