An Alternative to Dryer Sheets

As most of you already know, I tend to shy away from anything with ingredients on the label I don't recognize or understand (part of the reasons I don't wash my hair, make my own laundry soap and use coconut oil for everything...).

As a result I have pretty much never used dryer sheets. In all honesty, it hasn't been a big deal. Sure, maybe it would have been nicer to have softer clothes, but it wasn't that important...

But, then I discovered Woolzies, Wool Dryer Balls.  They are great, folks! If you, like me, don't use dryer sheets get yourself a box. They help the laundry come out nice and soft! And you will use them again and again (unlike dryer sheets).

Plus... if you have a little one around, they will love them, too! Little Owl couldn't believe her luck when they came in the mail as we were heading out to run errands and I emptied the box into her carseat. Woohoo!

Thanks to Woolzies, you have a chance to win a set here, too! Enter the giveaway below. 

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Simple Meals Friday #28

Welcome to Simple Meals Friday!

There is nothing like having a collection of simple meals to throw together in a slow cooker first thing in the morning or in a skillet as a last minute dinner. What are your favorite slow cooker, rice cooker, skillet meals and salads?

We want to know your easy to make meals. It's great learn and be inspired by others. When you link up on any of our sites the links will show up on all the blogs

Meet Your Hosts

1. Katie of Nourishing Simplicity
2. Amanda of Natural Living Mamma
3. Jacquelyn of LittleOwlCrunchyMomma

Please Read and Follow these Simple Meals Friday Rules

• Keep the foods "nourishing", such as homemade chicken stocks, whole grains, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats (lard, coconut oil, butter, olive oil, tallow), unrefined sugars, flours and salts and meats.
• Please don't include recipes using processed oils such as soy and canola oil, msg laden bouillon and other highly processed foods. Try to incorporate traditional methods of preparing foods like, sprouting, soaking, sourdough and lacto-fermentation. If I notice a recipe using these ingredients it will be deleted.
• Link back to this blog hop, it is a common linking courtesy. It helps to build a stronger blogging community. That way we can all learn and share with each other.

We enjoyed reading all your submissions. The hosts will pick a favorite post to feature on next week's Simple Meals Friday. If you want to be featured please be sure to link back to this blog hop. Our favorites will be featured on Facebook and Pinterest. 

Host Pick From Last Week's Hop

Kale in pesto? I think so! This pesto from Tessa the Domestic Diva made with fresh raw ingredients looks amazing!

Are you ready to link up?

Poopy, poopy everywhere...

As I write this post I have barf in my hair and carrot soup on my shoes. Oh, and I just noticed that my shirt is inside out....

Hello. It's been awhile since I have been on here to write a post. Feels strange to be back. I will write a longer explanation later, but suffice it to say I have been dealing with sleep deprivation and trying to figure out what to change in our lives so both Little Owl, papa and I can all get more sleep. We are on the up.

Just wanted to share with you a little story...

For the past month we have been trying a new method at bedtime to get Athena to fall asleep without nursing: quiet playtime, bath time, books, dressed, nurse, and than papa takes over and she falls asleep with him.

Well, last night was my first night putting Athena to bed without Brian using this new "no-nurse-to-sleep" method.

Post bath, Athena always hangs out on the bed while I dry off and put clothes on. We've been doing it this way for over a month. No accidents. Of course, the one night I don't have help... I turn around after looking away for maybe two minutes and smell something very, very sour.

Yup. Poopy. All. Over. Everything.

She had spread it around by crawling from one end of the bed to the other and back again (note: she's very fast...). She had covered her favorite book (now no longer a part of her collection due to its change of texture and smell...) with poopy.

I gathered her up (would scoop be a better verb?) and brought her into the bathroom to wipe her bum. No poopy on her bum. Just All. Over. her legs and some on her arms. Well... only one thing to do... back in the bathtub.

No protest from baby on this one. She loves the bath tub.

After getting her all cleaned off we come back out. I take the sheet that had been christened with baby love and wrap it up tightly to wash later. I decide to try and see if she will go any more for me in the potty because surprisingly for how much it spread I didn't think she had actually pooped that much. Bad choice. She didn't poop more. But the pooping position made her spit up.

Spit up what you say?

Oh, just sardines that she had had for dinner.

Yummy.

ABC sardines all over her clean baby body and me. Well... only one thing to do... back in the bathtub. No protest from baby. She loves the bath tub.

*Sigh* I love being a mom.

No, but really... I do. Just look at this face:

Ok mommas, what is your "best" poopy story? Please tell me. 

Simple Meals Friday #26

Welcome to Simple Meals Friday!

Hey folks! Sorry I didn't get this up last week. Have been struggling with sleep deprivation due to Little Owl's hard nights. Thankfully, things are looking up. Hope you can join us this week.

There is nothing like having a collection of simple meals to throw together in a slow cooker first thing in the morning or in a skillet as a last minute dinner. What are your favorite slow cooker, rice cooker, skillet meals and salads?

We want to know your easy to make meals. It's great learn and be inspired by others. When you link up on any of our sites the links will show up on all the blogs.

Meet Your Hosts

1. Katie of Nourishing Simplicity
2. Amanda of Natural Living Mamma
3. Jacquelyn of LittleOwlCrunchyMomma

Please Read and Follow these Simple Meals Friday Rules

• Keep the foods "nourishing", such as homemade chicken stocks, whole grains, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats (lard, coconut oil, butter, olive oil, tallow), unrefined sugars, flours and salts and meats.
• Please don't include recipes using processed oils such as soy and canola oil, msg laden bouillon and other highly processed foods. Try to incorporate traditional methods of preparing foods like, sprouting, soaking, sourdough and lacto-fermentation. If I notice a recipe using these ingredients it will be deleted.
• Link back to this blog hop, it is a common linking courtesy. It helps to build a stronger blogging community. That way we can all learn and share with each other.

We enjoyed reading all your submissions. The hosts will pick a favorite post to feature on next week's Simple Meals Friday. If you want to be featured please be sure to link back to this blog hop. Our favorites will be featured on facebook and pintrest! Host Picks From Last Week's Hop  

A Life Unprocessed has a recipe for a Ginger Bug Natural Soda Starter. I've had my eye on it for over a year now. My friend and I finally tried it out last month. It is wonderful!

It's Time to Link Up And Share Your Best Simple Meals!