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Online Garden Seeds

It’s an odd year and the Easter Bunny is not excluded from the stay home, stay safe order. I had visions of Otto in his Easter Sunday suit running around with his cousins looking for eggs but that will have to happen next year. Honestly, that is not even the real reason of Easter anyway. […]

Otto’s Easter Basket from Home

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Easter Basket Shopping while Staying Home

Yesterday morning we got a fun surprise in the mail! I had ordered dahlia bulbs around January and completely forgot about them. It was from a flash sale email and the price was too good to resist. ( like always, right?) Well, 30 bulbs might have been a little over zealous but they came in […]

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Planting Bulbs for the Garden

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Heart of a Lion Toddler T shirt planting bulbs in the garden

We are now entering our 22nd day of staying home (with the exception of a car ride). It is easy to feel alone and isolated because well…that is what we are but all of us are so in a way, we’re together in this. If you are able to stay home and doing so, thank […]

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Safe at Home

The one thing that has always given me refuge in dark times is my garden. It doesn’t matter if it was my small 4×8 bed at our old home in Byron Center, container pots on my patio or my garden now at the farm. There is something about watching seeds burst out of the ground […]

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New Seed Starting Product for The Garden

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Park Seed Bio Dome 80 Cell Double for seed starting

I think we can all agree that things have been a little interesting this month. Fourteen days ago we heard rumblings of Covid-19 entering the United States and eight days ago Joe and I decided to take Otto out of daycare and stay home with him until the threat of this virus has passed. It […]

Grocery delivery from Gordon Food Service Store

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I’ve never been one to enjoy scary movies or deep thinking movies. I feel like horror and drama cause way to much anxiety for me. If I am going to watch a movie, I want to laugh and feel good. Especially right now. While we are all home social distancing I thought it would be […]

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10 Feel Good Romantic Comedies to Binge Now

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I always like to have citrus on hand in my home. Not only does it come in bright and cheerful colors like vibrant oranges, yellows and greens but it adds an extra zest (literally) to dressings, desserts and dinners. It can be used for household cleaning as well as sprinkling into a muffin. I had […]

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It’s hard not to over order seeds in the winter when everything is gray and snowy. It’s also hard to not order seeds when you are stuck at home social distancing yourself. It’s been astonishing to see the trickle down effects of the virus panics. First the grocery store shelves were ransacked and now even […]

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Shirt: Anthropologie M Jeans: Agolde size 32 Jacket: J.Crew Large Shoes: Tory Burch, old. Similar here and here We are day six of keeping ourselves at home until the threat of this virus passes by. I have been binging podcasts while working and Otto plays and finding other ways to pass the time. I know […]

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My Favorite Podcasts While Social Distancing

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These are scary times and uncharted waters we are navigating here with the coronavirus. I refuse to contribute to the fear and paranoia that is constantly pumped out by the media. We have a choice. We can be smart, educated and level headed in times like this or we can run around like chicken little. […]

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How to Support Small Businesses during a crisis

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We took full advantage of the sunshine that Michigan has given us a bit earlier than usual and did some spring cleaning in the garden last week. it felt so good to have the sun on our faces and be out in the dirt working up a little bit of a sweat. Typically we do […]

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Spring Garden Cleaning Checklist

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