We are all about reducing the amount of waste in our home. As fall rolls through we use a lot of apples and when baking and making homemade applesauce and such the peels and cores would normally end up in the trash. That is what made us decide to make apple cider vinegar ourselves. The…
Essental skills
The Simple Guide to Lavender
We love lavender around here for its 1000 and one uses. From its refreshing floral scent to its medical uses. I wear lavender in place of perfumes I am allergic too. In fact, it can even help me cope with other allergies I have to deal with. After making a calming lavender lotion for the kids…
How to: Make Your Own Bread
Today we have become accustomed to picking up our bread at the grocery store and most of us have never felt the satisfaction of kneading and molding homemade bread for our families. That is truly a sad thing as learning to make homemade bread at home can truly lower your food costs. A loaf of homemade bread made with…
How to Get a Bead Out of Your Child’s Nose
What to do when your child sticks a bead up their nose? When your child decides to stick a bead (or other small item) up their nose sometimes panic can set in. How do I get a bead out of my toddler’s nose is something every mom finds himself asking one day. If you have a…
Save Money on Your Laundry
Have you ever thought about how much it costs to run your dryer before? These are the things that run through my mind while I do my chores. I set off to do some research on how much it really costs to use the dryer. When people start looking to cut costs and save money they…
The Simple Guide to Cast Iron
Wonder how you can use cast iron from cooking to tools for an option that will last generations no matter what comes your way? The kind of tools you can pass down knowing your investment was well worth the money, time, and effort? This simple guide to Cast Iron will help you care for your investment….
Naturally Fight Seasonal Allergies
It’s that time of year again. Sneezing and watery eyes are everywhere. It gets in the way with focusing on what really matters in life. Allergy medicine makes you sleepy and you feel as if you get even less done when you take it even if you feel lightly less miserable. You want something better….
Milk and Honey Soap DIY
We have ventured into make soaps around here this last weekend. One of my favorites was the milk and honey Soap I made. My slight obsession with honey and its many benefits may show through over the next we months. We needed some really moisturizing soap due to our recent move to a colder less humid…
Building Fine Motor Skills
Fine Motor skills are essential to everyday life. From cutting paper to mixing your coffee and writing your name you use fine motor skills all day. Building these skills in early childhood is essential. Fine Motor Skills include scribbling, coloring, drawing, writing cutting Blocks and legos Tying shoes, feeding self Fine motor skills get plenty…
Building Gross Motor Skills
Gross motor skills are what gives us the ability to walk, lift things, and go about every day physical tasks. As a child we built these skills by climbing trees, riding bikes, jumping rope, building forts, and Gasp doing all manner of things that would make our grown selves cringe. No I don’t expect you…