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Top 5 Local Austin Baby Registry Ideas

Expectant Austinites, grow your family local! Register with these five awesome grown-in-Austin businesses for your grown-in-Austin baby: 1. FOOD: Dinner Elf Stock the fridge after baby comes home. Dinner Elf

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Resolve To Take A Little Stress Off The Table

New Years resolutions can be so cliche. They are the reason so many Christmas cookies will get tossed into the trash. They are the reason my pilates class will be crowded for the next two weeks. Though many will not be kept, let’s

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Real Food Review: No-Bake Peanut Butter Oat Bars

After a week of indulging in comfort food favorites and sleeping in, I knew my little people were going to fight the Monday school morning routine. Real food to the rescue! Thanks to my favorite food blog, we started our week with the delightfully

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Real Food Review: Roasted Veggie Linguini

Lisa Leake of 100 Days of Real Food is one of my food heroes. She changed the way I cook for and feed my little people. We’re not quite at 100% unprocessed, but we’re so much closer than we were. One of

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Two Truths & A Lie: Tall Tales That Rescued Our Family Dinner

Family dinner is when we come together to share the ups and downs of all of our days. When we had toddlers at the table, getting them to talk during our family dinner was never a problem. Getting a word in edgewise or a

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Stop This Busy Season From Becoming Our Busy Life

Proper Texan Bluebonnet Frolicking I start our family out every September with such verve. Fresh backpacks, new outfits, a variety of healthy lunches mapped out for every day of the week. It’s a Type A personality dream sequence. I promise myself we will

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Can You Be A Scientist & A Mom?

That’s what early 2004 looked like for me: all rubber boots and marsh mud, coming home smelling like the sea, feeling like my work was making a difference in

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Touching Turkey Hearts, And Hopefully Little Hearts

Thanksgiving, and all its last minute hosting logistics, is nearly upon us. The preparation can be so big that it is easy to forget that it ends in the uncommon

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Family Dinner: Forget Perfect And Just Sit Down

Sweet Mess Today I am going to have my dinner without a side of mom guilt. Yes, it’d be ideal if my husband was home to eat with us. Yes, it’d be social media-worthy if my daughter picked a bouquet of garden