Pregnancy is funny
Things that have made me think about puking in the past few days:GarlicCoffeeEggsChickenHonestly, because my morning sickness is, and has been with each pregnancy, totally manageable, I actually find...
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Pickled Radishes. Aren't you intrigued? I am intrigued. Plus it'll give me something to do with the radishes that I harvest from my garden, since nobody ever eats them. Ha!Neat homeschooling stuff -...
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My children have finally, FINALLY learned to play outside. And they do it unceasingly, happily, muddily.They even ASK to go outside. To which the answer is normally, "YES! PLEASE DO!"This makes me happy.
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Today, you get a list.1. I turned 31 on Saturday. We had a fun day that involved working outside in the garden and making our version of pizza, and chocolate for dessert.2. We used our backyard fire...
View ArticleHow can you make healthy food even healthier?
By culturing it, of course!Sauerkraut is the cultured (or fermented) food most people are familiar with. Take some cabbage, smash it to smithereens with some salt, let it sit. Easy, right? But when's...
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Challenges
Life is a series of challenges. You can choose to meet them head on or have them roll over you. The difference will be the quality of your life. -Bill HodgesI have this mental image of the type of...
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5 Quick Takes
1. We have been hunkered down around here, figuring things out about how to make a household of six (SIX?!?) people run. The fatigue of early pregnancy really took a toll this time, and...
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Recipes I've tried recently:Pesto Crusted Salmon - Made the pesto with basil from my garden. Nick and I LOVED it. Kids ate it, reluctantly. Yummy!Thai "No Peanut" Sauce - We put this on top of...
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Food Blog
Hi friends,I started a food blog today, in an attempt to answer the many questions I regularly get about what we eat and why. :) Hop on over if you're interested!
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Update
Tess and me working on pumpkin carving :)I can't believe I haven't blogged since August. I really honestly feel a bit rusty!This post started out as a "7 Quick Takes," but I soon realized there are...
View ArticleWhen We're Sick...
Being all into natural health can sometimes be a double-edged sword.On the one hand, I love knowing what I need to do to help my kids get well. We rarely get sick (is it just me, or are the things...
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I Love Homeopathics
My high-tech homeopathic storage ;-)If you Google homeopathics, you'll get mostly a loooong list of people ranting and raving about how it's quack medicine and they can't believe people actually...
View Article2012 Hopes
"For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees? But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with...
View ArticleJosie Arlene's Birth Story
As promised, a birth story... (If you don't wanna know, don't read it. ;) Just like with my last two babies, I started having very regular Braxton Hicks contractions starting at 36 weeks. It wasn’t...
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Simple Woman's Daybook
More here.FOR TODAY, March 19, 2012Outside my window...the warmth this past week has all the trees and bushes budding early. I'm literally praying that my lilacs don't freeze!I am thinking...about...
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble
Starting last month, we saw the oddest-looking plants coming up all around the back of our yard. They were big red bulges, and broke open to reveal large green leaves. As soon as the leaves unfurled...
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Real Food eBook Bundle!
In case you're interested, I wanted to tell you that the Gnowfglins.com Sourdough eBook is on sale today, included as part of a Real Food Book Bundle! There's some really great information here, for...
View ArticleAhem. Hello? (Musings)
It's been quite some time since I did any blogging. There are various reasons for this, not the least being I have FOUR children. We always planned to have four children, but I must admit to being...
View ArticleThey're people...
We took the kids to the zoo last night. They were having Membership Appreciation Night and we needed to think about something other than the fire.But everywhere we went, it seemed, there were mothers...
View ArticleLetters to my daughters: Part one
Lately it seems everywhere I turn, I am getting messages about leaving a legacy. Does God speak to you that way too? Like, suddenly everybody talks about the same thing and you see the same thing in...
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Letters to my daughters: on grace
Dear Precious Daughters,I can't start writing to you until I explain where we have been. I have always loved God, as long as I can remember. I have always been hungry for truth. Even as a child, when I...
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Letters to my daughters: foundations
My dear daughters,The most important thing, the place from which you can build all of the rest of your life, is your relationship with God. It's easy to say this, but harder to DO it. I see a lot of...
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Letters to my daughters: on marriage
My dearest daughters,I want to write you about marriage, but I honestly don't know where to start. I don't know what the world will be like when you are grown, but right now traditional marriage is a...
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Letters to my Daughters: on health and nutrition, my journey
My Darling Daughters,Part of our family culture that is different from many others, is the way we approach health. There is a long back-story and some very specific things I believe about it that...
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