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Believe it or not, you can listen to an interview with yours truly over at thesurvivalpodcast.com today. The link is HERE!

That’s right, Jack Spirko and me. Here are my 15 minutes of fame! If you’re here from TSP, WELCOME!!! I’d love your feedback on our homestead plans and my posts on permaculture! I’ve also written some posts on Prepping and Politics, Tenth Amendment Nullification and Opting Out, and gathered some posts from around the web on the topic of Christians as Preppers.

Jack (yeah, now we’re on a first name basis!) and I talked mostly about nutrition and Weston A. Price. If you want to read more, HERE is my resource page of the best info on real nutrition and health. You can also check out my posts on Nourishing Traditions and Gut and Psychology Syndrome. I also mentioned my probiotic deodorant (instructions to make or how to buy HERE) and our Perone beehive (read all about our beekeeping adventures and learn how to build your own Perone hive HERE).

I also write about eucharisteo (radical gratitude), professional motherhood, quilting, cerebral palsy, and Charlotte Mason homeschooling.

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If you’re here from Cheeseslave, welcome! Thanks for stopping by!

You can read a bit about me and my family here.

You may want to check out some of my top posts over on the sidebar on the right.

Some of my favs are my husband’s guest posts on Kidsanity (his workout for dads) and Pizza Fridays.

I like to write about eucharisteo (gratitude) in the midst of caring for a special needs child, as well as cooking and quilting.

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Originally posted on The Pantry Book:

Here’s another awesome post from my Handsome Hubby a.k.a. Derm Dad.

One of the common side-effects of marriage, and especially family life with kids, is getting out of shape and gaining weight.  It is often a matter of priorities.  In order to spend enough time with the family, men have less time to themselves. One of the first activities to be sacrificed is exercise.  Since many of us find it too difficult to modify our intake to adjust for our lower energy output, we gain weight.  Some men resign themselves to an expanding waistline while others vow to fight it, only to find the pounds packing on anyway.  Very few are able to maintain a pre-family level of fitness long-term.  Unfortunately, I am not one of the select few as I have gained a few pounds and have had to size-up my trousers over the years.  However, I have been…

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What is a Pantry Book?

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Derm Dad and I watched all 68 episodes of Upstairs Downstairs, a 1970s BBC miniseries, during the first couple of years after we married. In the show, the butler, Hudson, maintains a “pantry book” containing all important details for the very busy kitchen. We have started our own pantry book on paper, but I think it would be more useful to keep updating it on the web.

This is also part of professional motherhood for me, to keep a homekeeping notebook with family favorites for meal planning, notes on what we did well and poorly for a party (to help us do it better the next year), etc. Basically, keeping a record of my thoughts will help me be more intentional and organized.

Perhaps these notes would be useful for others too, so here goes!