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It’s unfortunate, but these past couple of months have been full of sickness for my kids and their cousins.  Everyone has been swapping one virus after another with one another. It started with a simple runny nose and cough. That went away for 2 weeks and then came back, but this time, there was thick, sticky […]

I’ve said it many times this past year, but time has simply flown by.  It feels like it was just yesterday that I was making some tentative plans for 2015, and here it is, the end of the year, and I’m making plans for next year. Crazy! 2015 has been a huge year for me… in life and […]

With the holiday season in full swing, you’re bound to have some excited kiddos running around, especially on Christmas Eve! There will be marathon cookie bakes, playing with the cousins, Christmas at the in-laws and so much more going on. With all this activity, it’s no wonder the littles have trouble getting to sleep at […]

This is my Uriah James, and today is his 4th birthday! Happy birthday Uriah!! I remember bringing this little man home from the hospital, my largest baby weighing in at 8 pounds and 6 ounces. (You can read his birth story here if you’d like.) He was a sweetie from the get go, and he […]

I’ll be honest with ya. Making the switch from store-bought perfumes to natural ones wasn’t the easiest thing for me to do when it came to cleaning up the toxins in my life.  I mean, I like to smell good… and my man likes it when I smell good. Enough said. However, clearing the toxins […]

The sweet smells of holiday baking tantalize the senses and remind us of family and seasonal traditions. Unfortunately, though, we don’t all have time to fill the house with olfactory stimulating baked goods, and seeing how artificially scented fragrances can cause neurological damage among other issues, we natural mamas must resort to other methods of […]

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