DIY Non-Toxic Deodorant and Why I Stopped Using Antiperspirants

At the beginning of last Summer, I finally decided to ditch the chemicals-laden anti-perspirant deodorant I'd been using for years and switch to a more natural kind, without the aluminum. I'd used a "natural" deodorant before, but wasn't thrilled with it and went back to the won't-let-you-sweat kind. I've known since I started wearing deodorant …

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Decluttering 101: Small, Practical Ways to Simplify

I'm so happy to hear so many of you are excited for this series of blog posts! To be honest, I'm super excited too, because I'm also doing some extra decluttering in my home (between Christmas and our baby arriving this Spring, I want to have everything neatly in order), and it's really just something …

Decluttering 101: Where to Start

When I got interested in minimalism and started decluttering our home almost two years ago, I had no idea just how much stuff my husband and I had accumulated over the nearly 3 years we'd been married, plus our single years leading up to that which we apparently spent collecting. We moved two and a …

8 Things No One Tells You About a C-Section

This is something near and dear to my heart, so please bear with me as I am brutally honest for a few minutes. I hope this can help someone out there who has had a C-section or may have one in the future. This post was specifically written for those who have gone through having …

Peanut Butter “Play Dough”

When I was little, my mom made play-dough ALLLL the time for us. We would make salt dough and color it with food coloring or add essential oils to it, and spend hours upon hours making things, sometimes baking and painting them afterward. But the thing with salt dough is it takes a while to …

Simple + Easy Toddler-Made Snack

Eden, who will be three in February, loves to help me in the kitchen. She likes to help with dishes, stir things when I'm cooking, and insists on cooking all by herself sometimes. She obviously can't cook by herself yet, but I try to let her do as much as possible to make her think …

Baby on the Way! (First Trimester Update)

Announcement It's been so long since I've done any blogging that I've completely missed announcing our big news! As the title of this post reveals, we have another baby on the way! The expected arrival of this little bundle of joy is sometime around the end of April or first of May. Hopefully not any …

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I started doing some major purging in our home over a year ago, and every time I'd come to a stop and think, "This is pretty great! I'm nearly done!" I'd find more to get rid of very soon after that. What I've discovered is this whole "minimalism" thing is an ongoing process. It's a …

Banana No-Nut Bread

Since it's finally cooled off outside, I've gotten into a baking mood. Today I was catching up on some house work and noticed that I had some overly ripened bananas on the table that hadn't been eaten. They were way past eating them alone, so I knew I either had to throw them out or …

Current Fall Favorites

I know it's technically been Fall for a few weeks already, but here in the South it's just been a long Summer with a few iced pumpkin spice lattes thrown in here and there. 😂 But since next week it is FINALLY supposed to be cooling down for good (by a lot!), and this morning …