My First Guest Post & An Update

Hey everyone. I’m guest posting over at Code Name Mama today on the Joys of Breastfeeding a Toddler. Please go check it out! Update on Us I can’t thank you enough for all your kind words yesterday. People say you shouldn’t give advice to those going through a difficult time. They say you should just …

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Life on Autopilot

Today I was planning to announce an awesome giveaway . . . probably my favorite so far. Unfortunately, our buyer backed out yesterday and I am a mess. My midwife will be here soon for my 39 week checkup. She’ll ask me how I’m doing, and I won’t lie. I’m shutting down emotionally. I am …

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Does I Win = You Lose???

On The Other Side Of Almost Every “Steal” Is Someone Getting Cheated That’s what Daddypotamus said yesterday as we talked through the events of the last two weeks. Since you have the internet (and are therefore not living under a rock), I know you’ve heard about the U.S. “housing crisis.” We had too, but it …

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Daddypotamus: What Do You Do When God’s Answer is Delayed?

As most of you know, we’ve had a vision for the next phase for a while now. It involves a bigger house on some land, and becoming a community hub where families come together to eat, swap recipes and health tips, and like-minded people call on the name of the Lord in worship and prayer.

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Farm Fresh Wishes and Chicken Feather Dreams

Daniel sent me this chicken coop photo to drool over today. I added it to my bookmark folder which is wistfully titled after the street my dream house is on. Photo credit: Treehugger

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Stuck

This blog is supposed to be about our family’s adventure in urban farming. It’s meant to entertain by letting us make fools of ourselves as we milk a goat for the first time and try to figure out which of our baby chicks are girls and which are boys. It’s supposed to make you think …

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Gigipotamus: Exit Strategy

Thought you’d be interested in this update: Never again will that lake outside my window hinder me from my preferred exit on co-op days. This week I bought a pair of almost knee-high wellies from Target. Too bad no one is around at 3am to see how totally fashionable I am crawling out my window!

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Daddypotamus: There’s Something Prophetic and Pioneering in all this

Hey, everyone… Daniel here (a.k.a. DanielthePoet – a.k.a. Daddypotamus?). As I began to explain in my last blog post, we’re doing the family blog thing. Originally, we were going to start a third blog for all our family stories. I’d already condensed my DanielthePoet.com blog back into DanielDessinger.com, and Heather and I both sort of …

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I'm Heather, aka The Mommypotamus. As a wife, mom, writer, researcher, and real food lover, I write about the topics that concern me most. What is a Mommypotamus?

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