21 Ways to Tell if you Live in a Tiny Apartment

Living in a small apartment or home can be challenging but fun.  Reflecting on the days before we had kids, I was reminded of all the quirky, odd challenges that face people who live in small apartments.  For one year we lived in a 525 sqft studio.  It was cozy, just the space we needed …

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Celiac Awareness Month: Gluten Free Recipies

Celebrate Celiac Awareness Month by baking something without wheat in it.  Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are becoming more common.  Perhaps as a consequence of proper diagnosis or perhaps as a human response to the highly industrialized genetic makeup of wheat grown today.  Either way, more and more people are finding they feel uncomfortable or downright ill …

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How to raise scientifically savvy kids:

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains: click on the link to watch the video.

Green Ways to Celebrate Mother’s Day

…~ … ~… Clean the house with all natural cleaning products!  She’ll love the gesture and as an added bonus, nobody will have to smell any nasty chemicals.  If she doesn’t have green cleaning products, consider Mrs. Meyers, J. R. Watkins, Seventh Generation, and many more… Take her on a picnic to a secret location. …

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Baby “Mugging”

Have you heard about baby mugging?  It’s totally not what you think it is.  Rather cute, and definitely a meme on the internet right now.  I have a baby and a couple of mugs and a super rad green carpet, so why not do some baby mug shots? My life with two kids has been rather crazy …

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Fixing picky eating and bad food habits in kids

I have been dealing with a difficult eater since my son turned 1 years old.  He became very ill, ended up in hospital because his soar throat made him not want to eat or drink.  Since this time when he fell below the growth charts in percentile for weight, we have struggled to get him …

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Comotomo Natural Feel Bottle: Product Review

Comotomo Bottle Review My 1 month old, exclusively breastfed baby took the Comotomo bottle without skipping a beat on his first try.  I am only gone from baby twice a week, so bottle feeding is a rare occurrence.  I needed a bottle that would be as similar to breastfeeding as possible.  This bottle is absolutely …

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Autism cured by eating Gluten free?

From Inhabitots: So what’s all the excitement on this diet? Obviously,”gluten-free” has become quite the hyphenated buzzword lately, and living without this protein found in wheat has become extremely popular in diets promising everything from basic weight loss to helping with chronic disease maintenance. Casein is a term slightly less well-known among most people: it’s a milk protein …

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Jumbo Egg from our Chicken!

This weekend one of our 3 Easter Egger Chickens laid a whopper of an egg.  The poor girl was rather vocal and I don’t blame her!  This egg is enormous! To compare to a quarter…

The Storytelling of Science: Video

“The Origins Project at ASU presents the final night in the Origins Stories weekend, focusing on the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science. The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and award-winning writers including well-known science educator Bill Nye, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, theoretical …

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