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The Truth About Self Care
Self Care. As mothers, we hear those words a lot. Everywhere I turn I see a new post offering tips for fitting self-care time into your schedule, ideas on different self-care activities, and reasons why self-care is so important. This is probably going to raise some brows, but, I actually think the underlying tone of most modern self care advice is unhealthy. Now before you say I’m crazy, hear me out. What many of the self-care tips convey, is that our happiness is based on something. I feel that the message we are being told tells us, “You need this to be fulfilled”, or, “You need this to have a full…
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3 Ways to Encourage Your Baby Towards Intentional Play
I did not always know what Intentional Play was, but I always had that idea running through my head when thinking about the toys we got for our baby. Before my daughter was born my husband and I both decided that we did not want to have a playroom filled with meaningless toys. We didn’t want a whole bunch of fancy, noisy, gadgets that would only be played with for minutes before being tossed aside for something new. We wanted to encourage our daughter to learn and actually play, rather than just merely be entertained. We’ve done well with keeping the amount of “stuff” in her toy bin to an…
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How To Clean a Really Burnt Pot
It was bad folks! Black. All burnt and black and yucky. There is no telling how long it had sat there and dry-boiled. If you have a pot that resembles mine, do not despair! There is hope!
