I took a long break of teaching yoga since Covid hit. Parenting four kids in a pandemic was a full-time job, plus some more. While studios across the country offered Zoom classes and eventually opened back up with various mask policies and social distancing. I just wasn’t ready for that. I was giving everything I had […]
Being a runner again
It still sounds strange to think of myself as a runner again. I haven’t defined myself as a runner since before I had kids. But I loved it then, Walkman and all. Last month I found out I love it again. I was fine taking my daily walks. Until I felt the need to be more […]
Cool Summer Camps
Chauffeuring around multiple children to multiple camps isn’t always worth the effort and daily commotion. Instead I usually savor the long lazy days of summer at home. This summer is different. They girls have all found cool summer camps that fits their personalities and it’s been wonderful. Lydia attended a scuba camp where she learned to scuba […]
My guest post at Homegrown and Healthy and their Oh Baby Ultimate Prize Package giveaway
I have a guest post running today over at Homegrown and Healthy. It’s part of a virtual baby shower, which is a series of guest posts that includes a huge giveaway of natural baby supplies. Aubrey at Homegrown and Healthy was inspired to do this for a friend having her third baby, who is a minimalist […]
Sponsor and Giveaway :: The Cíche Mom
Today I introduce you to The Cíche Mom, Simply Natural Mom’s newest sponsor. Katie Willocks is a local Knoxville mom who started the small business The Cíche Mom. Cíche in Irish means breastfeeding. And that’s her focus – to make breastfeeding friendly products that help facilitate and encourage moms to create a special bond with their […]
A Heart for Guatemala, a cultural lesson for children
One of the parents in my daughter’s Early Childhood Community (ages 3-6) at school, is the Executive Director of A Heart for Guatemala, Bethany Davison-Widby. She will be leading a trip to Guatemala with a group of volunteers from Knoxville this summer, bringing her son along too. The volunteers will be visiting seven different villages around Lake Atitlan […]
Sponsor and Giveaway :: Carry Me Close
Today I bring you a giveaway by Simply Natural Mom’s newest sponsor, Carry Me Close. Carry Me Close offers custom handmade mei tai’s, stretchy wraps, pouches, and ring slings – sewn by Robin Alley. She also makes accessories such as babywearing ponchos and kids’ baby doll slings, and creates pregnancy bellycastings was well as teaches local […]
The Great Cloth Diaper Change, around the world
When I was pregnant with my first child in 2004, our birthing teacher introduced a bright colored cloth diaper during our Birthing From Within class. The idea was foreign to me. I had never even changed a baby’s diaper at that point in my life, much less known anyone to use cloth diapers. I wasn’t […]
I’d drive The Milk Truck. Would you?
I’ll admit when I first read about the The Milk Truck hitting the streets of Pittsburgh, driving around with a giant boob on top and offering moms a comfortable place to nurse inside it’s mobile nursing room – I thought it was a bad idea. I, like so many moms who want other moms to feel […]
My KNS story on the Children’s Theatre of Knoxville
I have a story in the Sunday paper of the Knoxville News Sentinel on the Children’s Theatre of Knoxville. It’s called Never-ending Families and it features three sets of siblings and one father/daughter pair in the theater’s current show The Neverending Story. Even if you are not local check it out. Because the theater, for a little community […]