All Natural Cough Syrup with Echinaecia, Licorice and Honey

Homemade Natural Cough Syrup

Make a powerful, immune-boosting cough syrup for a fraction of the cost of the natural ones you buy in the store with not a single gibberish-sounding ingredient in sight. And, if you’re not happy taking over-the-counter medicines that do little to relieve your cold and leave you wondering what the heck you just put into your [...]

Homemade Natural Bug Repellent Recipe

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One of the biggest differences in moving from the northeast USA back to south this past summer besides the sweltering heat, were the killer mosquitos. Yikes! Gabriel’s legs looked like he got in a fight with a red marker and it’s obvious who won! Until I started using my homemade bug spray and my homemade [...]

Homemade Natural Anti-Itch Rub with Free Printable

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Mosquitos are the enemy of the state around here, and they love to eat on Gabriel and I. Each bite causes a welt on his little limbs and he scratches them until they bleed. Definitely not good with the combo of dirty hands and a national West Nile Virus outbreak going on! We have to make sure he [...]

My Almost-Natural, Quite Traumatic Birth Story

My Almost-Natural, Quite Traumatic Birth Story

As we prepare to welcome our third baby into our family, it seems timely to write about my first labor and birth story. When we got pregnant with Gabriel I never imagined I would live to experience the kind of labor and delivery story I’m about to share with you. It was extremely long, emotional, [...]

Apple Cider Vinegar & All Its Wonders

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away, right? Well, according to what I keep reading, it certainly does, even in the form of vinegar! So, I was delighted a few weeks ago when the nice UPS man delivered a heavy box to my front door containing . It is quite a bit more expensive [...]