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Milonkoly- My kids crack me up!

August 21, 2015 By the crunchy muffin

Milonkoly- My kids crack me up!

I love, love, love being a mom.  One of the many reasons I love being a mom is because my kids just crack.me.up! This is a little story about my oldest son, Dane.  Dane is 16 years old and is 6’4 1/2 inches, and has plans to be a chiropractor.  He is currently taking classes […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Family, Feelings, Homeschooling, Personal Reflection 51 Comments

Unschooling- 6 lessons I have learned

June 19, 2015 By the crunchy muffin

Unschooling- 6 lessons I have learned

Funschooling AKA Unschooling In the past, whenever I heard the word “unschooling” I just figured it was a parent’s way to rationalize the fact that they didn’t want to work at educating their child. Harsh, I know. But I never ran across anyone who claimed to unschool and I never researched the subject, so I […]

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Adopting older children- Is it a good idea for your family?

January 12, 2015 By the crunchy muffin

Adopting older children- Is it a good idea for your family?

We are coming up on our fifth  “gotcha” anniversary of our daughters Lilyana and Josia.  For those that aren’t familiar, the “gotcha” anniversary refers to the day one brings home an adopted child. One of my friends recently asked if Van and I would be willing to talk to couples about our experience with adoption in […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Faith, Family, Feelings, Personal Reflection 50 Comments

Fabulous Folate- Beautiful B 12 (Part 1)

December 4, 2014 By the crunchy muffin

Fabulous Folate- Beautiful B 12 (Part 1)

In my days before my “nutritional breakthrough”, I thought vitamins were useless. I had read somewhere that vitamins were a waste of money that just resulted in expensive urine. Even once I delved into the nutrition world, I figured good quality meat, veggies, and oil would do the trick. But, this journey has in fact […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Family, Feelings, Folate, Health & Wellness, Supplements 58 Comments

A Thankful Heart

November 27, 2014 By the crunchy muffin

A Thankful Heart

Our plans this Thanksgiving are very simple.  We are staying home with our immediate family, feasting on food that for the first time in 3 years is NOT strictly GAPS, and then we are heading to the park to play with our new sleds in the new snow.  I have soooo very much to be […]

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Smiles Change Lives- Braces for our kids

November 26, 2014 By the crunchy muffin

Smiles Change Lives- Braces for our kids

A lot of parents I know worry about their child’s college fund.  I really never have worried about this.  I figure, if they want to go, they can apply for scholarships, grants, loans etc.  But one thing I have worried about is where we will find the funding for braces.  I grew up with very […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Faith, Family, Personal Reflection 52 Comments

Family photo time

November 7, 2014 By the crunchy muffin

Family photo time

  And another blessing!  (I ought to re-name this “the blessed muffin”.   One of my new friends, Sara, from co-op (did I tell you yet how awesome these co-op women are?) asked me if she could take our family pictures.  For free!!  I wasn’t even going to get our family pics done this year. […]

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Folate-the magic pill

November 7, 2014 By the crunchy muffin

Folate-the magic pill

    Since we started the twins on the B- complex with Folate,  Luke (not his real name)  is just doing fabulous!!  We have had the twins for almost 5 months. Honestly, for the first three months, I wanted to give Luke back almost every day at 6am. He would awaken the whole upstairs with his […]

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the Beginning

November 6, 2014 By the crunchy muffin

the Beginning

Our healing journey began 3.5 years ago. It’s started with our son Caleb. “Crazy, Curley Caleb“, as we affectionately called him. “Caleb the catalyst” is how I think of him now. In my humble opinion, Caleb was the cutest little baby on the planet. When I see cute little bundles of joy, I always want […]

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Hi! My name is Teresa. I am the Crunchy Mama to 11 fabulous adopted children. I am writing to share with you our journey towards spiritual, emotional and physical healing. We are learning how to live fully in a tragic world. Read More…

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