Archive for December, 2009

Let’s Normalize Nursing in Kansas City

December 31st, 2009 by Dionna - 54 Comments

While perusing blogs last night (Tom and Kieran were asleep in bed. Without me! I celebrated with a glass of wine.), I came across this post by a fantastic lactivist. She found two YouTube videos by campaigns aimed at normalizing nursing in public. Normalizing breastfeeding is something near and dear…

I’m a Grand-what?!

December 30th, 2009 by Dionna - 11 Comments

I just realized that my nephew’s son is my grand-nephew, which technically makes me a grand-aunt. And here I thought I was so clever razzing my brother for being a grandfather (and my parents for being great-grandparents – holy smokes!). This is my decrepitude personified: Dylan. He is a cute…

Mi A Name I Call Me-Self

December 29th, 2009 by Dionna - 6 Comments

Like one of my fellow bloggers, I want to start holiday traditions with Tom and Kieran. We did three things this year that I would like to continue in years to come: 1) all of the various crafts we made over the past month; 2) the handmade ornament swaps with…

What Breastmilk Tastes Like, Part 2

December 28th, 2009 by Dionna - 8 Comments

“What Does a Boob Taste Like?” This is the second in a series of posts inspired by a strange Google search: “What does a boob taste like?” I have interpreted that query to mean “what does breastmilk taste like,” because really, isn’t that much more interesting? In the first post,…

I Took His Hand and Followed

December 27th, 2009 by Dionna - Comments Off

Yesterday Tom took Kieran out for a romp in the awesome snow. Tom had built a snow cave and snow slide when he shoveled the driveway on Christmas morning, and Kieran had a blast sliding down in a little plastic saucer. I love watching those two play together! I Took…


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