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Homemade Rice Milk
Leela can’t digest milk and prior to the age of three, Calixa was the same. The poor little soul gets rashy when she drinks the white stuff and so I expect, like her sister, she probably won’t be able to … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, Recipes
Tagged brown rice, cooking, food, homemade rice milk, how to make rice milk, kid pleaser, kids, lactose intollerance, recipe
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Arizona Opposites
I have been reluctant about making this post… …partly because I feel guilty for being in a warm beautiful place where the sun is shining and my white-as-a-ghost skin is beginning to tan for the first time in 9 months, … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General, travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Arizona, family, green living, iced latte, kids, recycling, scorpions, spf 60, summer time, suv, travel, vacation
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Winter’s End Is Imminent…right?
This morning with the wind chill the temperature ’round here was -27c (translation, -16.6F). With daily highs normally ten degrees above freezing (and 30 degrees warmer than it felt here this morning), today is testimony to the fact that around … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General
Tagged activities with children, children in the garden, planting seeds, seedlings, spring, winter
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Spring Dresses and the Easter Bunny
It seems like every spring (I’m judging spring by the calendar, not the weather which is firmly set to Arctic) I get the sewing itch. I think about sewing all the time but it seems that lately the only time … Continue reading
YES!!!! She ate it!
It’s always a challenge to make healthy food something your kids actually want to eat. Not that I haven’t tried. I gush over strawberries, I fawn over cashews but somehow cultural kid food ‘norms’ have crept into the palates and … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General
Tagged cooking, easy, food, fresh, healthy, homemade, how to get kids to eat healthy, inspiration, kid pleaser, kids, parenting, rice noodles, spaghetti squash, tomato sauce
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Oh My! How I’ve Missed You…
It’s been little over a year since Turning Ground began and I’ve truly come to view my circle of fellow bloggers and readers as family…But last month part of my website ‘shifted’ and I started losing buttons and ads and … Continue reading
A Great Attitude Goes A Long Way…
This is a great post from one of the WordPress blogs I follow. Robin is an enchanting writer and her musings are always relevant and loving. This post is about manifesting what you want in life…something I’ve been working hard … Continue reading
Posted in Life in General
Tagged angels, attitude, blogs, desire, magic, manifesting, mindset, positive, prayer, The Balanced Soul, wordpress blogs
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Pretty Obvious Periods: Teaching my girls to love being women
I strive to embrace the attitude that women are wonderful with all of their womanly quirks: periods, emotional sensitivities, the pre-programmed urge to put family before friends… It wasn’t easy given that even though feminism has come a long way … Continue reading
Healthy Eating Challenge- 1/2 hour of exercise
The Turning Ground Healthy Eating Challenge is set to begin in just a few weeks. This challenge focuses mainly on eating right but it never hurts to do a bit of activity too. To get you ready for the new … Continue reading
The Turning Ground Healthy Eating Challenge 2013
The new year is fast approaching and as I run through my mental checklist of things I’m satisfied with and things that need improvement I inevitably arrive at my health. In this case, physical and spiritual health. The Turning Ground … Continue reading