Welcome!

Hi friends!

I'm so excited about this adventure. I have been an avid blog follower for years and always wanted one of my own, but never felt very inspired about anything to specifically write about. But, I finally do and I am stoked!

So, let me just get this part of this out of the way and tell you a little about me and what I want to do here!

I'm Hallye. Pronounced HAL-E (like, Halle Berry? Hallie?) About 95% of the time people pronounce my name incorrectly. So there is that. I am wife to David and Mama to my sweet Harper Quinn. About two years before Harper was born I stumbled (literally! I was on stumbleon.com, lol) a blog called Boho Baby Bump. I read her birth story and basically fell in love with her life, HAHA. So, anyway, I started to explore the natural parenting thang, and lo and behold, here I am living my own version of our crunchy life and loving loving loving every second.

So, what does crunchy mean? I dont know, exactly. But if I had to guess it means you fix everything with breastmilk and coconut oil and do everything about as weird as possible. Ha. But really, heres what google says:

Crunchy Mama (defined): “Mother who supports homebirth, breastfeeding, baby wearing, cloth diapering, co-sleeping, gentle discipline, etc. One who questions medical authority; tends to be VEGETARIAN (hhahahaha) and/or prepares all-organic foods.”

So, other than the fact that we eat a ridiculous (like, really. ridiculous.) amount of meat, thats basically me ^.

Meanwhile, my husband started and sold a CrossFit gym where we lived in Midland, Texas and we relocated to Lubbock, TX. I LOVE lubbock. We are so happy here and can't wait to see what God has in store for us here!

Now, pre-harper Hallye was a mythical creature of sorts. I ate well, I was into CrossFit, I worked, yadah yadah. Then came my sweet little miracle child (more on that later) and rocked my world in the best (and worst) of ways. But here she was. And she needed me. BOY, did she need me. Tiny Harper would go LITERALLY (not.exaggerating.) 24 hours nursing. Like attached to boob, for 24 hours. It was impressive, to say the least. So, I relied heavily on frozen and drive through meals. At this time, David was working crazy hours and I was just happy if I was able to put food in my face by the end of the day. Time went on, Harper grew and nursed less (sorta, haha). And I was able to get my feet on the ground again. Then, we moved and uprooted pretty much everything we knew and landed here in Lubbock. I used the "we just moved" excuse for way too long. Then, one of the bloggers I followed little boy's died from contaminated meat. It was a huge wake-up call that we were not living the way that God designed us to live, that I was NOT serving my temple (my body) well, and that being a stay-at-home mom, I could suck it up and cook for my family. So, I sat down and decided we would eat local/organic meals that I cooked AT HOME 6 days a week. Because i'm a stay at home mom and always looking for an excuse to leave the house, I have made it my routine to plan my days meals in the morning and we go to the store and buy what is needed that day. It helps keep me from wasting fresh items and keeps me honest.

So, alas, heres what we had today!

Keep in mind that these are designed to feed 3 people. So, if you need to mess with the recipe you can get more/less based off what I used. Also, all the items I mention being store-bought are from Sprouts, here in Lubbock.

Breakfast: (I will start taking pictures of all meals).

I cooked six organic/free-range eggs in about 2 tbsp of grass-fed butter. Then, I lightly toasted six pieces of organic bread (we like this brand). Then, I lightly covered them in homemade mayonnaise and placed the eggs on the bread. Viola, egg sandwiches. SO. easy. and I freaking love them.


Lunch:

David had a business meeting at lunch, so Harper and I just had grilled cheeses. David is the grilled cheese MASTER. So, you'll have to ask him for the specifics, but the ingredients were the organic american cheese slices (found here) the bread referenced above & grass-fed butter. Simple, easy, and awesome.

Dinner:

I used the recipe found here: http://www.food.com/recipe/creamy-cajun-chicken-pasta-39087

I modified it to use all organic ingredients and even was able to use the cream from a local, grass-fed cow. BOOM. Found here (SUPPORT THEM!)


Thank you for reading! May God bless you and here's to writing about organic food and happy babies! Goodnight!