Can You Get Pregnant After Depo Provera? A Warning

June 20, 2012 by Marissa Leave a Comment

A Warning: Side Effects of Depo Provera

Learn about how the side effects of Depo Provera can delay pregnancy, even after making you feel like you’re pregnant.

It can be hard sometimes to decide on the best kind of birth control to use. Many women are able to able to take the pill or get an IUD, but many others can’t and seek a different solution.

After my second baby, I was looking for a new kind of birth control that wasn’t a pill and was cheaper than an IUD (which I really wanted but couldn’t afford). My doctor recommended a birth control injection that I would only have to get every three months. I was sold just on that. [Read more…]

East Coast Earthquake 2011

August 23, 2011 by Marissa Leave a Comment

East Coast Earthquake

Yep. I felt it, the big ol’ East Coast Earthquake of 2011

I was sitting at my desk working on my blog when I felt like I was going to pass out. I was swaying and moving all around. I couldn’t understand it! [Read more…]

For Toddlers Who Want to Help

June 25, 2011 by Marissa Leave a Comment

Toddlers Who Want to Help

“NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!” Sigh. That’s my son, quite obviously upset over something that has disturbed his little world. His daddy just left to go do some yard work. “I’m Daddy’s partner! I need to go to work with him. I can cut the grass!!”

It’s like this with everything; where we are, doing our ‘work’, he is. I turn around with a basket of laundry in the way-too-small laundry room and trip over a toddler. “Why are you right there? Do you have to follow me into every room?” “Mommy, I’m your helper! I can do the laundry too!”

I need to start writing these statements down and having him sign them. It’s so nice that he wants to ‘help’ now (you know how toddlers ‘help’…), but what about in ten years when we actually need his help? He’ll be nowhere to be found.

I’ll have to give him ‘three special steps’ like Special Agent Oso just to get off the couch. Yet if I have these ‘contracts’, I might have some leverage…like my mom did when she had me sign the ‘prom promise’ when I was seven and declared that I did not want to go to the prom. Of course it didn’t work, but what an idea!

Here are some of the ‘contracts’ he will be presented with at the helpful old age of thirteen: [Read more…]

For New Fathers on Father’s Day

June 18, 2011 by Marissa 1 Comment

For New Fathers on Father’s Day

Someone in my family recently made a comment about my husband: he is of the new generation. I find it so amusing.

Back in the old country, men were men, and women were women. Men were the breadwinners, women were the homemakers, and the roles very rarely switched. Women cooked and cleaned. Men worked and were given their rest upon entering the home at the end of a long day.

Yeah, not so much. [Read more…]