3 Reasons to Consider Homebirth
my youngest and I in our bed, just after his birth
Last week Megan allowed me to write a guest post for her in her series on natural, intervention-free birth.
You can read it here: 3 Reasons to Consider Homebirth.
my youngest and I in our bed, just after his birth
Last week Megan allowed me to write a guest post for her in her series on natural, intervention-free birth.
You can read it here: 3 Reasons to Consider Homebirth.
Ruthie really seems to like the Creamy Dairy-Free Sweet Potato Soup. The strike is over! The hens returned to laying a few weeks ago after a few months of molting and whatever other reason they had for giving a couple of eggs a day. We are currently in our garden break for the year. This…
… to have your heart filled in the middle of the filthy laundry pile… … to see the work of a lifetime in the dishes, school books, and tears of the everyday… … to traverse the depths of our depravity with sticky hands on your apron… … to fight for them, first with love and persistence, but in…
By the Lord’s grace, we welcomed Ruth Adelaide on 2/4/14 at approximately 10:10 p.m. Both mama and baby are doing well so far. She weighed in at 8 pounds 4 oz and was born after about 7 hours of labor. When Shannon has fully recovered she may post the full story… but for now here…
Read all about our homesteading story and the projects that helped us out along the way in our new book, The Doable Off-Grid Homestead. If you’ve read it, you can now leave a review. It has been quite some time since the creeks ran and the ponds filled and the tanks overflowed, but last week all…
These days I haven’t been eating or preparing any elaborate meals. Many of my breakfasts look like the above picture and sometimes they are prepared entirely by our five-year-old as I look on from my perch in the nursing chair. These days I spend hours every day sitting, feeding, burping, and snuggling this little lady….
Just a short post to highlight some helpful reading over on the Sifford Sojournal: Forgive Them “…Wow. Forgiving, even if I could be just in taking offense; forgiving and forgetting (like we would want God to) and not reviling the person; God’s forgiveness being withheld for my being unforgiving of others! But here was the…