• Natalie's Juice - a fresh take on juice that I feel good taking home to my family.
    Homemaking,  Nutrition

    Natalie’s Juice – a fresh take on juice

    Between shopping with a 5 year old who thinks she needs to have an opinion on everything I buy (or pass by) and navigating nutritional labels, grocery shopping is more and more challenging these days. I am trying to balance making healthy choices with not allowing a fear of additives and GMOs, etc. to overwhelm me, but it is hard to know what are good choices. Being a Christian parent my faith is part of everything I do, including grocery shop. I want to be a good steward of the body God has given me and teach my daughter to do the same. When I saw a sample table in…

  • I had to decide between faith and fear. I decided I have a big REAL God in this artificially flavored world.
    Godly Parenting

    Real God in an Artifically Flavored World

    Today, (contrary to everything I’ve been trying to do all year) I purposefully gave my child high fructose corn syrup, artificially flavored, red dye #40 (or whatever is causing cancer this week) on a stick. Yep, all the rules of how we’re trying to eat clean – broke ’em. Nobody died. I don’t even think I gave her cancer. I have been learning a lot about our food this past year, and frankly, it’s terrifying. It is hard to find anything the experts can agree on. So today the rubber met the road, and I cried UNCLE. My daughter gets ferociously carsick on her best days. Every trip past 15…