Friday, November 6, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
It is about babysteps
Sometimes I like to beat myself up mentally about all of the things that I'm not doing, especially when it comes to my family. I should keep the house cleaner, I should be serving more vegetables, I should be teaching Birdy to read, the list goes on.
I try to tell myself that I can't do everything, and I can't be perfect, even though I'm an oldest child, and perfectionism is my disease of choice. I have to do what I can and leave the rest in God's hands. It's about learning to let go.
I try to tell myself that I can't do everything, and I can't be perfect, even though I'm an oldest child, and perfectionism is my disease of choice. I have to do what I can and leave the rest in God's hands. It's about learning to let go.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Amazing Maple Syrup Deal!
Check out One Frugal Foodie for the details on an amazing deal on maple syrup!
We Drink Raw Milk
In my quest for real food, I've learned to make some concessions. Yes, I am going to pay more for a gallon of raw milk, and I will have to drive a lot further than the local grocery store each week in order to get it. But when I see my daughters looking over the fence and "our cows," I know it is worth it. I know where my milk comes from. I know the lady who milks the cows where my milk comes from. And I know my daughters are getting truly full-fat milk brimming with living nutrients. I call them "milk snobs" because they don't like to drink "store milk" anymore. At ages four and 21 months, they know something about real food. And it is worth driving 40 miles round trip to get it! Go to http://www.realmilk.com/ to find out more!
Friday, October 9, 2009
A Journey
My husband has been urging be to begin a blog for some time now. I thought it wasn't necessary because I would simply be a tiny whisper in the blogosphere: there are far more creative, talented, and knowledgeable people out there who are already blogging. Who have already acquired a measure of fame in their readership. Who have already written books. Who have already been eating healthfully, homeschooling, and birthing children before I graduated from high school. But here it is...my whisper adding to the roar that "already" exists.
What prompted me to finally break down and add my two cents to the roar? Well, I read quite a few blogs myself, and I am always so impressed by how those ladies appear to have everything figured out. They all protest it--they show pictures of their messy closets and the sinks full of dishes; they share stories of sneaking chocolate behind the backs of their kids; they admit they aren't always dressed and ready to go at 6:00 a.m. in the morning--but no matter what, it is easy to get the impression that a blogging lady has it all together. Surely, if she is sharing her latest culinary creation or the newest and best homeschooling invention, she must know what she is doing. I find myself comparing my life to the lives of these (largely invisible) women online. We may choose to write about what we want to write about, and few of us want to share the wrinkles and tear stains and sticky floors of everyday life. So I want to share my journey with you. I want to share the successes and the failures. I want to provide an outlet and a resource for other women on the journey. Women who are making choices to eat better and keep their children at home. Women who must make choices about whether to buy the conventionally grown strawberries on sale or the weedy-looking organic ones for 3 times as much. Women whose neighbors look at them strangely for deciding to keep her children home with her and educate them in the best way she knows how.
I guess by blogging, I am looking for other women who aren't afraid to be labeled weird. The world may think us crazy, but who wants to be like the world anyway?
“But ye are a chosen generation,a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light ” (1 Peter 2:9)
What prompted me to finally break down and add my two cents to the roar? Well, I read quite a few blogs myself, and I am always so impressed by how those ladies appear to have everything figured out. They all protest it--they show pictures of their messy closets and the sinks full of dishes; they share stories of sneaking chocolate behind the backs of their kids; they admit they aren't always dressed and ready to go at 6:00 a.m. in the morning--but no matter what, it is easy to get the impression that a blogging lady has it all together. Surely, if she is sharing her latest culinary creation or the newest and best homeschooling invention, she must know what she is doing. I find myself comparing my life to the lives of these (largely invisible) women online. We may choose to write about what we want to write about, and few of us want to share the wrinkles and tear stains and sticky floors of everyday life. So I want to share my journey with you. I want to share the successes and the failures. I want to provide an outlet and a resource for other women on the journey. Women who are making choices to eat better and keep their children at home. Women who must make choices about whether to buy the conventionally grown strawberries on sale or the weedy-looking organic ones for 3 times as much. Women whose neighbors look at them strangely for deciding to keep her children home with her and educate them in the best way she knows how.
I guess by blogging, I am looking for other women who aren't afraid to be labeled weird. The world may think us crazy, but who wants to be like the world anyway?
“But ye are a chosen generation,a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light ” (1 Peter 2:9)
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