The Summer Closeout

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Don’t you just love weekends when you get tons of stuff done around the house? The clutter gets put away. You actually get around to washing the sheets on the beds. The couch gets moved to vacuum up the buckets of sand, dirt and Cheerios that rested underneath. The yard work gets done, including flower [...]

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EarthBaby: Eco Friendly

I always strive to lead a greener life and let’s face it, to do so is not easy. It takes time, energy and money. I have made all kinds of changes to our household, including and not limited to…using glass, stainless steel and other re-usable food storage containers, using Eco-Friendly products to clean the house, [...]

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Home Delivery Meals? YES Please!

It’s hot. It’s summer time. You have been at the pool all freakin’ day with the kids. All you want to do is sit down, put your feet up, and enjoy a nice chilled glass of white wine. The LAST thing you want to do is make dinner. Sound familiar? This scenario sounds extremely familiar [...]

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Summer Bounty

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Our garden was ridiculous this summer. Or I should say, our garden IS ridiculous this summer. We have gotten some amazing veggies this summer and we have enjoyed them immensely! I think my “in-real friends” are tired of me throwing veggies at them. Need some more tomatoes? Peppers? Squash? Zucchini? Beets? Anything??????? For this week’s [...]

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Wordful Wednesday: Our bountiful garden

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As you know, we are a family of gardeners. Spend time outside/wear our kids out/plant beautiful flowers/grow our own vegetables kind of family. And no I am not trying to take credit for this wonder. My husband is the master-mind behind our beautiful garden. We are well into our *enjoying the fruits of our labor* [...]

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Organic Veggies: To Buy or Not to Buy

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  Do you buy organic fruits and vegetables? There is a lot of debate surrounding this topic. I have a lot of friends and family who do not buy organic and even though they won’t tell me directly, they think I am wasting my money or don’t understand why I do. I do buy mostly [...]

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Gettin' Dirty

Gettin’ dirty in the garden that is! WOW! What a fabulous weekend we had! It was sunny and 80 here in California and we took FULL advantage of it. Although we have a vegetable garden all year, we had a lot of work to do to get it ready for the spring/summer season.  I also [...]

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Happy Earth Day!

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I love Earth Day! In honor of this day, I wanted to share some great new products that I have been using at my house to reduce our waste and use less plastic. Not only are these products reuseable, they are just making my life SO much easier!! Less garbage, easier for storing food, and [...]

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in the garden

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I love books. I especially love children’s books. I wanted to share one of our favorites of the moment. You know they do change monthly, weekly, daily, perhaps even hourly. Sadie will want to read the same book over and over and over and over and over again until I just want to scream, chuck [...]

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Roasted Veggie & Tofu Stir-Fry

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All I have to say is: YUMMY!! Roasting vegetables in the oven is one of my all time favorite ways to cook veggies. I also LOVE grilling veggies outside, but this past weekend we had some crazy April storm, so inside we are. We have switched to eating more local, organic, free-range, grass-fed, un-processed food [...]

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