healthy food, lifestyle, travel, & everyday moments.
Just dropping in to wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving! We have a full long weekend planned visiting with friends, cooking (sweet potato casserole and gluten-free pie), two Thanksgiving dinners, getting our Christmas tree and celebrating a big birthday. Hoping your holiday is full of love and busyness/peace… whichever you prefer, or maybe a bit of both 🙂
xx Claire
We added a fourth sweet boy to our family last week!
His birth went smoothly and we were able to return home a day or so after delivery. He was bigger than expected (9lb 2oz–where was he hiding in there?!) so had some early blood sugar issues, but they resolved and now he’s just a chunky babe :)… Read More »
What a month, friends. We had so much going on between kids’ commitments, out-of-town family, home to-do’s and travel planning–and ending the month with a bout of pinkeye for 3/5 of us–that I feel like I blinked and it’s May! School will be wrapping up soon, and then we’ll have a couple of weeks free before summer activities start.
While I’m ready for summer, I’m also enjoying that we’re getting a real spring this year instead of skipping straight from snow to 90 degrees. I loveee rainy days and we’ve had a bunch of them lately (including this morning). Obviously I don’t live in the right place for that, most of the time… but I’ve been channeling my inner Sydney/Bay Area/temperate region girl and enjoying the in-between season this year :)… Read More »
One of my blogger friends used to have a post series called “What’s On My Mind” that I loved. Sometimes you just want to hear somebody’s unfiltered, unedited, not-SEO-optimized thoughts about something.
So, I’m using the idea here. Sometimes I want to chat about a specific topic, and that chat is too long to put in a 2-3 sentence snippet in my Life Lately posts. Today’s topic is blogging as a parent–or more accurately, blogging as a parent when you don’t want to write about your kids.… Read More »
What exactly is a crunchy mom? Some definitions include: someone who raises their children in a natural lifestyle, someone who follows their intuition to parent rather than current trends or official recommendations, or a parent who prioritizes the health of their children and the environment. Some definitions include phrases like “liberal-leaning” while others call crunchy moms “crazy,” “anti-science” or “conspiracy theorists.”
Obviously, there’s not even one official definition, since much of the above is self-contradictory!
The stereotype of a crunchy mom has evolved considerably since the term became popular 15-20 years ago. The pandemic definitely fueled a large part of that change and popularized the idea. People who previously might not have been interested in holistic health, homesteading, medical freedom or alternative diets adopted those values.… Read More »
