How to Make Homemade Natural Baby Wipes
Will I be called a hypocrite for teaching you how to make disposable baby wipes using bleached paper towel? Last week a reader used the…
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Healthy Homemade Baked Apple Crisp Recipe {With A FREE Download!}
Apples may reign supreme in the fall, but this baked apple crisp is a winner any time of year. Simple, real food ingredients make this…
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I {heart} My Moby Wrap (How-to Videos)
Babywearing can be a great tool for soothing baby, can allow mama to multi-task, and can be that second pair of hands that we all…
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Natural Remedies (and Natural Products) for Postpartum Pain
Stitches in human skin are no fun. Stitches on an extremely sensitive area that move and pull every time you sit, stand, walk, talk, cough,…
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Cereal Is Like a Twinkie for Breakfast – Let’s Do Something About It!
News flash! Kids’ cereal has lots of sugar in it, and – are you ready for this? It may not be good for you. The…
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Monday Mission: The Water that Gets You Clean
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get the chlorine out of your bath and shower. If you have city water, it’s almost…
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Is Stevia Safe? What Are the Facts on Stevia?
A natural sweetener with zero calories and zero aftertaste that doesn’t cause cancer in lab rats? Is that a dream too good to be true?…
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Monday Mission: Make a Bug Out Bag
Back when we talked emergency preparedness, we worked through many different steps to getting your home and family ready for the “in-house” sort of emergencies,…
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How to Naturally Fight Infections without Antibiotics (Is Oil of Oregano the Best Natural Antibiotic?)
I have quite a collection of antibiotic prescriptions that have never been filled. Over the years, I’ve gotten skilled at fighting infections withOUT antibiotics, and…
Do Newborns Need Sugar Water for Pain Relief?
“Wait, what is that?” That’s what came out of my mouth, in a nicely polite voice. In my head, I ninja-chopped the nurse’s hand, sending…
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20 Reasons I LOVE Living with my In-Laws
There’s not a speck of sarcasm there. I am very grateful for my current living situation. Pulling back the curtain of one’s life to millions…
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The Least Expensive Method to Make Homemade Vanilla Extract (& It’s Faster Too!)
I hate when stores start Christmas preparations as soon as back-to-school stuff is put away. But if you want to make the easiest homemade vanilla…
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Back to School on a Gluten Free Diet: How to Pack Gluten Free Lunches
I’ve covered plant based lunch ideas, but maybe you need ideas for gluten free lunches? Here’s a huge list, plus some considerations for classmates with…
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What’s Really in Children’s Medications? {GUEST POST}
This is a guest post by Erin Odom of The Humbled Homemaker. In November 2000, then 3-year-old Brianna Maya nearly died after her parents gave…
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Jonathan Michael: The Birth Story
“How many hours were you in labor?” I still can’t figure out what my answer is going to be. A week? A day? 2 hours?…
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Offering Up My Labor
Catholics have this great thing about sacrifice and suffering. We like it. Perhaps that’s a little misleading. I think I can rightly say we appreciate…
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Easy Potato Vegetable Pancakes Recipe (Latkes)
This Latke recipe (also called potato pancakes) is written in my own hand from 1988, when I would have been in third grade. Food has…
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Unrefined Dehydrated Whole Cane Sugar (Sucanat, Rapadura, Panela and Muscovado)
Unrefined sugars can be SO confusing – sucanat, rapadura, panela, and muscovado. Not only are they unfamiliar in the culture, tough to find at your…
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Does a Child Really Cost a Quarter Million Dollars?
Can you afford another child? People are really thinking about finances when they make decisions about conception, and many struggle with being a working mother…
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