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New Job, New House, New Blog…soon!
Hello everyone,
Just a very quick update here to let everyone know that yes, we are still alive and fresh new content is coming soon.
First, I have finally defended my thesis this past Tuesday and for some reason the University is going to give me a M.Sc. degree in Biology.
A New Year, Finally A New Post!
Happy New Year!! Yes I know it’s a little late for that. But already 2010 has been a busy year for the Green Family and as a result I have neglected the blog.
Odum is feverishly finishing his Master’s thesis and will defend it before March. So as a result we are moving. Where? you ask. Well that’s the million dollar question. Odum has to get a job first so we’ve both been job hunting for him. So not only is the poor guy writing a thesis he’s also looking for job. And I am trying to get our house packed up since we have to be out of here by March. Let me tell you how fun that’s been with two crazy kiddos running around!
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
It’s hard to believe Christmas and the holidays are upon us. My shopping is done, presents wrapped and baking completed and already half gone (is it a bad thing if your Christmas baking is gone before Christmas?) I’ve been thinking a lot about Christmas traditions and how many of our traditions have changed since leaving home, getting married and having kids.
We’re Baaaaack!
Just wanted to make a quickie post to apologize for our absence, and let you know that yes we’re still here and everything is going well! It’s been a busy fall for the green family and what I’d like to do here is just offer up some quick highlights as to what has been going down the past month or so.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
I feel incredibly lucky that this thanksgiving I have so much to be thankful for.
So I’ve decided to share my list with you.
Here are the things that I am thankful for this year:
Happy Birthday Tristan!
Today is a bittersweet day. My baby turns three. I’m so happy that he’s grown into this wonderful, intense, fun, active, loving boy but I miss that little baby I used to cuddle at 3 am feedings.
One Month Of Blogging, What’s Next?
It has been about one month since we have launched this site and with the excitement of creating a new blog we never really illustrate why we chose to blog about being green and autism and how they might relate to each other.
So this is just a quick post to let everyone know that Andrea is working on a real juicy two part post that will establish the following:
Happy Birthday My Sweet Baby Girl
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since Maya joined our family. Her birth was supposed to be much less dramatic than her brother’s. With Tristan I was in labour for almost 3 days and it ended in a c-section. Maya was breech and we had a scheduled section. Boy did she have a different plan. Four days before the section I started spotting. We went into triage and they discovered I had a placental abruption; the placenta was breaking off of my uterus, which can be life threatening both to mom and babe. Mine was minor though. But my Dr. decided to keep me at the hospital and moved up the section date. Of course everyone had planned on being at the hospital for August 1 and we had family coming to take care of Tristan. So at the last minute we had to scramble to get someone to watch Tristan while Odum got me all settled in at the hospital and then call his mom to see if she could come from Sudbury a day early. Luckily she was able to.
How It All Got Started
Looking back thinking about how the idea for this blog got started its funny how things came together. Back around Christmas time Odum and I were talking about becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly. We talked about things that we needed to do better not just for the environment but for our kids and their future. We wondered why we, and other people, didn’t do more green things in our daily life and came up with two answers, time and money. So we decided to quit talking and start acting. And while we were at it, why not start a blog and share all our crazy adventures?
What My Family Means To Me
Over the past couple days I’ve been brainstorming with a few ideas of what I should write for my first post. I’ve been going back and forth between wanting to write about my stance on the environment or about our first big green family adventure. But when it came right down to it, I just knew I had to talk about my family and what they mean to me. I must apologize in advance as this post is personal in nature, but without my family this blog would not be possible and it wouldn’t be fitting to start off this blog without acknowledging them first.
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