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Homemade Baby Food: 10 Tips for How to Get Started

Homemade Baby Food: 10 Tips for How to Get Started

Making homemade baby food is a great way to go green and save some green!  I love that you know exactly what is in the food – no preservatives or fillers.  Plus it is cheaper and it tastes better!  I could especially tell this when comparing homemade vs. store bought green beans.  Yuck! 10 Tips for Making Homemade…

4 Reasons Why I Avoided Essential Oils and What Finally Changed My Mind

4 Reasons Why I Avoided Essential Oils and What Finally Changed My Mind

I have been part of the green, natural, crunchy (whatever you want to call it!) world for a long time, but for years I avoided trying essential oils. Everyone I followed online sang the praises of essential oils, but I couldn’t get on board. Three years ago I (finally!) gave them a try. Here is…

5 Ways Having a Baby is Easier the 3rd Time Around (and one big way it is harder)

5 Ways Having a Baby is Easier the 3rd Time Around (and one big way it is harder)

It is completely natural for new moms to be nervous, yet hopeful when having their first baby. (I certainly was!) The thought of having more than one child may seem insanely difficult to a first time mom, but for myself, having a baby was easier the 3rd time around. This post contains affiliate links. 5…

I Hate Cleaning, But This Helps . . . (Free Cleaning Kit)

I Hate Cleaning, But This Helps . . . (Free Cleaning Kit)

This post contains affiliate links. I am pretty honest about my struggles here. If you’ve been reading Simply Rebekah for even a short amount of time, you’ll know that one of my biggest struggles is cleaning. I hate cleaning. My personality type (ESFP) doesn’t handle structure and routines very well. Instead, I love to live…

The Day the Natural Living Community Turned on Me

The Day the Natural Living Community Turned on Me

Last May, Erin from The Humbled Homemaker shared a post I had written in 2010 about washing disposable swim diapers.  She has a large facebook following and the post took off like wild fire. The Facebook post received 1,113 likes, over 300 comments, and 3,932 shares. All of that attention on Facebook resulted in my highest…