The following post is from Emily of Live Renewed: Rethinking Your Period: Choosing Healthier Feminine Care Products So let's chat like sisters over coffee today, 'cause this is a pretty private and personal topic. And yet, because it's something most of us as women (if you're a man that's your cue to stop reading!), live…
We're heading into birthday month when we celebrate three of our daughters' birthdays within 3 weeks (and next year, we'll be adding Jackson's birthday for 4 birthdays within 6 weeks!). Because of the proximity of their birthdays to one another, we've decided not to do a friends' party every year, but we do have several…
The following post is from Lisa of The Pennington Point: Getting Your Home Ready for Back to School As the new school year begins, I want to get my home ready for the onslaught of books, papers, and childhood artwork. Since we homeschool, we even need to keep the teacher's supplies and a whiteboard for…
The following post is from Katie of Kitchen Stewardship: Do You Eat Genetically Modified Foods? People criticize me a lot for my casual stance on genetically modified foods. Don't get me wrong, I hate the idea of humans messing with the genes of any other living thing, and I think it's totally wrong from a…
The following post is from Jason & Jennifer Bruce of New Season Design: Free Personalized Teacher Note Cards Printable! If you're thinking back to school (or if your family is already back to school), you might be thinking about how to start the year off right with your child's teacher. Teachers write a lot of notes…
The following post is from Amy of Simply Sugar & Gluten-Free: 30 Allergy Friendly Back-to-School Snacks I'm one of those moms who will bring a grass-fed, organic, nitrate-free hot dog to a play date because I feel better about my son eating real food or as close to real food as a hot dog can…
The following is an edited excerpt from Lisa Grace Byrne’s newly released book, Replenish: Experience Radiant Calm and True Vitality in Your Everyday Life: 3 Popular (Biological) Reasons to Crave Sugar So here’s the thing—we all know that sugar isn’t good for our bodies. We know sugar makes us feel stressed, anxious, spacey, and gain…
The following post is from Lisa of The Pennington Point: Reinventing Your Old Junk! One of my favorite ways to save money is to find new uses for old junk. Sometimes I find things by the side of the road, sometimes people give them to me, sometimes I just don't use them anymore, and I…
There are some great posts in the archives that don’t get much attention anymore, so I’m reposting my favorites here and there. It's been two years since I wrote this post, but daily quiet times are still a valuable part of our routine, even for our older girls! Of all of our daily routines, the…
The following post is from Shaina of Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography: Blueberry Coconut Cream Muffins My mom only ever made one type of muffin: blueberry. They were always in pastel paper wrappers, baked in a rusted muffin tin, their soft tops pillowing upwards, specked with bits of deep blue fruit. She made…