Quick pancakes :)

When I heard you can bake pancakes in a pan I thought - what a great idea!!! I loathe standing by the hot stove for half an hour flipping them! So making them easier AND healthier sounded like a great idea. AND there's an added bonus - it's more fun! When you take them out - you put the whole pan on the table, let it cool and then give your kids cookie cutters - they have fun with it and you get the left over odd pieces :))

Anyway, I have just found a pancake recipe that will make it even easier - you mix a whole bunch of stuff once in a blue moon and then when you are ready to have pancakes, you just add an egg and some buttermilk to 1 cup of the mix and you are ready to bake you some yummy AND healthy pancakes. I LOVE IT!


Don't forget to get some real maple syrup! :)) It's the best!

Here's my Mother's day entry

We all are products of the society, yet, many of us choose the path that is quiet different from what our society sees as normal. That means that there was a person in your life that influenced you more than the whole world gone mad! And yes, chances are that person didn’t point out the things you were doing wrong, didn’t make you feel guilty, didn’t imply that you were a faliure of a mother.
Mine was just like that! I started as a very mainstream parent with all the staples – a gorgeous nursery for a baby, a huge stroller, a beautiful crib.., a hospital birth and an epidural.
My mother came over for the first few months after birth to help – to make the baby take a dummy and nurse no more than every 3 hours, to give her gripe water for “colic” and to take her away at night so she learns to sleep through the night. I remember her voice when she was warning me to never NEVER fall asleep with my baby!
Motherhood was stressful back then – my daughter just didn’t want to ‘behave’! We went as far as CIO with her, that didn’t work well either, since everything in me was crying with her.
And then there were ladies at LaLeche – calm, confident, gentle. They just gave information, never judging or implyng anything. I remember my first call – I had mastitus! What? You want me to feed her every 2 hours even through the night? I wonder what went through that leaders head as she was talking to me Simple suggestions worked like a charm – I was as good as new the next day.
At the meetings I found out that some mothers sleep with their babies, I never even suspected it was an option! Once we tried, there was no turning back! That’s when I actually felt like a mother! Not just old me stuck with this screaming thing. That was the begining of my motherhood jorney – about 1 year after I gave birth!
There was a second baby born naturally at a birthing center and a third, born in at home. 8 years of continuous breastfeeding, cloth diapers, elimination communication, full term weaning, gentle discipline, and now homeschooling… all because of a few nice ladies just being there, sharing the wisdom of mothering with all who are willing to listen. Never judging, always helpful with whatever you are going through.
On this Mother’s Day I want to say THANK YOU to LaLeche League women who were there for me and for many other mothers, filling the gap in this interrupted continuum society we live in.
We all are products of the society, yet, many of us choose the path that is quiet different from what our society sees as normal. That means that there was a person in your life that influenced you more than the whole world gone mad! And yes, chances are that person didn’t point out the things you were doing wrong, didn’t make you feel guilty, didn’t imply that you were a faliure of a mother.
Mine was just like that! I started as a very mainstream parent with all the staples – a gorgeous nursery for a baby, a huge stroller, a beautiful crib.., a hospital birth and an epidural.
My mother came over for the first few months after birth to help – to make the baby take a dummy and nurse no more than every 3 hours, to give her gripe water for “colic” and to take her away at night so she learns to sleep through the night. I remember her voice when she was warning me to never NEVER fall asleep with my baby!
Motherhood was stressful back then – my daughter just didn’t want to ‘behave’! We went as far as CIO with her, that didn’t work well either, since everything in me was crying with her.
And then there were ladies at LaLeche – calm, confident, gentle. They just gave information, never judging or implyng anything. I remember my first call – I had mastitus! What? You want me to feed her every 2 hours even through the night? I wonder what went through that leaders head as she was talking to me Simple suggestions worked like a charm – I was as good as new the next day.
At the meetings I found out that some mothers sleep with their babies, I never even suspected it was an option! Once we tried, there was no turning back! That’s when I actually felt like a mother! Not just old me stuck with this screaming thing. That was the begining of my motherhood jorney – about 1 year after I gave birth!
There was a second baby born naturally at a birthing center and a third, born in at home. 8 years of continuous breastfeeding, cloth diapers, elimination communication, full term weaning, gentle discipline, and now homeschooling… all because of a few nice ladies just being there, sharing the wisdom of mothering with all who are willing to listen. Never judging, always helpful with whatever you are going through.
On this Mother’s Day I want to say THANK YOU to LaLeche League women who were there for me and for many other mothers, filling the gap in this interrupted continuum society we live in.

We have a home church but then on Wednesday go to a different church that is really close to our house where my kids enjoy AWANA. There's a Bible study they I joined that runs at the same time. It's a bigger church, so the restroom is huge too - so I decide to go before the class, and what do I see at the very very end of the restroom tucked all they way in the back in a little space between the last stall door and the wall? A rocking chare with a side stand. YOU KNOW why it is there. I felt rather controversial that day so I left a note in the chair saying something to the point of "Jesus was breastfed and I bet Marry didn't nurse him in restrooms! You don't eat in the bathroom, neither should your baby."
Of course it was gone the next time we were there. I just pray it made at least one mother think.

Out of all people Christians should be more open to the idea. God made a woman with 2 breasts to nourish her children. Why are we feeling ashamed of it? I am all about modesty, but if you tell a new mother who is still learning to be modest - that's what happens - she hides or uses bottles just to be modest. A lot of times breastfeeding is sacrificed in the name of certain people's ideas of modesty.
Check out this awesome video - them Ausies hit the nail right on the head ;)))

I am a vegetarian wannabe.

I have stumbled on this old post of mine here and I can't help but laugh at myself. It turned out that cutting meat out of our diet wasn't all that hard at all! What whas hard was re-learning how to cook! But as long as I am eating, I am fine :) And my family is ok too.
Occasionally my carnivore of a husband would bring some dead animal and devour it with the kids, but even he lately has been saying how yucky he feels after doing so. I just love him ;)

Now I am on a new mission - I want to incorporate a lot more raw things into our diet and I am raw on Mondays. Now, don't laugh (I prolly will a couple of years down the road) ;) that's all I can do for now. I know babysteps work best for me, when I change my whole way of thinking. That just doesn't happen overnight. And again the hardest thing is re-learning how to cook again!
So here I am again, asking if any of you have your favorite raw recipes. Some already became staples at our house like Kale chips, Chocolate Avocado pie, 'Cheese'cake (cashew cream cake), raw vegan sushi, massaged kale salad, raw zukini hummus.. I know I am forgetting something, but if you have a fav, do share a link or the whole recipe with me - it will be greatly appreciated!!