Category: Green Living

It was a cool, rainy weekend for the most part (even on Friday, which was the boys’ field day at their school), but we still managed to sneak in plenty of sunshine on Sunday when we attended the Earth Day festival in Forest Park. Most of these pictures are from that day, when the boys … Continue reading “Weekend Shenanigans”

If your brother doesn’t teach you anything else, he will at least teach you to wait your turn.

We’ve been thinking about and planning our vegetable garden lately, but it seems that at this time of year we are at the mercy of the weather. We’ve been receiving strong storms and tons of rain over the past few days, so I’m afraid our plans of finally getting plants in might be delayed for … Continue reading “Happy Friday!”

Despite a long and particularly snow laden winter for many parts of the country, warm weather is just around the corner. In many places, spring daffodils and crocuses have popped up out of the soil as the ground thaws and the sunshine warms the earth. It’s time to start thinking about that vegetable garden.  Continue reading … Continue reading “Introducing Kids to Gardening”

Ah, remembering this day last October reminds me that spring and summer are real seasons — seasons of dirt and mud and warm sunshine, days we spend outdoors from sun-up to sun-down. Days when a good hose-off at the end of the day will suffice before the boys collapse into bed, sun-kissed and exhausted. Which … Continue reading “How Often Should We Bathe Our Kids?”