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10+ Reasons Every Army Family Should Try Minimalism
I’m late to the party. Again. This time, the party I’m late to is the Pinterest-worthy, Instagram-featured stark white, and most importantly clean homes of the millennial generation. Gen Z might like to knock us for our side parts and skinny jeans but one thing we have gotten right is minimalism. Maybe not minimalism in…
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Supporting Your Soldier (And You) During *These* Times
This is not the post I planned to publish today, but we keep it real over here so this is going live instead. I wrote a rough draft of this post during the time that troops were pulling out of Afghanistan and its effects made waves among military families and our community’s emotional compass. Now it’s March 2022…
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Why Minimalism is Hard for Military Families (& Getting Past It)
We are resilient! We are capable. But no matter how many times we move houses– getting rid of household belongings can be tough for military families! To the non-military world, it might seem, by nature, all Army Families are minimalist. And by “principle” — they aren’t wrong. Our “worth” is not in our things as much…
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Natural Living: Easy Ways to Make Sustainability Fun for Toddlers
Sustainability is a reasonable goal for anyone, even moms with littles– but it’s also totally reasonable to want to make sustainability fun for toddlers! Sustainability has been a way of life for countless nations throughout history, and families were bigger than ever (and not without littles!) Indigenous people have been navigating toddlerhood and sustainability in tandem since…
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7 Great Children’s Books About Green Living
What a waste. WHAT A WASTE. My toddler said that over and over again after we read Jess French’s What a Waste. But more importantly than that phrase was the 72 pages of brimming information that saturated my littles’ minds and set them on the path to becoming what they call “eco-warriors.” Since that book, we’ve…
