The first weekend of September we loaded up the camper for another family camping trip. We wanted to get the camper out at least one more trip before it was too cold. While I didn’t grow up camping all the time but in the backyard + a few times in the backyard, Ryan grew up…
America On Wheels in Allentown, was somewhere we had heard a lot of good things about. So during my granddad’s stay, we decided to make it one of our stops. We had a nice picnic down the street at a park and then headed to the antique automobile museum. We were impressed with the variety…
While my granddad was visiting us here in Pennsylvania, we tried to find a variety of places he would enjoy visiting and that we hadn’t experienced yet either. One of the places that we chose was the Lehigh Valley Zoo. I think this might be the first place we’ve gone that I wouldn’t recommend people…
I’m so very excited about the Bible Activity books I’m sharing with you today. Ryan and I love having a variety of engaging ways to share the Bible with our kids. Our kids love doing a variety of activities and when I saw these books available, I decided they were a perfect addition to sharing…
I’m standing here in the middle of week thirty-three and I’m not sure how I got here. This pregnancy has been nothing short of a whirlwind and I’m feeling blown away we are so close to meeting our sweet boy. He’s an active babe and I’m convinced he’s regularly breakdancing in my belly. Yesterday A…
The stores have been filled with school supply sections for over a month now. It felt like summer just greeted us as it’s already time to say hello to Fall. My social media feeds slowing down on posts showing summer fun and they’re being replaced with first day of school photos. No matter if you…
I believe there’s a misconception that if someone is leading healthy or toxin free life they have to avoid every circumstance where they could encounter those things. While this may be true for some based on preference, the reality is it’s not easily attainable in normal every day life’s circumstances. We are going to encounter…
I’m an unlikely gardener. Contrary to my love of nature and interests in a natural lifestyle, there’s just something that really never clicked well for me: growing “green things”. Even though I love plants, unless it’s a “plant of steel” houseplant, it usually doesn’t make it. When we bought all of our seeds and our…
One year ago yesterday, I said YES to changing our lifestyle. It wasn't a decision that I made lightly. In fact, it was one I researched for nearly a year before deciding. That YES to living as toxin-free as possible literally changed our lives for the better. I had already been conscious about what we…
Earlier this year, we discovered a pop-up camper online and decided we just had to have it. It was about an hour and a half away in Philadelphia, so we loaded up the kids in the car and went down to check it out. Getting a new camper was on our list to invest it…
I just shared why we ditched Dryer Balls and this post is the DIY counterpart promised from that post. If you missed the post, you can read it here. Purchasing wool dryer balls takes the work out of creating your dryer balls is thavailable on Amazon for a reasonable price. However, if you have a…
We ditched dryer sheets. Dryer sheets are one of the biggest culprits of chemically filled products in our homes and when you consider that they touch your clothes which touch your skin all day. In fact, dryer sheets contain alpha-terpineol, benzyl alcohol, and synthetic camphor (this is important because natural camphor has a large list…
Reading is a cornerstone of our home. Having children that loved to read was something we hoped would happen and I’m lucky to say that’s exactly what happened. If the kids are quiet, we usually find them quietly sitting somewhere either together or apart reading. When we sit to read with them they’ll sit for…
We are sitting here at 26.5 weeks for our third baby. Less than fourteen weeks and I'll be holding a brand new baby in my arms. This pregnancy has been different but the same as the others in so many ways. The first trimester was better than the others and this pregnancy is racing by…
Happy Wednesday, friends!! We are knee deep in Summer enjoying the sunshine and I realized I had some things I’ve been meaning to share with you all. We’ve tried out some new things that I have been wanting to share with you so this afternoon while the kids nap, I decided to make the time…
The fact that summer is half over already feels a little crazy to me. I'm not sure where the time goes these days but I will say it's felt like Summertime! The days are humid in Pennsylvania, much like my own childhood, but the shady evenings are nice when the humidity is low. Our summer…
This post was developed in partnership with Similac. All opinions are my own.Having well balanced meals at our home is important to our family. We have a rule that our little ones have to try something each time it’s served. If they try it and they don’t love it, they don’t have to eat it…
The Fourth of July felt a little different for us this year. There was the bitterness of missing past traditions when we were in Colorado. The past several years we would spend it with my grandma and granddad with a cookout and fireworks. It was an extra time added to the recent list of missing…
We spent the last weekend of June in Kansas. We weren’t necessarily planning on a trip to Kansas but we had another loss in the family and needed to attend the funeral of my paternal grandmother. We knew it would be a part ofour year, it was just an uncertainty of when. We hopped on…