“What’s your favorite baby carrier?”
The question makes me laugh.
Especially when followed with, “If you could only buy one baby carrier, which would you buy?”
It’s like asking a cook what their favorite kitchen appliance is.
Or asking a man to choose just one tool out of his entire toolbox.
But since you asked, here are the favorites from my babywearing stash.
I love watching the mothering instinct bud in my girls. There’s something so precious about watching them snuggle a baby doll for the very first time. Seeing them gently kiss a baby sibling’s head. Tucking their stuffed animals in bed. My little ones mirror my actions so often it’s quite humbling. And sometimes, in the thick of motherhood,…
There are many precious moments in my life I wish I could freeze in time. These early years of motherhood, while filled with many challenges like sleepless nights and endless laundry, have blessed me with many treasured memories. And of all those priceless snapshots of time, I think that babywearing is one of the things I want to savor…
We were the couple buying vintage children’s books on our honeymoon. We had to laughingly explain to the clerk at the used book store that we didn’t have any children yet; we just liked children’s books. Nine years and four children later, our collection of children’s books has grown exponentially. And even though we may choose the board books…
Whenever I’m out and about, the comments about my babywearing make me smile. “They have all sorts of handy things these days!” “They never had that kind of thing when my kids were babies!” Once in awhile, I take the time to point out that babywearing is nothing new: other cultures have been practicing it…
I didn’t start out as a babywearing mama. Crunchy was the last word I’d have used to describe myself (except for the fact that we grow organic vegetables). I didn’t even know what babywearing was. In my mind, baby carriers were for long walks or hikes. Why would I need a baby carrier when I was…
Dearest little Sara Elizabeth, Where does one start with a birth story, little one? He knit you together in my womb many days before I even noticed the first little signs and took that test. The insatiable craving for pickles really should have been indication enough. But it was August 16 when I saw those…
They say that “September is the new January.” Perhaps that would be why September found me with a stack of non-fiction books sitting on my nightstand. With a new homeschool year underway and an ever-changing host of responsibilities to juggle, I knew I needed a big dose of perspective. And it had to come my way long…
In my search for the perfect solution to common RSS feed challenges, it was the beauty of Mad Mimi’s RSS emails formatted for “clean display” that finally gave me the inspiration. I’d spent hours trying to customize my MailChimp RSS campaigns to include a featured image along with the excerpt, but to no avail. (Then there is the constant frustration of extra-wide post images making the MailChimp email body drastically wider than the email header.) And even if I could get my emails to look how I wanted them to (just like Mad Mimi’s!), that still left the question of my RSS feed. That’s when I realized the solution was to start at the source and customize my WordPress RSS feed.
But customizing my WordPress RSS feed was a lot harder than it sounded. Until WordPress developer Robin Cornett took her plugin Send Images to RSS and made version 3.0 rich with all the features I’d hoped for an in RSS plugin–and more!
Here’s how to know Send Images to RSS is for you, and the details on how I set it up to create a beautiful custom RSS feed summary.
I’ve been in a quandary about partial feeds versus full feeds ever since I knew what an RSS feed was. As a reader, I liked the ability to consume an entire post from within my feed reader or email inbox, especially when I didn’t have an internet connection at home. But as a blogger, I wanted to get readers to my site, where they could comment on posts, and of course, click on affiliate links and generate ad impressions.
But wait, what is the difference, you ask? WordPress offers two default options for displaying your RSS feed: summary or full text.
The truth is, I don’t like either option. But there’s an alternative.
I’m not the Pinteresty, crafty, DIY type. But sometimes, I forget that. When I saw my friend Amanda’s Instagram image of her silhouettes project, I knew I had to try it–regardless of the fact that spray paint and scissors were required.
Or at least, I thought spray paint and scissors were required.
As a farmer’s wife, the idea of summer reading programs always makes me laugh. Summer on the farm rarely has anything remotely resembling leisure time. And since a certain little person is sleeping so many hours at night, I don’t have much middle-of-the-night reading time either (you won’t hear me complaining about that). But thanks…
The End.
The End.