I first read about Azure Standard several years ago by reading other natural-minded blogs, and I’m so glad we jumped on the bandwagon! If you’ve never heard of the company before, we’d love to share with you why we love Azure and how it’s helped us in our health journey! Azure states on its website … Continue reading Why We Love Azure Standard for a Healthy Home (Part 1/2)
If you’re a mom, your ears are in tune with twenty different cries, and you know what each one means . . . . . . a complaining cry. A sad cry. A “time for a nap” cry. A “this is not a boo-boo, but a big ouchy” cry. This was one of those cries. … Continue reading Emergencies on the Homestead, Episode 1: Scalp Lacerations
Cool, fresh, pure air . . . a refreshing reprieve from the oppressive summer heat and hazy smoke-filled sky of fire-season. Sweet little gems bursting with flavor in your mouth. Free food. Did that have you coming? Come on . . . FREE FOOD! 🙂 In 2016, our family started a tradition of trekking to … Continue reading Berry Picking Meditation
Last week, we found what makes any homesteader’s heart stop beating . . . . . . an animal that had passed away. When my husband went out at night to shut the chickens in the coop, one of “the reds,” what we called our then three Rhode Island Reds, was laying in a little … Continue reading Keeping Chickens Healthy in the Heat
Our family has been absent from our blog lately, as we are busy working on other home projects, but I wanted to pop on today to talk about a topic important enough to break the lull of activity. I remember the first time I rode my bike by myself around the neighborhood. What freedom! The … Continue reading Teaching Children How to Avoid Predators
. . . Continued from Part 4. Here comes the fun part! . . . perusing all these wonderful companies and their offerings! For the past few years our family has been trying fill our wardrobe with more organic options, not only to take good care of our own bodies, but also to bless those … Continue reading Ethical Clothing: Companies that Care (Part 5/5)
. . . Continued from Part 3. It can be bleak to read how suffering is in the world, but we have a choice in how we spend our money and time! There are always little steps to take to clothe our families well while at the same time being good stewards of the planet … Continue reading Ethical Clothing: 10 Solutions for Change (Part 4/5)
. . . Continued from Part 2. I’m a child of the 80s, so I grew up with the catchy, “Fall Into the GAP!” commercials. I loved shopping there as a teenager. I loved their minimalism, but no matter how much I tried, I could never conjure up a simple, classy wardrobe in my closet … Continue reading Ethical Clothing: Why Fair-Trade? (Part 3/5)
. . . Continued from Part 1. What first prompted us to seek out organic clothing was our health journey. We saw tremendous benefits from switching our family to a mostly organic, whole-foods diet. But we still grappled with mysterious symptoms at times. One Christmas, for example, our oldest broke out in a rash all … Continue reading Ethical Clothing: Why Organic? (Part 2/5)
Boxing Day: Is it a day to jump in the ring and get your dukes up? A prime day for moving to another house? An excuse to box up the things you don’t need anymore and take them to Goodwill? Our post on KonMari (A KonMari Christmas for Kids) prompted this very American woman to … Continue reading Ethical Clothing: An Introduction (Part 1/5)
