Kathleen | Roots & Boots
This Year’s First Harvest
The other night, we enjoyed our first garden harvest with dinner: green beans! Funny story: In between bites of green beans, I said to Mr. Native Texan: These green beans taste much better than last year”s. (Pause for thinking) Probably because I cooked them in sausage drippings this time, huh?
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Easy Gardener’s Hand Scrub Great Gift Idea
Gardeners Hand Scrub: My Favorite Way to Clean Up After Digging in the Dirt
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Stovetop Popcorn with Coconut Oil {Easy!}
If you read this post–Are You a Wellness Junkie?–then you may suspect that I’m sort of on the fence about corn. While that may be true (Is corn the next gluten? Why are so many allergic to it?), we’ve discovered a new favorite–and easy!–snack that directly involves corn. Yep, popcorn.
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3 More Favorite Children’s Books for Summer
Since I compiled our list of 9 Favorite Children’s Books for Summer, we‘ve discovered a few new favorites. I highly recommend each of the following three titles. Enjoy!
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Which Diffuser is Right for You? {Part One}
I’ve received quite a few questions lately about choosing a diffuser. It’s time to answer your questions!
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6 Family Games that a Three-Year-Old can Play
We love to play games around here and I’ve been on the lookout for great games the whole family can play together, including our three-year-old.
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Home is Where the Junk is
This was a fun, easy project that sort of evolved over time. It all began ten years ago, when I married a Native Texan. You know all those stereotypes of people from Texas? They’re true. At least they are in the case of my Native Texan, who brought to our blessed union enough Texas memorabilia to…
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Our New Favorite Resource for Family Devotionals
After several failed attempts at establishing a Sunday Night Family Devotional Time, we’ve switched tactics. We’ve used several resources which we really liked, but were either too time-intensive and felt sort of contrived, or just lasted too long for Little Brother. It kept ending in frustration–for Older Brother, who truly was engaged but did not…
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8 Favorite Children’s Books About the Beach
Our annual trip to the beach is a major highlight of the year for our boys. Having just returned home from this year’s trip, I’ve got beach on the brain! So here’s a list of our favorite children’s books about the beach. These are the books we read in the days leading up to the big…
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4 Tips for Library Lovers, plus bonus quotes
Do you love the library as much as we do? Are you tired of paying exorbitant fees for the 30-some-odd books you forgot to renew five days ago? Not that it’s ever happened {ahem} to us, of course. Are you ever disappointed to discover your library does not have a specific book you’d really love…
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