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When any of my little ones start coming down with a cold or any respiratory type illness, I know it’s not only time to pull out the echinacea root tincture, but it’s also time to increase the amount of garlic they’re eating. So what do I do? I immediately go to my kitchen and whip […]

Do you have a child that isn’t so keen on taking a bath and getting clean? Well if you do, how about giving them a chamomile tea bath instead of a regular bath? I don’t know many kids that hate baths. I mean baths are a time when most kids get to play and splash […]

When I was new to herbs, I did everything by the book… meaning, I’d get out an herbal how-to book, look up how to make something, and follow the directions step by step. I followed recipes when making an immune-boosting tincture right down to 1 part of this and 2 parts of that with so […]

This month the Playful Learning Ecademy is on tour across blogs around the world, searching for kids and adults of all ages to get creative and show off how they play right where they are. Follow along with the tour (see below) and join in to build leadership skills, awaken creativity, and inspire a love […]

July has flown by! Seriously! I feel like I was just writing my “Things I Loved In June” post, and here I am writing about the great goodness I’ve found in July! On The Personal Front Things here have been hopping along as usual, and a lot has been going on this month. We had […]

In my last House To Home post – Beginning Stages – I told you about how my husband and I finally found the prefect house for our family. The only catch was that we had to fix it up first. Well, here’s the second installment in our progress. If you’ve ever remodeled a home before, […]