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Let’s Support Pregnant Moms and Babies!

November 23, 2022 By Haley Leave a Comment

  Every November, I used to create an annual Catholic gift guide. I spent days and days curating gifts by Catholic artisans and makers and it was a hit! But last year I did something different and I’ve decided to stick with this new tradition: working as a “Carrots community” to give a beautiful gift to a community in need.  Last year, as a community we raised $5,000 for women farmers in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: charity, cross catholic outreach, giving, st. gabriel health center

My New Book! Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life

March 25, 2022 By Haley 3 Comments

  It's launch day for my brand new book. And when I woke up this morning, it was the #1 new release in Catholicism on Amazon! What an exciting way to start the day! Things seemed less auspicious after our cat eviscerated a bird she caught on the front porch, but I'm just going to ignore that and get back to celebrating the pub day of my little book. Here's some thing you should know … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness Tagged With: author, ave maria press, aveauthor, book launch, jane austen, jane austen's genius guide to life, writing life

Let’s go to the UK this summer!

January 19, 2022 By Haley Leave a Comment

Last October I did something I have never, ever done before. I went to Europe. I traveled to France and spent 10 days on pilgrimage with more than 50 other women, mostly Catholics, a mix of moms, marrieds, singles, teenagers, and grandmothers. If 2020 taught me anything, it's to seize the day and so when the opportunity arose, Daniel and I figured out childcare and I flew to France with Select … [Read more...]

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Join me in supporting Haitian women!

November 9, 2021 By Haley 5 Comments

For the past several Novembers I’ve created a small business gift guide here at Carrots for Michaelmas. I think this is a worthwhile endeavor, but this year, I’m not creating one. I’d like to do something different and I’m going to need your help. As we look toward the challenges of supply chain issues and the madness of holiday gift purchasing--what if we set all that aside to give a … [Read more...]

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Big Life Changes for the Stewarts!

April 7, 2021 By Haley 30 Comments

If you haven’t been following on social media, you might not know that our family just began an exciting new adventure! My husband Daniel cut back his hours to part-time at the distillery (he makes and blends whisky) to become a full-time homeschooling parent and I am a full-time self-employed writer and creator.  I know many of you have been following for years and years, so I want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading Tagged With: big life changes, creative work, family life, home life, homeschooling

Remembering and Processing the Unprecedented Year

March 10, 2021 By Haley 7 Comments

I’ve only written here on the blog a handful of times over the past year. I’ve popped in here and there, but mostly I’ve been quiet. Any creative energy has gone to other projects and this poor blog has been woefully neglected (and probably will continue to be). But one year seems like a milestone that simply must be processed. I have many exciting things to share about what’s ahead for our … [Read more...]

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Samwise, Treats, and Puppy Sunshine in February

February 21, 2021 By Haley Leave a Comment

This post is sponsored by WellPet®, but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. On January 1st, 2020, a few weeks before Unprecedented Times, we brought a new puppy home just in time for a wild year and I’m so glad. Having an entertaining little (now enormous!) bundle of snuggles has been such a gift. In full disclosure, it had been more than 20 years since I trained a puppy and I … [Read more...]

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Carrots 2020 Small Business Gift Guide (with coupon codes and giveaway!)

November 24, 2020 By Haley 2 Comments

In 2016 I created my first Christmas gift guide post, so this is the 5th anniversary of the Carrots gift guide! Readers have requested a new guide each year and over time I've intentionally pivoted to including ONLY small businesses. This year we've all seen restaurants and storefronts close due to the pandemic. 2020 has hit small businesses so hard! This year more than ever it's clear that we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christmas, Community Tagged With: christmas gift guide, gift guide, shop small, small business guide

35th Birthday Musings

September 8, 2020 By Haley 8 Comments

I'm 35 years old today and feeling like some good old timey blogging. Not the shareable with viral potentional kind of blogging. Just the old fashioned here's what's going on in my brain type blogging. I'm writing this from my own hotel room: the best birthday gift imaginable for a homeschooling mom of four living in a tiny house and working from home six months in to a global pandemic. My … [Read more...]

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The World Needs More Gilberts

September 1, 2020 By Haley 4 Comments

This is a guest post by my dear friend Tyler Blanski about what one of my favorite literary heroes can teach us. - Haley The world needs more Gilberts. The fictional (and admirable!) character Gilbert Blythe of the L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series seems to capture so many virtues that can help men succeed in their vocation to fatherhood today: he gives a standing ovation for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: fight for milk, gilbert blythe, homemaking, project gilbert, tyler blanski

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Welcome! I’m Haley Stewart, a bookish mama of four and wife to a beekeeper. Writer, speaker, podcaster, and Catholic convert. Homeschooling, bacon-eating, and bright red lipstick-wearing Jane Austen aficionado. My first book, The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture is available now!

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