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Essential Oil Holiday Diffuser Blends
These essential oil Christmas holiday fragrance blends are perfect for setting the tone in your home to feel like Christmas. Are you still wrapping presents or looking for a “scent” for your home during the remaining days of the holiday season? I find as I sit in...
Preschool Advent Lessons for Christmas
This year my Little Man is a sponge, so I’m being intentional with a few Christmas Lessons for a Preschooler by using each week of December as a theme for exploring the story of the nativity with my toddler son. My mom has been a preschool teacher for more than 40...
Gratitude….Louder for the Kids in Back
This season of gratitude and thankfulness has me thinking about my own life. People, places, and circumstances swarm my mind as I reflect on this past year. While it's been a tough year with restrictions, it's been a continued blessing of extra time together and...
Mississippi-Style Venison Roast
A few years ago the Mississippi Style Roast showed up on the Pinterest scene and I thought trying it as a deer/venison recipe that would even work for any large mammal wild game, might be perfect. Spoiler Alert, I was totally right! Mississippi Style Roast...
Dollar Store Bandana Rag Wreath
I’m always looking for something new and different to make for Mother’s Day gifts and this Dollar Store Bandana Rag Wreath was a hit this year. Inspired by some super cute and trendy floral bandanas at my local dollar store, I knew I had to make something with...
Make at Home Medicine Ball
We have officially hit that time of year where throats are scratchy and everyone is hacking at the store and I've ordered my first Starbucks Medicine Ball. And, Starbucks is not super convenient to any of my daily routes so I decided it was time to figure out a...
Everyday Steak Seasoning Blend
For Little Man’s third birthday we had a cowboy showdown. Since it was mostly a family party, we decided to do adult party favors in addition to fun bags for the littles. And for grown-ups, it was a shaker of steak seasoning and “Cowpoke Clean up” an essential oil...
Tips for Surviving Temporary Living
These tips for temporary living are born out of our own recent transition. Moving is stressful and sometimes it involves relocating to a new area and rarely do all the dates line up. It always involves pack up your personal belongings and realizing you might just...
Ways to celebrate Grandparent’s Day
We are blessed with great parents who have, no surprise, made great grandparents. And this year will be a hard reminder that Little Man lost one of his grandparents earlier this year. Today as I was looking for pictures for this post, I was reminded what a treasure...
Locals Guide to Broken Bow and Hochatown with Littles
Beavers Bend State Park area in Broken Bow, Oklahoma has become one of the top travel destinations in the US. As a South Arkansas local who has spent a lot of our “playtime” this summer exploring things nearby, we ventured over to Hochatown and Beavers Bend State...
Approachable Family Meal Plans
It is back to school time and it seems the number one topic on Facebook among my friends has been what to feed their family for dinner. Everyone is over the summer pantry and cranky kids who only want to each chicken nuggets and popsicles. As school starts back, it...
Gear Up! | 18 mo | Toddler Items we can’t live without
Another installment in our “gear we can’t live without” series with the essentials in our home for an 18-month-old. I’ll be honest, it’s already obvious a third person lives in our house and frankly, he needs/uses more stuff than the rest of us. It’s kinda nuts. So...
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