Sometimes I feel like a lot of people want me to get rid of my kids. Can’t you get a babysitter? Don’t you want to put them in the nursery? Can’t you leave them with your mom? Let’s have a mom’s night out. I should add–I don’t mean my husband. He’s mostly like me; rather bring them with us than…
Category: Musings
Quotes from Spurgeon
This week I stumbled across an old, unattractively-bound book (online here) that I acquired in college while writing a research paper on corporal punishment in evangelicalism. At the time I didn’t know Charles Spurgeon from Charles Sheldon, and thus was not inspired to read the book except looking for quotes to use in my paper. But when I found it…
Pain in Childbearing
With both E and R’s births, we went to a freestanding birth center–no pain meds. Our most obvious reason for this decision is that we believe it to be statistically marginally safer (which studies do back up) and it is unquestionably the better choice for parents who want to avoid a C-section at all costs; chances of a section at…