When the Northwest Arkansas Bloggers started the #NWArkCares campaign, I thought it would be easy. Write a little blog post, spread a little love for great causes online. And while it was really easy last month to write about literacy, which is one of the most important things to me as a mom and a […]
How to Be a Great Gift-Giver
Uncommon Goods approached me about writing this post and gave me a few products to compensate me for my time. But I love this company and all opinions are my own. I used to pride myself on being a really great gift-giver. I never used a wish list, figuring that if I knew a person […]
5 Ways to Improve Literacy Where You Live
I’m a part of the Northwest Arkansas Bloggers (join us if you’re local!) and this month is the first month we are taking part in #NWArkCares, an initiative to have bloggers give a voice to important causes. This month it’s literacy, which you probably know is a great one for me. We are readers in […]
The Classic End to Summer: The Washington County Fair {Plus Giveaway!}
I have been compensated for this post, but all opinions are my own. #MyWCF15 Being a 4-H girl (who lived in a larger town and didn’t even have pets growing up, let alone farm animals) I have a lot of memories that involve the Washington County Fair. To me, it always represented the end of […]
Is “No Poo” for You?
Our bodies are constantly changing, and not always in ways we expect or are prepared for. So it was with me recently when my hair suddenly started getting really oily. Like, I want to take a shower later the same day I already had a shower oily. It was bad. And I wasn’t sure what […]
Notions: Kids, Technology and Vacations
This is the first of what I hope will be a weekly series of posts about cool things I’ve found on the Internet, hopefully all on some kind of a theme. We’ll see. One thing I think every good parent has in common with every other good parent is that we want our kids to […]
Celebrate the Fourth with an Evening at Orchards Park with Kaylee Rutland
This post is compensated by HireInfluence, but all opinions are my own. The Fourth of July, for me, is all about getting together with people and having fun. I remember Fourths of my childhood, going to see fireworks at home or up in my grandparents’ hometown in Iowa. It was a time when all the […]