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10 Ways to Effectively Recycle Kitchen Waste

My guest writer today is Olivia Golding, who is sharing how to better recycle your kitchen waste. We use a compost in our home but there are even more options available to you depending on where you live.   You've probably noticed that…
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Weekly Meal Plan June
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Weekly Meal Plan

We have just two more weeks to cook in our family kitchen. A part of me is excited to head off to the beach and take a step back from planning. The other part of me looks around and sees all the food we have left in the house and gets slightly…
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2015 Healthy Sunscreen Guide
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2015 Healthy Sunscreen Guide

Summer is on our doorstep friends. Time to load up on sunscreen and today is the day for the 2015 Sunscreen Guide. Here's your chance to see what's new, what works and most importantly, what's safe for you and your family. Sunscreen is a wonderful…
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Weekly Meal Plan

This week's meal planning session moved outside to the back porch. The early afternoon is so beautiful and is a perfect time to leisurely go through some magazines and cookbooks for a little while. It worked out so well after the kids were exhausted…
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Healthy kids bento lunch
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Adorable Lunchbox Ideas

As we look ahead to the final weeks of preparing school lunches, let's try to keep things fresh and fun. Here's a little roundup of easy surprises you can add to your child's lunchbox or after school snack time routine. Who knows, maybe your…
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Corn dip recipe
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Weekly Meal Plan: Pantry Challenge

This week's meal plan is a little different. My challenge to you is to head to your pantry first to see what you need to use up. As summer approaches, now is a great time to clean out the kitchen. That includes the pantry, the shelves and the…
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Pineapple Delight recipe

Pineapple Delight Summer Dessert Recipe

  Pineapple Delight is the recipe that always make me think of summer and my Grammy. Summer is often a nostalgic time. People have strong memories of vacations, family gatherings and lazy summer evenings. They want to repeat this…
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Weekly dinner meal plan
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Weekly Meal Plan

Happy unofficial first week of summer! The weather around here certainly looks like summer for the week ahead. I tried to add in some fun summer dinners you can make all season long. We spent the weekend at barbeques with family and friends.…
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Weekly dinner meal plan
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Weekly Meal Plan

This week's meal plan focuses on vegetables. As the weather heats up it feels like the right time to make veggies a bigger focus on our plates. Plus it makes it easier to serve the kids a wide range of colors from the rainbow at each meal. They…
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Coolibar Baby Sunscreen Surf suit
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Sun Protection Beyond the Bottle

The hot weather has finally arrived in our little neck of the woods. Snow pants and wool hats were quickly replaced with sunscreen and sun hats. Getting the kids off to school layered up in sunscreen is a new part of our routine, one they need…
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Rainbow Veggie Pizza
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Monday Meal Plan May 11

I hope all the mothers reading this had a lovely Mother's Day. We took off for the first beach day of the season. On most Mother's Day we are wearing jackets and just walking the beach but we were all surprised with hot sunny weather yesterday.…
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Healthy Green Smoothie Recipe
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Enjoy the sunshine

This is a compensated post in partnership with DOLE and the Mom It Forward Blogger Network. All opinions shared are my own.  Spring has finally sprung! After leaving town for a couple of days, I was amazed to come home and see flowers everywhere.…
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Monday meal plan to help organize family dinner
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Monday Meal Plan May 4

Happy May to all! Spring has finally sprung. (and May the fourth be with you for my Star Wars friends) This week's meal plan will be easy for me with my mother-in-law lending a hand with the kids. The dinners are very kid-friendly so no one…
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Avoid the toothbrushing battle with the kids
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Get Their Sillies Out Brushing Dance Party

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #NaturalGoodness #CollectiveBias Toothbrushing with the kids has been an adventure. The guidelines have changed over the past six years…
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Monday Meal Plan April 27

Today was a day for rambling through the woods and enjoying the tiny glimpses of spring coming into our lives. It's hard to believe May begins at the end of this week. The chilly air continues and the hats and gloves still can't be put away.…
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ClimateStore Donates 10% of Earth Week Proceeds to the Solar Electric Light Fund

Today's Earth Day post is sponsored by ClimateStore. All opinions shared are my own. Happy Earth Day friends. While everyday should be Earth Day, today gives us a moment to pause and appreciate the resources we need to take care of. This year…
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Toilet paper tube owls
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The room where recycling fails the grade

I am partnering with the CARE TO RECYCLE program and The Motherhood. All opinions shared here are my own. With Earth Day on April 22nd, it's the time of year when we evaluate our level of "green." Are we recycling enough? Are the kids turning…
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Fish cakes for lunch or dinner
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Monday Meal Plan April 20th

Sometimes you get thrown a curve ball and you need to make adjustments to your routine. Having some back up meals can be a huge help. This weekend I was so excited to get back on my bike and ride for the first time this season. Just a few miles…
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Nature quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Exploring the Great Outdoors

There are so many lessons nature can help us teach our children. The beauty in the world around us is vast, both in large spaces and small. The ocean and all its secrets, the sky in all its glory; there is much to appreciate down to the grass…
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Meatball Casserole Recipe
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Monday Meal Plan April 13

Spring is in the air! It's been a long wait, but it certainly is delightful. Kids played outside for hours and it was refreshing to watch them explore the backyard all over again. It's like a whole new world without snow covering it. It's so…
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MOTHER’S DAY BLUEBERRY BREAD. PLEASE PASS THE BUTTER

Homemade bread is always a treat, especially on Mother’s Day. This is a delightful recipe that makes two loaves of Blueberry Bread. One for you, and one to give away! Blueberries are available year round fresh or frozen which makes this quick…
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