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Make Over Your Mornings Review
Our mornings have been hectic, to say the least. The end of the school year, the acquisition of a dairy goat, my students’ recitals, and the ongoing needs of 2.5 kids were all pressing in on me at...
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June Garden Tour
It’s always amazing to me how quickly things sprout up in the spring and early summer. It seems like all it takes is a month to go from a nearly barren land to a yard bursting with green stuff and...
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Advice for New Homeschooling Families
I’m super excited and mildly terrified: we are planning on officially doing “Kindergarten light” with our son this fall. So I’ve been looking at homeschooling philosophies, curricula, Pinterest...
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Tomato Soup & Grown-Up Grilled Cheese
Sometimes soup and a grilled cheese sandwich still sounds so delicious to me. Add to that my pregnant palate, and all I want is fancy, complex cheeses, full of flavor, and preferably gooey. But, to be...
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Hopeful July
I have heard people rant and rave and bellow That we’re done and we might as well be dead, But I’m only a cockeyed optimist And I can’t get it into my head. -“Cockeyed Optimist,” from the musical South...
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Barn Light
Barn light, grey by morning, golden green by evening, stretching patiently. She waits, she watches. Boy, disinterested by instruction. Branch shaking, wood-knocking, tool-flinging. Boy, outdoors and...
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Letting Go of Perfect Children
J, please sit. Don’t touch the beetle. C’mon, stop jumping in the puddle. Can you quiet down a little? You’re so loud! PLEASE sit. Ahh! Take your hands out of the water- it’s yucky! Stop chewing on...
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Honey-Roasted Vegetable Flatbreads with Goat Cheese
Sometimes dinner is a mystery that doesn’t reveal itself until I’m halfway done making it. Those are the riskiest types of meals- but also sometimes the ones that allow for the most creativity and...
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Why We Bought a Machine Milker
You may have noticed in some of my pictures that we have an inexpensive battery powered machine milker for our goat. We only have one goat in milk, so why did we bother buying a machine? It sort of...
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Letter From a Pregnant Mama
FYI: This post is mostly just for fun. I don’t really get easily offended, so if you’ve said one of these things to me, don’t fret. Chances are, you just made me smile. Take it all as a friendly...
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Garden-Based Meal Planning
Meal-planning is hailed as the number one tip for saving money in the kitchen and avoiding food waste. And it really does do both of those things! But I find that when everything is coming in the...
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11 Frugal Ways to Clothe Your Family
I’m often surprised when I look at budgeting worksheets to find clothing as a regular category. People actually budget to buy clothing?I guess normal people do- but maybe I’m not normal. Our clothing...
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Open Your Eyes with Foraging
I had the privilege of joining Susan of Learning and Yearning (local master gardener and author of The Art of Gardening) on a real-life foraging expedition last week. I got to learn about some new...
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Size: Newborn
I unpacked the baby clothes last week. They had been sitting in the basement for two years now, lying in wait for when we had another. Here I am, three weeks out from my due date as a third time mama,...
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Herbal Teas to Grow or Forage Yourself
Most of us are familiar with vegetable gardens and herb gardens- but what about your own tea garden? (Catnip tea brewing in our Tea Posy pot.) I love a good black tea in the afternoon, but herbal teas...
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Read Fewer Blogs
Saturday night, we were a bit behind on our evening routine. The goat got milked late, the dinner was sitting out on the counter, and there were toys everywhere. I got the food put away while Tim...
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The Emergency Food Fund
Most of us are familiar with the concept of building an emergency fund for when finances get tough. But what about an emergency food fund? Now, I’m not talking about building a store of canned goods...
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Using a Kiddie Pool as a Birth Pool
This post was adapted and updated from my old blog. I hope the information will be helpful to women planning a home water birth! Water birth is an option that has been around for many years. But I’ve...
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Canning Supply Checklist
It’s canning season! Of course, you can pretty much always “put up” a jar of something, but this time of year my canners always get an extra-heavy workout. If you’re new to canning your own food (or if...
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Accepting a Slower Pace
(Photo taken at 36.5 weeks. I’m now 2 days away from my EDD.) It hit me this past week- I feel really pregnant. Slow and waddly. Hills wiping out my energy. Having to pee every 20 minutes. Feeling the...
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