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…quite contrary.

Every day seems like the same old day around here. I’m not complaining, but my ADD isn’t amused. It works to get the creative juices flowing though. So, today we started experimenting with growing fruits and veggies from root and seed. Our kitchen window gets pretty decent light and we are now using our ledge for more than the kids trying desperately to sit on it. As long as the cat doesn’t get mad, and knock things down, our experiments should keep the oldest child entertained for about 10 minutes in the morning. Maybe more if she wants to journal about how the green onions have sprouted and grown in 3 days! Which she has.

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I am a stay at home mom.  As a stay at home mom, there are lots of things I would like to do, but don’t always get to.  Even working moms have that whole time/money crunch thing going on, so they too fall in the same boat.  Your salon money goes to daycare or you end up eating clearanced pomegranates while your kids get fresh and perky grapes that cost as much a pound as a nice cut of meat.  Did I mention sleep?  Yeah, we won’t go there today.  We all know we aren’t getting enough of it.

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I used to be a real stickler when it came to nutrition.  I did not buy junk food.  I encouraged the kids to snack on cereal rather than potato chips.  This worked out pretty well until the kids went out into the world.  They discovered fruit snacks, and it was the beginning of the end.

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I am a pretty big fan of trivia.  Back in the day (before we were parents) my husband and I used to love the NTN games at various watering holes around town.  I must say we were pretty good at it, though that was ten years ago.  He knew the history, geography, and sports.  I could handle the random television questions and literature (before reality tv became so popular, and I refuse to watch Survivor).

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Today, if you walked into my bathroom, you might have thought I had left a salad in there.  But no, it was a cloth saturated with white vinegar wrapped around my faucets making you crave a green salad with vinegrette dressing.

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