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Ins & Outs are articles spanning several topics, or just personal stories.
While not every batch turns out quite right, making your own lye soap can be fun and satisfying. I made my first batch of lye soap a little over 10 years ago. I didn’t have any proper equipment ( I still don’t) and my honey oatmeal bars didn’t turn out so well. I had a …
How to Make Lemon Mint Lye Soap: Adventures in Soap Making Read More »
My mind has been very focused on breastfeeding lately. I cannot help hoping I have an easier time of it with this next baby. I really want to be one of those blissful women who easily nurse to the one year mark and beyond without thinking about it. Do those women really exist? I don’t …
For some unknown reason, I have documented my cloth stash’s migration around our home in pictures. I am always interested in how everyone stores their diapers. I will admit, I probably have the least fancy storage for my cloth diapers. I am one of those people who never saw the point of a changing table. …
I made the decision to cloth diaper long before becoming a mother, or even learning I was pregnant. For years during our infertility struggle, I just knew I wanted to use cloth. Maybe it was my secret inner hippie. Maybe I was leery of chemicals. Maybe I just loved the look of a fluffy cloth …
Do you have faith? I don’t mean A Faith, like religion, but rather faith that everything will be OK? That things will somehow work out in the end? Do you assume life has to get better, or are you a ‘this is as good as it gets’ type of person? Ever wonder if the life …
So I jumped on the bandwagon and read a couple of IF memoirs to see if I could relate. Since my local library branch only had two, and I wasn’t in the mood to wait for Interlibrary Loan, two was all I got. I will only review them briefly so as not to bore you. …
Infertility Memoirs: Waiting for Daisy, Crossing the moon Read More »