Raisinglittlegrays

The lovely wonderful and dreaded  (at least for me) winter months are upon us 🙄 Most illnesses we can kick, but there are just some where my kids refuse to drink. Enter elderberry pops y’all.  If there’s ONE thing my kids love, it’s popsicles AND elderberry syrup. Combine and BAM.  It’s literally:  Elderberry syrup  Juice of choice  Half elderberry, half juice of choice in popsicle molds. Then sit back, freeze and then watch your kids inhale them. All while boosting that immense system and hydrating at the same time 🙌🏼 

Never say never. Like ever. We have recently discovered this. Chantry was 4.5 months old when we discovered we were 8 weeks pregnant with another bean. Oops. I won’t go in to details, but no.. this little nugget wasn’t planned. And that’s ok. God wasn’t done forming our family, even though we thought we were! This pregnancy has been very different from the others. I didn’t have consistent menstrual cycles, being as I was still considered a postpartum mama. I had What myself and others believed to be an anovulatory cycle in July. Basically, we thought my cycle was trying to bounce back from the birth of Chantry, but ovulation and luteal phase were absent.. which means a non fertile cycle. I spotted for 2 days in August, and then BAM September 1st came and I started bleeding. So I thought my cycle was just trying to regulate again. Well, 2 weeks passed and I was still bleeding.. or going in and out with some days bleeding and others not. Then mid September I passed a nickle sized clot.