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Kids eat free on Sundays!❤️❤️ I have a feeling that this is the first of many community gatherings for this special place.

The Local Table is Hosting Our Very First
Annual Backpack Giveaway 📚
Sunday July 21st From 4pm to 7pm!
We Are Providing 150 Backpacks
Full of Supplies! ✏️
No Purchase Required. 🏫
And No Surveys. No Catch. 💯

Free Face Painting for the Kids!

Kids Must Be Accompanied by an Adult.
This is a First Come, First Served Event.

Feel Free to Bring the Family for Dinner
Kids Eat Free Every Sunday and Monday Night
(1 Kid Per Paying Adult)
No Purchase Required for Our Backpack Giveaway!

The Local Table
215 Fontaine Blvd, Widefield, CO 80911
719-424-7633

My kiddos and I have been enjoying natural flavored water all week💧 cucumber is my all time fav👍🏻 we are looking for some new combs or single ideas to continue our natural wellness journey😃 drop your fav in the comments below🌻

Today I was blessed ten fold❤️ I absolutely love my job as a Family Child Care provider. When caring for a child you are really caring for the whole family, as it should be😘 These wonderful families have become apart of our family. God has blessed me with amazing families. Today I had one of my kiddos families take my car and detail it for me❤️ my car smells amazing and has truly never been so clean. I’m so grateful for all my families and love them with all my heart. Thank you Kai, Braeden, April and Adam so much for your hard work and loving my family as your own.

Two years ago I had finished my first office space🤪 well🤔 life is calling for a new office space! Organization is not my strong suite 😬 Positive side it’s a blank slate to make my own. Finding out what works for me is the challenge. Work flow ........ balance

I know so many in here are new to the toxin-free lifestyle, and you may still be loving some of the cleaners you buy at boxed stores. 🎯 I get it. It’s easy, they’re what you know, and the marketing is adorbs. 😬

When I dug into the research I was dismayed, mad and determined to change things not only in my home but in other’s homes as well. 💪🏼

Here’s what you need to know... greenwashing is a real thing and it’s happening more then ever — those products that look pretty aren’t so pretty when you actually read what’s in them 🤯 and then when you find out they are harming you and your family ! That’s why I do what I do and why I’m grateful for an amazing company like YL. 🦋❤️✨

You are going to begin to see ALOT of lawsuits pop up. ⚖️ This is not the first and won’t be the last.

👉 If you haven’t and can spare an hour — Watch “stink” on Netflix

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This action is overdue. Clever marketing does not make chemical cleaners safe for families, pets and businesses. 🚫

“SC Johnson has been hit with a class action lawsuit claiming that Method cleaning products contain harmful and toxic ingredients.”

Let’s hope this is one step further in tightening up misleading greenwashed marketing techniques. We deserve BETTER! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

🔗 https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/consumer-products/cleaning-products/method-class-action-says-cleaning-products-are-toxic/

Other companies that educated consumers know are also greenwashing (this is not an exhaustive list - just one with many brands we are familiar with):

❌ Green Works
❌ Many “free + clear” detergents
❌ Seventh Generation
❌ Mrs. Meyers (absolutely awful)
❌ LUSH
❌ Simple Green
❌ Toms of Maine
❌ JR Watkins
❌ Caldrea

The good news? 😍 We have alternatives!!!! ❤️ And even if we are adding our beloved essential oils to our bottle of Thieves Household Cleaner (that costs around $.70/spray bottle) we are still saving money compared to the overly priced, deceptive products we are buying in stores. 🎯

DIY Stress away Fidget Balls

I think we can all agree that making fidget balls at home sounds like a great way to, well…relieve 😩 stress.

Maybe a much-needed break from the 🗺 world, it just makes sense to do what you can to relax.

What I love about this simple activity is that it’s good for adults and kids, both! I have done this DIY with my family child care kiddos and the kids liked to make them because they feel really 🆒cool! So, this activity is a great way to connect... sit down together and make them outside.

They're great to have on hand for those days when kiddo is frustrated 😉 they can grab their own stress ball.

All you need:

• cornstarch

• Water

• Stress Away EO

• balloons (not water balloons)

• funnel

MIXIN IT UP

1. Place the opening of your balloon around the bottom of a funnel.

2. Add about 3 drops of Stressaway essential oil to 1/4 cup cornstarch in a larger bowl and mix together with your fingers.

3. Scoop the 1/4 cup of cornstarch into the funnel and use a lollipop stick to keep pressing the cornstarch into the balloon.

4. Add a few tablespoons of water down your funnel and carefully squeeze the balloon to mix the cornstarch and water.

5. Keep adding cornstarch and water in smaller amounts, until your balloon is the size of a lemon.

6. Remove the funnel and tie off the balloon.

Yes it’s a tootsie roll🤣🤣🤣 funny story my mom was quite the health enthusiast when I was growing up 👧🏼

As she grew older she developed a love AKA addiction 🤣 for Tootsie rolls! I would take her shopping the first thing in the cart was.....you guessed it Tootsie rolls😂 laundry day inevitably there would be wrappers in the wash👗 A cup filled to the brim by her fav chair.

Missing my mama today🙁 so I grabbed a Tootsie roll and savored the moment.

Proverbes 31:17 she sets about her work vigorously, her arms are strong for her tasks.

Mom was fiercely passionate and protective of her family................God fearing woman of God

She was our rock....prideful........stubborn.......comforter......mentor........loving .......shared with me a strong work ethic and raised her children in the house of th e Lord❤️

To all you mamas make memories today that will last a life time❤️

Happy Mother’s Day 🌺 #

There's a reason stories about acts of kindness feel cathartic right now: I find myself being drawn to stories with empathy vs fear. Challenge yourself today to find one way to bring kindness into your life. Ask yourself: How can I be kind to myself? How can I find ways to treat others with kindness during these uncertain times

This Easter reminds me, no matter what we face today, what we’ve been through, or what uncertainties tomorrow may hold, Christ is risen and is our Hope. He conquered death, He makes all things new.

He is risen indeed❤️