Learning what is in your food can be scary. Knowing what to avoid and healthier alternatives can be down right mind boggling. If you are like me you want to know what to eat, what to avoid, and the best way to do so. And unless you have an excess of free time you want a tool, an app, or something to help keep all that info straight and ...
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Monkey Do Project: We Need Your Help to Keep Appalachia Kids Healthy
Learn about Paving the Path with Monkeys for this project! It is one of every parent's nightmares. Waking up in the middle of the night to your child, sick with vomiting and high fever. Nothing is helping and your child gets worse by the minute. You jump in the car and rush to the hospital. The doctor's take over and you know your baby is going to ...
Mamavation Monday: Spring Break
Spring Break is here! Finally! I know some parents dread the long vacations at home with the kids but I love it. I love staying in my jammies and not getting up at 5:30am. The kids being home means I will have to find a new time to get my running finished. I usually run during the day before I pick up baby boy from his half day preschool. ...
Running Tips and Tricks
My best friend, Megan, and I are preparing for our first ever 5K! It is the Color Me Rad 5K, and believe me it is awesome. To get me to run it would have to be! Feel free to skip over this post or laugh in derision if you are an experienced runner. This post is for the newbies. Seriously, you runners make it look so easy. I thought ok, I see these ...
The Benefits of Coconut Oil
I am convinced coconuts must have a hidden cape inside their husks. If you haven't heard about Coconut Oil yet I would be surprised. This little guy is popping up all over the place from the grocery store to Pinterest and with good reason. Coconut oil has 100s of uses! Seriously, is there anything it can't do? Recently, I started training for a ...