Mosaic Momma

This photo represents some of my favorite things: a table, coffee, good company, and sharing tips and information. Although this happens fairly frequently in my home, yesterday was the first time I have had an "official" gathering to discuss wellness. And it happened courtesty of wellness cheerleader, Katie Wells, of the popular blogsite, Wellness Mama . Like Katie, I have been on my own journey to wellness for my family for many years, and have been following her blogsite for the last several. We have been making gradual changes to limit our usage of chemicals in our cleaning and personal products, our use of plastics and make changes to more natural eating habits. Moving out of the city to a few acres has allowed us to eat fresh eggs from our own chickens, consume goat milk from our own goats and harvest our own fruit from our orchard. However, we are not where I would like to be in terms of our eating practices so when I saw that Katie was publishing a ...

I get so excited these days when I see a blog post or article that echoes the very thing that I have been working through in my mind and heart. One of the latest things I have been chewing on is the concept of "generational curses" and whether or not they pertain to us today. I have grown up in the church hearing about generational curses now and then. I have heard several people talk about how their family has suffered under it, and more recently, was part of a prayer team where one member went through several generations of the prayer receipient and prayed off curses from each one. It left me a bit perplexed because the journey I have been walking this past year has opened my eyes to some pretty radical and amazing realities. Because of what Jesus did on the cross, we do not live under a curse. But we can choose to live  cursed. Before we unpack that, let's talk about the verses in the Old Testament that people refer to when they speak of generational c...

It's 7 a.m. on Mother's Day and I'm already done. I'm exhausted. I had my Mother's Day adventure in the wee hours of last night and I'm good. No, really. This is how it went down. Last night we foolishly stayed up until midnight to finish a show we're watching on Netflix. And as I prepared for sleep, I set my alarm for 2 a.m. so I could give medication to two puppies that have been sick.  I've done it the last two nights and apparently my body and brain has forgotten how awful it is to get up in the middle of the night. Just after I fell back asleep, our youngest came staggering in and announced he was going to throw up. And he did. All through the rest of the night (thankfully into the toilet...Mother's Day miracle!) During one of the moments in between episodes as we were trying to find some sleep, someone came honking up our driveway at 6:30 a.m. until my hubs went outside.  The perpetrator wanted to know about th...

In the quest to de-chemicalize our house, I have turned to the power of the internet to get some tips and recipes for making my own hand soap, body wash and other cleaning products. It's amazing what you can find out there in Pinterest-land and beyond. After I used up the last bit of the Softsoap brand I purchased (yes I'm cheap frugal enough to finish up what I already have), I decided to try out a DIY recipe using castile soap since I had a huge bottle of Dr. Bronner's peppermint already on hand. While it worked well and smelled fantastic, it was thinner than I was used to and so I decided to tweak it a bit to get more of that thickness I'm used to in my soaps. I added in a trick I learned from another pinner about using raw, unfiltered honey to thicken up castile soap for body wash . I made this recipe for my husband for Christmas. He is a huge peppermint scented Dr. Bronner's soap fan, so I used the liquid castile soap and some peppermint and thiev...