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Tales from a little family trying to live sustainably, maintain our sanity, and figure out what we want to be when we grow up.
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Mendolo.com

English - Sustainability, Family, Food
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Mendolo.com · 2d ago

Two, Four, Six Eight…

Anna marked six months old this past weekend which got me thinking… Six months ago I was getting to know my perfect  daughter.  I had just given birth to Anna at home; the proudest achievement of my life.  The week after her birth was difficult; Anna and I had difficult, painful time learning to nur
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Mendolo.com · 1W ago

Project Detox: A Proactive Approach

It’s all too easy, when we talk about toxic chemicals, to a project an attitude of  “The sky is falling!  Run for your lives!” My friend Karen, who often leaves insightful comments, commented on my last post: You are one of the most dedicated people that I know when it comes to prioritizing a natura
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Mendolo.com · 1W ago

Project Detox

I thought I was doing a good job; or at least a good enough job. Years ago I got rid of all our plastic storage containers and replaced them with glass containers.  For the most part, I avoided buying plastic toys, and when I did, I thought we made sure that they were BPA and [...]
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Mendolo.com · 2W ago

Snippets

If you look in my drafts folder on wordpress I’ve got seventeen unfinished blog posts.  In my head, I probably have another three dozen more posts rattling around.  But alas, I only have two hands, and they are almost always full of baby these days.   Life is very, very full.  Sometimes more than fu
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Mendolo.com · 1M ago

1 in 81

The message you never want to get from your midwife is the one where she says “I received the results of your second trimester screen.  Please give me a call back as soon as possible.” When I was 17 weeks pregnant with Anna I got that very message.  I was sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on [...]
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Mendolo.com · 1M ago

Theo, Three

It’s funny, Theo is now the middle child, but perhaps because he is my youngest boy or perhaps because he came into this world three weeks before I expected him, weighing only five and a half pounds, I still think of him as the baby.  I think that, to some extent, I always will. Theodore [...]
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Mendolo.com · 2M ago

The Plan

One of my nicknames is “worst case scenario girl”  (which is why I’ve got a good three months of food stored in the house + enough first aid supplies to deal with about anything short of major surgery + 100 gallons of water stored alongside the house + a solar powered cell phone/laptop charger and [
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Mendolo.com · 2M ago

Stop This Train, I Want to Get Off

Two nights ago, I woke up Jeff at two in the morning to tell him, “I don’t want to go back to work.” I don’t know that I’ve spoken before of this directly on this blog.  In fact, I think that the only people with whom I’ve ever really confided in about this are Jeff [...]
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Mendolo.com · 2M ago

The Perfect Sleep

In parenting circles, there is quite a fracas over how and where a baby should sleep.  There is sleeping alone in a crib.  Sleeping in bed with a parent (co-sleeping).  Nursing to sleep.  Falling asleep on one’s own.  Pacifiers.   Swaddling.  Sleep sacks.  Sleeping in a tree (kidding – I think – may
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Mendolo.com · 2M ago

Comfort Food

After the events of Sunday night I needed something strong to calm me down.  And nothing makes me feel better than cooking.  A friend (Thanks Luke!) brought some delicious, fragrant early season strawberries to Anna’s party and we didn’t end up eating all of them so on Monday Theodore and I made the
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