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Paleo Seafood Alfredo
I am not a huge fan of cooking to be honest. (gasp) My husband fears for my life when I am wielding a knife in the kitchen. I have zero finesse when cutting vegetables and measuring ingredients. I drop things, I spill, I get burnt. There is often a lot of swearing involved. In fact, I decide what meals I will make again based on how high on the swear-o-meter it rates. To be completely honest with you, this meal rates moderately high on the swear-o-meter. Don’t let that scare you though. My swear-o-meter is more sensitive than most. But just because I am not a graceful cook, doesn’t mean…
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The Magic After the Storm
On May 20, 2013 everything in my world was altered. Most people would say that about the birth of a child. Your world does change with every child. But sometimes, for some of us, our worlds are changed in ways that we never could have predicted. On that day, I went into my bi-weekly OB appointment to check my fluid levels via ultrasound. For the previous two weeks, we had been checking my levels every few days. I was being monitored for low fluid levels after my daughter “failed” a NST (non stress test) that my doctor ordered after an abnormally high heart rate was detected. On that Monday, my…
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