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Fit Mommy Crashes

Two weeks ago I was very busy harvesting, and also very active, although I did not meet my Fit Mommy goals last week.  I felt great!  So great, in fact, that seven days ago I helped rake the lawn.  Not much, only a few piles, and not all at once.  After that, I worked on […]

Mixin’ Up Some Remedies and Cookin’ Healthy Foods

One of my winter projects is to learn more about home remedies.  We use some simple ones already:  garlic for colds and flus, water for headaches, raspberry leaves for cramps, and calcium and magnesium as a mild painkiller.    This winter, however, I plan to learn a bit more using Herbal Nurturing by Michele Augur.  […]

Fit Mommy Friday

OK, so here’s my Fit Mommy post.  I’ll write it very quickly, since I’m having a great time reading Advanced Chemistry (Second Edition) from Apologia. You see, Miss 17 is studying chemistry, and I’m reviewing this text next month, both good reasons to read the book. As for fitness, what fitness?  Between preserving food, which means standing at […]

Fit Mommy Friday

  Here we are at the end of another crazy week.  Calling it a crazy week is my way of explaining why I was a fit mommy flop this week.  We had things to do besides schoolwork, and tried to do schoolwork anyhow.  So we got little else done, and I almost ignored my fitness […]

Fit Mommy Friday–Oops, I’m Late!

  What a crazy week!  (In fact, it was so crazy that I completely forgot about publishing this post even though I had written it.  Sigh!  Since I committed to not skipping a week, here it is a few days late.)  With a killing frost looming on the weekend, this is the harvest week of […]