Here’s another homeschooling post for all you interested readers. On the days we do something kind of fun it’s hard not to share it with you. Those other days, I will likely only complain about on Facebook. A couple of weeks ago, a woman at the local Farmer’s Market gave us this sunflower head at [...]
I’m taking a break from my regular Monday Musings because I’m guest posting today! First, you can find me at Infinite Learners, waxing passionate about my home in my post called Expanding Hopes, Horizons and Home. It’s about a lesson learned in feeding my spirit and letting go of grief. Please come and visit, and while you’re [...]
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Today is Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It’s one of Mother’s Nature’s holidays, I tell my girls. So today we celebrated by going to the skating rink – their first time ever on real skates! They loved it! Afterwards we headed to a nearby, abandoned cemetary in the forest and sprinkled the headstones [...]
It has been found that there are a number of benefits of eating one’s placenta, otherwise known as placentophagy. These include warding off postpartum depression (PPD), replacing lost nutrients, increasing energy, replacing hormones, aiding the onset of lactation, and reducing postpartum blood loss by stimulating the uterus to contract back to its original size. There [...]
I parent by nature because nature is the God in my bones. I cherish an ideal of parenting that keeps me close to the Earth and is as instinctive as the rooting mouth of an infant. While it is easy to find a community of mothers who also subscribe to natural parenting values — “crunchy” moms if [...]
Fall is the season for soup. Don’t you all agree? The kids go outside to play in the piles of leaves you spent an hour raking, or go around stomping on all the newly sprung up mushrooms, flattening them to mush, all over your lawn, and after tiring themselves out of this play, which by [...]
Continue reading about Foodie Fridays: Hearty Tomato Lentil Veggie Soup
What a wonderful thing to breastfeed in nature, to breastfeed in public, and to breastfeed among other breastfeeding mothers. All at the same time! This was the Breastfeeding Challenge 2009 in my town. I think The Quintessence Foundation should have a category for prettiest location because I’m pretty sure our outdoor courtyard next to the [...]
