Simple wellness in a frantic world.
Desserts
I'm totally cheating here and making this post count for two days. We moved two days ago from my parents' place to our new (temporary) home, and today is Thanksgiving. I am stuffed with delicious turkey dinner that my own momma made. In the spirit of Un-Blogging, I've been putting ...
Personal Essays on Marriage, Motherhood, & More
Dear little one, You are just 3 months old. A whisper, really, and it was just yesterday that I birthed you in the dim candle-lit room with loud bellowing and moaning. You gave me a hard time in your entrance to the world, but you were a breeze from then on. A good sleeper, unlike ...
After I published 14 Ways to Connect With Your Child, a reader asked me to share my favourite parenting books. Coincidentally, this exact post was already in the works from a recent brainstorming session. Great minds think alike, I guess! I don't actually read a whole ton of ...
Family Life
1. Look In Their Eyes First thing in the morning, look into your child’s eyes. See the world and the twinkling of innocence. Hold his gaze and whisper affirmations, or even just a simple ‘I love you babe’. Follow his lead and cuddle, play, or whatever he wants, to start the day off ...
Going out in public these days is officially a circus. Not because my children knock over $700 10-feet-tall stuffed giraffes in the toy store, narrowly missing the cashier's head amidst her proclamation of seeing her life flash before her eyes (true story). Not because my children ...
It all started with carrots. Before I had children, I hated cooked carrots. Then, there was a pregnancy craving somewhere along the way. Now I LOVE them. They love me. Steamed carrots, butter, sea salt, and me... we're a happy bunch. Strange, yes? I thought so, too. But it got me ...
Beauty & Body Care
We've talked nutrition and health. We've chatted up pregnancy and birth, and the various intimate details therein. I've shared about breastfeeding my toddler. We've even ventured into the subject of placentophagy (the act of consuming one's placenta after birth - and yup, I ...
This is Part Three of a three-part series. You can read part one here and part two here, if you haven't already. Kate: thanks again, my dear friend, for sharing your story. *** I kept a foot in the birth world by getting involved in La Leche League (a peer to peer breastfeeding ...
This is Part Two of a 3-Part Guest Series from my good friend, Kate. You can read Part One here, if you haven't already. *** Life moves on, hey? My brand new husband and I had planned to wait until my third year in the midwifery program to have a baby. There's a sort of natural ...
About Me
I’m a mom of four with an obsession for all things natural health, but I’m driven by wellness, not perfection. I’m an eternal optimist, a non-conformist, and a classic INFP. When I was 19, I married my total-opposite hubby, who is an ESTJ. This remains both the craziest and the best decision we’ve ever lived to tell about. I can always be bribed with sushi or tex-mex, and I love to embarrass my husband by cranking the music and dancing (badly) in the passenger seat.
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