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I grew up greatly disliking anything coconut. I hated the smell and taste of everything associated with it. At the time, I didn’t consider myself a picky eater and would eat almost everything… except coconut. All that changed about 10 years ago when I had my first coconut honey macaroon at a local health food store. […]

August is here and the kids are heading back to school. That means a lot of bloggers are talking about head lice and how to prevent it. These posts are some of the best, most embraced posts for mamas with kids in school because dealing with lice is a chore, and not a fun one. […]

One of my many 2016 goals has been to go plastic-free in the kitchen, and it’s not been an easy transition by any means. I mean, I really love my Ziplock baggies and how convenient they are, but this has been one of those things that’s been coming for a while. It’s the next step in […]

More often than not, come dinner time, I’m feeling lazy. After a morning of work (oh, the emails) and an afternoon of homeschooling and chores (oh, the whines), this mama is tired, and as much as I’d like to go out to eat somewhere so someone else can cook for me, in a small town, […]

As you well know… landscaping the mountain has been our big summer project this year. Our goal is to do all of this landscaping work in order to give our home more curb appeal so we can enjoy it more. This whole, making a house into a home is a LONG process, but it’s been […]

I’ve never met a baby that couldn’t benefit from some homemade baby bottom spray. I mean, baby’s bottoms… talk about dirty. Unless you do infant potty training, your baby pees and poos on themselves multiple times a day. Not to mention, they wear that mess around for who knows how long, especially if you’re a […]