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Garden Update 2020 + How You Can Grow Your Own Food
It’s been almost ten years since I started to garden with my own little family. Growing up, my Daddy always planted a garden at his farm and I would walk through the rows and help him tend to things but it wasn’t until I started doing this with my own family that it made me truly cherish planting a yearly garden. You can see by clicking this post, that my garden has changed quite a bit even in the last year. I think that gardening comes with a learning curve that changes as your needs do and your knowledge of gardening evolves. When I first started gardening, my idea of…
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Spring Cleaning: What Nontoxic Brands Pass the Test
Disclaimer: I am not a Norwex consultant. I suggest connecting with someone in your area to place an order and answer questions if you’re interested in purchasing. I am sharing about my experience cleaning with them in my home. The road to non toxic living is different for everyone. Mine started when I became pregnant and I am sure when you look at your moment of change it was different and so was the avenue you started with. The point is that it does not matter where or when you start, just the fact that you START! Every conversation that I have with you all, it makes me so excited…
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Indoor Air Pollution Reducers: From Plants to Products
This post contains affiliate links and if you shop them, I will receive a commission. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Please read my disclaimer page for more information. Many of you might not know this but your home actually harbors a lot of indoor air pollution. This could come from numerous things… including yourself! That was certainly a little fact that I did not know and now I’m all ears. So… that leads to a question. What causes indoor pollution? Indoor air pollution is caused by a combination of particles like pollen, dust, pet dander, mold spores and smoke combined with ozone, invisible gases and volatile organic compounds which…
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Keeping Kids Busy: Inside Edition
Ohhhhhhh ya’ll, as we go into another week of our new normal I have got to say that I’m going a little stir crazy and so are my kids. In an effort to help all of our mental health, I am doing my best to stay busy. That also means keeping my kids busy. I’m not saying that our entire day is mapped out and calculated (we have a loose schedule) but we fill our time with fun things that allow imaginations to run wild and also make us laugh. From card games to forts, we are rotating all the things and loving the outcome. Yes, our “normal” has changed…
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Mother’s Day Gift Guide
A loving note to all mothers: DO NOT expect your significant other NOT to screw up Mother’s Day this year. As we always say, if you want something done right then do it yourself! In other words, speak up and tell your partner what you want. As the mom who literally does everything in 2020, we need to feel good about ourselves. Every woman deserves some serious pampering right now!! Never underestimate the power of a warm bubble bath and a charcoal mask. Help us make time for us. Make us make time for us. As two tired, hard-working, home-schooling mamas trying to survive in a global pandemic, my friend…