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Heat pancake syrup with your old bottle warmer

The bottle warmer is one of those baby gear items you just don’t need. (Am I right?) But that doesn’t stop people from giving them as baby shower gifts, or palming them off as hand-me-downs. At least Ingrid came up with way to repurpose hers: On the days we have pancakes for breakfast, we use […]

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What I want you to know about dressing to please a guy

What I want you to know about dressing to please a guy 2014-09-29T15:00:00-07:00 Kristen Howerton what I want you to know|

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My Morning Routine

No…I do not jump out of bed for joy when my alarm goes off.  There is usually some grumbling and moaning involved, and maybe a snooze button or two.  But for the most part, my day starts around 5:30-5:45am. I do yoga everyday…EVERYDAY. Some days it’s for 30 minutes, other days I spend nearly two […]

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Homemade Vanilla

If you think you’ve seen this before, you’re not wrong–I posted this last fall and it was our most popular recipe of 2013! It’s not too early (or too late!) to get started on brewing your own homemade vanilla, so if this is something you’ve wanted to do in the past, today’s your day!  Original […]

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Registry Essentials Sweepstakes

Enter for a chance to win over $4,500 worth of must-have items for every baby registry! Click here for more information. We’ll choose one winner at random from all entries received. All entries must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. (PST) November 23, 2014. Read the official rules and enter below.   FIT PREGNANCY REGISTRY […]

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That’s what SHE said: Clair Huxtable, the fallacy of diversity, team Fitz vs. Jake, white people in khakis, and more . . .

Reconciliation requires more than a rainbow of skin-tones at the 11:00 o’clock service. Diversity without justice is assimilation. And assimilation makes clear whose culture is the favored one, the good one, the right one, the holy one. If your culture is the standard for rightness, you have found the Imago Dei in others to be […]

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Make Ahead Breakfast: Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal Cake

Who doesn’t love a hot bowl of oatmeal in the morning — especially as the weather starts to get a bit chilly? But, who has the time to prepare oats in the morning — aside from the instant ones that tend to be full of sugar?  If you want to get your oatmeal fix, but […]

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Tangy Aioli

Long-time readers know we love a good spread.  A flavorful Aioli is the perfect way to dress up things like sandwiches and sliders, burgers, crudites, grilled vegetables and more.  I love to whip up mixes like this and keep them in my fridge during the week.  We use them on everything from my lunch-time wrap […]

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Easier school lunch packing: designate a pantry “lunchbox zone”

My kids just started middle- and high school and I still hate packing their school lunches. The obvious retort is well, then, why don’t you get them to pack their own lunches? Because I also love packing their lunches. I should say: I love the nurturing, generous part of packing lunches. But I hate the details: […]

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Tips for Spooktacular Fall Decor

I think we’ve talked about Halloween before, but I haven’t always loved it.  I’ve always, always loved Autumn time, and for years I’ve been known to start decorating with fall leaves and burning pumpkin candles when it’s still 90 degrees outside, but none of that was really Halloween-y.  I just kind of embrace the season […]

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Freeze french toast by the loaf for quick weekday toaster breakfasts

Jill’s simple tip makes french toast easy and quick enough for weekday mornings: Occasionally on a weekend, we’ll make a whole loaf of french toast, then freeze it. During the week, we just snap off a frozen slice and put it in the toaster. Egg and whole grain bread right there. If you add vanilla […]

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Baby Gear So Good You’ll Never Hand It Down

“I love mine! Micah still rides on my back like a monkey in this,” Drew says. ($120, ergobaby.com) Related: Shopping for Baby Stuff: The 411 on Picking the Best Gear “These were so helpful in sleep training Micah—he soothed himself by rubbing the animals," Drew says. "To wean him from the pacifier, we just cut […]

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