First of all, thanks for your encouragement about our decision to neither avoid or attempt to achieve pregnancy. And as a follow-up to yesterday's post about our super rad birth control method (AKA: none), some lengthy and very incomplete thoughts on contraception: Since the HHS Mandate, there has been so much press about Catholicism and contraception. SO MUCH PRESS. You may be … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2012
AFP: Awesome Family Planning
On the outside chance that you haven’t already decided that we’re completely nuts, this post will probably convince you. You may previously have figured out that we’re Catholic converts leaning toward the traditional, but now you’re going to think that we’re bordering on total lunacy. Who knows? Maybe you’re right. And this topic is going to be a hot button for controversy, but I’m gonna post it … [Read more...]
I Moved!
Well, the blog moved. Yes, dear readers, after much gnashing of teeth and much help from those more technologically skilled than I, I have successfully moved Carrots for Michaelmas from Wordpress.com to my own domain. Now I can do sponsored giveaways for you all, hooray! The process was far more grueling and dreadful than I thought it would be and there are still some kinks to work out. I’m not … [Read more...]
Growing an Urban Garden
Head on over to Raising a Green Family (the blog by Jen and Claire of Ecological Babies) to read my post on growing an urban garden! It's my first guest post ever and I was so excited to be asked to contribute. "When we bought our first home two years ago, one of the things we were most excited about was turning our front yard into an urban garden. And we've had the best time making it … [Read more...]
May 2012 Reads
April came and went without a post of our reads so I'm catching up now! I always end up reading more than one book at a time. Does anybody else do that? Or do you dutifully finish one before you start the next? I started and finished The Hunger Games Trilogy (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay) by Suzanne Collins and I stayed up way too late in the process. I'm honestly not sure what … [Read more...]
This Week’s Miscellany: Vol. 10
So sorry about all the silence over here, folks! I've been (very unsuccessfully) attempting to move my blog from wordpress.COM to wordpress.ORG which is why this post is more than a week overdue. I've made some progress but now I'm stuck again when trying to import all the posts to the .org version. Whew. I've got a couple of giveaways for you up my sleeve but wordpress.com doesn't allow any … [Read more...]