A Day in My Life

A Day in My Life

My friend Janssen made a post a bit ago where she took pictures throughout the day and posted them stating what they did all day. I really enjoyed reading that post and thought maybe someone might find ours interesting/fun as well, so here goes! Here is a day from last week. 7:30 am, we all
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A Few Faves, A Life Catch-Up, and New Years Resolutions

A Few Faves, A Life Catch-Up, and New Years Resolutions

It’s been WAYYY too long since I last posted. A lot has happened over the last 2 months or so. Here is a little mini catch-up: Our baby boy was born on November 20th at 4:55pm. He weighed 7 lbs 5 oz, and was 20 inches long. Here are some of the fantastic photos an
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Children’s Books On CD and Children’s Music Suggestions

Children’s Books On CD and Children’s Music Suggestions

I love listening to books on CD. Right now I’m listening to the Scorpio Races and I’m really enjoying that one. I recently discovered that our library has children’s books on CD as well and I’m so excited. I tested it out with one of Judy Schachner’s Skippyjon Jones books. My daughter who is 2
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Coconut Oil, The Perfect (And Natural) Hair Product

Coconut Oil, The Perfect (And Natural) Hair Product

I love coconut oil. I use it pretty much daily for a hair product. Not only does it tame my frizzy hair, but it also smells wonderful (if you get the organic kinds, that is). I use it instead of conditioner and as a smoothing “serum” after I straighten it, curl it, or even when
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Choosing a Blender

Choosing a Blender

Here is my own personal reviews of the 3 different blenders that I either have owned or have worked quite a bit with: About a week before Mother’s day this last May, our blender that we have used for about 3 years finally gave out on us. We loved our blender so we were really
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Plant-based Diet and Pregnancy Cravings

Plant-based Diet and Pregnancy Cravings

I am now 16 1/2 weeks pregnant! Yahoo! I’ll soon get to find out the gender of our baby and I’m so excited for that.Unfortunately, the pregnancy cravings have really set in, full-force. Want to know what I’m craving? Fast food (we pretty much NEVER eat fast food..I think the last time I had fast
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Feeding Kids a Plant-Based Diet: A Journey

Feeding Kids a Plant-Based Diet: A Journey

  I have had many friends ask me about my daughter’s eating habits and if I have any great ideas for how to create good eating habits. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter. The other night at dinner my daughter not only ate her bowl of salad, but asked for a 2nd,
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Pregnancy and a Plant-Based/Vegan Diet

Pregnancy and a Plant-Based/Vegan Diet

We are happy to announce that we will have another addition to our family of 3! This will be our second child and we couldn’t be happier! With our first we weren’t following anything close to a plant-based diet. We basically followed the average American diet, but perhaps even a little better than the average.
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