“Her children rise up and call her blessed…” I was singing my prayers yesterday while washing my dishes. And as I sang of my most precious blessings, my beautiful, healthy children, I sang of how they bring light and love to me. My children rise each morning And call me Mama What can be more [...]

I slept peacefully as my husband got up and began preparing for work. As I slowly became aware that the shower was running, I started to wake and fed the baby. Then crawled out of bed with my brain not quite on ‘GO’ yet. For me, this is a very typical morning. My husband came [...]

We are so excited to announce our first chicks! Yes, we have raised MANY birds since moving to our home sweet home. But these chicks are from our very own eggs lain by the hens we have joyfully raised since April. See their beautiful eggs!!! We have just been putting them in their as they [...]

I found this absolutely marvelous read today. Pigtail Pals: Waking Up Full Of Awesome. ————————– There was a time when you were five years old, and you woke up full of awesome. You knew you were awesome. You loved yourself. You thought you were beautiful, even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks [...]

Do not ever give up. We all fall. We all stumble. Get up! Try again! You only fail when you refuse to continue the fight. We all face various trials and struggles in our lives. We are faced with troubles caused sometimes by our own mistakes, misdeeds or misunderstanding, sometimes by other’s, and still sometimes, [...]

My family has been trying to slowly replace our tv consumption for other more productive endeavors. To this end, we have obtained some children’s games. We have played Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, Hi Ho Cherry-o, and Garanimals 1-2-3. Most games for children are so PAINFUL for adults. Sometimes we have found ourselves reading the directions [...]

For the last couple of weeks… I have really started feeling like a farmer. My garden is pathetic.  Tiny little plants poking their heads from my rock hard clay, struggling to survival.  I got spoiled rotten working the community gardens, tilled and disced, composted and tilled again each year before myself and other locals came [...]

The Henderson family was unlawfully separated by the State of California and this page is dedicated to bringing them back together and correcting that injustice by alerting the People to the fact that the government is broken. To many, theHenderson’s seem strange. Six of their seven children were born without a doctors presence. Five of [...]

I have a friend. A dear sweet woman, who loves the Lord and loves her family, and serves both with all her strength and heart. A strong, brave woman who loudly supports the rights of women to birth their children as they choose, and feed their children with the warmth and fullness of the breasts [...]

I keep a ‘Birth Tote’ stocked and supplied at my home now. This is for any future births I may have or in the off chance that someone around my home goes into labor and is willing to accept my supplies and/or assistance. For legal purposes: I am not a doctor and have minimal medical [...]