Growing up, I loved eating sugar cookies. Especially snicker doodles and chocolate crinkle cookies! My mom made amazing snicker doodle and chocolate crinkle cookies, and my sister was the resident expert on chocolate chip cookies. We begged for cookies all the time! And they obliged, although looking back I do wonder how many other recipes […]
My Review of Restore 10X and 4X for Deck and Concrete
You know those home projects that need to get done? But you’re too busy living life, so you do whatever you can to avoid doing that project? Well, at our last home we finally had to address a huge, discolored eyesore attached to the back of our house: the back deck. It’d been on the home and garden to-do list […]
How to Manage a Cold in your Family
This last December, my family and I were hit with what seemed like five colds in a row. That or it was a cold that got recycled between us repeatedly – and given how fast cold viruses can mutate, either one is possible! So my kids got a real, first-hand look at how to manage […]
How to Identify and Treat Influenza Symptoms
Tis the season, y’all. And I don’t mean the holidays, because those have come and gone already. I mean it’s flu season – and we’re in the middle of a rough year, virus-wise. In fact, we’ve all been hit particularly hard this season. Over Christmas break it seemed like our kids came home, infected us […]
The Best Diastasis Recti Exercises for Managing Mummy Tummy
My sister is amazing – she keeps trying to get me involved in all of these amazing exercise programs. And I have started doing some of them. Others, however, I have to politely decline. Because while they are amazing, body-strengthening programs, they aren’t designed with a diastasis recti in mind. So instead, I keep an […]
The Easier Way to Worry-Free Food Storage
When we moved into our current house, we began joking that if the zombie apocalypse ever hit, we were set. After all, we moved into a nice enough neighborhood that isn’t well known – and it’s nigh invisible from major roads. It’s also right next to a mill – so there’s tons of grain and […]
