{"id":280,"date":"2016-03-28T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T04:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamabearlove.com\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2016-12-30T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T23:32:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthiermama.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Michele, I am wife to my wonderful husband Bryant and the mother of two beautiful girls, Paige born in 2009 and Keira born in 2011. \u00a0Paige was quite the surprise when we found out I was pregnant.\u00a0 My husband and I had been married 15 years, it wasn&#8217;t that we didn&#8217;t like kids, we actually loved kids! \u00a0We were always the couple happy to babysit our friends kids and enjoyed being the fun aunt and uncle.\u00a0 We actually went back and forth our entire marriage, the timing just never seemed right.\u00a0 We were just about at the point when we thought we had waited too long and perhaps we weren&#8217;t going to have them, when surprise!<\/p>\n<p>We love being parents and so after Paige\u00a0turned one we decided we didn&#8217;t want her to be an only child and then here came Keira.\u00a0 I am now a stay at home mom, \u00a0and I love every minute of it.\u00a0 I love doing projects in my home, for my kids, and with my kids and also homeschooling them both.\u00a0 Who knew being a mommy could be this much fun and hard work at the same time!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Our Journey to Living a Healthier Life<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As we looked into the eyes of those beautiful babies we knew we needed to stick around for as long as possible and make sure we kept them as healthy as we could, but where to start. \u00a0I made organic baby food for both my girls, breastfed them for the first year, and made sure they became good water drinkers. \u00a0We reduced the chemicals we used in the house, tried to find natural\u00a0cleaning products, and used organic products where we could.<\/p>\n<p>We bought many of the organic pre-packeged foods, after all we grew up on pre-packeged foods. \u00a0When we were first married that trend continued, Hamburger Helper, Kraft Macaroni and cheese, and Ramen Noodles were a staple for us. \u00a0We had little money and I had never really learned to cook. \u00a0So when we tried to go healthier it wasn&#8217;t really a shock that we tried to look for healthier pre-packaged foods. \u00a0I actually enjoyed cooking, but who has the time. \u00a0With a baby and a toddler I was barely keeping my head above the water most days, so any help I could get was appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>As my girls kept growing my husband and I still felt we weren&#8217;t doing enough but we weren&#8217;t really sure what to do next. \u00a0We read book after book, searched the internet and talked to others who were also trying to live healthier lifestyles. \u00a02 years ago we moved into our current home, we found a wonderful integrative medicine doctor. \u00a0Yes she is your normal doctor, but she also believes in treating the whole body, not just the symptoms you experience. \u00a0With her guidance we started on our real food journey. \u00a0I was very hesitant at first, cooking everything from scratch is a lot of work!<\/p>\n<h3>Mama Bear Love<\/h3>\n<p>I have always enjoyed sharing things I love doing with my friends and family. \u00a0I initially started this blog several years ago to do just that. \u00a0While talking with many of my friends and family I know many of us are on the same journey to living a healthier life, I wanted to share our journey. \u00a0We believe in progress not perfection, you will notice we are far from perfect in our journey. \u00a0Many are undoubtedly ahead of us, but join us a we keep making that progress.<\/p>\n<p>Michele<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Michele, I am wife to my wonderful husband Bryant and the mother of two beautiful girls, Paige born in 2009 and Keira born in 2011. \u00a0Paige was quite the surprise when we found out I was pregnant.\u00a0 My husband and I had been married 15 years, it wasn&#8217;t that we didn&#8217;t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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