The Natural Mommy

You’re cleaning up breakfast dishes in relative peace and quiet when all of a sudden, three things happen, all at once. 1) You’ve got to poop. 2) The baby runs past you with a very saggy, very stinky, very messy diaper. 3) The older two break out in a no holds bar drag ‘em down, [...]

Filed under: Motherhood on February 22nd, 2011 | 8 Comments »

(If this picture is messed up, I blame the fact that I’m posting this via iPhone.) These are my counters. It’s the aftermath of pizza night. And an indication of the craziness of this past week. Josh wanted to work late on Monday, but I reminded him it was Valentine’s Day and he came home [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized on February 19th, 2011 | 1 Comment »

At some point in our 1/4 year stay in Illinois, I realized I hadn’t taken hardly any pictures of the kids.  So, on the peak day for leaf color, we went out to our favorite state park and I took a gajillion pictures.  Behold the over-doing of our family documentation! Pretty  much as soon as [...]

Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on February 15th, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Meatloaf is one thing I learned to adapt to a gluten-free lifestyle pretty quickly.  And while staying at Josh’s Grandma’s for three months, I was blessed to learn the existence of two very important meatloafs:  Pizza Meatloaf and Mexican Meatloaf.  Today, I will share with you her recipe for the former. (It looked better in [...]

Filed under: The Cooking on February 11th, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Here is Part Three of my three part series on the gluten-free lifestyle.  Part One (Where to Start) is here and Part Two (How Meals Will Change) is here.  I know I said I’d have more on gluten-free oatmeal in this part, but as an afterthought, I didn’t think it belonged in this series.  It [...]

Filed under: The Gluten-Free on February 10th, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I guess I never realized most attachment parents thought their parenting style would make the need to spank obsolete.  That keeping their child close and loving them to the fullest extent possible would teach the child right from wrong, leading them to a life of obedience.  And, maybe, for some children, that is all it [...]

Filed under: The Attachment Parenting on February 9th, 2011 | 23 Comments »

This is Part Two of a three part series.  See Part One here. When we went gluten-free, I began to realize how unbalanced our dinners had become.  Chicken pot pie, for example, was mostly a cream sauce and crust (both have gluten), with a little bit of chicken and vegetables thrown in.  Chicken and dumplings… [...]

Filed under: The Gluten-Free on February 8th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Before the race.  It was early.  It was dark.  It was cold. The person behind me is wearing a garbage bag. Fast forward 3 hours, 40 minutes, and a few seconds: Approaching the finish line, I knew I didn’t have a lot of time to spare. If I was going to qualify for Boston, I [...]

Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on February 7th, 2011 | 2 Comments »

This is Part One of a three part series.  Simply because it became impossibly long. —————————————————————————– So you suspect, or have been told, that gluten is doing you more harm than good.  And now you have to avoid it. Luckily for you, gluten-free products are finally becoming mainstream.  However, they are likely to be very [...]

Filed under: The Gluten-Free on February 4th, 2011 | 8 Comments »

I don’t know why I want to remember this. I just know that I do. And if I don’t write it down soon, I won’t even have the choice. I didn’t get there until about three, as was my usual routine. It was a Sunday. I had gone to church, had lunch with the family, [...]

Filed under: My Mom on February 3rd, 2011 | 4 Comments »