resolutions

2008 resolution 1- homebirth

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…These are resolutions from way back in 2008. These here comics have been around since 2002, can you believe it? So that would make this my tenth anniversary! Seriously, how should I celebrate? hmmmmm, seems like I should totally publish a book!

Sorry the comics sort of stopped this week, we ended up at the emergency room with my 7 year old daughter on Tuesday. If you have a weak stomach for scary parenting stories, or are pregnant and don’t want to hear anything negative, or are new to parenting and haven’t had a heart wrenching, stomach turning moment then you might wanna click off the post now, why not, you’ve already read the comic ;o)

She’s fine.

I had dinner ready, most of it on the table, 6:45 pm. Daughter goes into the bathroom and pulls the door on her finger. Daughter begins to scream, I run and push the door open and she’s screaming still and holding her fingers. She pulls her other hand away to show me and the tip of the middle finger is just hanging on by the side. Down halfway through the nail. It looks like pacman. I start screaming. I yell, “Go to the car!” and everyone does. I drive us to the ER (after showing up at 6:58 at an urgent care center that closes at 7.) Husband is in back comforting daughter as he had a beer or two and we never risk that. My kids remembered to turn off the stove and oven. Husband and daughter get out and race into the ER, I park the car and me and the kids race in. The ER is packed and they take them into the back right away. I stay with the kids in the car because no one under 18 is allowed in the back and my littlest is two, and a nursling, and was understandable upset. We’re lucky, because it’s not that cold outside right now and we all forgot jackets, shoes and socks. We were in t-shirts. We’re unlucky that the day before we cleaned the car down to the carpet and so we no longer had 2 picnic blankets, 4 beach towels, snacks and food, crayons, paper, pens and all the other stuff that had been piled a foot deep on the floor. Me and the kids sat in the car for 5 hours, bored out of our mind, but also worried. she was finished at midnight. I am so thrilled that I had a cellphone so that my husband and I could text back and forth about what was going on.

They sewed her finger tip back on and it took 11 stitches in a ring right around. She was a total trooper and didn’t cry once she was there. Today she went to a hand specialist and he said that it was all looking good and that the finger should be pretty normal once it’s all healed. Phew.

So, Doors are Dangerous. I’m just saying. Double phew.
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A give-away, a freebie, and a business update…

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…Good morning, and welcome to 2012. A time and place of hopefulness and joy. Seriously. I’m not kidding, universe, Hopefulness and JOY! Or I’m going to get tough. But since I have a role to play in how much hopefulness and joy there are, here’s some great stuff happening here right now:

See the sponsor right there, The Mother Magazine? Right on the right. See it, big and gorgeous, that ad? Click it. Check it out, the Mother Magazine, for Americans, too. Because we’ve lost our last Mothering magazine and boy do we miss it. What else are we gonna put on the coffee table when opinionated Aunt Martha visits-besides of course, Mama is Comic books ;o)

So here’s the deal,

order a subscription to The Mother Magazine and receive a free first issue, the 50th issue, Jan/Feb 2012. After you order the magazine send an email to infoUSA@themothermagazine.orgwith the code ‘freebirth’ at checkout, and the folks at the magazine will send you your free magazine!

Here’s another deal,

I have calendars for sale and right now they’re flying off the shelves, you want one, seriously you do. It’s only $14 and chock full of fun. AND, for the next few days you can try and win one in the contest that’s happening at the bottom of my page (I’m trying out rafflecopter so give it a fly and tell me what you think!) Win a calendar!

Coming up I’ve got another give-away, it’s about food, and recipes and ooops, I’m keeping it a surprise, but it will be just in time for your “I swear I’m going to cook more nutritious foods” resolution to really sink in. Just a few more days.

Finally, an introduction to some new features on my site, starting at the top right:
1. I’ve added a tip jar up there in the top right. Donations are always appreciated.
2.Just under is my Kachingle Medallion, for those of you who want to make easy, painless donations to all of your favorite websites on a monthly basis, you can join for only $5 a month and include me in your kachingling.
3. There’s the Mother Magazine, go ahead subscribe!
4. My calendar for sale.
5. My cousin-in-law’s lovely jewelry for sale, go ahead, click!
6. A change.org petition. sign the petitions you believe in, I make $1 per signature, it’s a great way to make me a buck without really costing you anything.
7. My facebook widget, LIKE me if you haven’t, I post LOTS of news over there, check me out.
8. My Amazon shop.
9-12. A few of my new products for sale. Photos coming.
13. What I’m reading now.

So there you go, lots to do and a new comic will be posting in just a few hours,

Thank you for continuing to read the comics after all these years, your feed back means the world to me.
I’m hoping your New Year is full of the joy and happiness that the hugs of little babies bring. Big kids too.

xox,
Heather

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