The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
I look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.

We're back

We just got back on Saturday (well technically Sunday morning) from visiting the in-laws. We had a lovely time but are all really tired now as we came back via a wedding reception and haven't caught up our sleep yet. I'm just trying to get caught up on things in the house and get everything unpacked and sorted out. Also need to finish making weaning food for Baby Girl as she'll need to start weaning soon.

I made flour!

Here’s the wheat:
Here’s the coffee grinder:
This is my first attempt:I didn’t put much wheat in and it turned out quite coarse.

This is my second attempt:
I think I put in slightly more than double the first time and it’s turned out much finer.

I’ll have to grind some more so that I’ve got enough to make something. I can’t at the moment though as it’s so loud and the kitchen is right below Baby Girl’s bedroom where she’s having a nap.

Wheat

I ordered some wheat yesterday and it should be arriving today. I read in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration that in a trial to improve diets of American children they used an electric coffee grinder to grind wheat. My husband was given one a few years ago but rarely uses it so we decided that we'd test it out and see if it will grind wheat. It'll certainly be a lot cheaper than buying a special wheat grinder assuming it works. I'll hopefully post tomorrow on how successful it has been.

Baby Footprints.

Here are Baby Girl's footprints when she was ten days old. They're so cute.



We're planning to do some more soon so we can compare how much she's grown.

Whoops

I didn't leave the cream cheese making contraption in the fridge. I must've left it out too long as the cheese went mouldy. Hopefully it'l be better next time!

Yoghurt and cream cheese

Yesterday I made some yoghurt (with a little help from the slow cooker) and I set some of it making some cream cheese. Last time I left ot in the fridge but this time I've kept it out and I've also tied the muslin cloth up so the cheese should end up in a kind of ball shape rather then a thin layer I have to scrape off. If it goes to plan, I'll post some pictures.

Busy weekend

Well, on Saturday I left Baby Girl with Hubby for the first time while I went shopping. I needed a couple of new skirts as I don't quite fit into enough of my skirts yet since Baby Girl was born. I missed her so much even though I was only out for about 2 1/2 hours. They got on okay apart from a little mix up with feeding times. :) Then we decided to have friends from church for Sunday lunch (again first time since Baby Girl was born) so that kept us pretty busy getting that organised. Now we just need to finish off that mountain of washing up...

Toilet training?

Toilet training. We think of this as one of those necessary parts of raising a child. However, we do not intend to "toilet train" our daughter. This is not because we intend to leave our daughter in nappies (American = diapers) for the rest of her life but because we have not nappy-trained her in the first place. Think about it. Why train a child into a habit when two or three years later you are going to expect them to start doing the complete opposite? I suppose you are probably thinking that it is necessary because a baby has no bowel or bladder control. This is simply not true. Babies are born able to control both their bowels and bladders. If we recognise this, we can avoid the difficulties of toilet training by allowing baby to use the toilet (or potty) from birth.

A quick post

Baby girl is sleeping at the moment so I thought it was a good time to get in a quick blog post. The perfectionist in me wants to get the layout of this blog sorted out before I let people see it but then I realised that it will always be a work in progress and that I will never have the time to "perfect" it so I've decided to let my blog be seen by others.

You might have noticed the link about elimination communication on the sidebar. We (that is my husband and I) practise elimination communication with baby girl. I will write a bit more about it soon.

My Family

I thought I ought to start with an introduction to my family: my family consists of my husband, myself and our baby daughter.

Here they are at a wedding we went to a couple of months ago:

Baby girl is 3 months in this photo. She is 5 months now.

Wahey! I've managed to change the settings so the second column works properly. Now to see about changing the background...

First Post

Well, I've got my blog set up now but I need to work on the layout. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get time to work out how to add another column.