Running the World with Your Shoes Tied Together

By Courtney Washmuth

I'm a wife, mother and a momprenuer. This is a peak into my shenanigans of raising two spirited boys out in the country while starting a baby food revolution pulsing through the cities. I dive into the eye opening world of organic foods and what big business doesn't want you to know. My tale of running the world with my shoes tied together.....with a sense of humor and a glass of wine or two!

So, you might be wondering what inspired me to write this book. Well about 5 years ago I started a baby food company named Miles Outside. I found big surprises when it comes to organic foods and what it means to be non-GMO.

Our story started while preparing for our first camping and backpacking trip with our oldest son, Miles. Miles was just two months old at the time of this first game changing adventure. And as most people realize this after you have kids, they inspire you. They inspire you to see the world in a different light and see what is lacking in the world and change it for the betterment of them.
On a six hour car ride, Miles inspired me to think outside the jar that we’ve been feeding out children out of for decades; to remove myself from the conventional thinking when it comes to baby food. We wanted to provide health oriented, active parents with an organic, precooked, easy to use, light weight, nutritious, and delicious everyday meal solution for their kids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Courtney Washmuth
• Release date: Nov 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310677991

Courtney Washmuth

Courtney Washmuth is a wife, mother and mompernuer. As a juggler of love, life and passion, Courtney founded the dehydrated baby food company Miles Outside. She is also a competitive horseback rider and instructor and runs a ranch with her husband in Sarasota, Florida where they live with their two boys, horses, pigs, chickens and a dog named Kino.

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Running the World with Your Shoes Tied Together

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Courtney Washmuth

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Running the World with Your Shoes Tied Together

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Chapters:

Long and Short of It

Growing String Beans

The Directions to Outside

What’s a USDA?

Non-GMO Defined

The Truth Behind the Glass

Buying the Farm

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Running the World with Your Shoes Tied Together

Long and Short of It

It’s funny how at distinct moments in your life you can look back at different points of intersections and say that you took the correct turn. It’s ironic that you can almost always reflect on that and give an option, but at that time of the halt in traffic, where you are supposed to pick a road to travel on, you have no idea where the hell you want to go!

When I was 27, I never really looked heavily into the future. Brett and I were having a blast in the place where we were. You know, jobs, vacations, walking to bars and stumbling home. All the things couples do before they venture into populating the world. Not really planning for the future, just living for the day. Never actually really committing to having kids. We figured by the time we were 30, if it hadn’t happened by accident, we would make the call at 30. It seemed like a legit timeline. I felt in my head I was living in a very When Harry Met Sally kind of world. You know the line:

They practically never had sex again. It's true; it's one of the secrets that no one ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids - and, actually, my one girlfriend who has kids, Alice - and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it anymore. She didn't even complain about it, now that I think about it. She just said it matter-of-factly. She said they were up all night, they were both exhausted all the time, and the kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them. And Joe and I used to talk about it, and we'd say we were so lucky we have this wonderful relationship; we can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in. We can fly off to Rome on a moment's notice.

I was more on the fence of not having kids. I was always afraid I would be that one mother that would have to pay severely for therapy for my children. Not on purpose obviously, but because I