Review of “Smitten”: Four (very similar) stories in one

December 30, 2011
Review of “Smitten”: Four (very similar) stories in one

After a good start on my reading goal, I read only one book in the past two months. Or was it four? “Smitten” is a book by four  Christian fiction authors (Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Diann Hunt and Denise Hunter) that makes sense as a whole but each story can stand on its own. Four friends plan to turn Smitten, Vt., a former male-dominated mill town, into a romantic getaway, and along the way each one falls in love with someone they’ve known for ages. I’m a sucker for the fall-in-love-with-a-friend (or in one case here, enemy) stories even if...

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Veggies are (becoming) this girl’s best friend

December 12, 2011
Veggies are (becoming) this girl’s best friend

I have been (mostly) gluten-free for about a month now.  It has not been as hard as I expected it to be. I have found some gluten-free replacements for my favorite gluten-based foods that are rather good. And some that really are not. I’ve also found plenty of other...

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Connor quotes

December 3, 2011
Connor quotes

Connor is always saying things that crack me up. Many of them go unrecorded but here are some that made it to Twitter or Facebook this year. Some of them seemed funnier at the time but I’ll include them anyway. Mark and I and his grandparents were talking about...

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Health goal: Move from “not sick” to “healthy”

November 29, 2011
Health goal: Move from “not sick” to “healthy”

Though my new journey to health began when I thought wheat was causing my severe itching, working with my health coach has already helped me realize there is a lot more I’d like to change about my health. I’m not sick, per se, and I know all western-medicine doctors would...

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Meet me on Monday

November 28, 2011
Meet me on Monday

I have another health journey post coming but in the mean time, I just discovered this weekly blog link-up called “Meet Me on Monday.” I LOVE answering random questions about myself so I couldn’t help but play along. I hope you do too, either in the comments or on...

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Giving up gluten

November 18, 2011
Wheat field

I have decided to give up gluten, or at least wheat, on a trial basis. How I will live without pizza, I don’t know. Not to mention waffles, muffins, tortellini, crescent rolls and my grandma’s cookies. For the past year or two, I have had a severely itchy scalp....

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A 4-year-old’s smoothie recipe

November 8, 2011
A 4-year-old’s smoothie recipe

  Welcome to the November Carnival of Natural Parenting: Kids in the Kitchen This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have shared how kids get involved in cooking and feeding. Please...

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