I'm a mother of three, five and under. I'm a wife to a perpetual student. (Seriously, just graduate already - I mean, "I support you, honey.") I'm a child to the only Father who can claim to be Perfect, and I study under Him daily in hopes of learning from the Best.
I believe in breastfeeding, natural childbirthing, cloth-diapering, co-sleeping, baby-wearing, and attachment parenting.
Compared to the bottle-feeding, Pampers-wearing, crib-sleeping, day-caring world around me, I thought maybe that qualified me as a Natural Mommy.
… And You Continue To Not Succeed… Take a break. We are officially back in diapers. The cues I am waiting for before we start up again: Tells me when she’s gone potty (in her diaper). Tells me when she needs to go potty. Tells me she wants to go potty. In my conclusive study [...]
Filed under: Potty-Training, The Olivia on April 30th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My spices live in a tall, skinny, skyscraper of a cupboard. It’s narrow, so fancy schmancy pull-down spice organizers will not work for me. It is deep, so if say, the cumin is all the way in the back, I have to remove the black pepper, red pepper, oregano, lemon pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, basil, [...]
Filed under: Works For Me on April 29th, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Can I plant this? It appears to have already attempted to plant itself in my basket o’ onions. (How does one prevent this? I have quite the fertile basket o’ onions.) Is there a planting schedule I need to follow? Is it too soon? Too late? When do I harvest my onion crop? I’m all [...]
Filed under: The Garden, The Questions on April 29th, 2008 | 11 Comments »
A bit late today, I know. It was a Monday to beat all Mondays. To beat them with sticks. Sticks to the shins. That kind of Monday. We had a fun week last week. It was beautiful weather and there was much chalk. Much, much chalk. Olivia and I drew a river with fish and [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on April 28th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Laura (@gmail.com) who commented: Chocolate chip half whole wheat sounds great! I’ll be emailing you for your address, Laura! And thanks to all who entered!
Filed under: Giveaway on April 26th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So Abraham Piper was telling me how to improve my blog and this one especially caught my eye: 8. Syndicate your whole feed. If your entire post isn’t in your audience’s feedreaders, many of them will read the first few lines and be done, because they won’t click through. The whole point of a feedreader [...]
Filed under: The Blog on April 25th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
First of all, my apologies for completely spacing yesterday. Giveaways and What I Believe have wiped my brain clean of any intelligent bloggy thought. Hopefully you’ll forgive me. Second of all, after Thanksgiving this year, I posted three cooked turkey recipes I used to get rid of the mass quantities of turkey our family of [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on April 25th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jes from BeautyFromChaos is a fellow cloth-diaper-er and is about to embark on the cloth diapering of a newborn for the first time (she started her daughter in cloth only nine months ago.) She has only used prefolds and bumGenius one-size pocket diapers, but has some issues and is looking to broaden her cloth-diapering horizons. [...]
Filed under: The Cloth Diapering on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
If you haven’t already read about Revolution Money Exchange, let me fill you in. It’s prety much going to replace paypal. Or at least be good competition for it. Because Monopoly is only good on Saturday nights with popcorn and good friends, not in businesses. It’s a way to receive and send money. Just… like… [...]
Filed under: Nothing on April 23rd, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you were at all interested in the debate on whether to stress over the chemicals in CoverGirl, I assume you’ll also be interested in this: NaturalMomsTalkRadio is giving out (for free!) an ebook with tips and recipes for achieving a more natural beauty. I just downloaded mine and glanced through it. I’m already [...]
Filed under: Giveaway, The Natural Stuff on April 23rd, 2008 | 3 Comments »
