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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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Baby Care Brands We Love Right Now
As a mom of five, you can only imagine the questions I get about baby products. I will be the first to say that less is more. I used to want to buy ALL. THE. THINGS. Now that I am more seasoned, it’s a lot easier to buy less and focus on the things that we love for our babies. I do have two under two so I do have some first hand knowledge of the best brands for crunchy mamas to use for their babies and I would love to share with y’all! Also note that when I refer to you as crunchy mamas, it is a loving term.…
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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…
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Hormone Disruption from Household Products
Today, we’re talking about hormone disrupting chemicals and what I’ve learned about them so far. These types of chemicals are literally all around us. They can be in the air we breathe, the products we use in our homes and on our bodies, and in the food and drinks we consume. So what exactly are hormone disruptors, and what are they doing to our bodies? Hormone disruptors (also called endocrine disruptors or EDs in scientific literature), are chemicals that act on your hormonal system. They usually work in one of three ways: They fool the body into thinking that they’re naturally occurring hormones. Some examples are: Oestrogens (the female sex…
