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On eating, blogging, and parenting

November 11, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

Being one of some 1500 traditional food enthusiasts here at the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions conference is humbling and exhilarating. So many people have regained health or healed their children through real food. The stories at the Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS diet) lecture alone were amazing. It’s easy in mainstream circles to…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, family, finances, home, marriage, money, priorities, real food, Weston A. Price Foundation, Wise Traditions conference

Kids in the kitchen (better late than never!)

November 9, 2011 by Jessica 3 Comments

I did not get a post written in time to participate in the November Blog Carnival of Natural Parenting in part because I feel like I no longer do such a great job at getting “kids in the kitchen,” this month’s theme. We were great at it when my son was two and three, and…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health Tagged With: cooking, food, home, rhythm, thyroid

A weekend of holistic health and blogging

October 23, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

A tale of two conferences I’ve had a split personality this weekend. Much of my time has been spent at the wonderful blogging conference, Blogalicious. Since I first arrived at the conference Friday morning, I’ve met great people, caught up with friends, and learned a ton about social media and media resources in general. A…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: balance, blog, Blogalicious, blogging, family, food, GAPS diet, health, Holistic Health, home, marriage, priorities, relationships, Take Back Your Health Conference, writing

Simply fall

October 9, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It was a quietly successful day. What does that mean? I usually prefer to get up before everyone else so that I can have some quiet moments alone, even if it’s just to start the breakfast (which means start the broth and veggies cooking, and the eggs, and some kind of meat, and get out…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, gardening, home, priorities

Seeing the light, in the dark

August 28, 2011 by Jessica 3 Comments

It was a day when every hour looked like 5 p.m. Grey. Rain. Then rainier, and windy. So why am I feeling better than I’ve felt since, like, June? One guess is the yoga. I did about 20 minutes alone upstairs in my bedroom this morning, after 5 minutes using the chi machine. Post-juice, pre-breakfast….

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, healing, health, home, marriage, mental health, priorities, weather, wellness, yoga

The transition begins: Waldorf to public school

June 12, 2011 by Jessica 8 Comments

Just how many different people can I be in my head in one day? Well, at least two solid positions are staking claim to my mental landscape. One is incredibly sad that yesterday was my son’s last day at his Waldorf school, and the other is very excited for our family to become part of…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Healthy Eating, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, family, farm, Farm to Table, food, home, homeschooling, nutrition, priorities, public school, school, transitions, Waldorf education, working mother

Taking care of myself: GAPS diet update

April 2, 2011 by Jessica 16 Comments

Spring hasn’t fully registered here in chilly but blossom-filled Northern Virginia, but I think my stomach is finally on the mend. I started the GAPS diet on February 6, and I am still in a modified introductory stage. I’m only just now even considering trying to eat any raw foods (besides juice, and avocado). It…

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Filed Under: Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: digestion, family, food, GAPS, gluten, health, home, mental health, nutrition, postpartum, priorities, real food, wellness

SteveSongs talks to Crunchy-Chewy Mama!

February 11, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

One week after I had my baby girl this past August, I padded groggily out of the bedroom late in the morning and found my son looking out our bay window and listening to a SteveSongs CD. With his knees tucked underneath him in the chair that sat where the birth tub had been, my…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: beauty, home, interview, music, PBS, priorities, siblings, SteveSongs, Wolf Trap

My child is my mirror – January Carnival of Natural Parenting

January 11, 2011 by Jessica 20 Comments

Welcome to the January Carnival of Natural Parenting: Learning from children 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 the many lessons their children have taught them. Please read to the end to find a list…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: craniosacral therapy, family, home, joy, organization, priorities, toddler talk, writing mother

On the bunny slope of tradition-making – Carnival of Natural Parenting

December 14, 2010 by Jessica 17 Comments

At age 37, I still haven’t learned to ski, and almost five years and two children into parenthood, I can’t quite believe in myself as a real mom of a real family with real traditions of its own. Although a few years of experience in Waldorf education tells me that children thrive on daily rhythms…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: candles, celebrations, Christmas tree, family, food, holidays, home, priorities, ritual, seasons, traditions

Trying to “celebrate calm”

November 22, 2010 by Jessica 3 Comments

When I first took Rene Hackney’s Positive Discipline class as part of a play and workshop series at Parenting Playgroups, my son wasn’t even two, and he was too cute for words. Just coming off of some intense separation anxiety and just starting to string together sentences, he could do no wrong. It was easy…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Celebrate Calm, discipline, family, home, marriage, media, positive discipline, priorities, television

Priorities, values, and goals… oh my!

October 20, 2010 by Jessica 1 Comment

“Priorities” pops up as one of my most used tags because this blog is essentially about my trying to figure out what my priorities are and how to accommodate them when they seem to contradict one another. Or when one supposed priority gets bumped off its seat for something I don’t claim to care about…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: family, healing, health, home, priorities, working mother, writing mother

Time to heal

May 11, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Sigh. Sometimes it’s easier to mother when your child is really in a rough state. My son has been mildly sick for over a week, just sick enough that he’s been unable to go to school. And I’ve been unable to work. It’s been a delight to see him fully immersed in play by himself,…

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Filed Under: Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: childcare, health, home, homeopathy, mental health, mindfulness, play, preschool, priorities, wellness

Look both ways — a tale of a city and its suburbs

May 2, 2010 by Jessica 1 Comment

Having someone in from out of town helps you see where you live with new eyes. When my brother-in-law visited, I was kind of psyched that after my husband picked him up at Union Station, they got enjoy a lovely drive through the District — past the monuments — at dusk on a perfect summer-feeling…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: community, consumerism, home, nature, priorities

Tired and missing my kid

March 9, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

It feels good to look forward to seeing your son. Lately I’ve felt so swamped — and especially after all that snow with no break — I haven’t exactly loved all my many minutes with my boy. Today I went to the National Institutes of Health for a conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC),…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, childcare, health, home, priorities

What is a snowstorm good for?

February 10, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Just what all does one do during a snowed-in weekend like we’ve had here in the DC area? I got an email this morning telling me that DC Metro Moms Blog was low on posts, so I imagine I’m not the only one who did not use the time to catch up on writing. (I…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: childcare, home, priorities

TV Blues

June 11, 2009 by Jessica 1 Comment

Last month PBS Kids hosted a lovely event for us DC Metro Mom bloggers. I ought to have posted something about it, but it was kind of culture shock for me, and I didn’t want to write and sound ungrateful. Before the event, I didn’t know anything about Super Why or any shows for preschoolers….

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: home, media, PBS, priorities, television, Waldorf education

In box finds simplicity

May 2, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Wow, 11111! That’s a great number! Can you believe it’s the number of unread messages in my Yahoo mail In box? No, I am not kidding. And yes, many of them are digests of lists I seem to think I ought to keep even though I can get everything in the group site archives. The…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: home, priorities

Moving targets — when your kid can’t count on you

April 28, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

This post originally appeared on DC Metro Moms on April 28, 2009 Moving targets — when your kid can’t count on you “Leave, Mommy,” said my son when I walked over to where he was enjoying a friend’s toys. And upon leaving another playmate’s house, he protested: “No, I want to stay here. I don’t…

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Filed Under: D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: home, moving, orgnaization, priorities

Mama meets with other writers

April 11, 2009 by Jessica 1 Comment

“Mommy’s going to work all day tomorrow,” I told my son. “To work with your student?” Usually I leave for work only in the evenings, to tutor. When the sitter is here on Wednesday mornings, I say I’m working in the basement, usually for my “meeting” (new chapter of Holistic Moms Network). But tomorrow I’m…

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Filed Under: The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: blogging, home, priorities, WAHM, working mother, writing, writing mother

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