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Beyond Detergent Eco Sprout Giveaway & Review!
Eco Sprout is well known for eco-friendly, natural, cloth diaper safe detergent. Did you know that Eco Sprout products go beyond detergent to include skin care, hand crafted soaps, and pail freshners?...
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3 Habits for Healing Plantar Fasciitis
The first step is the worst. Whether I am getting out of bed for the first time in the morning, standing after sitting for an extended period of time, or even taking that first step after standing for...
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7 Ways to Sort Toys and Keep on Top of the Clutter
Our family recently prepared to move and determined that we needed to cut down on our stuff addiction. Despite my enthusiasm for becoming “stuff free,” I dreaded tackling the toy room with its...
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Being the New Kid: The Unbearable Awkwardness of Newness
Being new is hard. My children are the new kids once again and they feel the discomfort acutely. I send them off to school each day with dragging feet, aching for the days when they skipped their...
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HE Washing Machines vs Traditional Washing Machines
I have a confession: We moved back to a house with a traditional washer and dryer and I’m loving it! The environmentalist in me loved our energy efficient set, but the rest of me groaned at the long...
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Gerber AIO Cloth Diaper Review
Gerber Childrenswear is always in our baby’s dressers: from the onesies we received at baby showers, to classic footed flannel pjs. Gerber prefolds have also been a part of our nursery, but usually as...
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How it Feels to Put Away Cloth Diapers in 13 GIFS
A few times a month, a post comes up in cloth diaper forums. It’s a kind of confession only other cloth diaper fanatics will understand. This is how it feels to put away cloth diapers. My baby is...
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Fall Fluff Cloth Diapers Giveaway!
The Parenting Patch is excited to announce the fourth annual Fall Fluff Cloth Diapers Giveaway! James and Heather, a husband and wife team, launched The Parenting Patch: Where Parents Grow on...
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CARE Empowers Girls and Their Families Through Education
This post is sponsored by CARE.org but the content and opinions expressed here are my own. CARE empowers girls and their families through education. They know that education is an investment that pays...
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When Parenting is Boring
Parenting is often portrayed as magic or madness, with little variation from the script. This makes sense – the best stories are often at one end of the parenting extremes. We save the in between...
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Baby Comfy Sun Sleeves Review
What do you do when it’s too hot for pants, but too hot to keep baby’s legs and arms exposed? We faced this conundrum last weekend at the zoo in Des Moines. Sebastian was ready for the zoo in a...
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What’s Your Dream Baby Carrier?
I received an amazing gift in the mail this past week – my dream baby carrier! I’ve been drooling over the LÍLLÉbaby Tokidoki prints since Rebel was released. What could be better than the combination...
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12 Clever Home Packing Tips for Your Next Move
We’re moving (again) and my husband and I are currently knee deep in packing. No matter how many times I pack, it always feels overwhelming. We’ve collected moving boxes and we are purging along the...
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Beyond Detergent Eco Sprout Giveaway & Review!
Eco Sprout is well known for eco-friendly, natural, cloth diaper safe detergent. Did you know that Eco Sprout products go beyond detergent to include skin care, hand crafted soaps, and pail freshners?...
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3 Habits for Healing Plantar Fasciitis
The first step is the worst. Whether I am getting out of bed for the first time in the morning, standing after sitting for an extended period of time, or even taking that first step after standing for...
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When Parenting is Boring
Parenting is often portrayed as magic or madness, with little variation from the script. This makes sense – the best stories are often at one end of the parenting extremes. We save the in between...
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Baby Comfy Sun Sleeves Review
What do you do when it’s too hot for pants, but too hot to keep baby’s legs and arms exposed? We faced this conundrum last weekend at the zoo in Des Moines. Sebastian was ready for the zoo in a...
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What’s Your Dream Baby Carrier?
I received an amazing gift in the mail this past week – my dream baby carrier! I’ve been drooling over the LÍLLÉbaby Tokidoki prints since Rebel was released. What could be better than the combination...
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Teaching Kids to Rewrite the Life Script
There’s a script many of us hear from birth about our roles as men and women. It often begins in churches, but the message is ingrained in our schooling, our homes, our sports, and our workplaces. It...
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Win Any LÍLLÉbaby Baby Carrier!
Back in July, This West Coast Mommy marked two years of blogging. Two years deserves a big giveaway, and this is it! Okay, okay, it’s a little late (or a lot late), but better late than never, right?...
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