tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21591959764216485852011-12-03T14:32:23.861-05:00Mom I AmTABU, TRENDY, TRADITIONAL. <br>
EMBRACING THE TITLE, TANTRUMS AND TRIUMPH OF BEING THE MOM I AM!Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-41430099517355082862010-11-21T09:34:00.000-05:002010-11-21T09:34:15.103-05:00Everyone else's blogs...Sheesh, talk about intimidating. I'm so hooked on so many other Mommy blogs it's taking up all my time to work on mine. All the while I can't get past how to really brand MOM I AM. So what's a starry-eyed Mom blogger to do?
Only time will tell. I need to set aside a concrete block of time every week dedicated to studying how to create a successful blog. How to really focus my energy, my passion Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-11274501250109431912010-10-30T21:34:00.000-04:002010-10-30T21:34:02.447-04:00Reflecting on my VBACVBAC = Vaginal birth after caesarean. More progressive communities, hospitals, doctors are now doing them, reflecting on the studies now released showing the low rates of risk and also the benefits to the baby and mother. This was my goal.
Course I should write out the whole experience, and am currently doing so for my Drs and my own "memoirs". However, the most important things to note is my Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-66138624958910414122010-10-09T07:39:00.000-04:002010-10-09T07:54:50.295-04:00Just thinking...
There are so many great and glorious ideas I have right now floating around in my head on how to be more successful and productive when it comes to my writing online. Yet very daunting on how to get grounded and started. I know ultimately I need to wait after the second baby arrives near the end of Oct. or any momentum I begin with will be lost. Then I'm sure by the time I get in the groove I'llKate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-61647572968441237732010-08-29T09:42:00.000-04:002010-08-29T09:49:46.367-04:00To bake or not to bake?
I recently read a great blog post at PassionateHomeaking.com about "When Homemaking Gets in the Way of Mothering". There is definitely that feeling amongst us "crunchy" moms who are trying to make every meal from scratch, can food come fall, cloth-diaper and hang laundry, compost, garden, home-school, while baby-wearing and nursing, etc. that we have to be doing everything natural, eco, by hand Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-64388291383203851652010-08-27T10:48:00.000-04:002010-08-27T10:49:50.166-04:00How to create a more positive view of birth...
Recently I'm left frustrated and furious about yet another brain-washing perpetrated against all women. I'm heading into my second birth, just eight weeks away and am filing my head with positive stories and affirmations regarding the VBAC I'm attempting. After reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth there was one part in particular that jumped out at me. Granted this part isn't the premise ofKate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-7731550992825045462010-08-16T10:35:00.000-04:002010-08-16T10:45:31.055-04:00Like I need one more thing to do...
Okay I think I'm gonna hit this up in a whole new way. Here I though making "articles" would be the only way to interest people but I realize that's not how I think, nor write. It was too difficult and not fun... and I've always enjoyed writing. This should be no different. Where am I in life right now? 60 days away from my due date, potty-trained 2 year old (rock on!), to-do list for the home aKate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-62596194164993143422010-02-23T14:11:00.000-05:002010-02-23T14:11:47.957-05:00The Second Time Around...
THINKING OF ANOTHER CHILD?
So things are finally settling in. You are well on your way and finally getting into the grove of Mommydom and you start thinking of a second child. Perhaps you and your toddler are now weaned, they are sleeping in their own bed, YOU are finally getting some sleep again, they are starting to communicate more, their ability for independent play so Mommy and Daddy Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-58503140504691691242010-02-10T07:40:00.000-05:002010-02-22T19:54:38.979-05:00Fantastic Giveaways for the Kiddos!
Folks if you haven't already stumbled on to Simple Mom (Simple Kids, Organic, Living, etc.) you must not only go there but sign up for either the emails or feed. This is what I look forward to the most every week out of all the other online media/mediums I've connected with. Clear, clean, concise. Enjoyable every time. Currently they are having several great giveaways to kickoff some changes Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-32821965137871671682010-02-05T10:50:00.000-05:002010-02-22T19:54:10.824-05:00Choosing Local and Organic for your Family
TEACHING THE ETHICS OF CONSCIOUS FOOD CHOICES
There are many values I hope to instill in my child. Kindness, generosity, respect... lots of values that focus on relationships between people. Just as important to me though is a set of values when dealing with the environment, and more specifically their food choices.
Thankfully more attention than ever is being turned back to one of Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-22661952886736526192010-01-26T21:44:00.000-05:002010-03-11T17:46:37.017-05:00Admitting to Postpartum Depression
HINDSIGHT AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION
I can sit here at 20 months out with only a wisp of "the crazies", as I dubbed it afterward. There are some of those same emotions and feelings that made themselves present in the first months that even now, jump up, scare me and remind me of all that I went through in the beginning. I come from a family of talkers, we exercise our demons by talking them into Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-88458027279525069362010-01-13T15:45:00.000-05:002010-02-22T19:52:32.787-05:00Your new title
Talking with fellow moms, friends and strangers, we seem to be exploring the same topic lately. What are the benefits and drawbacks to being a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM), a work-at-home-mom (WAHM) or a working-mom (WM)? What are the current stigmas attached to each? How have they changed from generation to generation?
In talking with my mother-in-law I hear how she felt slighted being a SAHMKate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2159195976421648585.post-10088542450758532010-01-11T21:16:00.000-05:002010-02-22T12:18:54.346-05:00Who is Mom I Am?
There is a lot to say and not enough time to say it all. A lot to do and yet again... tick-tock, the minutes are rushing by. Hello fellow Mommas! You know all too well what I'm talking about, yes? Don't you find that throughout all the rushed days and our hurried lives there are still plenty of moments when time trickles by so slowly? Like standing in a slow moving river. Toes spread in mud Kate Ogdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15509329251756540312noreply@blogger.com0