My friend and Allume roommate Rachel, who blogs at Occasional Boredom, is wonderful about finding poorganic recipes and strategies. She LOVES pumpkin and is constantly posting recipes featuring pumpkin puree that DOESN’T come from a can. Since we didn’t carve our pumpkins this year, but rather used “tatoos,” I had three pumpkins with which to…Continue reading Poorganic Pumpkin Puree
When the Gallup Pollster Handed Me a Mirror
Now that the election is over (sigh of relief), I have a story for you. Probably like you, we have received approximately nine gagillion political phone calls over the past month. It surely doesn’t help that I live in North Carolina, a swing state, nor does it help that I am a registered Independent. And…Continue reading When the Gallup Pollster Handed Me a Mirror
Poorganic & Real Food Coupons for your “Normal” Grocery Store
If you are wondering whether or not couponing is worth your time, ask yourself how long you would look for a $20 bill that you lost? What about a $50 bill? Many of you may have expressed that it is a challenge to find real food at a reasonable price. When we first started eating…Continue reading Poorganic & Real Food Coupons for your “Normal” Grocery Store
A Horror Story Revisited
In honor of Halloween, I’m reposting this “Horror Story” from last December. It is much more fitting for today and contains all the terrors of motherhood, including disastrous messes, opened bottles of tincture, and growing up. I’m sure many of you can identify. (Today’s horror was that the darling girl mentioned in the story below…Continue reading A Horror Story Revisited
I Love the Soggy Fleece
If you are a long time reader of this blog, you probably see in this title that there is a provision story coming on, and you are ready to buckle up and be wowed no matter how long it takes. If you are a newer reader, you are probably about to scroll down and say,…Continue reading I Love the Soggy Fleece
How to Poorganicify Your Recipes: 5 Easy Substitutions
If you’d like to learn how to “poorganicify” all your recipes, this is the post for you. I have a few poorganic recipes that I’ve created, but most of what I make isn’t really an original invention of my own. So many great recipes already exist! Instead of trying to write my own recipes, I…Continue reading How to Poorganicify Your Recipes: 5 Easy Substitutions
Jesus Talks about Real Food
You might not know this about me, but I’m a little bit cynical. The other day when I posted about wanting to raise $500 for a little boy in the Philippines to go to school, I was secretly dreading having to keep nagging you about it for days and weeks on end because I just…Continue reading Jesus Talks about Real Food
Don’t Read This If You’re a Bleeding Heart Like Me
2 Corinthians 5:13-15 If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live…Continue reading Don’t Read This If You’re a Bleeding Heart Like Me
Ten Years of Cake
Yesterday, October 12th was my 10th anniversary with my sweet husband. I intended to do a long sappy post, but instead of wiling away more time at the computer, I went on a date with my best friend. 🙂 Our marriage has really been a piece of cake. You prepare expectantly, full of hope. Changes…Continue reading Ten Years of Cake
Perspective
Every day when my kids leave for school, my kitchen looks something like this. And even though it is not hard to clean my tiny kitchen or my 1100 square foot house, sometimes the tedium of wiping the same counters, and straightening the same beds, gets old. Sometimes, I lose perspective and I sink into…Continue reading Perspective