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.
It feels weird to decorate our new home for the holidays. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love decorating for the holidays. At the house on the mountain, we had every nook and cranny stuffed with some sort of holiday decor—in a tasteful way of course. However, this year, it just feels a bit […]
So I’m one of those people that refuses to decorate for Christmas until the day after Thanksgiving. Anyone else with me? I think it’s because I view Thanksgiving as an autumn holiday, and I want to give my family plenty of time to appreciate and celebrate it before moving on to the next holiday. As […]
The winter season is the perfect time to slow down, nourish your body and mind, and make beautiful memories with loved ones. During the winter months, I find myself at home much more than I am during other seasons, which I sometimes find hard to believe because I feel like I spend a lot of […]
While each season is enjoyable for its own reasons, winter is one of my favorites. It’s just so full of warmth, magic, and meaning. Warmth Thanks to my pitta dosha, I prefer to be warm all. the. time. so winters here in Tennessee can be hard for me. Thankfully, though, there are things I can […]
Each year, I try to put together an Advent calendar for the boys in an effort to celebrate the season and to do something fun and memorable together as a family. Instead of receiving gifts or candy, though, we do special activities together. But this year, I got behind and missed the December 1st start […]
In my last post on homeschooling, I explained how we’re spending part of our Winter Break doing some focused holiday unit studies with a bit of unschooling mixed into the mix. I talked about how I put a unit study together, and I shared our Halloween holiday unit study schedule as well. Today, I thought I’d […]
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