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Essental skills

Kid Safe Essential Oils: How To Safely Use Essential Oils on Kids

January 3, 2019 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

Kid Safe Essential Oils: How To Safely Use Essential Oils on Kids

Essential oils are all the rage in the natural health community. The use of essential oils is spreading like wildfire. In turn so are unsafe practices like ehhmmm raindrop therapy. Today I am going to introduce you to safety practices you need to know for using essential oils around your children. My babies are my…

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Filed Under: Heath Tagged With: Essental skills, Essential Oils, Health, Healthy Living, UHLB

The Simple Guide to Lavender

September 3, 2018 by Jenn Gerlach 1 Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Home and Garden Tagged With: Earth Child, Essental skills, garden, spring

How To: Make Apple Cider Vinegar

July 24, 2018 by Jenn Gerlach 9 Comments

How To: Make Apple Cider Vinegar

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…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Tagged With: Apples, Back to the basics, Essental skills, fall, Recipes

How to: Make Your Own Bread

November 21, 2016 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Tagged With: Back to the basics, be prepared, Breads, Essental skills, Recipes

How to Get a Bead Out of Your Child’s Nose

November 11, 2016 by Jenn Gerlach 5 Comments

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…

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Filed Under: Family, Home and Garden Tagged With: Essental skills, Health, UHLB, winter

Save Money on Your Laundry

November 8, 2016 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Finances Tagged With: 100 Ways to save Money, Back to the basics, Essental skills, Finances

The Simple Guide to Cast Iron

October 23, 2016 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

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….

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Filed Under: Kitchen Tagged With: be prepared, Essental skills

Naturally Fight Seasonal Allergies

March 17, 2016 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

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….

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Filed Under: Home and Garden Tagged With: Essental skills, Essential Oils, Health, spring, summer, UHLB

Milk and Honey Soap DIY

February 16, 2016 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Tagged With: Baby, Back to the basics, DIY, Essental skills, soap making

Building Fine Motor Skills

November 9, 2015 by Jenn Gerlach Leave a Comment

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…

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Filed Under: Family Tagged With: Essental skills, Mother Goose Time, parenting, preschool

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