Welcome to the July Carnival of Natural Parenting: Let’s Talk About Food
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have written about their struggles and successes with healthy eating. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
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I love food. I love food when I’m happy. I love food when I’m sad. I’ve even been known to especially love it when I’m bored. Sometimes, I plan …

Breakfasts aren’t my problem. She’ll eat breakfast, second breakfast, even third breakfast. Dinner on the other hand, is my problem. Or to be perfectly accurate the lack of dinner.
Riley probably eats dinner once or twice a week. Although she is very keen on redistribution of food. From the bowl to a cup to a tray and back again. Although some how snack food pilfered from her father seem to escape the whole dinner embargo. Like corn chips this evening. Jammed into her little mouth as fast as her little hands …

I always wondered why mothers’ had such a reputation for making their children feel guilty. And now I think I know why. Because you feel guilty ALL the freaking time. After a while it probably becomes second nature and eventually you just become good at it. I’m assuming anyway. I’m not actually at that point yet. I’m at the ALL the freaking time part. For example:
I let her eat a chocolate cupcake before lunch. Actually, if you read my blog, you are probably wondering if I give her anything except …

At a certain point you realise that everything you do is risky in some way or another and you attempt to ignore just how risky in an attempt to hold on to your sanity. Oh what would that be you ask?
1) I drank plenty of coffee throughout my pregnancy and while breastfeeding because I was too exhausted not to.
2) I vaccinated the munchkin and tried to ignore those statistics tht suggested that one in every ten milion suffer paralysis or some other hideous side effect because I figured it would …

So you’ve heard of Not Me Monday and Wordless Wednesday? Well I’ve decided to start up my own version of Thankful Tuesday!
I got the idea from this beautiful photography series from Brisbane-based photographer and mother-of-two Hailey Bartholomew who took a polaroid photo of one thing she was grateful for every day for 365 days.
Why Tuesday you ask? Well, that’s easy the day I’m most thankful is on a Tuesday when I’ve finished working outside the home for a whole week. I love, love, love Tuesdays. And yes, I get that Thankful …