Sweet Shoppe Designs

'Freshly Picked' by Mari Koegelengberg
'Little Sew and Sew Messy Lines' by Erica Zane
'Story Maps v1' by Crystal Livesay
title font is 'DJB Veronica' by Darcy Baldwin
journaling font is 'DJB Bailey' by Darcy Baldwin

journaling reads
I really am trying to feed myself and my family well. I know what I'd like to be doing - cooking all our food from scratch using fresh, wholesome ingredients including lots and lots of veggies. How am I doing? I'm doing better than I was a year ago. I'm making small improvements on a regular basis. But I'm still falling very short of where I'd like to be. Why is that? I can blame some of it on the government - it's not legal to buy raw dairy in Virginia. Some of it has to do with money - buying organic veggies and pastured meats is more expensive. Mostly it has to do with what the rest of the family is willing to eat (not a lot of veggies) and my general laziness. I've found that I like to cook, although working up the energy to start making a meal is tough sometimes. What I don't like is cleaning up after myself. And when I've been cooking, there are lots of dishes to be cleaned. And I haven't found a lot of veggie dishes that everyone is willing to eat. What I should do is make a big salad to go with every meal. That would help us get our veggies, but I don't like to chop up veggies all that much so making a salad every day isn't something that I enjoy. And even in salads, there aren't a lot of veggies that everyone else will eat. It's all so frustrating. I really just need to keep plugging along finding dishes that I can make that my picky family will eat and then spend Getting the right nutrition is important enough that I need to spend the time to do right.