Coming Undone. Unshackled.
i viewed this video recently [just the first 15 minutes]. it’s a monologue. and it will change you. it should do something like this to you: when i watched it i felt the momma bear in me rise up. the...
View Articlemy heart leaped. it skipped.
Do you remember earlier in the year when I wrote to you about the word SKIP? If you don’t, or didn’t read that post, go ahead and read (or re-read) it now. Because I have news about that thing. When I...
View ArticlePumpkin Spice Latte: Paleo Style
hey all you Starbucks lovers! let’s just get this out of the way. this is NOT going to taste just like Starbucks. there is no high fructose corn syrup in this little ditty. or dairy. or soy lecithin....
View Articleyou are…
if you’ve read any of my posts, you know that my heart is very much for women. especially women who struggle with identity and self-worth. so very many of us marry, eat, exercise, choose friendships...
View ArticlePumpkin Pie Ice Cream
you know what’s good about making your own ice cream? everything, that’s what. it’s usually cheaper, tastier, and prettier. and for goodness’ sakes, you can actually SEE what is in the thing that...
View Articledo it. scared or not.
today i listened as one of my friends spoke a beautiful word about walking in faith, even if scared. at my church there is a gathering of women, on tuesdays, that we call Sisterhood. it’s women coming...
View ArticleLove landed in a coffee shop
did you know that stress can so affect your cortisol levels that no matter how much you exercise, you’ll keep fat on your body? or did you know that your adrenal glands can get so tired, so pooped, so...
View ArticleGluten Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
as the mom of two little girls, i have a lot of heart-to-hearts about emotions. because little girls have LOTS of emotions. this week, my firstborn, re-entered kindergarten after a 3 week Fall break....
View Articleyou look fat
isn’t that title uncomfortable? i want to tell you about uncomfortable. uncomfortable is being a little girl, a pre-teen, a teenager, a woman, and feeling ugly. feeling fat. feeling unwanted. now...
View ArticleGluten Free Pumpkin Cheesecake
this year was a first, for many things, at my family’s Thanksgiving. this was the first year that my family (my mom and brother’s family) all agreed that we wanted to have a gluten-free meal. my...
View ArticleBreakfast Cookies (gluten free)
while my children are in school, it helps me the most to be prepared for breakfasts and lunches. otherwise i find myself scrambling in the mornings to get a real breakfast made, lunch packed and...
View ArticleSugar Cookies – gluten, dairy, refined sugar free
Christmas means cookies. it means lots of other sweet things, too. but today, for us, it meant cookies. after playing with a few recipes, and mixing things up a bit, i came up with a ‘sugar’ cookie...
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Farm Fresh Bok Choy with Pesto Encrusted Salmon and Heirloom Tomato
Some of my favorite things during the Spring time in the South are: walking barefoot outside, the choir of bugs at night, rainy afternoons, fresh produce and eating outside. When I told you about...
View ArticleHomemade Ice Cream Kind of Life
It seems like, these days, I rarely have the radio on in my car. I mostly tune in to some sort of streaming music through my phone, just to avoid commercials. But the other day, for some reason, I had...
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Strawberry Spread
A few weeks ago I took my children to a local strawberry farm. And it’s possible that I spent close to $20 on strawberries. Or not. Or maybe so. It was worth every penny and I even think we saved some...
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Black Bean Brownies
Black Bean Brownies. Read that again. So weird, right? Totally. Years ago when I started cleaning up my diet, I got super curious about trying to make some of my favorite foods, healthy. Or something...
View Articlewhat if we stopped being afraid of…
Parents, what if we stopped being afraid of… the sun – and chose sunscreens wisely that weren’t full of poison but didn’t cover every inch of our children in sun-blocking clothing because we’re afraid...
View Articleliberating little girls
i was at an event, recently, while i overheard a father say about his 13 month old, “eat it now, you won’t want people seeing you like that when you’re 16.” he said that, to her, about her, in front of...
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Gluten Free Granola Bars
If I say the words chia seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, coconut oil, honey, flax…my children won’t roll their eyes. They’ll just wonder what I’m making. Alone, my children aren’t wild about any of...
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Salmon [or crab] Cakes – gluten and grain free
until i was about 20 years old, my family had a cottage on a river near my hometown. so summers meant crabbing and fishing. i feel like we were crab catching ninjas. we either scooped them off pilings...
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