Mother’s Day is just over a week away, if you’re looking for some last minute Mother’s Day ideas, you’ve come to the right place. There are a ton of Green Mother’s Day Ideas to save you from copping out with industrially grown flowers. There are are no shortage of possibilities for gifts for...
Embracing a spirit of love – on Valentine’s Day or any other day – should mean more than paper hearts and grocery store flowers. Here are a few simple steps to Green Valentine’s Day, making Valentine’s Day (or any holiday, anniversary, birthday, etc.) more meaningful for your beloved while making the world a...
The integration of Chalica into our holiday activities has been an ideal way to imbue our festivities with even more meaning and thought without adding the “bulk” of another holiday to our schedule. I think Chalica presents a wonderful opportunity for families of any religion to really embrace the spirit of the season. Chalica was developed as a...
Charlie Brown worried about the shallow consumerism of the holidays, but he never mentioned one of the most egregious side effects of that consumerism: massive holiday waste. Massive easily preventable holiday waste. According to Stanford University: “Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year’s holiday period than any other time...
Turns out balloons may not be as much of a no-no as I feared. When I wrote about Flintstone’s Second Birthday and Sustainable Party Tips, I admitted that my major environmental fail at his party was the balloons. My baby – actually, both my kids – LOVE balloons. I think most kids do. Heck,...
I have been wanting to try out more desserts – Yummy treats with hidden veggies, preferably vegan – but, shocking as it may be, I don’t have a whole lot of “leisure” cooking time. Flintstone’s Birthday was a perfect opportunity to try a new recipe that was both delicious (hopefully) and deceptively nutritious. Carrot...
As with any other event we have, we wanted to keep Flintstone’s Second Birthday party as sustainable as possible. And, as with everything else in our lives, this goal had to work around our own crazy busy schedules. Now, I’m not the kind of mom who goes all out for a birthday my baby...
The Pumpkin Spice Latte is a quintessential flavor of Fall. But if you, like me, live way too far from the nearest Starbucks, or if you just don’t like to dish out $4.25 every time you want that quintessential flavor, perhaps you should try out my simple, but utterly delicious Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer recipe....
Punky was already staking out my room when Flintstone and I emerged Sunday morning. I was a little surprised considering the fact that she had kept MacGyver up past when I went to bed completing some sort of Mother’s Day surprise for me, and because my unsnoozable alarm clock Flintstone usually sees...
When I found out the family was coming for Christmas, I was very excited. I immediately called Boo to talk about what they wanted to do while they were here. I also asked him what he wanted for Christmas dinner. “Dangit!” he exclaimed. “I didn’t even think of that.” “What?” ...