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July 28, 2011

Preparing Your Pregnancy Against Miscarriage

This is Emili, Jenni’s younger sister.  You might have read in one of my previous posts where I mentioned that my first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.  After successfully having 3 more pregnancies and 3 more children, I recently became pregnant again late last year.  This time I had some complications and began spotting around 9 weeks.

To make a long story short, when I went in to get an ultra sound at 12 weeks, there was no heart beat and I lost the baby.  It was a very difficult experience for me, and I felt very alone, although blessed to have 3 beautiful children to hold on to as I grieved my loss.

The purpose of this post is to share some of the tips I picked up to help others avoid the same problem.  These are things Read more…

July 24, 2011

Beginnings of Persnickety Clothing and A Cherished Friendship

Seven years ago when we met Craig and Corinne Rickenbach, founders of Persnickety Clothing company, we had many things in common and became fast friends.

We both home-schooled our children, Corinne & I could talk for hours about healthy foods and natural medicine, our husbands both played guitar and were taking classes at George Wythe College (now University).  Mike and Craig had both done some missionary work in South America, so they spoke Spanish and discovered a similar love for the Latin culture and a passion about giving back to the people there.

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July 10, 2011

Real Control! -Help For Parents

By Nicholeen Peck

A man I really admire named Jeffrey Holland said, “…the only real control in life is self control.”

I couldn’t agree more.  You can control the settings on your computer, and control the television choices that come into your home.  You can control all the things on your Family Standard and you can control what your family eats for dinner, but you can’t control another person.  No matter how hard you try and how much power you try to look like you have, the only person you can control is yourself.

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July 1, 2011

Easy Potato Frittata

Tonight I wanted an easy recipe for dinner that wouldn’t heat up the whole kitchen, something that would use up some of the many eggs we had from our chickens. I threw some ingredients together and when I finished, realized I’d made a form of potato frittata.

 

 

It only takes one skillet! Read more…

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