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Fit Mommy Friday

My fitness goals for this week were:  Be more systematic about exercise.  Oops!  I was totally random about it instead. Find a physiotherapist.  I think I’ve located one close by. I hope she will understand muscles that can give up for a day or more if they’re worked at all.  “Post-exertion malaise” some call it.  […]

Fit Mommy Friday: A Waterfall Adventure

I’ve been spreading my wings and attempting more strenuous activities—sometimes not quite on purpose.  Food:  Lots of veggies, especially broccoli.  This spring I started some broccoli seeds on my bedroom window sill, so we have fresh broccoli early.  The peas (ordinary shelling peas, as well as snap and sugar varieties) are almost ready, so we’ll soon […]

Fit Mommy Friday

Well, this week made up for last week.  I felt great most of the time, and when I was shopping yesterday with Miss 10, she kept falling behind because I was walking too quickly! Food:  Lots of veggies.  No corn meal because we suspect ours may be contaminated with gluten.  Lots of canned fish, like […]

Review: Real Food on a Real Budget

  Feeding our families costs money—lots of it—no matter what we eat.  Serving only excellent, nutritious, quality food can cost even more, but it needn’t.  Stephanie Langford has written an inspiring and practical guide, Real Food On a Real Budget:  How to Eat Healthy for Less, that contains over 200 pages of organized, encouraging, balanced […]

TWT: Going Crustless: Pies, Quiches, and Alternatives

  helping each other be good stewards of all our resources: money, possessions, time, energy, and health   When I was a little girl, my mom found a crustless quiche recipe in the local paper.  For many years it hung on the inside of a cupboard door, close to her stove.  Now, 30 years later, […]