When Baby Steps Go Too Far
I’ve talked about the importance of baby steps for years: Taking small steps, making small individual improvements, to get your family ever closer to real…
My Story
My Journey in 2 Minutes: Who’s Cooking for the Family
Since the beginning of Kitchen Stewardship®, I’ve always been all about the journey, and how we can support each other taking baby steps in the…
Surprises, Being Wrong and Discovering a Name (Birth Story, Part 2)
I sure made you wait a long time for part 2! I would say it’s appropriate because I had to wait to meet this baby,…
Mac and Cheese and Having a Baby (Birth Story, Part One)
Ah…baby number four. Poor child has almost no chance of having a baby book – maybe a baby folder with a few things tossed haphazardly…
Baby Step Changes May Have Saved My Husband’s Life Without Us Even Noticing
Crohn’s Disease, high triglycerides, heart attack risk…all healed with a real food diet and grain-free elimination meal planner. But it seems like a page out…
What Does It Take to Cut Triglycerides by 75%?
Many of you have been curious to get the full story about how we naturally lowered my husband’s triglyceride numbers with diet alone since I…
Does Being Too Strict on Food Take the Joy out of Family Life?
“I don’t even want to go to a barbecue at my boss’s house this summer, because it might not be any fun with all our…
Juice makes you pee your pants (and other reasons not to drink it)
Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or…
Lessons I Learned Living with my In-Laws
Despite some nerves, fear, crying, doubts, and just knowing we’d made the wrong decision to live with my in-laws instead of getting a short-term apartment,…
20 Reasons I LOVE Living with my In-Laws
There’s not a speck of sarcasm there. I am very grateful for my current living situation. Pulling back the curtain of one’s life to millions…
Jonathan Michael: The Birth Story
“How many hours were you in labor?” I still can’t figure out what my answer is going to be. A week? A day? 2 hours?…
A Jonathan Michael Photo Gallery
We’re so pleased to announce the birth of our third child, Jonathan Michael! Born at 9:52 p.m. on Saturday, August 13th, John weighed in at…
How Did we Do on the Lenten No Grains/No Gluten Challenge?
When I told my mother-in-law that we would be going without grains for the first half of Lent and remaining gluten-free for the second half,…
Natural Remedies for Morning Sickness and Prenatal Vitamins
The first trimester of a pregnancy, for many women, is like no other time in their lives (except maybe having the flu). I have been…
Some Changes at the Kimball House
I have some news. I hope you won’t be disappointed about the delayed schedule, but I won’t be baking bread as often as I promised…
Why I Choose Raw Milk
This is my opinion, and only my opinion. What works for my family with raw, unpasteurized milk may not be possible for yours, and it…
I Just Love Finding Bugs in My Lettuce
I’ll take bugs, please. What’s on your produce? When a friend of a friend moved to Colorado, my friend was telling me about the organic…
My Story: The Origins of a Book (or My Time of Insanity), Part One
It all started with a bad economy. And a new baby. And the first fall I didn’t work. And finally getting around to creating a…
My Story: Things I Learned Because of Children
I got a bit distracted from sharing the story of my journey to living a Kitchen Stewardship® lifestyle during August, but it’s time to get…
My Story: What I Learned from My Mother
My parents with Lovey Girl on her birthday We all do a lot of things because it’s the way “Mom” did it. Sometimes that’s good,…