I have a serious question for you today…How prepared are you for an emergency? I mean, really prepared? To be completely honest with you, despite my EDC and 72 Hour bags, food and water storage and the best of intentions, I know full well that I have so very much to learn emergency and disaster preparedness before I will really…
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Lately, our days have been filled to the brim with friends, family, and a walking toddler. The past couple of weeks have brought a whirlwind of activity to our lives and I couldn’t be more grateful for it…even though I am a bit exhausted! Thanksgiving, which we always host, was filled with lots of warmth, good food and tired feet. I…
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I am incredibly happy to announce that Green is Universal and the Arbor Day Foundation have teamed up once again for their annual Share a Tree campaign and I have been lucky enough to be selected to help spread the word about this awesome initiative!* This year, for every digital tree shared before the end of December, the Arbor Day Foundation…
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Shopping at both small businesses and local businesses has become one of my favorite things to do. Not only do they usually offer unique, good quality items, I can walk away (from the building or the internet), feeling as good as possible about my purchases! Why? Because I know exactly where my money is going! So, in the spirit of…
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Cranberry Sauce is one of those things I never thought twice about until just a few years ago. I mean really, what’s there to think about? It comes in a can, you buy it around the holidays (and really, only around the holidays), it comes in jellied form or in whole cranberry form, and people seem to either love it…
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If you’ve seen our Kitchen and our Dining Room, you know by now that all of the rooms in our hacienda are quite large, right. Well, let me just tell you that, at ~475 square feet, our Living Room alone is larger than the little studio apartment my oldest daughter and I lived in for five years when she was…
