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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Harbor Landscape Company
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Sick Days...
Not more than a week after I was mentioning that Harbor is going on 11 months and she has not yet been sick, she got some sort of bug. We went to bed early on Tuesday night since Kevin had been out plowing all night on Monday, and I woke up around 10pm to find Harbor as hot as an oven. I striped her clothes off and scurried around for a thermometer. Her temp was somewhere around 103-104 degrees! Granted, she was sleeping through all this, but I could tell she was uncomfortable – she had been very restless the last few nights, and I now knew why. I had figured she was having a growth spurt and was also teething… but apparently it turned into something more.
So, I grab my book light and start reading through my Dr. Sears Baby Book – they tell me to get some fever reducing meds in her and let her rest… give it a couple days, and if she’s not better, call the doctor. We, of course, have no baby meds in the house, so I have to send Kevin out to Walgreens at 12 midnight (did I mention, he had no sleep the night before either!). I gave her some meds, stayed up with her for a few more hours to notice that the fever was going down and finally got some sleep. I gave her another dose of meds in the morning, then proceeded to read my two additional books on medical care – 1st being “How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of your Doctor” and the 2nd being a guide book that was published by our doctors – Partners in Pediatrics. The first told me to hold off on the meds till she absolutely needed them. Having a fever means that your body is doing its job fighting off infection… giving the meds can do two things – first, it can interfere with your body doing its job, and second, it can give a child a false sense that they are well – encouraging them to play and act healthy when they should be resting. The second book was pretty much a combination of the first two. (I have to say – I love our doctors!). So… we kept Harbor off the meds all day on Wednesday, and she seemed sick, but ok. Come night time, she was feeling really bad, so I gave her another dose and took her to bed, thinking that she would be out for the night. Boy was I wrong – once that medicine kicked in she was feeling great and wanted to play for hours! She finally went to sleep and woke up about 3am feeling awful and needed another dose of meds.
My mom called me while she was up being crazy, and we were trying to go to sleep, and insisted that I call the doctors. I told her that I’d done my research, I looked for signs of anything out of the unusual, and that I would wait 3 days and call them if she was still not feeling well. She explained how worried she was about her, but I insisted that it was all ok.
Well – we had a happy end to the story with Harbor waking up on Thursday morning feeling much better… she eased into the day and was back to her old self by the evening. I’m proud to say that I’m not one of the 90% of moms that freaks out over a fever and immediately calls the doctor!
Monday, November 10, 2008
Almost Organic and Becoming Self Sustaining
Before Kevin and I were married, we agreed to do all we could to eventually have an organic household. We’ve been on the journey for over 3 years now, and although we are not completely there, we’ve come a long way. The majority of our produce is organic, either purchased from Whole Foods or sent to us from Door to Door Organics. We’ve ordered a half a cow that we should get in December that was grain fed and free of any antibiotics and hormones. Most of our meet is purchased either organic or natural, and we do our best to stay away from processed foods.
We use mostly natural hygiene and cleaning products, with a few exceptions. We still use un-natural deodorant (which really should be the next to go), shaving cream, laundry detergent, and fabric softener. Those will all be hard switches when the time comes. We’ve also switched to using glass containers rather than any plastic and switched from our Nalgene bottles to Klean Kanteen bottles made from stainless steel.
Anyway, we’ve been working our way to become debt free, but we really don’t want to sacrifice our good eating habits or the use of natural products. So, we’ve decided that our next step in the process is to become self sustaining. We’ve come up with a few steps to start the process, and many more that we’d like to achieve over time.
1. To start with, I’m in the process of finding a good bread recipe – the more basic you buy foods, the less expensive they are, therefore, this will cut our bread costs from about $4 something a loaf down to under a dollar.
2. We’re also working on getting a garden started in our basement. Hopefully next spring we’ll be living somewhere with land and be able to harvest a large garden, but for now, we’re going to do our best to work with what we have. All it takes is a grow light, some containers, seeds and soil – and hopefully we’ll be off to growing our own produce. We’ll probably start off with some herbs and maybe some tomato and pepper plants, but hopefully it will grow from there. We’re also trying to start some fruit trees – starting them off as container plants in our house that we will hopefully be able to transfer to land that we purchase in the spring. I’ll have pictures to share in the near future!
3. We’ve also got to make the switch to cloth diapers… I’ve been talking about doing it before Harbor was even born, but I just haven’t gotten around to ordering them yet. I’m going to do my best to make that happen in the next few weeks. She’s in a size 3 now, and they get more and more expensive with each increase in size!
As for the future, hopefully we’ll have some land and we’ll be able to do the big garden, compost pile, chickens to produce our own eggs, etc. For now, we’re just starting small.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Pictures
I just uploaded new pictures on snapfish: www.harbormarie.snapfish.com. I also ordered the pictures from her 4th month through her 8th month - 750 pictures! That's an average of 150 pictures that I take of the child every month. The sick part... I actually take the time to put every single picture into a photo album. The albums hold about 300 pictures if I get extra pages - it took two books to do months 0-3. At this rate, I'm going to be broke due to the fact that all our money has been spent on pictures!
On top of this – we just had our family pictures taken (www.jimmysphoto.com/comstock) They are great, but I just realized that it’s going to cost a small fortune to get the ones ordered that we want!
I think we need to go into the picture business!
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