Author: Lauren
A Gift Guide For the Person Who Loves Tea
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At the end of December, we went to a local tea shop and cafe with our little family, my side of the family, and my grandma. We went for High Tea, and it was so much fun. We got to have cute little sandwiches cut into different shapes. They had…
Makeup Products for Acne-Prone Skin
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When I started wearing makeup, I wore non-comedogenic labeled makeup. When I started having terrible hormonal acne, it felt like nothing was working. When I looked in the mirror, I was so insecure about how my face looked, and it was the first time in my life that I felt…
Raising Baby Ducks For Beginners
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You have seen all the baby duck pictures on social media, and you are probably here asking yourself, “Could I raise baby ducks?” I’m here to tell you it’s not hard, but it’s different if you have raised chickens. It can be more challenging to raise baby ducks. But when…
Why I Quit Traditional Social Media
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In October 2018, I decided that social media was not for me. I deleted it and took breaks from it, but I wanted to try it for a year. Being a millennial who grew up in an age with flip phones, pressing the “end” button over and over on your…
What I Learned in 2023
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This yearly tradition allows me to reflect, look forward, see growth, be thankful, and know what I need to continue learning. 2023 was a year of waiting again, and in that waiting, a considerable change followed a lot of uncertainty in our adoption plans. We found out that our previous…
Love or Forget It? Chicken Coop Edition
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We built our chicken coop in 2019. It’s now 2023 and we’ve made some renovations. I’ve learned what I love and hate in a chicken coop and I’m going to share with you what those are. Forget It: Droppings Board/Litter Trays: We started with 8 chickens. My coop didn’t take…
Dear Anxiety: How You Make me Borrow Troubles
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Dear Anxiety, I’m done borrowing trouble and worry from tomorrow, the next day, the next week, the next month, and the next year. I’m done. Well, I really want to be. Yet, I’m in this cycle of dwelling on what ifs. This week I had two women tell me to…
Raising Kids with Animals
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When I was a little girl I had many pets. Bunnies, guinea pigs, fish – two particular 25-cent goldfish lived so long we actually had to move them to a cow water tank when we moved away, cats, dogs, and chickens. I got to see all parts of an animal’s…
Favorite Products in October 2023
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October Skincare Faves: Chicken Coop Faves: Self-Care October Favorites Please read my Tea Lovers Gift Guide for more of my favorites. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Rest assured, I only link to products I love.
How Our Hands Tell Part of Our Story
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I have always loved hands because they tell so much. Different Hands, Different Stories You know if someone is a construction worker by looking at their hands. Their hands show all the labor they have done with healing wounds from pulled splinters or cuts from a tool. They are muscular…