House & Home
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Baby-Proofing The Fireplace
When we moved into our new place we had an amazing fireplace in our playroom. While we thought this was a great feature for the long term as our kids are so little now we didn’t want it to be a place where they crawled into and got all covered in soot. So we knew right away we wanted to cover it up at least temporarily. We thought about a simple baby gate but decided that would just invite a lot of throwing toys in and climbing over it as they reached toddlerhood. What we ended up doing was an awesome kid friendly centerpiece with a chalkboard and magnets! It…
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Weed Killer
I’m always looking for ways to make my house more baby friendly and safer for my kids (full rant here). But while we all know round up and all those chemical weed killers/insect killers are terrible for us – and cancer causing – there aren’t often a lot of alternatives if you want your house not to be the scary looking/bug infested place on the street. Long story short, our front walkway got completely overrun by weeds despite us doing our best to keep up with pulling them out all the time. But we finally found a solution that works! Check out this sweet before and after I took! And…
