What Is It? Luna Lullaby makes Soothing Swaddle Blankets out of cotton muslin. The blankets also come with an instructional DVD in case you don’t know how to swaddle your baby (or use youtube. hehe). They basically teach you to use the same technique as the “Happiest Baby on the Block” swaddle, which is great… Continue Reading
My Beauty Non-Routine
This is sponsored content from BlogHer and Olay. Since I’ve had a baby, my time for myself has been a bit hijacked. My “routine” is a bit un-routine, since I have to play each day (each hour, each minute) by ear. Here’s how it generally goes: Daily, no matter what: Brush my teeth, morning and… Continue Reading
Grain-Free Artichoke Sun-Dried Tomato Stuffing
My mother-in-law makes a fantastic sourdough bread stuffing with onions, artichoke hearts, and sun-dried tomatoes. It’s something I always looked forward to at Thanksgiving and Christmas, and to be honest, if she were making it I’d still totally eat it up. Sourdough bread is one kind of bread that has never caused me digestive discomfort… Continue Reading
Focus
Anneliese is becoming more focused in her play, with a longer attention span. This can be fun (reading stories without her getting hungry/tired/bored/distracted in the middle) but it’s doing something else, too. It’s making her too busy to eat during the day, which means she nurses a LOT at night the last few nights. It’s… Continue Reading
Baby + Sophie = Love
I have a couple drafts set up for posts – some recipes, starts to some reviews, but tonight my mind sort of went blank when I tried to write. So I’m just going to share some baby pictures. My girl LOVES this “Sophie the Giraffe” toy, and she isn’t alone. I think basically every baby… Continue Reading
Handmade With Love
My maternal grandmother is a talented seamstress and enjoys cross-stitching too, and when my sisters and I were all little, she made us stockings for Christmastime. Each of our stockings has a different cross-stitched design on it. When I married the guy, she made him one with airplanes on it, as a sort of welcome-to-the-family… Continue Reading
Grain-Free Basic Bread (Coconut Flour Flax Bread)
Since switching over to the grain-free way of life, I have occasionally indulged in bread here and there. Face it, sometimes it’s just nice to have something to schmear butter all over… or to dip in your gravy/sauce/salad dressing/soup. But usually I end up feeling a bit bloated when I eat bread (with the exception… Continue Reading
Bakin’ Bacon!–Cook Bacon in the Oven
For my spinach salad recipe (which we took to Paige and Greg’s house for Thanksgiving), I needed to cook a pound of bacon. I didn’t feel like doing batch after batch in a pan, so I cooked it in the oven. So easy! You know that pre-cooked bacon you can buy in the store? You… Continue Reading
Almond Flour Shortbread
Shortbread is probably one of my favorite cookies. What can I say? Butter is awesome. And it is one of the specific things I’ve missed a bit since going grain-free. So when I came across this recipe, I had to try it out. It’s originally from Recipes for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, a book I… Continue Reading
Happy 4 Months, Baby Girl
Today, Anneliese turned four months old. It’s amazing how time moves so quickly! It seems like just last week, she was this floppy newborn, but now she’s a whole separate person! She can even stand up if we balance her. She’s got sturdy little legs for sure. Not floppy anymore. She gives the sweetest expressions,… Continue Reading
Have a Cup of Cheer
Yesterday we got to spend Thanksgiving with some sweet friends of ours – Paige and Greg, Paige’s parents and grandmother, and a couple other aviators. It was low-key and relaxing, and we all just hung out and chatted and ate good food. It’s really comforting to have good friends nearby when we’re so far from… Continue Reading
Hi! I'm Emily. I'm a Navy wife and stay at home mom of two beautiful children. I cook simple, delicious, grain-free recipes, do crafts, decorate my home on a budget, and keep a happy household. I tandem breastfeed, babywear, cloth diaper, practice elimination communication, homebirth, and co-sleep, but I'm not a hippie.
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