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  Making homemade powdered flower food is a simple and effective way to nourish and prolong the life of your fresh flowers.     Powdered Flower Food is something you can create with just a few simple household items: sugar, baking soda, and citric acid. We use this recipe for our fresh cut flowers at […]

How to make your own Powdered Flower Food

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flowers cut

There are some recipes that become tied to a season so deeply, you can almost smell them before you make them. A Simple Summer Dessert My grandma always seemed to have a pan of rhubarb crisp cooling on the table this time of year. The kitchen windows would be open, the garden beginning to fully […]

Grandma’s Rhubarb Crisp | Delightfully Tasty and Rooted in Tradition

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Rhubarb Crisp with Ice Cream

Made with Rhubarb Syrup – a fresh drink that carries through the summer My grandma always had a hot pan of rhubarb crisp cooling on the table this time of year. We’d walk into her kitchen and the smell would already be there—tart and buttery and warm—settling into everything like it belonged. And when we […]

Fresh and Creamy Rhubarb Cooler made with Homemade Rhubarb Syrup

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Rhubarb Cooler

Bottle up the blooms outside and create your own Spring Perfume! Light, fresh, and a great Mother’s Day gift! A Seasonal DIY Perfume There’s a point in spring where things start to shift, even if nothing outside looks all that different yet. The air changes first. Windows stay open a little longer into the night. […]

Simple Spring Perfume You Can Make Yourself

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The inevitable change. The moment when suddenly your kids aren’t littles running around the house anymore, but teenagers (and soon to be young adults) ready to take their own leap forward. I’m feeling it now more than ever, so come sit with me, friend (you may need to grab a tissue). Today I drove one […]

How Did We Get Here? On Parenting Teens and Letting Go

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Mother and daughter in kitchen

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