There are a lot of ways we try to keep our kids safe.

We buckle the car seats correctly. We double check the doors at night. We pray over them while they sleep. I pray constantly that they grow into good, faithful human beings — that they know right from wrong, that they love the Lord, that they live in a way that reflects God our Father.

And yet sometimes it feels like the world is designed to pull them in the opposite direction.

Everything feels louder. Faster. More artificial. More complicated.

When I was 18 — and even when I met my husband at 22 — I was very much the “follow every recommendation exactly as written” type. No questions. No deviation. Anyone who did differently? Well… clearly they were the crazy ones. Now apparently we call them “crunchy,” which makes me feel about 100 years old when I say it.

But somewhere along the way, something shifted.

Not out of fear. Not out of rebellion. Just out of a growing desire to slow down and ask: what is actually necessary? What is natural? What did God already give us?

The Lord counted every strand of hair on our heads. He created a world that overflows with milk and honey. Honey — something so intricate and beautiful that bees labor over it in a way we could never replicate. Milk — something that quite literally nourishes from the source He designed.

And yet we live in a world that so quickly replaces what is simple with what is engineered.

Now, I am not anti modern medicine. I am not anti science. There are incredible gifts that have come from human ingenuity, and those gifts ultimately come from the Lord as well. But I do wonder when we stopped trusting that the natural things He created might actually be enough.

So my husband and I have been trying, in small ways, to simplify.

We space things out. We read labels. We choose foods where we can pronounce every ingredient. We avoid what feels overly fortified, overly processed, overly complicated. And yes — we started giving the kids vitamins. MaryRuth’s, to be specific.

And I will fully admit: I was skeptical.

I am very information driven. I like studies. I like proof. I like data. My husband is going to laugh when he reads this because it took me a long time to even say out loud that I think they’ve helped.

But I do.

At least with E, I have noticed he hasn’t been as sick as he was during that first year. Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe it’s age. Maybe it’s both. But I can’t ignore that something feels different.

More than anything, this shift hasn’t just been about vitamins. It’s been about trust.

Trusting that God created a world that sustains us.
Trusting that simpler can be safer.
Trusting that not everything needs to be optimized, fortified, powdered, or engineered.

We live in a culture of instant results. Instant food. Instant answers. Instant health fixes. But the Lord rarely works in instant gratification. He works in seasons. In growth. In patience. In time and effort.

And maybe that’s what I’m really learning in motherhood.

Keeping it simple keeps us steady.

When I complicate everything — their diets, their schedules, my expectations — I feel anxious. When I simplify, I feel grounded. I remember Who created us. I remember that He designed our bodies with intention. I remember that He is not surprised by this world.

I don’t have every answer. I’m not claiming to. I’m just a mom trying to steward the two little souls entrusted to me.

And right now, that stewardship looks like reading labels, choosing simple ingredients, saying no to what feels unnecessary, and leaning a little more into what God already made.

Maybe keeping it simple isn’t old fashioned.

Maybe it’s faithful.

MaryRuth's Toddler Multivitamin

This is the vitamin we give E's that I swear has made him so much healthier. I added the link in case anyone wants to give it a try with their kid

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