How’d you sleep? As someone who deals with insomnia combined with children waking me up in the middle of the night, my usual response was “meh”. I had many friends recommend various supplements or essential oils as a natural way to help me get some much-needed rest. I liked the idea of using a natural …
Our family strives to have PE at home, which means indoors in the bad weather and outside when we can. While I prefer outside activities, I need things we can do indoors as well. Having some PE gear at home, along with resources like these fitness games, and knowing what resources are readily available has …
In November, we left cyber school to see if homeschooling would be a better fit for our family. In preparing to homeschool, we recognized the stress that cyber school had caused, so we took a more informal approach to the remainder of the academic year. Here is a recap of our first official year as …
On my to-do list for this week – making my own laundry detergent. Yes, I make my own laundry detergent instead of buying it at the store, and you know what, I like it more than the name brand that I grew up using. I started making my own laundry detergent about eight years ago, …
So far, 2018 has had some of the strangest weather. It started out with an extremely cold winter. Then, we had a wet spring. Our local weather forecaster announced today that this weekend will be our first dry weekend since before Easter! Mother Nature is weird. That said, my garden beds never got started this …
