If you're lucky enough to know a local beekeeper, you may be able to pick up some raw, honey-scented beeswax for a great price. However, before you get started on making reusable food wrap, beeswax candles, lotion bars, food-grade crayons, calendula salve, lip balm, homemade lotion or another project, be aware that unfiltered beeswax [...] Continue Reading
Archives for October 2016
Easy Caramel Apples Recipe
Although I’d love fall to be a blur of delicious scents wafting in from the kitchen, hay rides and rolling down giant hills with my littles, the reality is I’m usually doing my best to make memories between loads of laundry. That’s why this year I set my sights on something simple yet quintessentially fall – caramel apples. We’re [...] Continue Reading
Kids Cook Real Food Course Review
Me: Hey guys, you need to go clean your playroom and then you can do whatever you want until Levi wakes up. Micah: We can play with sharp knives !?!!?!?!? Me: . . . . Maybe it's just me, but the thought of giving my kids knives makes me cringe a little. Unless you count "baking" a potato in the microwave along with a few other - ummm, [...] Continue Reading
Sore Throat Meltaways
Stories of Canadian Thanksgiving pranks, ordering coffee in French, and the construction of "Terabithia" by my little ones and their compadres < <-- These are the souvenirs I'm thankful to have brought home from my family's recent meetup with friends in Quebec. Unfortunately, we brought an additional one as well - a sore throat and cough [...] Continue Reading