Him: It's a baby

Been trying to find the easiest and painless way to share photos and videos with family that don't live close as well as ensure that we have good backups of all our things so that if a computer was to go on hiatus, we would still have everything.

Best [free] answer so far has come down to splitting pictures and videos between two services. As wonderful and amazing such social networking sites as Facebook and Google+ are, they really aren't the easiest to keep a good hold on with respect to second hand sharing. Yes, they each have controls and things in place to help you to lock down your information and property, but it just doesn't give that warm and fuzzy. Google isn't all bad, and of course this blog is powered by their efforts, so we can't complain all the time. Thus, using Youtube for our videos, and Shutterfly for our photos is what came to be the best answer.

Now if you are looking for the exact links to find our pages they are as follows:

Shutterfly Page: https://jbhlmh.shutterfly.com/

Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/user/hahnhell 

Feel free to have a look at them right now and enjoy as we try and capture as much as we can of our growing family.



-Another great day

Him: Still Alive!

Did you miss me?

Well, things have been rather busy lately and all because of a little someone!

Our little bundle of joy is born. Healthy and growing. Mom is alright, I am too. We are hoping to get back into writing someo more really soon.

Miss you all, now I'm going back to sleep.

-Another great day

Him: Boring!

I bet everyone that has been reading my junk in the last few days is just getting bored out of their tree.

I have decided to move all the icky detailed information about my current classes to my personal blog. That way, I don't clutter up things here and we can keep on with talking about the baby and our family!

If you still want to follow what I've been doing, just find my blog at http://dailydodads.blogspot.com/. It is also linked on the sidebar of this page.

-Another great day

Her: Do we go organic for baby?

With the days counting down to the arrival of our little one, I've been considering some specifics as to what baby will eat. I am pro-breastfeeding (as long as baby will take!), so I won't have to worry about formula. We do plan on making our own baby food; in fact, we already have some applesauce canned and ready! However, something that I read in "The Eco-nomical Baby Guide" has made me think about where we will be getting the food that baby will eventually ingest. Namely, this is the fact that babies are more vulnerable to the toxins in pesticides than adults just because of the small size of their bodies.

Wow. I never thought of it this way. Purchasing only organic foods has never really been a goal of mine, but when it comes to baby, I may be inspired to reconsider. I don't mind going to Whole Foods a little more often (yay)! Actually, organic produce can be found at most supermarkets now, so we won't have to search hard.

An alternative to buying everything organic is looking at the Environmental Working Group's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which lists the top 10 or so types of produce with the highest and lowest pesticide residues. For instance, onions, pineapple, and cabbage top the least pesticide list, whereas apples, celery, and peppers are the worst for pesticide residues. This combined with the idea that produce that you peel (e.g. bananas, oranges) don't need to be organic can satisfy any "lazy" organic wannabe. Let's just say that I may be second guessing my non-organic apple, celery, and pepper purchases next time at the grocery store.

Another idea I've been toying with is signing up for weekly delivery of local organic produce, something like Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). This is certainly something worth looking into, and I'm sure knowing where exactly your produce comes from, and the fact that it hasn't travelled thousands of miles to reach you, will make the produce taste even better!

Happy (organic) eating!