The Shtick I Do

>_> Anyway!... Yeah, you read right. I decided to do an app review! It's for an app called Feed Baby Pro. All of that stuff that Karen said during her book review about being painfully honest etc. It applies here, too ;) So! Feed Baby Pro is pretty phenomenal. It is an app designed to help you keep track of how often and how long your baby is eating. If you start letting your baby nurse on the right breast, you unlock your phone, open the app, and hit a button to start a timer. You hit the stop button when baby's finished an, voila! You have a feeding entry. You can also add bottle feedings - how many ml or oz and how long it took baby to finish. AND you can add little notes along the way like "Paused to relatch" or "Paused to burp". Wait wait! It gets better. You can add solid foods. You can keep track of diapers - wet, bowel movement, both. You can keep track of growth, keep journals about baths, ...

Fiber art has been around for hundreds to thousands of years . Until as recently as 50 years ago learning to crochet or knit was a right of passage for many young women, and fewer men, taught by mothers and grandmothers to future generations. I've read and heard stories of knitting needles and crochet hooks that have been handed down through generations. Today you can pick up a kit, everything included, and learn to make simple projects like pillow covers or scarfs. Books are readily available for purchase or download or even from the public library if you only want to borrow one. Magazines are dedicated to fiber arts and can be delivered to your door monthly for what's typically a low cost subscription fee. It looks like the foreseeable future is in the App Store. Have you seen what's available? I have an iPod Touch (which I love by the way) and I have several apps and podcasts that I've recently stumbled upon. I know, I have this blog and one would think that if ...