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Intentional Holiday Gift Giving
Ah, the holiday season. A time filled with festive gatherings and amazing food. A time of giving and celebrations. And gifts! So many gifts. Unfortunately, it’s also very easy for it to become…
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Aligning Your Actions With Your Priorities
A few years ago, my family and I were living in a cozy home in a subdivision. It was a nice neighborhood, a mere five minutes from any store or restaurant we might…
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Transitioning to Shampoo Bars
Making my own soaps is on my list of skills I want to acquire to lead a more self sufficient life, but until then, I have a favourite local soap maker I visit…
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Forest Scavenger Hunt
If you’re looking to add some variety to a walk through the woods, a forest scavenger hunt is a great way to do it! My boys really enjoy doing forest scavenger hunts.…
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Slow Living
When I created this blog, I wanted to give my readers an idea of what I was after in terms of content, so I came up with the tagline Slowing Down Life While…
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Homemade Beeswax Food Wraps
Saying goodbye to plastic wrap is easier than you’d think! In our quest to live a more eco-friendly sustainable lifestyle, we’ve been looking for ways to minimize how much plastic we use on…
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Microplastics, and Why We Need To Reduce Our Plastic Use
This post contains affiliate links. “Zero Waste” is a highly popular topic these days, with good reason. More and more people have begun to look more closely at the waste we are all…
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6 Tips for Moving Day with Toddlers
I guess you could say we were serial movers. My oldest child is almost 3.5 and has now lived in 4 homes that we’ve owned, plus a crazy 4 month span of living…
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Toy Minimalizing – How Less is More
I remember when my oldest was 6 months old, and all his toys fit in one super cute little bin in the corner of his room. That didn’t last very long. Cue the…
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Why I Quit Social Media… Again
Two weeks into my trek back into the social media world, I called it quits, again. I had social media accounts for nearly a decade, but when I had my first baby my…
Slowing Down Life While Chasing Two Toddlers
