It’s been a busy couple weeks. Christmas is coming so my spare time has been filled with spending more time with my husband and daughters, a little Christmas shopping, Christmas parades, Christmas baking, writing Christmas cards and Christmas letters, Christmas decorating and Christmas parties with friends. Other than my weekly recipe and Vegetarian Foodie Fridays [...]
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A Vancouver woman, Becca Shears, was recently kicked off Craigslist for offering breast milk to mothers unable to breastfeed. She put it on for free and someone saw it and flagged it as unethical. She tried posting it three more times and it was flagged within minutes. Now she is offering her breast milk for [...]
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As a frugal mom, breastfeeding activist, real food advocate and environmentalist, I take my shopping purchases seriously. It is because of this that this Halloween I find myself in a dilemma about what to hand out to the trick or treaters. For the past 6 years we lived in a semi-rural neighbourhood where my kids [...]
When these Breastfeeding Weeks come along, as they tend to do a few times a year depending on the country you’re living in, and the planet you are living on (Martians please note that planet Earth is having World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7), I feel huge pressure to contribute something super intelligent or meaningful. The [...]
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I was originally going to call this post “The One Where I Combine Two Awards and A Cute Meme That’s All About Me.” But I thought it was too long and that this other title would be more eye catching. And while it sounds self-centered and assy-like, it really isn’t. See, I was recently bestowed the [...]
I really wish I was going to Blog Her’ 10. But last year when the tickets went on sale we knew our life would be in limbo this summer so I purposely didn’t buy one. Of course I’ve been dreaming about it anyway. Except every time I dream about it, I find myself back at [...]
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Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the [...]
