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Posted 2/17/11 • Last updated 7/26/11 • 482 views • 3 comments

Thanks to MDC moderator fullofgrace for originally compiling and tending to the list!

 

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Abuse Survivors


Activism & Social Issues

  • Code Name: Mama
  • Descent Into Motherhood
  • The Natural Child Collaborative: South Shore MA - This partnership with the Plymouth Farmer’s market will help families create connections with others through shared values around the environment, health and creating community.
  • Raise The Change: Parenting a Socially Conscious Next Generation -- committed to respectful and open discussion about political and cultural topics that affect us as women, mothers and global citizens. Our worldview is liberal and progressive.
  • Raising Global Citizens A place to share ideas, perspectives and resources to help ourselves and our children in becoming socially aware, religiously tolerant, environmentally responsible, and culturally sensitive.

Adoption & Foster Parenting

Anything & Everything - The Chronicles of Life

  • Active Family Services: Websites, products, resources, and adventures for young families in Loudoun County and beyond
  • Ahimsa Beginnings: New mama sharing insights on love, laughter, life, parents living with their parents, attachment parenting, veganism, raw vegan recipes, crafts, organic baby items and etsy favorites.
  • All My Life's A Circle: Or maybe a bunch of small interlocking rings
  • A Moveable Feast: Daily musings on life with the occasional recipe, rant or bit of philosophy thrown in for good measure.
  • Andrea's Pencil: All things motherhood and the life and dreams and hopes that go along with it.
  • Ang England: The Renaissance Woman wrap-up with an emphasis on freelance writing, making money on the web and getting started working from home as a wordsmith
  • At the Kitchen Table: The blog of a traditional food eating, crafting, headcovering, midwifery aspiring and studying, life living young lady.
  • bee*in*the*balm: an occasional blog on homesteading, herbalism, fiber arts, and family
  • The Couple Next Door:Exploring life from our front porch in search of things that make us happy. Just like any good neighbor, we share the dirt on all the cool things we find.
  • Finding Mercy: Food, Faith, Family, and my personal Soapbox
  • Beth's Boring Blog
  • Determined or Delusional: Training for a Triathlon to Change My Life
  • Experience Imagination
  • Focused on Happy: a working mom learning to focus on the positive and funny things that happen every day http://focusedonhappy.wordpress.com
  • Fun With Mama
  • Flutterby Butterfly: My Journey: The gritty, the sublime, and the everyday of a thirtysomething year old wife and first time mama of a toddler living a simple little life in a Midwestern college town. 
  • Geriatric Mama's Rants: I'm an old mama of four, I blog about life - raising AP children, photography, rants about miscellaneous things
  • Gifts and Occupations: Living and crafting with 3 little kids.
  • The Golden Papaya: Life in Bahia, Brazil.
  • Half Pint Pixie: The random musings of a vegan Irish mammy
  • The Happy (Atheist) Homemaker: Ramblings about frugality, cooking, cleaning, family life and everything in between...minus religion.
  • Her Screed
  • Hip Mountain Mama - Simply Living: A place for me to write about the things going on with my young family living in Colorado, trying to live simply, and find balance
  • Hippie Diva Creations: How I Live The Life I Love
  • Honestly Angela: My Uncensored View of the World
  • Inspired by Chinua:  Stories of Mothering and everyday experiences
  • Joyfulparents the trials, tribulations and triumphs of parenting with awareness, connection, compassion and love
  • Learning Vicariously: Eclectic Preschool Activities at Home
  • Let's Take The Metro: Cloth diapering, living green, good food and recipes.
  • Majikfaerie Adventures in Unschooling, Midwifing, Natural Living, World Travelling, Queer, Poly, Rainbow Life
  • The Many Hats: Celebrating the many hats of a wife and mother
  • A Miracle to Me
  • Mommy and Sweet Pea Make a Blog: Daily life, home projects, and green living from a new stay at home mom
  • A Much Better Blog: Unassisted birth, unschooling, not vaccinating, natural health, green living, breastfeeding, cosleeping, babywearing and circumcision
  • Mutterings of a Mindless Mommy - One mom's journey raising children dealing with autism, asthma, and epilepsy
  • Molly Reads: Resting and reading and nursing the child. trying to figure out enoughness
  • Mom's Eye View: The world as seen through the eyes of an exhausted caffeine addicted, homeschooling mama
  • Navelgazing: Musings on my journey through new motherhood
  • Off The Hook: A mother's passionate ramblings of all things parenting, birth, childbirth education, and now…homeschooling!
  • Our busy life in the Last Great Frontier: Traditional foods, sustainable living, headcovering and modest dress, and our personal lives.
  • Our Messy Messy Life:  Chronicles in my life as a Mississippian trying to normalize natural childbirth, breastfeeding, babywearing and green living with my two cute kids in tow.
  • Over the Moon and Sun: Following whichever path I like, beaten or not.
  • Plant Flowers and Sing Songs: Escapades of Life in Alaska
  • Proper Noun Blog: Books, Music, Family, Minneapolis
  • Satori Smiles: Homeschooling, Photography, Geocaching
  • Silence is intimately related to trust: Chronicling life - moving to Alaska, having our first child, contemplating faith and politics and their interaction
  • Simply Lally: Random thoughts on everything from simple living/sustainability, to running a household, and other random thoughts that cross my mind.
  • Smother of One: AP working mother making humorous observations in Northern New England
  • Stuff On My Blog: Everyday Stuff from an everyday chick
  • Tales from the Quiver: Giving a new face to the term quiverful
  • A Tao Girl: The way of a woman, single homeschooling mom of three, animal rescuer, full-time graduate student, work-at-home writer, community volunteer, children's spiritual leader, nonprofit founder, and more.
  • Unsheeply: Question everything
  • Surrender to Inertia: Musings on finding a balance between mothering, partnering and personal interests with attention to joy and loss and how they go hand in hand
  • We Don't Buy It: One Family's Quest to Stop Buying New Stuff
  • Why Does the Bird Sing? She sings not because she has a statement, but because she has a song.
  • Yarngoddess: Mother, Wife, Crochet Addicted Welcome to my Life
  • Yogi Mama Writes: My attempts to balance being mother to a toddler with being a writer, yoga teacher and all-round philosopher.

Arts & Crafts

 

Books & Media


Cooking & Foods


 

Decorating & Design


Diapering & Elimination Communication




Family Life


Feminism

  • AP Baby: Feminist mama raising an attached feminist little girl
  • The Breeder Files
  • The Gravid Herpetologist: a biologist's first hand study of growing a tadpole
  • Mom, JD: Feminist + social change lawyer + AP mom = blogging about finishing law school, taking the bar, equitable parenting, the challenges of working & being an AP mom.
  • Raise The Change: Parenting a Socially Conscious Next Generation -- committed to respectful and open discussion about political and cultural topics that affect us as women, mothers and global citizens. Our worldview is liberal and progressive.
  • Raising My Boychick: Feminist thoughts inspired by parenting a presumably-straight white male
  • Waiting for Kirby A first-time feminist mom grapples with pregnancy, birth, and society's critiques of her cheesecake consumption.

Frugality

  • Do It On Less: Learning to live, love and do it all on less!
  • The Happy (Atheist) Homemaker: Ramblings about frugality, cooking, cleaning, family life and everything in between...minus religion.
  • Heather; At Home in the Townships: New homeowners blogging about DIY renovations, fostering, gardening, cooking, sewing and crafts while living simply and being kind to the Earth
  • Infusing Love: Infusing Love into all we do - saving money, living simply, helping the Earth and healthy living. How to lead a more compassionate life.
  • Moo said the mama: Random thoughts and experiences of a WAH mama. We're an unschooling, urban homesteading, organic gardening, eclectic, crafting & sewing, frugal living family and this blog will spotlight some of the goings-on in our home.
  • Our busy life in the Last Great Frontier: Traditional foods, sustainable living, headcovering and modest dress, and our personal lives.
  • The Saved Quarter: Making the Most of Meager Means
  • Leming on the Edge:A place for me to share tips, tricks, and info on what interests me at the time to whomever will listen!
  • Cheap and Crunchy In which an urban homesteader, eager to save money and save the world, tries to raise four kids and keep a husband happy while hoping her plants don't fail.
  • MindfullyFrugalMom: where I try to make my goals of living green and cheap come together!

Gardening

  • Bluestem: apraxia (special needs) & gardening/green living
  • Plants & Bulbs: Annuals, Perennials, Vegetables and all things garden. Tips and tricks for amateur landscapers
  • Heather; At Home in the Townships New homeowners blogging about DIY renovations, fostering, gardening, cooking, sewing and crafts while living simply and being kind to the Earth.  

 

Green Living

  • Euphoria's Blog for Green Mamas: - Advice, news and freebies for pregnant, breastfeeding and/or young moms interested in healthy, green living
  • Freaks From the Hills:  A chronicle of our journey towards self-sustainability, healthier living, homeschooling, and my own creative works.

Grief & Loss


Health & Wellness


Home Management


Homeschooling & Unschooling


Multicultural Families

  • Blasian Baby Notes: Life of a black mother raising a biracial blasian (korean and black) son while dealing with mixed race and multicultral issues
  • The Golden Papaya: Life in Bahia, Brazil.
  • The Shock of the Old: The blog of an art historian turned stay-at-home mom living in Italy
  • UAE Mother2Mother: a Mexican/American MDC mom blogs with an Emirati mom about raising children and cooking.

News & Politics

  • Raise The Change: Parenting a Socially Conscious Next Generation -- committed to respectful and open discussion about political and cultural topics that affect us as women, mothers and global citizens. Our worldview is liberal and progressive.

Off-Grid Living


Organization

  • CROW Cat Rescue: A nonprofit no-kill cat sanctuary and community resource.
  • Three Boys and a Dog a stay at home, homeschooling mom with a blog. I do product reviews and giveaways as well as recipes, homeschool notes, etc

Parenting

  • A Better Mom: Breastfeeding, co-sleeping, pregnancy and labor, mental health, baby wearing, and everything else to do with evolutionary parenting
  • About Baby's First Year: Everything Baby
  • AP Baby: Feminist mama raising an attached feminist little girl
  • Attachlings: Homeschooling, attachment parenting, living gently on the earth
  • Blasian Baby Notes: Life of a black mother raising a biracial blasian (korean and black) son while dealing with mixed race and multicultral issues
  • The Breeder Files
  • Code Name: Mama
  • Following Jack: Chronicles of four kids, two grownups, one mini-van and a GPS named Jack
  • Half Pint Pixie: The random musings of a vegan Irish mammy
  • A Hippie With a Minivan: Taking the less travelled roads in parenting.
  • Inspired Ima: Parenting triplet pre-schoolers. Includes homeschooling, arts and crafts, cooking, occasional venting and musing and some photography.
  • Labels are for Jars: Words on the journey of raising a boy who eschews many social “boy” labels, and empowering him along the way.
  • Little Tribe of Webbs on the Web: A feminist and working mother's adventures in trying to raise two green kidlets in Houston Texas
  • Mama Bear: one fierce Canadian mammal, thoughts on breastfeeding, mothering and finding a more sustainable way through the suburban forest
  • mamaUK: Notes on a Waldorf-inspired family life
  • The Many Hats: Celebrating the many hats of a wife and mother
  • Momma Molly: My journey through motherhood
  • Motherhood Moments
  • A Mountain Mama: Off grid Appalachian living, parenting, writing, being
  • Motherhood for the Weak: Parenting after infertility with a twisted sense of humor
  • Navelgazing: Musings on my journey through new motherhood
  • Only Who I Am: Random musings of one stay-at-home mama contemplating life, parenthood, humanity and household
  • Pudding Pie - Life After the NICU: Our son's premature birth in 2008 was a life changing experience. Here are medical information, research, facts and our story after he came home. The NICU doesn't end when the baby is discharged.
  • Raising My Boychick: Feminist thoughts inspired by parenting a presumably-straight white male
  • Raising Smart Girls: My journey of mothering smart and sensitive girls, one of whom is overcoming selective mutism.
  • Real Life Dad: Just another one of those daddy blogs
  • Reflections of a Butterfly: A baby loss mother reflecting on life, death, loss, love and parenting
  • Tales from the Quiver: Giving a new face to the term quiverful
  • Two Wooden Spoons: Life with twins and other children.
  • Uniquely Normal Mom: A green, frugal, AP mama, living a unique life (according to the people around her)!
  • Yarngoddess: Mother, Wife, Crochet Addicted Welcome to my Life

Personal Growth


Pets


Pregnancy & Birth

  • Natural Hospital Birth: Author and doula Cynthia Gabriel writes about parenting, pregnancy, and her new book.
  • Citizens for Midwifery: Birth News & Activism
  • Gloria Lemay: Childbirth activist Gloria Lemay sharing information on birth, intactivism and women's health.
  • Descent Into Motherhood
  • Hands for Catching: Life of a nurse-midwife in training
  • Life in the Birth Lane: The busy life of a doula, CBE, licensed apprentice midwife and midwifery student
  • Momma Molly: Featuring natural birth stories each week
  • New Moon Birth: Empowering women and families through support and education
  • Not Your Average Fairytale: There was a young lady who swallowed a baby... and it wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her!
  • Talk Birth: Celebrating Women, Transforming Birth
  • Waiting for Kirby A first-time feminist mom grapples with pregnancy, birth, and society's critiques of her cheesecake consumption.
  • Syracusedoula- http//naturalparentingsupport.blogspot.com A homeschooling doula mom's life.
  • Write About Birth: An unassisted childbirth mom shares practical information about UC, homebirth, and physiological childbirth.

 

Pregnancy After Loss

  • Only a Whisper: Learning to live life without our third child, Emma, who taught us that "beauty need only be a whisper"

Simplicity


Special Needs

  • Kidney Reflux: Our daughters journey with kidney reflux and other urinary issues
  • Kitchen Canadian: The rest of the house might be American, but it's Canadian in here!
  • Only Who I Am: Random musings of one stay-at-home mama contemplating life, parenthood, humanity and household
  • Shoes, Socks, Seams, and Strings: Adventures in Parenting Two Sensory Sensitive Kids
  • Your Child Talking: Speech and language development resources for parents of typically and atypically developing kids. 

Spirituality

  • The Suburban Agrarian: A Christian family's quest to live simply in suburbia
  • A Tao Girl: The way of a woman, single homeschooling mom of three, animal rescuer, full-time graduate student, work-at-home writer, community volunteer, children's spiritual leader, nonprofit founder, and more.
    Tracy's Astro Salon: A cozy spot in cyberspace where we talk astrology

Technology


Work Life


Writing

Comments (3)

Cynthia Mosher 3/3/11 at 6:28am
We have such a great group of blogging women! Anyone interested in blogging for Mothering? If so contact us - administrator@mothering.com
dawningmama 3/5/11 at 1:12pm
This is such a great list! I need to bookmark it for when I need some more great reads.
Cynthia Mosher 3/5/11 at 8:01pm
I've found some that have not been posted to in a year or more. I wonder if we should remove such blogs to keep the list for active bloggers only?

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