Jessica Burleson

Jessica Burleson
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Eat Your Veggies! Encouraging Picky Eaters

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On my daughter's second birthday, she was presented with a small cupcake after dinner. After we helped her blow out the candles, we all watched with anticipation as she began to taste the sweet...

How to Make Your Own Baby Food

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Ah, baby food. It is curious how something so simple has become so complex. I’ve seen many highly judgmental mom-debates on Facebook about when to start feeding babies food, what to feed them, and...

5 Easy Meals for New Moms: What to Bring and Do

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As I think back on those precious and fragile months of early motherhood, many of them remain a blur of overwhelm and fatigue combined with euphoria. While I started to sort out my new...
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What Mamas Can Do To Prevent Zika This Summer

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Since I became pregnant, I have become increasingly concerned with how I can prevent Zika. I am one of those people that seem to get mosquito bites no matter what I do. By mid-summer...

My 1st Trimester…While Parenting a Toddler

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When I put on my white maternity shorts in the morning, I didn’t consider that an hour later my two-year-old would have breakfast-taco-bean-hands that would smear my white shorts with black smudges. I bought...

How to Throw a Kentucky Derby Party Like a Local

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How to Throw a Kentucky Derby Party Like a Local I’m from Louisville, Kentucky, home to the famous Kentucky Derby. Every May the city comes alive with Derby festivities. It is an exciting moment in...

A Guide to Visiting Austin’s Urban Farms

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  "Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: “Love. They must do it for love.” ~Wendell Berry, Bringing it...

Meet Jessica Burleson

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Hi there! I’m Jessica, mother to a beautiful mess of a two-year-old girl and I just found out that we’re expecting again. Eek! Three years ago my husband, Eric, and I were on our...