This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Wearsafe. All opinions are 100% mine. I have two older teenagers, rapidly approaching the moment when they leave home, go to college, and take the helm of life by storm. They are becoming young adults. It's almost time. We celebrated my senior daughter's LAST first day of high school a couple days ago, and I suddenly realized that it's going Continue Reading >>
An Introduction to Dehydrating Food
Have you ever tried dried pineapple? My husband picks this up occasionally as a special treat for the kids, and oh my goodness! It is good stuff. It's a whole lot like candy, but with vitamin C. So many things make yummy, all-natural snacks in dehydrated form. Dehydrated Foods Keep Longer One benefit of drying fruits and veggies is that you can keep them for much longer than fresh foods. So when Continue Reading >>
Essential Oils Safety for Families
Essential oils. EOs. Lots of people are talking about them, but what exactly do you do with them once you have them? I've found that there is a *lot* of misinformation out there about what you should and should not do with essential oils. I suggest caution when you are taking someone else's word about using essential oils in a way that you might think is dangerous. Instead, you should do some Continue Reading >>
The Best Ways to Keep Produce Fresh
We eat a lot of fresh produce in this house. Right this very minute I have six peaches, seven apples, ten bananas, and a bag of easy-peel mandarins. I've got six regular oranges, two heads of lettuce, a cucumber, zucchini, squash, two pounds of carrots, a head of cabbage, a bag of Brussels sprouts, two red peppers, a ten-pound bag of red potatoes, a bag of fresh green beans, and some beets. And in Continue Reading >>
10 Ways to Calm – Help for an Angry Child
I have four boys. Sometimes one or more of my four boys gets angry. And me getting angry back? It doesn't help. Sometimes they get so angry, and yet they tell me that they want to calm down and they can't. These are some of the ways we've come up with to help them find calm when their bodies are filled with hormones and/or bodily systems screaming "be angry." If you have kids and not one of Continue Reading >>
The Benefits Of Pickling Fruits and Vegetables
I can still remember the first time I ate a pickle. I was a pretty picky kid, and I did *not* like them. The crunch, and the pungent smell of vinegar and the sharp taste just did not impress me. I always loved seeing the pickle crock come out on the counter though, because that meant we had fresh ripe tomatoes for eating too! I only remember my parents making pickles a few times, and I also Continue Reading >>
