Category Archives: Health & Home

Simple Problem Solver: Honey in a Ketchup Bottle

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Every now and then you come up with something that saves you time, stickiness, ants and expletives and you just have to share it.  Here’s one of mine  I love honey.  Honey, honey, honey.  I put about two tablespoons (I know!!) of honey in my Earl Grey every morning and my husband and kids enjoy...

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On Preventing Real Food From Becoming An Idol

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Yep, I’m using the ‘I’ word here.  In my quest to transform our lifestyle and the way we eat, it has become apparent to me that I really need to keep my heart in check in this area.  It is all too easy for ‘Real Food’ to creep up and plant itself up on a...

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How to Clean a White Porcelain Sink (without bleach!)

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I think white sinks are beautiful.  Especially white farm sinks.  Love em!  But my white porcelain sink takes on stains very easily so I have to work hard to keep it from getting too yucky.  Porcelain is a porous material which gets more porous as the years and chips and dings and general wear and...

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A Cloth Diapering System

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Last week I wrote about how I clean and care for my cloth diapers.  This week I’m going to talk about the system and diapers that I use!  Is this exciting stuff or what folks?  I’ve been using cloth diapers for about three years total and have changed the way I do things more than...

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How to Wash Cloth Diapers

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This is the part of cloth diapers that usually throws people off.  Well I take that back.  Most people are thrown off by just about every aspect of cloth diapers.  But for those of us crazy enough to venture into the cloth diapering world, there are usually some questions about being able sanitize them at...

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