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Welcome to the Growing Up Herbal Journal where you'll find information on herbal education, recipes, tutorials, natural living tips and tricks, and behind the scenes glimpses of how I live life naturally.

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In this week’s vlog, we are all heading out on a Sunday family fun day to run some errands, go out to eat, and go see the new Spiderman movie. After that, I’m sharing some house project updates with you as well as some new goodies I got from Amazon. Later in the week, Dean […]

Today, the two older boys are off to a 4-H Electricity Camp, so the younger boys and I are heading out to run some errands before visiting Backyard Terrors Dinosaur Park in Bluff City, TN. This is a small, donation-only family park that is a fun place for little kids to explore and older kids […]

Hey friends! In the midst of a new website redesign, and therefore, not being able to post here on the blog so much, I thought it would be fun (and a challenge) to resurrect my old YouTube channel by sharing some weekly vlogs. You know, just some little clips of things that are happening throughout […]

Labor Day hike to the fire tower today on Doe Mountain: 2 adults, 4 kids ages 5-11, and 10 miles. I’m not sure how long it takes most people to hike with kids, but this particular one took us 4 hours round trip. The hike is mostly uphill on the way in and downhill on […]

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