Prairie Garden

I tested my hand at drying apples, following the instructions from the Food Drying book I bought on ebay last spring. My bounty was small, ...

This is how he likes to poop, with several books on hand Starbeans has been using his potty chair almost exclusively for all BMs and peeing....

We have been on a slow but steady course to getting rid of all the plastic food storage containers in our house. There is still a drawer-ful...

I herded cattle that had gotten loose today, with my in-laws' mini-van, on the way home from an appointment with my midwife. They are so...

I haven't posted on this yet, but we have little baby kittens at our house! Mama Kitty showed up 2.5 weeks ago and had the kittens a few...

My poor chapped lips. I'm not kidding. I accidentally licked my lips on and off one day last weekend (I don't even know why...perha...

Making my own laundry detergent is something I've been thinking about for quite some time. My reasons include: Cost: I'm pretty sur...

I can't believe how skinny I am. I didn't include my head...I wasn't smiling because I didn't realize Squeeze did a whole b...

In the mail yesterday came a "guide to your labor & delivery experience" from the hospital where the back-up doctor we saw del...

I'm fairly certain that Starbeans said his first simple sentence this morning. All parts were there, nothing was dropped. He said, Pickl...

We are in the midst of potty training, I think. My SIL & BIL finally got so exasperated with their 3 year old, who had shown no sign of ...

Squeeze took this picture. Isn't it lovely??

I'm not totally convinced, but I think I may be in the clear . It has been almost 3 weeks now, but it is possible that my lips have fi...

After discussing the children's books I've collected over the years, I decided that I needed to experience the pleasure of providin...

I have some major baby brains going on over here. I'm having a hard time focusing on any task other than day-to-day survival that isn...

Aren't they pretty?

I really, really love Nursery Rhymes: I'm discovering this through having a toddler. A good friend gave Starbeans a Mother Goose Nursery...

I'm on Day 4, Week 2 of my End of Chapstick Odyssey and I'm sorry to say that it isn't getting much better. I've wondered i...

Our water supply comes from something called Rural Water, meaning that we have water piped into our place for some kind of cooperative, rath...