About Us

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I write this little blog from my home in Southern France. Originally from England (and miss it so!), I’m now a converted french lady and am becoming used to life on the continent.

I’m happily married and I’ve got a smoking hot hubby who I’ve been with for half of my lifetime. After all these years I still think he rocks. He’s a teacher at a medical school; however, unlike the typical Professor-stereotype, he does not wear pocket-protectors or tweed blazers with elbow patches, nor does he have tufts of hair coming out of his ears. Yet.

I’ve got lots of very loud and lively kids. The noise in my house is at maximum level all day long. It’s a great big beautiful noisy life. With a side of Crazy thrown in there some days.We are a proud nudist family and we also believe strongly in attachment and natural parenting — babywearing, co-sleeping, extended nursing, gentle discipline…it all works well for our family.

My kids are TV-Free and have always been. When our firstborn was a baby we made the choice to cut the TV, and we’ve never looked back.We’re also a Video-Game-Free family — we intentionally don’t own a single video game or handheld video-gaming device. This choice falls in line with our TV-Free philosophy, though I will admit the Wii looks kind of fun…

Our children are homeschooled and have always been. I suppose we could be described as 'self-taught learners' — we use our natural interests to excel our learning. We're often learning from home, but we do like to get out into the wild too! We live in a very rural place so we can step out our backdoor into nature. Despite what you may have heard about homeschoolers, my kids are well well adjusted and pretty normal. It's just a great lifestyle for us, and our children are all thriving and learning together. And rumor has it they have a pretty awesome homeschool teacher. Ahem.

Several years ago, I read some fabulous, life-changing books on voluntary simplicity, frugality, and simple living. Those books spoke volumes to me (no pun intended!), and we quickly adopted many of the simple living concepts into our lives. We visit thrift stores for clothing and household needs as much as possible. We don’t indulge in fancy vacations. We rarely eat out. We have an organic veggie garden (surprisingly productive!). We make all of our meals entirely from scratch. Family dinners every single night. To keep the grocery budget under control and to reduce packaging waste, we’re huge fans of bulk-food shopping, buying most of our organic food in very large bulk amounts (by the case or the 25 pound bag). We hang our minimal laundry on the clothesline. We “no-poo” our hair. Make our own household cleaners. We make conscious and informed lifestyle decisions regarding everything from childhood vaccinations to what we put both in AND on our bodies, and try to make eco-minded choices whenever possible. We’re a bunch of hippies really!

Diet-wise, our whole family is Vegetarian, nearly vegan — we enjoy a whole-food, high-raw organic diet. No meat. No Milk. No dairy except sometimes we eat a few organic free-range eggs from our neighbours. We’ve been veggies for many years, but we used to eat much differently. My diet during childhood consisted of canned food and lots and lots of Spam (literally). Fresh veggies were served only on special occasions. My husband grew up in a German household where sausages and Weiner Schnitzel were regularly served. When we became parents we decided to skip the Spam and the Weiner Schnitzel and instead subsist on fresh, healthy, whole foods, with fruits and vegetables playing the starring role at each meal.

Move over Weiner Schnitzel!

Over the years, we began a journey into nudism. We slowly transitioned from wearing clothes 99% of the time to wearing them 90%, then 80% and so on. We could best descibe our current situation as 75% nudists. I’m a pretty hardcore nudist mama, and I feel very passionately about our natural planet-friendly lifestyle and diet. It’s an indulgent way of living and we are all happy, healthy, and thriving.

I’ve got dust bunnies under my couch, a kitchen that is always messy, and I’m never caught up on the housework. I have a weakness for chocolate and adore eating wild berries. I also have a wee little obsession with taking photos. I’m a photo junkie. I just can’t help it.

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