Birth

Since I've been covering food and politics, I'd like to take a turn with my other favorite topic, home birth.
Here's an article that my midwife sent me from the good old NYT.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/garden/13birth.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&hp&oref=slogin

It's been kind of hard to transition to the new time here at our house. Five is too damn early for it to be dark. It reminds me all too often about just how many places the boys can play inside, and no... it's not generally their room.
We got our first motherlode of winter share from Monroe Farms, and I've been making lots of soup. Curried winter squash and mushroom soup, Santa Fe sweet potato soup, Cream of celery, and today I made the most gorgeous carrot cake with poppy seeds on the outside. I never knew how people made cakes look good, but it turns out all you have to do is buy one of those tube pans. It looks fancy, and stands on its own. what an easy way to do it.

This weekend, I hope that george will make a little loft for Rowan's bed, so we can put milo's underneath. and I'm going to recover the chair cushions that have given up and are splitting to show their insides.