Holistic Health

Organic Baby University Now FREE

by Jennie June 30, 2011

We have talked a lot about Organic Baby University. The creator of the site has done ALL the research for you on organic and natural products for your kids (and you), starting at pregnancy through birth to growing through the years. It use to be a paid site, but now is totally FREE! This is […]

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Encouraging Healthy Habits Through Gardening

by Jennie June 28, 2011

Kim and I both love gardening and we talked in the past about our garden adventures! Since the move, I haven’t started a garden here, but plan to next spring. Kim has been hard at work growing and nurturing hers! We have a guest post from one of our readers about how to encourage healthy […]

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Homemade Body Scrub

by Jennie May 27, 2011

We have posted several times about making your own beauty products, but I actually haven’t made any of them yet. For mother’s day, Whole Foods, was hosting an event for the mamas and they had you make your own body scrub. I used it and it was amazing!!! Even Steve uses it! Now that I […]

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Organic Baby University Review & Giveaway!

by MHSjennie February 15, 2011

In the past 50 years, 80,000 new chemicals have been created and introduced to consumers. Less than 10% of these chemicals have been tested for their effects on humans. As you may know, Jennie and I have been trying to make more of an effort to be mindful of what we’re exposing ourselves and our […]

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Staying Healthy During Flu Season

by Jennie December 14, 2010

As ya’ll know I am a total germaphobe! My friends and fam all make fun of me and it’s all good. I am who I am and now that I am a mom I have become worse! I really do try to take a deep breath and find my happy place, but either way I […]

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Cooking Marathon!

by MHSjennie November 17, 2010

We are always talking about how much work it is to make a meal plan for the week, cook every night and try to find new recipes to make for the fam. We found another mommy blogger who really inspired us to take our batch and freeze to a whole new level! For months now, […]

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DIY Beauty Products

by Jennie November 3, 2010

I LOVE DIY anything so when mama Jenny emailed us this article I couldn’t wait to share! We have done one post so far on using products from your kitchen to make yourself beautiful (!) and we will continue to bring them to you as we find them. Not only is it good on your […]

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Reuse Those Ziplocs

by Jennie October 26, 2010

I do try and keep as much out of the landfill as possible and I am learning more and more how to do that as time goes on. One of the things that I have noticed is that what is good for the environment is also normally good for your pocketbook! I wanted to share […]

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It’s That Time of Year Again

by Jennie October 13, 2010

Flu season is quickly approaching and my germaphobia (I know, it isn’t a real word….) is kicking in full gear. We need to protect our kids, but also ourselves! Remember, as much as we want to take care of everyone else (always before ourselves), we are no good to our family if we end up […]

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Healthy Living: Garden Update!

by MHSjennie September 28, 2010

Hi everyone! Being that the growing season is coming to a close I wanted to do a roundup on what I learned from my very first veggie garden. I recently harvested my carrots which turned out pretty good, on the smallish side however for a first attempt I was pretty happy with them and with […]

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Make Your Own Soft Scrub

by Jennie September 21, 2010

I talked about in a recent post that as my cleaners run out I am going to start making my own. I have been buying “natural” cleaners for years now. I have tried shaklee, method, seventh generation and melaleuca products. All of them work wonderfully and I have been worried that what I make myself […]

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What’s Really In Our Plastics?

by MHSjennie September 14, 2010

  For all of you who really know me, know how anal I can be about things. One of those things has included what is really in our plastics. Years ago I remember reading an article about BPA and how bad it was for you. Then I read how reusing your plastic water bottles could […]

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