I have been seriously neglecting my blog. And now I don’t even know where to start. Big things have been happening in the Baker home. Most notably our decision to consider having a home birth for our 6th child. I have been searching the internet, asking friends, nurses, pretty much everyone if...

I am officially 14 weeks pregnant today. For those of you who don’t know, this will be our 6th child. I have been wanting to post weekly updates but I have also been a little nervous about it. I didn’t want to feel like I was jinxing myself or something. I think infertility and loss tend...

Our menus will be changing a little over the next few weeks. There are couple of reasons as to why, the first as a New Years resolution we decided to try harder to move from our “somewhat vegan” status to a “very vegan status. We have all been suffering from low energy, stomach issues...

Every year when I make New Years Resolutions, I vow to keep a better record of our money. Every year I do a little better than the last but honestly I am no accountant. I know what I need to do but was just not sure how to do it. My husband took over taking care of the budget and bills last year when...

11 Days before Christmas and I still didn’t have our Christmas cards out. Heck, I didn’t even have a picture for the card. The kids happened to have a music recital to dress up for so I took the opportunity to try to get a picture the perfect picture for our last-minute cards. Of course we...

I hope that you all had a great Christmas filled with family, food and fun. We spent Christmas Eve visiting my in-laws and eating and then all heading over to visit my parents and eating again so that we could enjoy Christmas day at home, relaxed.  I really enjoyed eating and not having to be the one...

Chances are that if you are raising a large family you might be feeling like there is no way you can “get it all done”, especially if your children are still very young. In the days when we had four kids five and under the age of five we had not yet learned the importance of time management....