Last year, we were forced to quickly move out of our home of three years when a flood ruined the lower level of the house. We were renting the place, and the landlord wasn’t all that interested in doing flood recovery. Since we had no hot water and the place stunk like a moldy sewer, we moved in with my...

We went away this weekend planning nothing more than to sleep and relax for a couple of days before I hit full term. Surprisingly, this weekend turned out to be more special and relevant to my upcoming birth than I ever could have planned for, and I’ve been dying to write about it all. First, let me say that going...

… If it’s the last thing we ever do (before this baby comes storming into our lives.) I’ve been so exhausted.  So spent.  So thoroughly and completely worn out from school, pregnancy, parenting, and life in general.  I have moments where I’m trying really hard to pull myself back to center, but I just can’t quite seem to get on...

Remember how I predicted that 2010 would be The Year of Gina?  Well – it totally. freaking. WAS. So many amazing things happened to me this year, it’s hard to even summarize what this year meant to both me and my family… but I’ll try! For starters, my family filmed a TLC/Discovery Health special about our feminist parenting style, which...

This week I attended my 6th birth as a doula, which was also my very 1st cesarean.  I’m not going to talk about the mother’s birth story because that’s not my story to tell, but I do want to talk about how I felt throughout this experience, especially given my own history. When I first started taking births as a...

When I haven’t blogged in 8 days, you know things have been bad. Two Sundays ago we took the munchkins to a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese (otherwise known as Public Health Hazard #1) and Jonas came home with the flu.  He spent a couple of days hosing me down with vomit before I took him to Immediate Care...

Oh. Em. Gee.  I need a nap.  Me and every other mom in the universe.  If only the KNap Knook from Baby Blues really existed, I’d buy stock in the company. Oh wait – there actually IS a company that specializes in naps!  Not for moms though – for corporate workers.  I’d like to tell you more about it, but...