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herbal remedies 2011
We may have closed our online herbal store, but we still have a larger variety of remedies this year to sell locally, and use for our own family. I’m very excited about what I’ve come up with; learning...
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no more delaying baby plans
By the time you read this post I will be 24 weeks pregnant. Our little one is grown enough that many babies have survived being born at this age. An amazing thought. Chickie or Chap is already over a...
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an herbal remedy review
Last week I attended my eighth and probably my final herbal remedy party for the season. Not only am I thankful God blessed us with the extra income while we were in limbo between unemployment and the...
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baby plans
We gave Pal his first haircut. We’ve been toying with the idea for a while now, but one day we decided to just do it. To be honest though, even though his hair was becoming unruly (in a cute way), one...
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answering my question
Am I a good mom? Can I be a good mom to four kids? I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about this lately, pondering that one question I needed an answer to before I can give birth. Sharing my...
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The Home Visit
When you read this I will be one day shy of 37 weeks pregnant. We just had our home visit with the whole birth team and now I will be meeting with my primary midwife each week until Chap/Chickie is...
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Girlie gives me a prenatal
Each time our midwife comes for a visit, Girlie watches her every move very carefully. She glances over at Susi to watch her expressions, and then turns to me to see my reactions. She asks questions...
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Chickie’s stats and details
Thank you for your congrats last night everyone! Amelia, who will be known here as Chickie, is doing wonderfully, and so is Mama. Chickie was born at home as planned, at 7:28pm, after about three weeks...
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American Family Now has moved!
This site will no longer be updated. You can find us by clicking here, or visiting www.americanfamilynow.org. Posts written from June 2010 to April 2012 will remain available here indefinitely, but we...
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herbal medicine part 1 of 5 ~ our story and your no-nonsense plan to making...
When I was fifteen years old, I began volunteering at a home birth midwife’s office. My work assignments began with childcare for clients and sitting in on childbirth education and parenting classes,...
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herbal medicine part 2 of 5 ~ 3 original healing tea blends
I promised you four original recipes for herbal remedies, but after taking another look at how I wanted to break up this series, I decided to share the recipes for tea combinations, and two favorite...
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Homestead Happenings #10 ~ rescuing tadpoles, first meat run, and happy gardens
See how the babies are growing! There appear to be four healthy birds growing in the outhouse nest. (If you’re reading this in an email, you will need to visit the website to see the baby birds)...
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herbal medicine part 3 of 5 ~ 5 original remedies and a story
This week, not only do I have two original salve recipes and three original tincture recipes for you, but I would also like to share with you our most recent success story, of how the compress recipe...
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herbal medicine part 4 of 5 ~ my favorite herbs (so far!)
If I were to narrow down my own herbal education to a few important points, they would be these: Well-chosen herbs are very effective at treating illnesses and injuries. You don’t need to know about...
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herbal medicine #5 of 5 ~ herbal safety and additional resources
Temps have been sitting around 90 the past couple days, and the indoor thermometer read 94 yesterday. Finally, by the time I woke up this morning it had dropped to 76, but was quickly back up to 80 and...
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our beautiful daughter, and the second part of the story of her eyes
Three weeks ago Girlie got her first pair of glasses. Perhaps you think this isn’t a big deal, that many kids get glasses so it can’t be worth talking more about, but the reason behind getting Girlie’s...
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a sabbatical
Well this is going to be an interesting post, and I hardly know where to begin. I am literally sitting here, having written that sentence, wondering how to complete my thoughts. Let’s just take this...
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where we go from here
Hello Everyone! It turned out to be a good month to take a sabbatical, as August has been a VERY busy month for us. Before I reveal the future of AFN, here is a brief rundown of how we’ve spent our...
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we’re born makers
Chrysler recently came out with a new commercial about one of their cars. I don’t really care about new cars on the market so I can’t tell you which model they were advertising, but the spirit of the...
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