The last couple of weekends, we have been able to make a few really good pushes forward with decluttering and organizing our home. They were all somewhat small projects, but in the grand scheme of things, they make a huge difference. One of the things I've been...
Back in 2007, we started our first adventure into growing stevia. We had heard about this naturally sweet plant and just had to try it out. We're avid iced tea drinkers, and we like it sweet. So we end up going through a whole lot of sugar in a month. Although the...
If you are like many small business owners and work at home moms, your business is your baby and you want to be in complete control over every aspect of it. From the recruiting of new clients to the implementation of your ideas to the answering of emails, you have...
The world around us has finally begun to thaw and I no longer need to wear long underwear, two shirts, a sweater and two pairs of socks when I'm inside our house. Seriously, it was COLD around here for the last few weeks -- and I am so, so glad that it's staying above...
Sustainable living should be a main objective for any family which has the means to do so. With that said, making the transition isn't always easy for those used to consuming an overabundance of energy and natural resources. But there's a more immediate and personal...
Have you been having trouble putting your thoughts together and getting projects going for your business? Are you just feeling drained and dead in the water? Let me ask you something -- when is the last time you took a vacation? I don't mean some big ordeal like a...
Happy Friday! This has been a rather long week for me as I've been trying to finally get a cold out of my system -- and get Mackenzie over the same cold which was really not a fun one (sore throat, runny nose, congestion, hacking cough). But the weekend is quickly...
I began blogging in 2006. At that point in time, blogging was a fairly well-known thing...but it was not nearly as popular as it is today. When I started blogging, it was actually a free Blogger blog that I was using to keep our friends and family up to date about our...
There have been some really useful things coming across my screen lately when it comes to planning your garden for spring -- which I know will be just around the corner despite this wildly cold spell we are having here in Germany right now. Thinking of spring and...
I was a fairly early adopter of the Internet and using email on a regular basis to keep in touch with family and friends. I've had a Hotmail account for about 15 years, Yahoo nearly as long, and used additional email clients for both work and play in between. But...
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