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.
I started this post on February 23. At least I can tell you it’s STILL happening! During the past two nights, we’ve experienced something strange. For the first time in almost two years (23 months to be exact), no child has disturbed our slumber. I KNOW, RIGHT?! It feels pretty good. So, how did we [...]
Filed under: Motherhood, Recipe Swap '08, The Benjamin, The Milestones on March 12th, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I don’t even remember June. Did we have one this year? I think we may have gone to Missouri. By train. I’ll have to check the archives to be sure. I sat down today and tried to list where we’ve been every weekend for the past two months. I can only remember back to July [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on August 26th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Oh really? it’s Thursday? I don’t suppose you want a recipe… This is my absolute favorite cereal. And it makes a good snack as well. With your average boxed cereal, I’m hungry again by 10am. With this in my belly, however, I’ve been known to forget to feed the kids until 1pm. But they don’t [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on August 14th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Eek, this is even later that it was supposed to be… I posted it around noon – or so I thought. Then I left to scrub the new duplex, came back, and found I CLICKED SAVE INSTEAD OF PUBLISH. My mind… she is a-going… Sorry this is a bit late – and it’s the first [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on July 24th, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I’ve decided to drop the “themed” and “organized” approach to the Recipe Swap for this week. Perhaps this shall be the new norm, and every now and then we’ll have a theme. Your thoughts? I found a new recipe last week for chicken pot pie; it was my first attempt, and it went over WELL. [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on July 3rd, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Rules for today: Cannot use oven – stove-top/microwave/grill/sidewalk/hood-of-car all okay. Extra points for a cool, refreshing dish. My dish earns me no extra points for the cool/refreshing factor. But! It’s roast chicken! In a Crock Pot! I’ve been cooking Tammy’s recipe for roast chicken for months now. Love it. It’s the easiest (no chopping ANYTHING) [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on June 12th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I hope you all are ready to astound me with your seafood recipes. Because I only have two. Tuna noodle casserole and this one. Crispy oven-fried fish. Pathetic selection, I know. And fish is supposed to be so healthy for you, too! (But I can rarely find it at $0.79/lb like I can chicken.) (So [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Requirement for this week’s swap: Must avoid oven! (Stovetop is okay.) Bonus: Is served cold Extra, extra credit: Is low-fat. (Swimsuit season. Meh.) My contributions (yes! two!) both follow the requirement and the bonus. But I’m not getting any extra credit. Chocolate Peanut Butter Squares (Originally from Tammy’s Recipes) Ingredients 1/2 c butter 2 c [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on May 29th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For those of who not in the practice of reading backwards, that’s: Recipe Swap: Backwards Edition This is the edition where you confess your culinary catastrophes (cannot… control… alliteration…) in hopes someone out there can set you straight. Simply blog your desperate plea, link it below to Mr. Linky and hopefully someone will google “Paws [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on May 22nd, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’ve been comforting a sickly, teething baby all day, and this is the first chance I’ve had to type two-handed. So please forgive (and understand!) the tardiness of this post and please forget that just about every other post I try to have ready on a specific day is also usually late. I think I’m [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on May 15th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
