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My New Year’s Goal: Peace in Our Home

January 3, 2019 By Haley 17 Comments

2018, you were quite a year. (Don't believe me? Read the recap--book, baby, and so much more crammed into 12 months). I don't have big plans for 2019, but I'm thrilled it's beginning. I have book ideas simmering but no proposals or contracts in the works for a new book deal. We're not moving, changing jobs (God willing), or doing anything more crazy than homeschooling 4 kids on our little urban … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Food, Our Home Tagged With: family life, food, homemaking, meal planning, peace in the home

A Recap of Our 2018!

December 21, 2018 By Haley 4 Comments

In some ways 2018 felt a million years long and in some ways it's just flown by--packed full of stuff. I wanted to share some of the big events with you (partly just to document for myself!). January: -I'm several weeks in to my worst pregnancy so far due to more severe hyperemesis gravidarum (I always think next time will be better..reader...next time is not better). -Netflix and La … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Bookishness, Breastfeeding, Children, Family & Homesteading

Parents, It’s Better When You Give Up

December 11, 2018 By Haley 12 Comments

My 9yo son asked me yesterday if it was easier having a baby in the house with big kid helpers or if it’s easier to just have one baby in the house and no other kids to care for. (We just had our fourth little one in August.) I had to think about it for a minute. Having big kid helpers is so different than having only toddlers! It’s downright dreamy. But life is certainly pretty busy over here, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Children, Family & Homesteading, Motherhood Tagged With: faith, kids, Motherhood, parenthood

How Can I Describe the Weight of You?

November 13, 2018 By Haley 9 Comments

How can I describe the weight of you? Your warm cheek against my chest, limbs relaxed, eyes closed, breathing deep and even. The new baby smell from the top of your head that smells like heavenly bread. Your smiles in your sleep, the way your scrunch your face and stretch, almost waking and the relaxing again into my arms. I watch the soles of your feet touch together. I feel your fingers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: advent, Baby, incarnation

Motherhood Didn’t Squelch My Creativity, It Made Me a Maker

November 6, 2018 By Haley 12 Comments

Having a book published has meant a lot of radio and podcast interviews in my life lately. And most of them I conduct in a HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL MANNER in my pajamas from my daughters’ bedroom, sitting on their bunk bed. If the interview is just audio than no one’s the wiser about the baby spit up stain on my shoulder or my bunk bed home recording studio. But video interviews give me away. “Are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family & Homesteading, Motherhood, Work-at-Home Life Tagged With: creativity, Motherhood

Do You Need to Remember You’re a Human Being?

October 17, 2018 By Haley 11 Comments

Do You Need to Remember You're a Human Being?

One of the worst things about modern life is the push to live at high speed. Most of us are rushing around trying to keep our heads above water. Not only do we not have time for self-care, we don't have time to even figure out what we would do for self-care if we did! I think “self-care” is a tricky phrase. It can be interpreted as selfishness or putting our own needs before the needs of those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bookishness, Culture, Family & Homesteading Tagged With: family life, humanizing, The Grace of Enough, time

Hildie’s Birth Story: Part II, The Wild Ride

August 7, 2018 By Haley 72 Comments

This is Part II. You definitely want to start with Part I to hear about how I was sent home from the hospital and told I was "not in labor." Back at home I laid on the couch with one leg over a couch pillow while Daniel dozed on a yoga mat on the floor next to me, holding my hand through contractions. The contractions were becoming unbearable and I started to feel overheated during them and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: Birth, Birth Story, hildegard rose, Labor, pregnancy

Hildie’s Birth Story: Part I, “You’re Not in Labor”

August 6, 2018 By Haley 21 Comments

To arrive at our sweet girl’s absolutely wild birth story, the stage must be set. It was a rough pregnancy. 25 weeks of debilitating nausea due to HG followed by a third trimester of lightheadedness and the other perks that come with anemia. Then my midwife mentioned, “Hmmmm, looks like she’s breech. But don’t freak out because she has plenty of time to turn.” I did start to freak out and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: Birth, Birth Story, breech, external cephalic version, hildegard rose, hildie, Labor, pregnancy, prodromal labor, transverse

A Hospital Bag Checklist for the Catholic Mom

July 16, 2018 By Haley 20 Comments

Catholic Hospital Bag

I am 38 weeks tomorrow. My baby girl continues to stubbornly stay breech and transverse in there so this week is chock full of chiropractor visits, more handstands at the pool, acupuncture, moxibustion, and if all that fails (as it has been) an external version at the hospital on Friday. I am feeling very not in control of much right now. But I can pack my hospital bag (and I plan to take it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Baby, Birth, Family & Homesteading, Pregnancy Tagged With: Birth, catholic hospital bag, delivery, pregnancy

Our Chalk Paint Kitchen Cabinet Reno (And Free Stuff for You!)

July 11, 2018 By Haley 4 Comments

Kitchen Cabinet Reno with Chalk Paint

We JUST put the finishing touches on our cabinet painting project! When we moved into our house in Waco two years ago the one thing I knew I HAD to change was the cabinets. They were an awful cherry stain that clashed horribly with the backsplash and floor tile. Ready for the before pic? See?! The bizarre combination of kitchen components made me wonder if the people who flipped the house … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DIY, Family & Homesteading, Our Home Tagged With: annie sloan, cabinet renovation, chalk paint, diy cabinet painting

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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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