Baby Shower "Mother-Load"

Next week I will attend a shower for the mother-to-be. This is the gift I intend to shower her with. All natural baby care products from my favorite baby skin care shop Sweet Knee, organic bamboo nursing pads by Posh Pads & Mommy's Little Monkey's I'm learning how to breastfeed onesie. These new mommy essentials will be delivered on a handcrafted, toxin - free, all natural
Flatbed Truck by our My Father's Hands LLC.
I chose these gifts as fun and creative and practical.

See, with our first born we had the baby-gear lined up in advance the crib, the changing table, diapers, clothes and more. Much, much more!
Chances were 50 / 50 for a boy or a girl right? And we wanted to wait and find out which it would be when our bundle arrived. In hind sight we could have waited on it all. The crib was never used as we chose the family bed, the changing table was in a room were our little one never stay (her stuff did). We reinvented the wheel as attachment parenting took form. Attending La Leach League meetings and later becoming a leader opened my eyes to a whole new world. A place where all that was need to care lovingly for our bundle was so simple : a sling, diapers and the breast.

Go take a hike!

For our summer holiday we spent five days, "unplugged" in the Smoky Mountains.
Green was everywhere in this temperate rain forest. In the smells and sounds as well as sights.
We were treated to early morning showers daily. The rain creating percussive sounds as it fell, flooding out the crickets' loud songs ~ an overwhelming cacophony that kept us awake the night before. In forest which is mostley untouched, we found deer trails leading to black berry bushes, salamanders and crayfish in the cool streams and ready made hiking sticks.
Looking forward to getting back to that magical place just as soon as we can.