Archive for February, 2009

Money Saving Tips

With the economic crisis, everyone is talking about ways to save money.  So I figured since Mark and I live pretty simply that I had a few money saving tips.  Plus, I figure that other people can respond and give me some other ideas for saving $.

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Pregnancy Brain

So if you know me, you know that I am already a little scatter-brained to say the least.  I mean who could lose as many car keys as I have.  One year for my birthday, my sister gave me four copies of my car key so that  I wouldn’t have to call the locksmith.
I had [...]

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Pics Around Ft. Worth

Japanese Tea Gardens

Where’s Mark?

Tea Gardens

My favorite pic of all.   We live in a latino area so most of the signs are in Spanish but this one isn’t…  we just can quite figure it out.

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Why a Midwife: Part 2

I hope my pregnancy brain will allow me to write clearly.  I am so scatter brained these days and can hardly remember anything.

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28 weeks!

Here is my baby belly at 28 weeks.  Last week I just seemed to pop out.  A lot of my coworkers made comments and my T-shirts started getting tighter on my belly.  Little Liza is growing and so is mommy.   I am also getting a little more tired and out of breath as I go [...]

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Why a Midwife?

I had mentioned early that Mark and I had decided to use a midwife and birthing center.  We understand this is definitely not the norm and that people have lots of questions and concerns about midwives.   So, I am no expert on midwives but I figured I could try to explain why we decided to [...]

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Elizabeth Makayla

We finally decided on a name for our little girl!  It took some time since Mark wasn’t quite prepared to believe it was a girl.  For some reason after the our first doctor said it might be a girl, I had a feeling in my gut we were having a girl.  I looked up some [...]

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The Lord’s Provision

Moving to Ft. Worth has been a challenge for me especially in the area of finances.   We decided to move without jobs or really any good contancts and knowing that we were going to have a little one.  Plus Mark would be in school, so that rules out a full time job.  Some husbands a [...]

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