Some of my favorite things about the Holidays is crafting,decorating,and baking. Unfortunately,with so much going on at school and preparing for Claire’s birthday these have been sorely neglected this year. But I am hoping to catch up after this weekend. Claire and I love making decorations for around the house. I especially [...]
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   | America’s Recycles Day is Today! So in celebration of this day,I was approached by Nature Bridge to support them in their effort to educate children (and families) about the importance of recycling. Here are a few fun facts they have provided me: The average American throws away 1,600 pounds of trash each year. That’s 4.4 pounds [...] Friday was The Ambrose School Chili Festival. It’s the annual fundraiser for their teacher’s Christmas bonuses. Everyone dresses up in Western Ware and have a rooting-tooting good time! Thanks to Papa,Uncle Joe-Joe and Aunt Courtney,Mark and I had boots and hats. I had to get the kid’s at the local D&B Supply. I [...] Sorry for the delay,but I have finally downloaded the pictures from the elderberry field trip and experimented with some elderberry-cherry jelly! Here are the photos from our trip to the River Ranch owned by Wildlands Inc. We pretty much caravaned down the levee picking berries as we went. Or I should say Bill (from [...] There are 5 spots left in the Elderberry Field Trip! I have spoken further with Wildlands Inc. and YES,kids are welcome! So I should say we have room for 5 more families. Here is the basic information for or field trip:We will meet at their elderberry mitigation site Tuesday,July 27 in the [...] I can not believe that it was just four years ago that my baby boy was born! It seems like only yesterday he was tugging at my hair while falling asleep. Oh…wait…that was yesterday! He is still my baby boy. We decided to celebrate his birthday a week [...] I really did not have anything planned for the 4th of July,except making homemade quinoa mac-n-cheese for the kids. (Which they did not eat,but Mark and I ate). So I decide to go to the farmer’s market and see what I could find. There were soooo many choices it was hard to narrow [...] First we got the chickens (CLICK HERE for Urban Chickens post),then we investigated GMO foods (CLICK HERE for Got GMO-free Milk post). Now we are making a run at Grass-Fed Beef,local style. After watching the “scare you away from McDonald’s” documentary called Food Inc. earlier this year,and reading Michael Pollan’s [...] So about a month ago my friend Blithe (Hi,Blithe!) got together for a day of sewing! We were very focused and only stopped to pick up the kids at school and eventually to feed them dinner (sort of,Mark really helped out there). We each got about 80% of the way done with these [...] |  
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