This blog is so darn kid centered but honestly I can’t think of a single thing to write about besides kids! I won’t touch anything controversial at the moment…vaccinations etc are really hitting the web in such a crazy way. I have my opinions and practices, but don’t really feel like it is anyone’s business but decisions that Adam and I make together.
So, instead, I will talk about food 🙂 Not food for me, believe it or not, but food, more like a gift basket for the sweet nurses we will most likely be spending 4 days with.
I belong to the most supportive baby group on Facebook. It is a secret group of 164 women who are all due in February. We post exciting news, troublesome news, problems, questions, pictures etc and of course we are all able to bitch and complain and because we are all in the same boat, we all kind of “get” each other. Each of us, I would imagine, have bonded with a few others more closely. It is really nice, kind of like having a sister from another mother 🙂
Babies began being born early in December and currently, as I type, 93 have been born with another 73 to go. It is fun to wake up every morning to new pictures of newborns and happy exhausted moms.
Someone posted an idea of making gift bags for the nurses at the hospital and I personally loved the idea. I was determined to do it and finally had the energy last week. I made 2 baskets, one for the night shift and one for the day shift. I’m super excited to recognize the nurses who will help me so much.
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Intentionally and incrementally. Most families who live this way did not leap from conventional to adventurous overnight. They built remote work capacity, paid down debt, tested longer trips, and had increasingly honest conversations about what they actually want from their lives. The leap feels bigger from outside than from inside.
Different for every family. For some it is long-term travel. For others it is weekend adventures close to home. What connects them is intentionality about how time is spent and a preference for experiences over accumulation. The version that fits your family is the right one.
By finding stability within the adventure rather than treating them as opposites. Routines, rituals, and family rhythms travel with you. Familiar foods, bedtime routines, and predictable family dynamics provide stability even when the location changes. Kids need consistency in relationships more than consistency in geography.
That people are fundamentally similar across cultures in what they want for their families. That comfort zone is a smaller circle than it feels from inside. That the things worth having in life require effort and discomfort to get. And that time together doing hard interesting things is the most reliable source of family closeness.
By getting clear on why you made the choices you made and returning to that clarity when the outside noise gets loud. Most families living unconventionally describe an initial period of explaining themselves that gradually gives way to just living the life. The explaining becomes less necessary as the results become visible.
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How exciting for you! When I was pregnant with my first, I belonged to a similar group, but through iVillage. We eventually migrated to a secret Facebook group. We are still active and our babies are all 7 years old now. So nice to have support in all different places.
That is fantastic! I love how a few of us are so close now. It is also quite crazy that there are only 30 babies left to be born and of course we are one of them 🙂 Thanks for reading!!