Elizabeth has been reading this website almost longer than I’ve been writing it.  Seriously.  She is so sweet and easy to get along with that I know all of you will love her.  You can check out her blog by clicking here, and you can also check out the baby carriers she makes by clicking on her Facebook page here.

I know.  I can’t believe people know how to sew like that either.  The last time I sewed anything…well…erm…okay, you know what?  Never mind.  Forget I even mentioned sewing.  Suffice to say that “needlework” and “Sarah” rarely cross paths.  FOR A REASON.

Anyway, I love Elizabeth.  She’s a total hippie mom, just like me: she cloth diapers, babywears, breastfeeds, co-sleeps, and goes green when she can.  She has three squeezable, lovable, adorable little munchkins: Hunter (4.5), Susannah (2), and Sawyer (4 months).  She is also phenomenally creative.

Above all, Elizabeth is one of the single most encouraging women I have ever crossed paths with.  She loves being a mother, loves it with every fiber of her being, and you can tell.  Whenever I’m having a difficult day, her blog is one of the first places I turn to.  She constantly reminds me to buck up and enjoy this adventure called Parenthood.

I hope you love getting to know her as much as I have!

    1.  What is one of your favorite childhood memories?

My fave childhood memory would have to be the cross-Canada trip that my family did when I was 15.  We drove across the country for six weeks and got to see a lot of the wonderful country in which we live and the US.  I remember flying kites in the geographical centre of North America (Rugby, North Dakota), pie-eating contests (with terrible pie) in Digby, Nova Scotia, walking the cobbled streets of Old Québec City, Québec, setting up the tent-trailer in ten minutes flat and making lunches for my parents and three siblings in the back of our big van.  Those are the kinds of memories that I hope to make for/with my own children.

    2.  If you had a yacht, what would you name it?

A Yacht…. I’d probably name it something terribly punny, like…. “I like it a yacht” or something.

    3.  How do your children inspire you?

My children inspire me in the way they speak and the way they remember and the way they learn and the way they do things.  I want them to be safe, and loved, and to have the best adventures and experiences to look back on.  I want them to know that their parents and their family.

    4.  Since bread is square, why is sandwich meat round?

Sandwich meat is round because it is soooooo much easier to make a clean slice (with a meat slicer) on something that is round… when it’s square you get little ripped off pieces and it doesn’t look so good.  It’s about presentation, really it is.

    5.  Okay, tell us one story that your family will tease you about until the day that you die.

One thing?  Ha… how about dozens of things?  My family will always bug me about the fact that they (my siblings) always used to be scared of going up the stairs ahead of me.  I would poke or pinch them… hard.  I was a mean big sister when I was younger; I hope I have redeemed myself.  I’ve traumatized them, I’m sure.