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We planted a tree for both of our children, with their placentas. The only thing that worries me is with subsequent children (hopefully!) we may run out of room for trees. we may have to switch to bushes or something! My six-year-old's tree is big enough for her climb in now and it's very special to her. I think it's the placenta that is the most significant part for us, though. Even without trees, I think doing something meaningful with the placenta is a great thing.

I use canning jars for so much, including as drinking glasses, even with small children (small jelly jars make perfect kid-sized glasses!) and I've never ever had one break. They are extremely durable!

I love it.

Plenty of come-in-a-box organic foods are total junk food, too.

Now I was just sure they were designed to be ring/bracelet holders. Noticed them in the other post and liked how they were left bare, though.

I'm not basing this on any concrete research, but my hunch is this would've developed as tradition because nobody wants to get up in the middle of the night in order to slaughter a chicken, pluck it, gut it, clean it, et cetera to have it ready at the crack of dawn... pre-refrigeration farm days probably were made a lot easier by slicing into some cured pork product instead-- that's practically fast food compared to all that chicken hassle.

I'm guessing maybe those southern chicken breakfast items might be relative newcomers to the scene? I dunno. Maybe they're traditionally prepared with yesterday's leftover chicken?