Article about a couple that managed to only produce enough trash to fill a shoebox, for an ENTIRE year. They recycled or composted the rest! This article is hard to stomach but important to read. I do not know much about female circumcision, and to read how prevalent it is, makes my stomach turn. This …Continue Reading »
Baby/Tot Yoga: Moon Toe!
July 28, 2010 By 2 Comments
Penelope is growing up! We have recently started to only do Tot yoga poses! She no longer wants to be on her back, whether we are doing yoga or a diaper change. A lot of babies naturally do Moon Toe as a part of their body development. If you see them doing this on their …Continue Reading »
Dinner for Lazy Mamas
July 28, 2010 By 9 Comments
I was so wiped out the other day, I couldn’t even get it together to heat up a frozen meal from our freezer stash. But I had lots of fruit and cheese on hand! So I pretended like it was the good ole days (read: pre-baby) and we were out for a night on the town …Continue Reading »
July Once A Month Cooking
July 27, 2010 By 11 Comments
This month I made four different meals, similar to last month. I made Mousska, Chicken Enchiladas, Chicken and Walnuts, and Minestrone Soup. All recipes can be found in the cookbook, Nourishing Traditions. The Mousska came out great, but preparing the eggplants was a little time consuming, so if you are making it by itself it …Continue Reading »
Burnt Out
July 27, 2010 By 11 Comments
{Mama’s Musings; a Monday tradition. Or at least, trying to be a tradition} I am feeling very burnt out these days. And I am not sure why exactly. It’s easy to blame the baby and say I am just exhausted (which I am), but I think it’s more than that. I feel like I am …Continue Reading »
Friday Link Love: 7.23.10
July 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
This is a must read parenting article about creating good self-esteem in children by using Positive Discipline. Think you are doing good by buying organic milk from Organic Valley? Think again. They just enacted a ban on the farmers which make up its 1600 small farm cooperative from selling raw milk to consumers on the …Continue Reading »
A Skirt for Mama
July 23, 2010 By 3 Comments
I made this skirt for myself. I had hopes of making a dress, similar to the last dress I made Penelope, and I envisioned it to come out kinda of like this dress, but with a wide elastic at top, that are all the rage right now. I bit off more than I could chew …Continue Reading »
Baby/Tot/Mama Yoga: Twistee!
July 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
This pose is a great back stretch for our little babies. Its similar to the adult yoga pose Supine Spinal Twist. Supine means to lay on your back, by the way. To do this pose, for baby, tot or mama, lay on your back. Bring your knees together and drop them both to one side. …Continue Reading »
Great-Great Oma’s Blueberry Pie
July 19, 2010 By 2 Comments
When Peter’s mother was visiting a few weeks ago, we made a blueberry pie with the blueberries Penelope and I picked. The recipe is from Maria Muller, Penelope’s Great-Great Oma ( that’s Grandma in German.) I hope you all feel very privileged to have this recipe given to you! I did not grow up cooking …Continue Reading »
Readers Questions: Homeopathic remedies for sick babies and how to switch to cloth diapers.
July 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Yay! I got my first couple of reader questions! Here are the questions and answers. Please note, that I am not a Doctor, so this can not be used as medical advice, I am simply sharing my personal experience. Please keep the questions coming! You can email me at Info (at) MamaAndBabyLove.com Reader Question: I …Continue Reading »
