This month I received an email from The Honest Company asking me to share about my feeding experience as a new mother in partnership with their Honest Feeding Stories series. They have set out to encourage conversation and end stigmas surrounding parent’s feeding choices. Seeing as we are coming up on six months of breastfeeding I thought it was a great opportunity to share about our journey: Becoming a mother …
WARNING – This is a birth story. If you don’t want to read about the gritty details of birth, I’d just go ahead and skip this post! Also, this is a very long post -but so was my labor, so it seemed fitting. As the end of my third trimester grew nearer, I began actually looking forward to birth – something I never thought was possible. At the beginning of my …
Shopping for baby can be quite an overwhelming task. Who knew there could be so many options for… well everything? Erica is the researcher in the family and she poured hours into blogs and product reviews searching for the perfect items. I (Dave) decided to return the favor to the baby blog world and offer up our findings. In the first 3 month’s of little Coen’s life, a few items …
Coen Robert Baker. Born at 2:59 am on December 23, 2016. We are absolutely in love. I plan to write a more in depth birth story at a later date, but I can’t believe that just two days after I posted my last blog post about the third trimester, we were on our way to the hospital. We arrived at the hospital around 10 pm on December 21st and went …
It’s been a wild week, friends. If you are a frequent traveler you probably picked up on my cryptic blog post title. Each of those letter groups is an airport code that we visited on our route to Jinja Uganda. Yea. We took the scenic route. Prior to beginning our journey to the heart of Africa, we had a lot of business to take care of in DC. We moved …
Guyana was one of the most unique places I have ever visited. For example, it’s part of South America but self identifies as a Caribbean Island. The population is mostly made up of Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese whose ancestors immigrated in the 18th and 19th centuries to work on sugar cane population under Dutch and then British control. The merging of so many cultures, including the native Ameri-Indian population as well, has …
“Coffee is more than a hot drink, more than a morning beverage, more than a caffeine lift. It’s a global thread” -Bittersweet Monthly Since returning from Colombia a few months ago you have heard me talk about the incredible farmers and how I will never drink a cup of coffee the same way again, but you haven’t heard the whole story. After meeting the people of Miranda, Colombia and watching them …
A few months ago we had the privilege of traveling to Colombia with a team from Redeeming Grounds. I have already talked a bit about the towns we visited and our afternoon at the National Coffee Park, but I thought was time to talk about the real reason why we were in Colombia: some incredible coffee farmers. Meet Richard, Pablo, and Christian. These three men prayerfully and bravely cut down their …
Remember when we went to West Virginia to help out a friend and shoot a quick promotional video for Appalachian Impact? Well, we finished the video recently and are excited to share it with you all. Appalachian Impact provides mentors for at-risk students in West Viriginia and has already accomplished so much in their first months of existence. After spending time with a few of their mentors and volunteers, we …
While waiting for Dave to shoot a video time lapse by this beautiful, old church on our last night in Colombia, I decided to wander around the neighborhood. As I was walking I heard the sound of horses and looked up to see a group of Colombian cowboys thundering up the street on their way to a local bar. The way the Colombian cowboys move with their horses as they ride is …