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Who needs a few deliciously wholesome and easy meals under their belt/in their hat? Me! Me! I had tried to do a meal plan through a wholesome mama website. Gotta admit: the recipes she shared were bland, uninteresting, and not well received by the family. The trouble is, I thought I needed someone to give me a list of what I’d make every night, complete with a grocery shopping list, and then, THEN, I’d have a meal plan for the week and always eat healthfully and never cry at 4pm when no meat was defrosted and all I could offer to poor AA was scrambled eggs without bacon (in the freezer, duh). As it turned out, I didn’t need someone else’s meal plan. I needed…
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My son loves baseball. Loves it. Breathes it. Lives it. He knows all the players. He knows their faces on their baseball cards. He knows which teams they’ve played for and which ones they are currently played for. This is a really odd thing considering I know NOTHING about any professional sports teams. Nil. Zilch. So you’d think my husband must be some kind of obsessed person himself. But he’s not really, either. He played baseball in high school and loved it, but until we had a son I never heard him talk about it. It must be that boys bring out the little boy in their dads. It started last summer when he was about 20 months, but now it’s in full swing. Suddenly we…
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What’s cuter than a little girl in a cute dress? Maybe one that is running away from you. SweetPea rocks a new sewing project of mine. The Etsy shop is busy busy and I’m thinking of adding a modern fresh vintage girls’ clothing line. We’ll see. I have oh so much fabric in my dresser of wonders (fabric stash) that I want to make a billion things out of. This one is a soft blue corduroy lined with a new organic cotton print, and a little do-da on the bottom corner with a “V” for my Goddaughter and niece for whom I made the dress. Now I have to make Sweets a matching one. I made SuperBoy a pair of pants in this fabric but…
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This post applies to any woman out there who’s run down, rabid, raggedy, and feeling like a wreck. Many of those inhabitants of this subset are mothers. Some are workaholics. Some are naturally prone to being hygiene deficient. Others are simply too busy to feel human. Or particularly female. SweetPea is showing off a new dress in her stylish way here! She’s taking the steps. We need to too. 1) Prayer or meditation time. Studies show again and again that taking time away from your busy day for mental prayer or meditation greatly improves your outlook and mental health. It’s a very necessary part of functioning fully as a human being. Connect with yourself; connect with your higher power. For me, this means trying to…
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Mothers are made of steel stomachs when a child throws up on them, the stomach that is. Mothers are made of late night prayers and warm energies sent out for their Godchildren. Mothers are made of those women in our lives who’ve lifted us, inspired us, fed us, and shown us how to fail well, and how to come back better. Thank God for mothers! My mother is the most remarkable woman I know. I aspire to be like her!
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Don’t laugh. In Minnesota we indoor garden. Yes, this is because it’s mid-May and we can barely plant even now. Yes, we had snow recently. Yes, we do chose to live here. And yes, I’m blog about our compost, {Compost} {More on Compost}, and our garden so much there’s a whole section on it. Our solution for my dearest urban farmer husband’s insatiable desire to plant and eat the work of his hands? Start from seed. Early. Grow indoors. Then someday hope to get it outside. His office is a jungle of green house mess. He is probably the healthiest man I know who sits at a desk for 11 hours because he’s surrounded by plants providing him with fresh air! Kale from last year’s…
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