Our pet chickens have a new home! I am SO glad they are no longer in a plastic tote on my dining room table. It didn’t take long for the littlest one to figure out that it could fly and it kept finding its way out of the tote and on to my table or floor. Chickens are smart! This is their great...

These days Paxton is into everything. He is exploring the world around him. It is amazing how much the human body and mind grows in the first year of life. He is so proud of himself.   He is so smart. He must have music in his blood.

This past weekend we found some beautiful organic kale at the farmer’s market and I bought a lot. I mean a whole lot. I knew I would need a lot to do some experimenting. I am not a fan of dark leafy greens but they are so good for you that I had to find some ways to incorporate them into our diet. ...

This was supposed to be the SAD diet detox week for me. It has been slow going. I have definitely cut down on processed foods and sugar but dairy and meat have been a little more of a challenge. We are eating the rest of what is (unhealthy) left in the fridge and pantry as to not be wasteful.  I had...

A short 10 weeks ago, I had 5 children and a “bump”. We loved our bump. Our bump didn’t have any kind of name because we didn’t know if we were having a boy or a girl. My 6 year old son Payton would put his hands on my bump and rub it any time he stood in front of me. It was so...

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 a huge fan of cloth diapering. I started using cloth diapers when my second child was born. Adriana had the worst diaper rash you have ever seen when she was tiny. I tried every kind of rash cream and brand of diaper you can think of and nothing ever seemed to help. Then I had this stroke of genius...