I’m baaaack.
It’s time for Get Skinny Saturday.
Which maybe I should start calling, “weigh-in every week even though you haven’t really been doing anything to work towards your weight loss Saturday,” but that doesn’t have quite as nice of a ring to it.
This week I did pretty much nothing in terms of the weight loss. [Read more…]
I’d like you to meet Eddie Giese, P.E. He’s a graduate of the University of Maryland’s school of engineering, a licensed professional engineer, and a project manager. He spent several weeks over the summer of 2013 designing and constructing a water tank for a remote village in Burkina Faso, which is located in west Africa. He knows a thing or two about water systems and how they work.
surveying the land in Burkina Faso to construct a water tank
He’s also my husband, so today I’m interviewing him here on the blog. I’m seeking answers to one of life’s more pressing questions:
Everybody knows all about the fun stuff like stretch marks and hemorrhoids that happen to your body while you are pregnant, but nobody tell you about the dark underbelly (pun totally intended) of secret and shameful things that can happen to you afterwards.
Ever heard of a PUPPP rash? Me neither, until I got one immediately after delivering Penny. Imagine getting the chicken pox on top of a horrible sunburn, while you are also recovering from major surgery. It was not fun.
I also had NO IDEA that pregnancy so often leads to gum disease.
That is, until I was sitting in the dentist’s chair minding my own business right after I delivered Abby. I was just there for a normal cleaning. I didn’t think much of it. I always brush and floss my teeth. I hadn’t even had a cavity in almost five years.
When they told me I had Periodontitis (which means that you are passed the stage of gingivitis and have a full on disease in your mouth) I FREAKED out. [Read more…]
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