Food Allergies: Gluten and Other Food Issues Develop During the winter of 2011 our family was thrown into a situation that we could not have anticipated nor were prepared to deal with. We had just returned home from a family excursion to a foreign country and in the weeks and months that followed I began […]
Show Your Plastic Challenge: Plastic Free Week 9
SHOW YOUR PLASTIC CHALLENGE: WEEK 9 TOTAL – 40 PIECES, 18 OZ. After returning home with our bulk Azure grocery delivery our son said, “Mom, our kitchen looks like a salad bar.” I suppose that statement is a positive one. At least I decided to interpret it as one. How many mothers would love their […]
DIY Cloth Baby Wipes & Wipe Solution
DIY Cloth Baby Wipes When I decided to make my own up-cycled wool diaper covers for my third child I realized that it would be foolish to use disposable baby wipes after the effort I had under taken to avoid disposable diapers. I was looking at a lot of cotton fabric remnants from the t-shirts […]
Show Your Plastic Challenge: Week 8
HOW DO YOU REACT WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU A LEMON? A wise old friend of ours (in her 80s now) once told me, “When life hands you a lemon, stick it in your bra.” Each day, every week we come against obstacles and we could choose to allow those obstacles to interfere with our goals, […]