Oops! Even the best-laid plans hit a dead end sometimes.
You’ve followed a link that seems to be broken, or perhaps I got a little overzealous one day and decluttered or downsized that page to make room for something better. Either way, you aren’t lost—you’re just exploring.
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Travel Tidbits
Have you experienced a burger at The Counter? {Giveaway}
If you have never been The Counter, you are in for a experience of the most delicious kind. When you enter, you’re greeted with a clipboard and an extensive list of fresh mouth-watering ingredients that allow you to build your own gourmet burger. For people like me,...
What Happpened After Hurricane Irma (Part 4)
This is the 4th and final installment of our experience during Hurricane Irma. Read parts one (preparing), two (evacuating and three (enduring) here by clicking on each link. All packed up and loaded with enough gasoline to bring us home, our two-car convoy headed out...
Get Ready — Preparing For a Trip Abroad With Kids
It's true — travel really does broaden the mind. But when it involves kids it can also shorten tempers and raise blood pressure! A little planning will go a long way towards making the process safer, more convenient and enjoyable for all concerned. First off, the...
Happy Wife…
Living Dining Flip Flop
Have you every done something in your home that you thought was fairly innocent and no big deal...and realized shortly thereafter that it would change the whole way you feel about your living space? That's exactly what happened to us a few months ago when we flipped...
Trimming the tree
We went out Sunday to Hirzbacher Höfe in a little town called Hammersbach. It is one of the few places around here that seems to cut their own trees from their own lot. You can even go into the forest and cut a tree fresh if you don't like anything in their pre-cut...
What a day!
We've had quite a day here on the farm. Actually it all kinda started yesterday when our phone went out. We couldn't receive calls, make calls out, had no internet...and we basically started going stir-crazy. Of course we didn't have a cell phone either because Stefan...
A Well-Lived Life
Don’t forget the praise and gratitude
Over the last week or so, I have had the pleasure of receiving several emails of praise and appreciation from friends, family and strangers regarding things I'd doing here at NOH, in my organic bath & body company Newf Brand, and in other ventures as well. It is...
LivLuna Giveaway Winners
Well Eco-Fashionistsas, the time has come for the big announcment. Thanks so much to everyone who entered!! I hope that all women who are passionate about the environment and making the world a better place for ourselves and our daughters have been over to the LivLuna...
No Ordinary Favorites {April 2013}
I was taking a few minutes to stalk one of my favorite blogs (mostly because I feel like Andrea and I are very similar in real life), and came across a new feature that she's doing which I really liked. There are so many products I use on a daily basis that I never...
The Great Edit
Essential Oils for Common Ailments
For those just getting their feet wet with essential oils, there is a whole lot to learn. The following post includes a few suggestions you can use to get you started when it comes to treating common problems and ailments. Aromatherapy is the use of essential plant...
Mack’s fleet of cars
At not even two years of age, our little girl has already accumulated 3 cars and a motorcycle, all of which can be ridden on. Ok, the motorcycle is actually rocks in place but Mackenzie still manages to make that thing move across the room when she's on it. I think...
Heal and soothe bumps and bruises naturally
I mentioned the other day that I actually used an aromatherapy method to help soothe my aching bones and nerves during my first few days home from the hospital after The Accident. I was taking 400mg tablets of ibuprofen plus another similar drug at the time...and...
