Toward Greater Sustainability, One Day at a Time
Why I’m (Literally) Locking Up My Pregnancy Tests If you’ve been trying to conceive (TTC) for any amount of time, you know how hard it can be to wait the full 2 weeks after ovulation before taking a pregnancy test. Because I often have very short cycles due to low progesterone, I’m frequently tempted to … Read more
Do your kids melt down when it comes time to quit an activity? My son is 3, and I’m extremely familiar with the agony of transitions for children. There’s yelling and crying and just overall misery for everyone involved. I used to give him timed warnings–“five more minutes of play time and then we’re leaving!” … Read more
I love using special sleep diffuser blends at bedtime. I used to wake up all night long and struggle to fall back asleep again. It felt like I was always falling asleep on my feet, and with two kiddos to keep up with, I can’t afford to be a walking sleep zombie. Whether it’s to … Read more
Looking for a homemade toothpaste recipe? Look no further than this list of 17 recipes. Why would you want to make your own toothpaste? Well, maybe you want to save money. Maybe you’re not a fan of the ingredients in regular toothpaste. Or maybe it’s both. Some of the ingredients to worry about in conventional … Read more
Today you can find essential oils everywhere–even at Target and Wal-Mart. But not all oils are created equal. So how do you choose the best essential oils company? How do you make sure what you’re buying is actually going to work? It’s an interesting thing about this information-saturated age we live in. Two people can … Read more
Having grown up in a “crunchy” home, I knew I wanted essential oils when a friend first told me about them. But what really made me say, “Wow!” was the effectiveness of essential oils for sleep. All the women in my family–my mom, my sister, and I have all struggled with sleep issues for years, … Read more
Every woman who’s ever been pregnant knows that one of the biggest challenges of pregnancy (after figuring out when to announce your pregnancy) is getting enough sleep. We feel huge and uncomfortable, we’re hot, we start snoring even if we never did before, and when we do sleep we have really weird dreams. Depending on … Read more
I wish I’d known more about helping a baby sleep through the night before my first was born. I honestly thought it only took babies a couple weeks to sort things out and start sleeping all night long. Sleep seems like such a simple subject. But because it’s so critical to our survival, and sometimes … Read more
Years ago I broke up with my birth control in favor of natural family planning. Read on to learn how to use natural family planning and for a TempDrop coupon code. (TempDrop is a wearable fertility tracker that can make the process much easier.) Natural family planning is an amazing method of being in tune … Read more
Over our more than 8 years of marriage, my husband and I have gone through several blenders. Our blender recipes started out fairly simple–just smoothies for breakfast several times a week while we were completing our computer science master’s program. But it’s only progressed from there. By now we might be blender addicts. We started … Read more