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Fashion needs to make us feel good, look great, express our personal style. And, it Needs to be ethical. Here's how to shop according to your values. #ethicalstyle #ethicalfashion #shopwithvalues

How to Shop According to Your Values

Ages ago, when I had an online ethical clothing boutique, our about page read: “WE DO NOT COMPROMISE ON STYLE AND DO NOT THINK OUR VALUES SHOULD GET IN THE WAY OF LOOKING GREAT.”  Our entire philosophy was that you…

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Teaching environmentalism is a lot like teaching any other important value. Like honesty and humor, I want to teach my kids to love the earth. Here are 7 things I do to raise kids who care about the environment. #unlikelywahm | #environmentalistkids | #naturalmama | #greenmama

7 Ways To Raise Kids Who Care About the Earth

Ok, first things first. In order to be fully transparent, I should note that my kids aren’t grown up yet (you can probably tell from the pictures on this blog). So I have NO idea if I am doing this…

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Get Plants: A great way to clean the air in our homes. Also helps improve our mood. Win!

5 Natural Ways to Clean The Air in Our Homes

It looks like we are going to be spending a lot of time in our homes for the foreseeable future, doesn’t it? So, we might as well clean the air in our homes. — I work from home (obviously), so…

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Why I choose process goals over outcome goals: Now more than ever, our goals may feel farther out of reach. Will I be able to finish that marathon? Will there even be a marathon? Who knows? This is why I choose process goals over outcome goals. #UnlikelyWAHM | #Timemanagementformoms | #processgoals | #outcomegoals | #goalsetting

Why I Choose Process Goals over Outcome Goals

I started writing this post months ago, right around the new year and never published it. I wrote about how during this time of year (the new year), we often reevaluate our goals and create new ones. We choose outcome…

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DIY Non-toxic Easter Egg Dye: A few years ago, I wanted to get my toddler involved in our traditions. And, toddlers! Everything in their mouth. So, I made DIY non-toxic Easter egg dye.

DIY Non-Toxic Easter Egg Dye

If you’ve been here a while, you can probably tell that I am a bit of a “crunchy” mama. I try to keep our home as toxin-free as possible, like to choose the eco-friendlier options most of the time, and…

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How Failure Led to a Better Life

Around the time my little one was three or four months old, I started failing at everything. Seriously. I could not get myself (or anything else, for that matter) together. And this failure might have been one of the better…

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The Dishwasher Effect: Do you wash one dish to save time rather than unloading the dishwasher? This is the dishwasher effect. It is wasting a lot of our time (well, mine at least).

The Dishwasher Effect: How we waste time to “save” time

Have you heard of the dishwasher effect? I learned about it a few months ago, while listening to Optimal Living Daily (if you love self-improvement and podcasts, this is a must-subscribe). I then went on to read the post, because…

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Sustainable, Simple, Slow LivingHi, I’m Jess. I’m a crunchy mama of two little boys who are almost always outrunning me. I do my best to let them lead and to sit in stillness and watch them. Like most moms, I struggle daily with patience (it is the thing I work on the most). I also struggle with presence, and it is at the heart of slow motherhood. 

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