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November 17, 2017March 14, 2018 leatherboundcait

Pesto Pasta

March 3, 2017March 14, 2018 leatherboundcait

We Live In Iowa

Hiya, Cait here. I write about food, herbs, textiles, and homelife. Bedhead is the style of choice around these parts as basically every aspect of our life revolves around getting to bed time alive or wishing my three hooligans would sleep just a little longer. Thanks for reading!
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We do forest school on Wednesdays with a lovely group of kids and moms. There are so many beautiful parks and trails in this area I’m blown away! The more we explore, the more I am in love with this place.

Treasures from Applegate Lake: a quadruped vertebra bone, a most beautifullest leaf, a quartz rock, asparagus, a boy learning about fire, two girls learning how to keep warm, a shared sip of water. #campground #lessonsfromnature

We explored a new place this weekend and now I’m itching for more adventuring. We got to the campsite fairly late and still needed to eat dinner. While standing cold in the dark, carrying supplies from vehicle to table with a baby strapped to my back I felt vulnerable, and powerful, and disoriented. In the hubbub of mundane life we sometimes forget the significance of heat from a flame. It cooks our food, it warms our bodies, it gives us light. It is dangerous, but in the proper bounds: vital to a comfortable life. #lessonsfromnature

Yesterday we went on a tiny hike in the mountains. At first we were going to fly paper kites in the backyard but then it started raining. We hiked up a very steep mountain...maybe a 45 degree incline. And I was holding onto Zozo’s hand. She said to me “Mama, you comfort me! And you hold my hand while we’re climbing up this verrry steep mountain.” I think that may have been the best compliment I’ve ever gotten. I want to be their safe space and soft landing and so many times I fail at that. But they remind me that I’m doing alright. They know I love them.

This place is truly magical. #illinoisriver #liverogue

I call it “toothpaste on mirror” by the tiny humans I made. #jacksonpollock

I’ve been working picking out all the dead things in the Sungate Garden. While I do my work, my kids do theirs. And they bring me the treasures they find. . By all other accounts, the daisy ground cover is just a weed. And rocks can be found everywhere. . But my kids observe these things with unbiased wonder and they gift their pickings to me . As a token of their love, I think.

FIVE!!!!!! How did zeez ‘appen???

Apparently my husband brought Iowa with him... 😝🥶

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