Hi, I'm Katie from Walnisswama.com. Welcome to episode 8 of the Walnisswama podcast where I provide simple answers for healthier families.

This episode's interesting facts. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in their brain.

Also, once a human reaches the age of about 35, he or she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day, and these cells will never be replaced.

Another brain fact, it's not possible to tickle yourself. This hairabellum, the part of the brain that recognizes that warrants the rest of the brain that you're about to tickle yourself.

And since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

Today's guest, ironically, is also named Katie, and she and I both had mommy brain and placenta brain several times over the last few years.

She's a mom of three with another one on the way. She's been blogging for about five years at her wonderful blog, which is kitchensdewarchip.com.

She has seven incredible ebooks, and she is also to full-time mom to her three little ones. So welcome, Katie. Thanks for being here.

Thanks, Katie. It's great to talk to you. I'm concerned about my 7,000 brain cells. I only have a year left at full strength.

Oh, no.

I know. I've got there too. Well, let's jump right in because I know we'll probably have a lot to talk about.

And I would love to start with your foundational habits, your top 10 foundational habits that you talk about, because I think they're really pivotal, but also very practical for moms that they can, we can just apply those tips every day.

So can you talk about those?

Absolutely. The one of the reasons I started blogging was because I had a lot of conversations with friends about the struggle to balance it all.

You know, people wanted to do the right things for their families and buy organic and cook from scratch. But when you start doing that, you feel the tug on your budget and feel the tug on your time.

And it can be really, really difficult to balance those three areas plus just caring for the environment.

So my blog is based on those four foundations, the environment, your families nutrition, your time, and your budget.

And so what I try to do is give people the best ways, you know, to kind of maximize all of them in simple steps.

And so I talk a lot about baby steps and keeping things really, really doable because I see too many people want to make really positive change and they just want to do it all at once.

So they get, oh, then they get overwhelmed and they give up. They feel like they have to do it all at once. And then it's overwhelming to even think about it.

So they always like, well, I'll start tomorrow or I'll start next month and then they don't even try.

And to think of like, I can change one thing today or one thing this week and just do a little bit better today than I did yesterday and not worry about the whole package yet.

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