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Simple Strawberry Vanilla Sauce
This strawberry sauce calls for only 3 ingredients – it’s an easy, versatile preserve.
Productive Home Weekly Report: 6/17/17
An attempt to log weekly productive home achievements. Please join in!
5 Things Friday: 6/16/17
Five Things Friday this week: simple salads, “Foods of the Enslaved,” how I carry my tools around, why young Greeks are going back to the land and more.
Productive People With Young Children: A Message From Your Future
All parents know there’s this ideal where you slow down, radiate constant availability, and move at the pace of a young child following a snail through the garden. And then there’s reality. All the love in the world, but also: your To Do list, nagging in the back of your mind; this feeling that you are being squeezed all the time, from all directions, and no matter how hard you work, or how organized you are, you can’t quite get out of the vice; a sense that those adorable, busy, tiny hands are thwarting your simple need for some adult accomplishment; the unbidden resentment when the 45 minutes you counted on to just get this one thing done evaporates as your kid unexpectedly vomits warm, semi-digested California roll down your back (true story).
Top 5 Cleaning Products To Hoard For The Zombie Apocalypse
Want to make sure your home cleaning preps are on point? Check out what 5 cleaning products are most important to stock for a long-term emergency situation.
Productive Home Weekly Report: 6/10/17
An attempt to log weekly productive home achievements. Please join in!
Six Reasons We Started Homeschooling
We’ve been homeschooling for a year now. There are challenges and advantages to this educational system, but for us, for now, it’s definitely the right choice. Here’s six reasons why we chose to homeschool.
Urban Composting Complaints & How to Avoid Them
There’s so many great reasons to compost! But nosy, disapproving neighbors and code violations can make your life a living hell. Avoid urban composting complaint frustrations – without giving up your composting!
Build A Super Simple Tool Rack From A Pallet
Step-by-step photos show how I turned a pair of pallets into an easy storage solution for garden tools. This is a fun and simple garden DIY!
Productive Home Weekly Report: 6/3/17
An attempt to log weekly productive home achievements. Please join in!
Five Things Friday: 6/2/17
How to justify chocolate chips for breakfast, a new favorite watering tool for the garden, the most adorable house-swap you’ll ever see, my everyday beverage carry, and why no one goes out for lunch anymore.