the day to day

The freshly torn stash for rag rug creation!

new and improved sewing education zone

not quite completed clothes for the shop

the coop base makes for great car driving terrain 

Being mama is a journey, an adventure, and a joy! There are new experiences constantly with my kids growing and changing and learning and unlearning the world around them. Each new experience is something for my soul to feast on. As the seasons shift to chillier days, inside of our home we are shifting to cozier activities. Many projects lay in wait for busy little hands and happy imaginations (theirs and mine)! Strips have been torn for future rag rugs, clothing is midway through being designed or sewn and making ready to hit my Etsy shop (click on the word etsy to go check me out), and my son (who hated crafting and would cry if I asked him to draw with me) has recently told me he wants to learn the fine art of Arts and Crafting! He wants to make a comfortor for his bed, and candles and gifts for friends and family and my heart is just full to bursting!What's an excited mama to do? As we live the unschooling life we are also busy with the seasonal life stuffs of picking, cooking, canning, and eating many many apples, making, pickles, finding new classes to take (swimming in the fall maybe), finishing up our coop, slowly creating our dream yard (so much yumminess to plant for next season), and just getting into the slower smoother, family flow.

And while we do all of this, in the background, there is much business to be done...

My not for profit is a dream moving swiftly towards realization with the business plan written and looking pretty solid. My clothing is slowly but surely getting created for the shop in the midst of life being lived. Our first print copies of Sacred Pregnancy Magazine have gone out for sale (oh happy days) and are looking oh so beautiful and are filled with some of the most amazing articles! (feel free to click on the words sacred pregnancy to go purchase your very own copy of this glorious magazine!) My first book, "Front Porch Summer Camp", is coming along beautifully and I can hardly wait to have it available to shop to publishers. Oh the sweet joys of the hyperactive and super ambitious heart!

What is going on in your world on your day to day dance? Let me know; I love to hear from you!

Over at Sacred Pregnancy online...

Over at this beautiful magazine I am chugging away.

Birthing new thoughts and reworking old ones.

Sharing my love of being a mom, my love of pregnancy and birth, my love of being a woman with the world.

Here are two of my recent articles...

Enjoy!

Mommy Fever

http://www.sacredpregnancy.com/mommy-fever/

Toddlering and Pregnant

http://www.sacredpregnancy.com/toddlering-and-pregnant/

(beautiful photography courtesy of sacredpregnancy.com)

Two Birthday's and a publishing

Today is a momentous day. This day 16 years ago I gave birth to my first sweet boy! It wasn't easy but it was worth every thing! Then as life would have it This day 2 years ago I gave birth to my youngest little one! how blessed am I as a mama to have two beautiful beings to celebrate on this day! Happy birthday to my most glorious "papa's" (what I tend to call my boys). They have been my grandest teachers in more ways then  could have ever fathomed!
I am also super excited to say that my third article has been published with Sacred Pregnancy. Go check it out and tell me what you think. http://www.sacredpregnancy.com/family-togetherness-through-music/ 
I would love to here what you want to see written about!

over at Sacred Pregnancy...

As many of you know, I have recently started writing, as a contributing writer, with the online magazine

 Sacred Pregnancy. I am thrilled by this new experience in my life. I have always been a writer...of poetry, of songs, of stories, of nonsense. I love to document life with words and at one point had a mighty impressive vocabulary; though nowadays I am happy just remembering the right words at the right times.

(wink wink and smiles) I take great pride in sharing my work with others. It makes me feel connected to the greater world in a way that being a WAHM and Homeschooling parent doesn't quite reach. My second article is up for your reading pleasure. It is called Pre-Chewing For Baby and I must say I am very proud!

50 Days Of Gratitude - Day #13

growing in all ways

As I continue to do new things and challenge myself I am constantly awed by the feeling of wonder when something that I have been working towards is brought into the light. The warm rush and the giddy tingling of joy make all the nerves of anticipation seem as nothing. I am thrilled to say my first article is available for reading at Sacred Pregnancy and I couldn't be happier with how it came out! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Many blessings and great joy in all of your endeavors!