Last night, I changed a diaper. This diaper change was different than the countless diapers I’ve changed over the last five years. This diaper change was…well…disconcerting. Friends and family had warned me that sometimes, when you change a baby boy’s diaper, his tiny little boy part gets a tiny little…er…bounce in it’s step. It’s not [...]

We’ve made a decision. We’re going home for Christmas. This is a big deal for many reasons. Practically, we have three kids and only four arms between the two of us, so that makes an all-day shuffling from airport to plane to airport to plane on standby tickets all the more difficult. For me personally, [...]

I’m tired today, so no pithy comments, no witty jokes, not even a list of bizarre and funny things. Just me, tired. But not too tired to blog. #7 Nourishing Traditions I swear I’m not getting obsessed, I just thought I’d provide an update. We got through the week okay, and I thought every recipe [...]

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you’ll find, you get what you need.  (Disclaimer: this is not a post about the Rolling Stones, but now I kinda wish it was.) The last few nights we’ve been having issues with our oldest, Sienna. Sienna has always been (and really still [...]

Here in our household, we’ve started a new way of eating. It’s based on research conducted by Weston A. Price, a dentist who examined the eating habits and health of primitive cultures, and the books we’re using are Nourishing Traditions and Eat Fat, Lose Fat. I’m not going to bore you with the details, I’m [...]

I’m a brat. If you asked me, off the cuff, if I am a nice, open-minded, non-judgmental person, I would say yes. But when you get right down to it, I’m the opposite. How do I know this? Because recently there have been a slew of things in my life that have changed rather dramatically [...]

The Green Movement vs. Don Quixote….. Who’s the sane one?

There are some refusals which, though they may be done what is called conscientiously, yet carry so much of their whole horror in the very act of them, that a man must in doing them not only harden but slightly corrupt his heart. One of them was the refusal of milk to young mothers when [...]

I know I promised to write about fairy tales, and I’m going to. It’s just that the research for this particular post involves reading Tremendous Trifles, and I got so distracted by the research that I sort of forgot about the post. G.K. Chesterton is hilarious. Anyway, my parents are also in town for a [...]

Trying something new this week! Sort of like Quick Takes, The Saturday Evening Blog Post is hosted over at Elizabeth Esther’s place, and various bloggers choose their favorite posts from the past month to put on Mister Linky’s Magical Widget. Seriously, that’s what it’s called. I love it. Go check it out, click around, and [...]