A number of people have asked for the skin cream recipe I just tried out on my Sweet-Super-Sensitive-Skinned-Eczema-Prone-Boy-Lewis. I have tried almost every recommended over-the-counter sensitive skin cream over the years. But up until two years ago, I hadn’t found something that consistently worked for him. Seems like at least once a week I was tossing him in the bath tub to rinse off a cream that was stinging his skin. Then I was introduced to Jenuinely Pure. He calls their body cream “the one that doesn’t hurt.” We’ve been using Jenuinely Pure for a couple years now, and it…
I have been away from the blogosphere for a few weeks because life has been a little wacky. We sold our house, packed up our house, went on vacation to a tropical paradise, came back home to the frozen tundra and then moved across town about 12 hours after our plane landed. Subsequently, we’ve been settling in and trying to find things like shoes and spatulas. I believe the human members of our family have found “the groove” again, but our poor little reptile has not. Traumatized Tyson the turtle shoots off his basking platform like a bullet smashing into…
I still have a couple Sanctity of Life posts coming before the end of the month, but today I’m reposting this lovely tribute my friend Marti wrote for the Des Moines Moms Blog last week. I don’t know how I would have survived the early years of parenting three boys without her 🙂 Sisterhood I’ve been living this life of “mommy” for over eleven years now. This past December, like an assault from an angry lunch lady with a greasy frying pan, I was whacked over the head with a revelation. For the past eleven years I’ve been putting up…
I’m breaking from my Sanctity of Life month guest posts to take part in the Third-Thursday-Thoughts Hearts at Home blog hop. This month’s theme:Â Love Your Dreams/Goals. This will not be a super-duper-well-planned post about all my hopes and dreams for the new year because, well, my life is kind of in an upheaval right now. A happy upheaval, but it’s all chaos at the Harms house just the same. The condensed version of my next few weeks is as follows: Pack everything and do all the crazy stuff that goes along with selling a house (while continuing all the crazy…
My following devotion was the December 31st reading in The Secret Place devozine winter 2013-2014 issue. The Right Answer Society seems to script certain questions for each new life phase. We ask high school seniors about their college plans. We ask newlyweds when they plan to start a family. We ask stay-at-home moms what they are going to do to fill their time once their youngest children start school. I have fielded all of those questions; most recently the last one. Each time someone asks, “What are you going to do now that your baby is in school?” I feel…