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    Purposeful Conception on Offbeat Mama

    Purposeful Conception: Preparing Your Mind, Body, and Life for Pregnancy is currently being advertised on Offbeat Mama!

    I’m super-excited about the January course, which will be the last one before our baby arrives (crazy!). It will be such a good time for reflecting and setting intentions. It will definitely help keep me motivated to maintain the healthy habits I started during the pre-conception phase.

    If you have any questions about it, feel free to e-mail me!

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    Update on Holiday Traditions

    My resolution to be more festive and create new traditions this year has been both good and bad. I’ll start with the bad: it’s been a little stressful to try to fit a holiday activity into every evening.

    On most nights, Matt gets home at 6:30. By the time we cook, eat, and clean up, it’s usually around 8. That gives us approximately 1.5 hours before our ideal bed time (we have to wake up at 5:30 every morning). Matt has to write a blog post every night, and we also like to do things like watch movies, read to “Coconut,” putz around on our computers, play with Hoss, etc.

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    Cooking with Friends




    Last weekend, we had friends over for pancakes, and it reminded me how much I love cooking with friends. Instead of stressing about preparing everything in advance, I simply set up different cooking stations with everything our friends would need to help us prepare. Very Montessori! (Hoss, of course, set us his own station on our bed. That boy loves the sun.)

    For example, my friend was bringing the pancake recipe, so I put out all the ingredients that she requested in advance, as well as the measuring cups, etc. Then I set up another station for making fresh-squeezed orange juice. While our friends got busy at their stations, Matt

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