Category: Wild + Free Mama
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In a Healthy Place

The past several weeks have been pretty crazy between packing and preparing to move, prepping school things, moving, then unpacking, but we are finally settling into our new home, and we couldn’t be more pleased and at peace with how things are going. It’s honestly hard to put into words. I will try, but my words…
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10 Questions for Reflection & Discernment

Emily P. Freeman is one of my favorite podcasters and authors. Every year, she puts out “10 Questions for Reflection & Discernment,” and I love to answer these questions each year as a reflection of my previous year and the beginning of a new year. This is from the pdf with those questions: What worked? So…
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Word(s) for 2024

I have realized lately how much freedom simplicity brings. I have also realized how much complicating things has made consistency feel impossible. If I feel the need to make everything from scratch, do a 5 hour food prep every Sunday, follow a very detailed schedule/plan for working out, have to drive 8 hours to adventure,…
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Whole Wheat Sourdough Discard Tortillas

Our family eats a LOT of tortillas. We have breakfast tacos almost daily. We eat a lot of tacos. There are very few store-bought tortillas that are healthy. Most of them have a LOT of preservatives, bleached flour, seed oils, etc. I have tried to make tortillas in the past and felt like they were…
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Hygge Life: What Does it Mean for Me?

As much as I have a hard time in the winter historically, the winters that have been my best have been when I embraced the Hygge Life. What does that mean? It is a Danish word that means (from the Miriam-Webster Dictionary): Noun: “a cozy quality that makes a person feel content and comfortable.” Adjective:…
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Trusting in Jesus and Having Gratitude

These past several months have been hard, but also I have learned and grown so much. I often struggle with emotional regulation, every emotion feels BIG, and I am always processing and wanting to learn something through the hard stuff. I guess that’s not bad- it’s just exhausting! I learned the other day that I…
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Updated Frugal Meals List + All the Homemade Things

These are meals that we make regularly OR meals that I have found online that are inexpensive to make (and healthy-ish)! Some of the recipes are mine (from my current or old blog). Breakfasts Lunches Dinners Sides Snacks Homemade Breads Other Homemade Foods/Drinks/Natural Products Enjoy! I’ll be updating this list as I find new, awesome…
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A Full 360

I have whiplash. Things have changed again. A full 360 I guess you could say. We will be homeschooling one of my kiddos after all. We gave him a chance to try school again, and it didn’t go well at all. It has been chaotic from day 1, and we are only in week 4.…
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Aha Moments + Figuring Out Who I Am

I feel like I’m learning something new everyday… either about myself, about others around me, or about life in general. I guess that’s semi-normal, BUT I am a super reflective person so it’s just a constant thing for me. It can be a blessing and a curse. I am ALWAYS processing things in my brain,…
