This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015Okay, I don’t have much interest in the occult. But I am totally into home remedies and essential oils. Especially the ones that work. They could very well be the only reason I’m still alive to write this post today. Really. The past couple weeks have been a little rough around the Keep. One child got sick, then the hubby got sick and it has just Continue Reading
More Inner Peace Through Laundry
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015In my last post, I shared a recipe for Laundry Sauce – one of my favorite homemade laundry detergents that costs just pennies a load and does a great job. I mentioned a second recipe I love to use, and I’d like to share it with you today. This homemade detergent is in powder form, as opposed to the ‘pudding like’ texture of the Sauce. It’s Continue Reading
Inner Peace Through Laundry
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015It’s laundry day at my house. Actually, every day is laundry day because I have four kids, a husband and a dog – dirty clothes seem to propagate all on their own around here. But there’s usually one day a week when I do a full sweep of every hamper in the house and execute one big laundry bonanza. So today is that laundry day. I Continue Reading
Festively Frugal
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015My love of this season – from the end of August through the end of December – is well known in my family. I love every single thing about the fall and onset of winter … the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s holiday circuit, the foods, the changes in weather, the disappearance of bugs and snakes – absolutely everything. Which is why I am loathe to Continue Reading
Oh, That Smell
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015Late last spring my oldest was taking some things out of our family SUV when the back glass simply shattered. He was very upset when he came back in the house, claiming that he hadn’t slammed it shut or done anything to break the window – it had just broken all on its own. And as I had been watching him through the kitchen window, I Continue Reading
In Sickness and In Health
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015Well, I’ll be honest … after last year’s complicated, placenta previa -plagued pregnancy and c-section delivery of our fourth child AND the subsequent blood infection that landed me back in the hospital a mere 3 weeks later – I thought I’d seen the last of the “in sickness” portion of our wedding vows for a while. We had a round of the same about 9 years Continue Reading
Halloween Happiness
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015I don’t like to be scared. I don’t like scary movies, scary situations – I even read books with a semi-scary plot in the day time only. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that I don’t like to dress my kids in scary or gory costumes for Halloween. Most often, I let them have the final say on their costume ideas and I Continue Reading
Time Flies
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015When I was a kid, I often heard this expression but never really understood what it meant. Now that I’m an adult, and especially a parent, I am keenly aware of the rapid passing of time. This week we celebrated my youngest son’s first birthday. And I swear to you it was only a couple of months ago that he arrived. I cannot wrap my head Continue Reading
