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One of Maddie’s favorite places in the world is the beach. She has known it since she was very small, which is just one of the reasons we take a trip to the coast many times a year. Maddie has been going to the beach for her entire existence — her first summer beach vacation was when she was just two weeks old and apparently we got her hooked. The first time we stuck her toes in the sand she curled up her legs and wasn’t sure about it, but [...]
Summer may be nearing its end, but we still have plenty of time to squeeze in any last activities with our kids. Especially if our children are heading back to school, we will want to go have some fun while we still can! If you have older children too here are some activities that everyone in the family will enjoy. For now we will focus on summer activities and will wait to talk about what to do in the winter when the time comes. Here are my top 5 Summer [...]
So I decided with the economy, price of fresh food, and the great taste of the farm’s produce that I would like to try a couple garden plants myself. Right now though we live in the city and do not have a backyard conducive to a “garden.” I told my husband that I would like to build a raised garden bed against the house someday soon… but for now I will improvise. By gardening with pots, this would allow us to have some plants until we are able to build [...]
One great thing that summer brings is local, organic, farm fresh food that is super delicious and much better than anything you can buy in a market. If it must be 100ºF out at least there are some benefits, right? Well, on one of these 100ºF days we decided that we just had to get some sweet corn and other great produce that our local farm provides …so we made the trip. Maddie was very excited the whole way, asking when we were going to get to the “farm” because [...]
