about me

let me introduce myself.

I am a mama of three and a wife to the most amazing man.

we have three kids, zilla (3/2009), bean (11/2011), and monkey (12/2013). My husband just finished his tour in the military and we are in transition.

I am a gamer geek mama.

i play video games, card games (like mtg), and rpgs. in the late 1990's my then friend and future husband and i spent hours at a online computer center before online computer centers were cool (his dad and his friend owned/ran it. they were engineers that were ahead of their time). We played hours of command and conquer, duke nukem and mechwarrior 2. i played grups with some friends and loved it! i really want to get in to it but moving a lot sucks. :( i played EQ, WoW, tabula rasa (I liked that one a lot!), and vanguard off and on. I also played day of defeat which a lot of my WW2 weapon knowledge comes from (haha).  now I play WC3 off and on.  I'm naura (at) uswest.battle.net

I am a crafty mama.

i spin yarn on my ashford joy my husband 'allowed' me to buy earlier this year (lols). i knit and crochet also but my true love seems to be spinning so far. i met a lady who also weaves but i dare not start another hobby! lol. i also sew but a real novice at that.

I am a cloth diapering mama.

i wish i could say that i do it for the sake of the environment or the health of my baby's butt, but the truth is that I do it for the money. we already knew that we would have more than one so cloth diapers were an all around win.

I am a cooking mama.

we love to cook and eat. that is another thing I love love love about our military life. I've lived in colorado springs, colorado; fayetteville, north carolina; and fairbanks, alaska and I would say I miss the food as much as the people i've made friends with. I also love to cook from scratch and eat out too. I love doing thanksgiving, christmas, and new years. I look forward to it every year.

I am a breastfeeding mama.

I wish i could say that I breastfeed for the sake of lactivism, but the truth be told I do this for the money too (see a trend? lol). honestly though I am quite appalled by the resistance women encounter when it comes to breastfeeding. My mom breastfeed 3 of my siblings all past one year so I thought it was the norm. even my grandfather was a cheerleader and when I had problems nursing Jzilla, he supported me with a stinky papaya, which is considered a galactagogue in Okinawa. eventually I was able to EBF and learned the importance of support and education (i thought it would be as easy as sticking the nipple in the babies mouth back then too). I am active with my local LLL (local meaning, whenever I am in the redondo beach area). every woman should get 110% support if they want to breastfeed. I get so sad when women have to quit due to misinformation, not enough support or pressure from family (i think that's what makes me mad the most!). I currently tandem nurse zilla and bean.

I am a libertarian mama.

I had never been comfortable with our left vs right, red vs blue type of politics.  during the election of 2012 I encountered the libertarian party and became excited to involve myself in politics again.  I am a left leaning libertarian now.  With all that is going on in our government, I feel like the next decade or so will be a time of change for this country (well I hope!).