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by Allison

family room re-design.

Remember way back in the Fall when I painted my family room blue? The room is still at a total standstill and it’s driving me crazy. So I enlisted the help of two of my favorite women, Deb & Erin, from Fresh Nest Design. I sent over photos of the space, what I hoped to accomplish with it, what kind of style I envisioned, and VOILA! just like magic I have a new design for my family room. All I…
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by Vanessa

Meal Planning for Part-Time Vegetarians

For almost two years we’ve been eating vegetarian or vegan twice a week and seafood twice a week. I guess you could consider us part-time vegetarians. Eating this way keeps us from overloading our diets with too much meat or dairy and cuts down on our grocery bill. It forces us to eat more fresh produce and to shop locally so the produce actually has flavor. It is extremely eco-friendly to eat vegetarian twice a week; eating meat takes a…
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by Kimberly

recipe for homemade ice cream cake.

This is one of my hubby’s favorite desserts. Though it’s not the least bit glamorous or gourmet, it’s great for casual celebrations.  My mother often made it for my summer birthday or Father’s Day. It can be made completely or partially ahead of time, and requires zero baking skills. It hardly requires any skills at all! Perfect.  And the kids can help, too. Really, do you know any dad that doesn’t love ice cream and cookies? Definitely an indulgence, which…
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by Allison

father’s day dinner homemade pizza recipe.

By guest mom Vanessa Brown. “Don’t dumb down your kids’ food” is a motto we live by. Sure, we do fun kiddie snacks but we don’t change our dinner menu to fit the “kid palette.” This is in part due to my marrying a food snob but it is also in part due to the frustration while being a nanny for seven years and only feeding the kids three things: chicken nuggets, mac and cheese and pizza. I still remember…
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by Allison

cooking as a family, by guest mom vanessa.

By guest mom Vanessa Brown My family loves to cook together; we all love to pretend do be chefs and put on “cooking shows.” If you drive by my house at any given time don’t be surprised to see us lying in the grass, flipping through recipe magazines or reading a cookbook. The girls have been asking me to make “Nutty Jumbles” for a while. We eat a lot of nuts in our home for snack time and this is…
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by Alma

good meal planning book guides.

I’m sure that since my post about meal planning and the accompanying meal planners post, you’ve all been burning to know how I’m doing at it and what we’ve been eating! Well, to tell the truth, I haven’t been 100 percent. Apparently it takes a lot of time to plan meals and then go grocery shopping! And we’ve been a little bit extra busy lately. But we have had some great meals and I’d like to share with you what…
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by Allison

completely organic laundry detergent.

Would you like to know what I’m using on vacation to do my laundry, over and over and over again? Soap Nuts. Never heard of them? They’re amazing. Soap Nuts are the actual fruit of trees found in India, Indonesia, and Nepal and they clean your clothes without any preservatives, which is fantastic for a person like me who happens to be allergic to everything known to man. My kids are too, so I’m always on the hunt for detergents…
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by Allison

travel candles.

Paddywax Travel Tin {2 oz. $5} Paddywax was another of my Mom 2.0 sponsors, and I love them, I really honestly do. Paddywax candles offer a little air of sophistication to your candle burning. I’m the type of person that always has a candle burning, no matter what the season and it’s fun for me to try different candles once in a while. I’m partial to the Blood Orange, but it’s a tough competition between that and the Cucumber Grapefruit….
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