Nourishing young hearts, minds, tummies, and creativity all while staying under budget
Josh recently requested that I try making something I’ve not made in a while: fish tacos. We’re big taco people and I’m always game to try something new and fresh in our tacos, so I was game. Since we’ve switched to unprocessed food, meals like tacos looks a little different. Everything has to be made…
I hate doing chores. It seems like living with kids means that everything is always a mess. Even once you’ve just cleaned it up. And while I realize that having children in a home inevitably means that things will get messy, I also hate phrases like “excuse the mess, but my children are making memories”…
One of the most important things that I’ve found with moving to a less processed diet is that a lot of things we once bought now have to be made by hand at home. I enjoy cooking, which is part of what spurred the journey toward whole food in the first place. Not only is…
Paisley is two. Two is a hard age – for both parents and the poor little ones who are actually two. This year has definitely been the biggest year of change for Paisley developmentally and so on. (Although I have a feeling I’m going to say that with each new year of my babies’ lives.)…
We’re a cloth diaper family. And proudly, might I add. We’ve been using cloth diapers since day four, technically. Paisley came home from the hospital with a small stash of disposable so we used those up before digging into our cloth diaper stash. Excepting a few vacations, our kids have only ever worn cloth. We…
After my last post, which chronicles our journey to a whole food diet that’s basically vegetarianism with a few small meat excursions, you might be wondering, “When are you going to go full vegetarian or vegan?” This is a fairly logical question, and one that Joshua and I asked ourselves along our journey to cleaner,…
(Okay, this actually has nothing to do with the store of the same name. Especially not after the soulless sellout to Amazon, haha. Just wanted to clear that up!) Over the past few years, our diet has undergone a fairly radical transformation. There are a lot of reasons for this, but honestly it simply boils…
Today is Ash Wednesday: the day that signifies the beginning of the season of Lent in Catholic and confessional Protestant churches. Many will attend Mass or church services where they will receive ashen crosses upon their foreheads, among the other essential elements of the Divine Service: the Word and Sacrament. Tonight, Josh and I will…
Chocolate. Peanut butter. Chocolate peanut butter. Enough said? Right! Chocolate and peanut butter are a match made in Heaven. I imagine the conversation went something like this: Angel 1: You got some peanut butter in my chocolate! Angel 2: No way! You got some chocolate in my peanut butter! Angel 1: *tastes* Hm.. You know…
** THIS IS A BIRTH STORY. THERE IS FRANK DISCUSSION ABOUT BIRTH, WHICH IS NOT EXACTLY A PRUDISH TOPIC. IF YOU THINK IT MAY OFFEND YOU, KINDLY NAVIGATE AWAY FROM THIS PAGE AND FIND SOMETHING ELSE TO READ AND WE’LL ALL HAVE A HAPPIER DAY 🙂 ** When I got pregnant with the baby we’d come to…