Today please remember those who died protecting our freedom
Monday, May 27, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
The Weekend is Here
Funny story last week I went strawberry picking with Andrew. When the owner of the farm started passing out plastic clamshells, to put the freshly picked berries in, Andrew and his friend gave her the lowdown on why plastics were bad and let her know that plastic released nasty chemicals into our environment. It seems that Andrew not only took in what Beth Terry and Danielle Richardet had to say 2 months ago when they were in town, but he is sharing the information with everyone he knows.
I wasn't the least bit embarrassed by his announcement, I was proud that he was sharing the information he had.
Our family has been slowly incorporating more plastic free options in our house.
For example I only buy tomato sauce that is in glass jars. No more cans because the acid from the tomatoes can leach chemicals from the cans. We don't buy food items, if we can help it, that are in plastic. Case in point all our peanut butter now comes in glass.
The flipside having all of these glass jars has made getting bulk items at the grocery store easier AND I have been packing leftovers from lunch in them handily. My son Owen actually had a plastic talk with one of his friends one day while he was heating up his lunch.
I wasn't the least bit embarrassed by his announcement, I was proud that he was sharing the information he had.
Our family has been slowly incorporating more plastic free options in our house.
For example I only buy tomato sauce that is in glass jars. No more cans because the acid from the tomatoes can leach chemicals from the cans. We don't buy food items, if we can help it, that are in plastic. Case in point all our peanut butter now comes in glass.
The flipside having all of these glass jars has made getting bulk items at the grocery store easier AND I have been packing leftovers from lunch in them handily. My son Owen actually had a plastic talk with one of his friends one day while he was heating up his lunch.
We are spreading the word!
Today I want to share a product that I was introduced to through Conscious Box and that is Bambooee. These are towels are sustainably produced from organic bamboo. They are soft in texture and can be washed over and over again.
The number of uses for them is endless. You can clean up spills, wipe messy little faces, or wash up the windows.
What I think is pretty amazing is how clean they come in the wash. My husband used one to soak some grease out of bacon. Once washed the towel looked just like new. He was super impressed and at that moment bought in to why I made the purchase.
Fun fact Bambooee gives back to the global good by planting a tree for each purchase.
To help proliferate the anti-paper towel movement I would like to give away a towel sample to 15 lucky winners.
I haven't been compensated by Bambooee in anyway to provide this review, I just did it because I really believe in their product.
To enter the giveaway please use the rafflecopter below. The winner will be announced in Wednesday morning's post.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
So do you have any good plans this weekend? I am taking my oldest, Owen, to his first political activist movement. We are going to participate in the March Against Monsanto on Saturday. This should be an interesting learning experience for him and will expose him to what regular citizens can do if they band together.
What I think is pretty amazing is how clean they come in the wash. My husband used one to soak some grease out of bacon. Once washed the towel looked just like new. He was super impressed and at that moment bought in to why I made the purchase.
Fun fact Bambooee gives back to the global good by planting a tree for each purchase.
To help proliferate the anti-paper towel movement I would like to give away a towel sample to 15 lucky winners.
I haven't been compensated by Bambooee in anyway to provide this review, I just did it because I really believe in their product.
To enter the giveaway please use the rafflecopter below. The winner will be announced in Wednesday morning's post.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
So do you have any good plans this weekend? I am taking my oldest, Owen, to his first political activist movement. We are going to participate in the March Against Monsanto on Saturday. This should be an interesting learning experience for him and will expose him to what regular citizens can do if they band together.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Hello Again
I just want to say for starters I am well.
I think that might be it for now. I know this post was kind of all over the place, but it was things I wanted to share with you all.
I have a BUNCH of blog reading to catch up on. I hope you all are having a fabulous Monday and I look forward to any and all comments.
So what have you all been up to lately?
I have been busy and caught up in life and all of the fun things that go along with having 3 kids.
I got an e-mail today from one of my favorite friends and she was a little concerned about my absence. I realized I had to get on the stick and get back in the game.
I love blogging and I love reading blogs so I needed to carve out time to do that.
Well since I blogged last I've:
- attended a Chikara wrestling show
- hosted a birthday party for both my 6 and 4 year old
- my baby girl turned 4
- I went strawberry picking
- went on a girls weekend for Mother's Day
The week of Andrew's 6th birthday we were lucky enough to have family friendly Chikara coming to town for a wrestling show. The were kind enough to say Happy Birthday to Andrew and to let him pick the winner in a raffle contest.
We decided that in lieu of gifts we would give the kids a rocking good birthday party. So we got a bounce house. Do know how much fun 4-6 year olds have inside a bounce house? They almost didn't want to come out for cupcakes...they were serious about their bouncing.
For Mother's Day this year all I wanted was to go to Virginia and hang out with 6 of my girls from college. We had a blast eating, shopping, playing putt putt, shopping, and then hanging out until late into the evening.
(here are a few of my besties)
Having my baby girl turned 4 just seems a little unreal. In fact I really just don't know where the time has gone. She is so much fun and enjoys life so very much that it is hard to not just laugh when you are around her.
Case in point, when my aunt sent her a singing birthday card it was cause for a dance party (and I was lucky enough to be allowed to film it).
I think that might be it for now. I know this post was kind of all over the place, but it was things I wanted to share with you all.
I have a BUNCH of blog reading to catch up on. I hope you all are having a fabulous Monday and I look forward to any and all comments.
So what have you all been up to lately?
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Way Behind
I intended to post on Monday.
Then I thought I would post on Tuesday.
Before I knew it Thursday is here.
Where did the time go?
I realize that this information is less relevant do to it's age, but I did want to share some stuff from this past weekend.
We went to the beach and I ran a 5k "Run Like a Diva" in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Those are some volunteers waiting with roses and champagne for you at the finish line. Yeah champagne is a pretty awesome way to finish running.
I took a post race pic, and I don't think I look too rough (it was early and I had not had breakfast yet...at least that is my defense).
We continued with the family fun later in the day by stopping in EVERY golf store so that my husband could look at the shoes, clubs, etc. My daughter found an older man she wanted to call her "boyfriend" (never mind that he is a headless mannequin).
We kept with the golf theme and went to play mini-golf. SO much fun and between the 5 of us we had 4 hole-in-ones (even Caroline got one).
A beach trip would not be complete without some playtime on the beach itself...no worries we spent time there as well:
The fun didn't end with the beach trip...no we are partying all week long. See my middle child, Andrew, turned six yesterday (I have no idea where the time went).
He got to spend the day being Head of School (note they both sported AWESOME bow ties):
He also took a walk around the sun (to illustrate the number of times he has orbited the sun):
After that we headed to a lunch location of his choosing...Chick Fil A. I tried to persuade him to other locations, but in the end I let him have his pick and enjoy his special day the way he wanted to do it.
It has been a wonderful week. The fun isn't over yet we have a joint birthday party this weekend (Andrew and Caroline are in the same class we didn't want to have two birthday parties inviting the same kids).
I hope you all are having a wonderful week and I look forward to catching up on my blog reading, as I am sorely behind.
Then I thought I would post on Tuesday.
Before I knew it Thursday is here.
Where did the time go?
I realize that this information is less relevant do to it's age, but I did want to share some stuff from this past weekend.
We went to the beach and I ran a 5k "Run Like a Diva" in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Those are some volunteers waiting with roses and champagne for you at the finish line. Yeah champagne is a pretty awesome way to finish running.
I took a post race pic, and I don't think I look too rough (it was early and I had not had breakfast yet...at least that is my defense).
We continued with the family fun later in the day by stopping in EVERY golf store so that my husband could look at the shoes, clubs, etc. My daughter found an older man she wanted to call her "boyfriend" (never mind that he is a headless mannequin).
We kept with the golf theme and went to play mini-golf. SO much fun and between the 5 of us we had 4 hole-in-ones (even Caroline got one).
A beach trip would not be complete without some playtime on the beach itself...no worries we spent time there as well:
The fun didn't end with the beach trip...no we are partying all week long. See my middle child, Andrew, turned six yesterday (I have no idea where the time went).
He got to spend the day being Head of School (note they both sported AWESOME bow ties):
He also took a walk around the sun (to illustrate the number of times he has orbited the sun):
After that we headed to a lunch location of his choosing...Chick Fil A. I tried to persuade him to other locations, but in the end I let him have his pick and enjoy his special day the way he wanted to do it.
It has been a wonderful week. The fun isn't over yet we have a joint birthday party this weekend (Andrew and Caroline are in the same class we didn't want to have two birthday parties inviting the same kids).
I hope you all are having a wonderful week and I look forward to catching up on my blog reading, as I am sorely behind.
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