Raising a Family on Food Stamps (SNAP)
The most surreal thing happened to me last week. I was asked to participate in a live, online discussion on HuffPostLIVE called Faces of Food Stamps. You can view the 1/2 hour program here. It is so awesome that my post I’m a Welfare Mom has generated so much discussion here and on Everyday Feminism. The HuffPostLIVE segment was prompted by a woman in Georgia who was harassed at a grocery store for being on Food Stamps (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP). The guests were myself, Sandi Bachom, who is living on Food Stamps in NYC, Jojo Rhines, who is living...
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My Homeschooling Philosophy: Part 2
If you haven’t watched it yet pop over here to see my first post in this series about defining holistic education. Today I want to look at three types of pedagological styles. A pedagogy is a style of teaching so the focus is not on the things being taught (curriculum) or the way of learning (learning philosophy). You can right away see the problem with this because looking at pedagogy in a vacuum is pointless. Teaching, in even the least holistic manner, is a two person (at least) relationship. However, as used by college teacher preparation programs pedagogy allows a focus on...
Read MoreFormula Safety: 7 Tips To Minimize Risks
This week a new study was published in Environmental Health Perspectives that found alarming levels of arsenic in baby formulas. The amount of arsenic in one organic formula was 6 times the recommended threshold for adults. This is so distressing to a mom giving her baby formula (like I currently am). You try to do the best for your baby and the industry just seems to totally fail us sometimes! But this news is hardly exclusive as a reason to avoid formula. There are all kinds of scary things going on in formula (bug parts anyone?) and the evidence that breastfeeding is so...
Read MoreLavender Rosemary Shampoo Recipe
Have you tried out the Homemade toothpaste? How about the Oil Cleaning Method? Well you are just going to love this one because it is my favorite, good-enough-to-eat (but don’t) shampoo and body wash you can make in your own kitchen! Lavender Rosemary Shampoo I’ll talk about the why of each ingredient in a moment but first how to make this luxurious body product: Ingredients: dried lavender flowers 2 heaping tablespoons-full (more or less is fine) 2-3 sprigs fresh rosemary or 2 tablespoons dried rosemary (fresh really works better if you can find it) 2 cups Boiling...
Read MoreUltrasound tomorrow
I have been so excited counting down to tomorrow. Tomorrow we will *see* our baby and its heartbeat! That is so much more real than a + HPT or even a + beta. It isn’t a number but a visible baby (ok, it is a dot, but the doctor can assure us it is a baby ). But tonight I can’t shake a little nervousness. I keep saying that I would be happy with 1 baby and I would 100%. After this long struggle a baby to hold in my arms is all I want. However, I know there were two lives inside me and I find I want both of them to be alive and thriving. I feel like if it is not twins...
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