Challenge yourself and your family in this fun Nature Journal activity!
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Everybody loves to spot creatures on a hike! I wrote this hiking song to help my boys begin to learn some of the creatures we might see in our local scrub. This is our main hiking song and we rarely hit the woods without singing… which ensures that we actually see NO wildlife, ironically. LOL!
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The Gopher Tortoise is a Florida Keystone Species! Believe it or not, more than 350 different kinds of animals may share a gopher tortoise’s burrow. Most, such as lizards and toads, slip in on occasion for some of the same reasons the tortoise does. Spiders and snakes go in to find food. And some, such as the gopher cricket, live nowhere else on Earth!
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Your BEST health starts in the kitchen. I wish I could lie and tell you that some bootcamp or marathon training or magical supplement would make all your health and fitness dream goals come true. But I cannot. The MOST important thing you can do for your health, the ABSOLUTE BEST New Year’s Resolution you can make is to tackle the kitchen Monster. When you begin to prepare your own food and love the process, you will develop a true appreciation for what it means to provide your body with Nourishment. Regardless of whether you are wanting to tackle the kitchen yourself, know someone who has vowed to cook more, or love someone who relishes in a nice glass of wine while they create culinary masterpieces, these Fab Five gifts will delight the Healthy cook!
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A person must CHOOSE Gratitude. Entering Gratitude Circle is a moment of humility, a dropping of your guard, an acceptance of what someone else valued the most, and a recognition of perspective that may not mirror your own. It’s also a place to be supported when you feel big feelings.
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I used to dread this time of year. I’m so glad I’m not in that space anymore. It CAN be better. I’ve compiled a few Holiday thoughts to share, things that help me during the Holidays. Maybe you’ll find something to inspire your own family towards a BETTER Holiday Season
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My family spends a ton of time in the outdoors- Hiking, Camping, Playing in the woods. We love the outdoors and we are always looking for more ways to really engage our family in a deeper Nature Connection. Let’s be honest, though, that we are also always looking for ways to make these activities flow more smoothly. If you know a family that loves the outdoors, these suggestions just might come in handy!
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I'm wide open about my foot obsession. I mean, after a full reconstruction with bone removal on the left and some wires and screws on the right I suppose I am justified. When I am looking for shoes, I have some serious criteria and I DO NOT COMPROMISE.
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All good things come to an end. And no matter how motivated you might be right now for your current exercise routine, it will change. It will eventually get hard to wake up, show up, man up. Or life might just get complicated with sick family members, financial issues, or a complete work overload. If you aren’t ready for it, this lack of motivation will wallop you right upside the head and you’ll fly right off the exercise train. When you finally come to your senses (however long that might take), the uphill climb back to the starting line can break you, literally and figuratively. With an Emergency Action Plan in place, you can bob and weave and avoid the whole fiasco.
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We don’t snack a lot at our house. Generally speaking, we eat meals when we are hungry and then we don’t eat in between….as a general rule. But I love snacks. I especially love snacks when we are on car trips, when I am hiking, and when we are camping. Occasionally, I also find myself in a sticky situation where I really need to eat and a meal just isn’t an option. Enter the Snacks (complete with Superhero cape) to save the day!
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Choooooooooocolate. I love chocolate. My kids love chocolate. I need my kids to eat breakfast and I can’t always be elaborate about it….. or patient for that matter. It takes every ounce of everything I have sometimes not to scream at my oldest to Eat-Your-Food-Dammit-So-I-Can-Be-Done-Feeding-People!!!!!!
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I LOVE A GOOD STRAWBERRY!!!
Strawberries are in season here in Central Florida and I am in heaven. I love taking the boys to pick them fresh, eating them right out of the field. I love seeing them with red juice dripping down their chins and strawberry mud on their fingers. And I REALLY love turning the strawberries into delicious, healthy eats! You will love these Strawberry Shortcakes. The shortcake portion can easily be amended into Blueberry Muffins or cinnamon muffins, too. The recipe makes 3 jumbo muffins or 6 regular muffins. I suggest doubling it! ;-) As an extra bonus, this can be made without a mixer and is easy enough for my four yr old to essentially do alone with just supervision.
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In the Not So Fab Five, I confessed that things have been pretty shitty. In reality, my brain had been mostly shitty more so than my actual life. Anyways, when it’s Not So Fab, the best thing to do is to Fake it til You’re Fab. The only way to get somewhere different is to take a step. And so this edition of Becca’s Fab Five is dedicated to taking steps in the right direction til it’s all Fab again.
In this one, I give you my Mac and Cheese recipe, remind you to check out all our info on feet, tell you how we protect from the sun and yet my kids have that amazing "glow" everyone talks about (it's not sunscreen!), talk about the difference between being BROKEN and being Broken Open, and give you the link to the magical sunflower seeds that grow the beauties by my front door. I hope you enjoy!!
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The crux of the matter is that many of the questions can be lumped together because they are all so wrong that it doesn't even matter what the question was in the first place. The very QUESTION is wrong. The answer is so much simpler than the question actually!
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From here, the trip finally began to show promise. We entered excellent tree cover and almost immediately found what we were looking for off to the right. These trails are everything we wanted with tons of tree cover, difficult terrain, scrambles, climbing and amazing old trees! This is where you should go to hike.
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As a beautiful afternoon corroded around a group of moms desperately searching backpacks for any semblance of an edible crumb, I jogged to my car and pulled out my Super Snacks. For once, my Super Mom cape was starched, ironed and flowing beautifully behind me.
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Every so often, you just have to have Mac and Cheese. If that Mac and Cheese could also be pretty darn good for you AND super Yummy, well, how do you say no? Thi recipe started as a Pasta Carbonara recipe. One day, I had the revelation that it could easily be converted to it’s cheesier cousin. And so it began…
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You may have noticed that I am super late with the Fab Five this month. You also may not have noticed, and that’s ok, too. But I noticed. I actually noticed every single one of the ways I have sucked since about the second week of January. A huge dark cloud has been hanging over me and try as I might, I simply could not find any light. Was I depressed? Hell, I don’t know… maybe. I have no doubt that many doctors would’ve happily slapped a script in my hand and patted my tush as I walked out the door. Problem solved. I’ve gone that route and I don’t like that Becca.
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Of all my adventures, having children has marked me the most deeply. I’m not sure I can string together the words to explain something that has cut into me so very deeply and yet simultaneously covered all the other marks. Having children plunged me into the battle of my life between complete selfishness and utter selflessness. And this battle rages daily in a way I never expected. There isn’t any real balance to this gig. The hope is that you are happy at the end of it all, though, and that feels like too big a gamble to just go at it haphazardly. Yikes!
Lord knows, I'm not getting all of this right. Most days, I question if I am getting ANY of it right. But if I am good at anything, it is creating frameworks within which I can try to make sense of the senseless.... This is how I am currently waging war on my own daily battle.
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