by Veronica | Nov 5, 2010 | LivingOpenHanded
For those who have been wondering where I disappeared to, it’s a rather long and involved story. We were busy in late summer, and that busy-ness culminated in a trip to Texas where we saw my brother in law who is an Army Ranger off for his first deployment overseas....
by Veronica | Sep 15, 2010 | LivingOpenHanded
Just a quick thought that sort of spring-boarded in my head from my post on raising adults. I may look at my parenting goal as culminating in my children being wholly individual adults, but my current parenting process is to treat my children as their age and...
by Veronica | Sep 13, 2010 | Food, LivingOpenHanded
Some of the recipes I’ve made lately have been absolute favorites here at our house. I’ve started writing them out, so I thought I’d put some up on my blog and share them here and there. Here are two main entrees that are divine. The first is much...
by Veronica | Sep 9, 2010 | Discipline, LivingOpenHanded, Raising Children
When I was pregnant with Oldest, I was practically bed-ridden with hyperemesis gravidarum, and therefore spent a lot of time pondering the fact and future of child rearing. Having grown up in a very conservative family, we were around many families who seemed to have...
by Veronica | Sep 8, 2010 | LivingOpenHanded
I’ve been away. Not in the physical sense, since we’ve not really done much traveling this summer, but rather in the psychological-absence-from-the-ability-to-write sense. I don’t like delving TOO much into the super-personal, but I’ve been...
by Veronica | Jun 30, 2010 | LivingOpenHanded
I’ve felt a bit like Suzy Homemaker the last few weeks. My flowerbeds have taken kindly to the care I’ve given them, and the tomato plants are promising loads of tomatoes soon. I’ve tested various recipes, one yummy one being honey-apricot pork...