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I think I’m an old lady trapped in a 30-something body. I love china with floral patterns, I love a gorgeous hand-stitched quilt. I love wearing ridiculous costume jewelry my gramma gave me that she used to wear years and years ago when she was my age. There’s something so nostalgic to me about making homemade limeade and letting it chill in a vintage-looking glass pitcher. I love how women of generations past were able to make such simple living {Read More}
You know that load of peaches I mentioned getting last week? I had very good intentions of eating a few, then freezing and canning the rest. Yeah. I didn’t happen. We ate them all! It’s a good thing we have 15 more pounds coming again this week! I noticed that the last few were starting to look a little sad and needed to be rescued. So, naturally I turned them into a dessert. What screams summer is here like peaches {Read More}
It’s almost summer! It’s almost summer! Only a few more days and my kids will all be out of school until Fall (is it just me, or does that thought elicit equal parts excitement, relief, and panic?)! In our attempt to make it through the last few weeks of school and to welcome summer with open arms, we’ve been doing all the most important things: Hang out at the beach as much as possible Go camping on the beach overnight {Read More}
My hands-down favorite blog for recipes for making personal care products is Wellness Mama. And my hands-down favorite recipe from that blog is the recipe for homemade lotion bars. I’ve been making them for about half the year now and I am in looooove. First, I love them because they don’t contain any funky chemicals. Second, I love them because they are easy to make. Third, it turns out to be less expensive than the lotion I used to use {Read More}
I’ve wanted to write this post for years. At least five. But it’s one of those posts that could really be a dozen posts and I don’t even know where to begin. I guess I’ll begin with a disclaimer. I am not a doctor. I am not a medical professional. I am not any more of an expert than any other mom who’s spent a large portion of the last decade researching, reading about, studying, asking questions about, thinking {Read More}
5 plus years ago, when I was pregnant with my second son I decided I was interested in cloth diapering. I spent hours and hours (and hours and hours) researching cloth. I wanted to know if it would really be cheaper to use cloth than disposables (it was), and if it was really doable (totally!). I wasted money trying all different types of diapers in hopes of finding exactly what I liked best. Eventually I did figure out exactly which {Read More}
Have you ever wished motherhood came with a manual? Turns out, now it does!! I’ve partnered up with some of my very favorite fellow real-food-natural-living blogger mama friends to bring you a complete library of natural mothering eBooks. It’s about as close as you’re ever gonna get to a natural mothering manual! There’s a lot available in this library, so I encourage you to take a few minutes to look through and see what interests you most. As you {Read More}
Earlier this week I went to visit a friend. She and I both have 1 year-olds, so we got to catch up while the babies fought over toys played together. She’s also pregnant with her second sweet baby, so we chatted a lot about birth plans and nursery decor, midwives and pregnancy cravings. I giggled a bit inside as she described in vivid detail an intense craving she’d been having for a very specific type of creamy ginger salad dressing often {Read More}
Summer is here, and fresh and delicious produce are in abundance! It’s the time of year when I start buying huge amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables and preserve them for eating throughout the rest of the year. My freezer, dehydrator, and canning equipment are working overtime. Today I received 15 pounds of cosmetically challenged (they look perfect to me!) peaches. I’ll order more each week until they are out of season again. Soon I’ll be getting 50 pounds or {Read More}
