In honor of Earth Day this year I thought I would blog about recycling. This is a fun topic for me because why not let something have another life instead of wasting its resources? It’s all about reducing our carbon footprint. But ugh, it can be complicated! My guess is most…

This year was our son’s first year dying Easter eggs and I wanted use natural dyes from nature’s color pallet. I feel better knowing what is actually in it when he gets is all over him. The dyes can seep into the eggs too and…

One of my goals this year was to switch to some more green or healthy alternatives. We stopped cooking and reheating food in plastic years ago, but chemicals can still seep into food that is stored in or made with plastic. Every time…

On St. Patrick’s Day this year Andy and I decided to forgo the usual Guinness and Jameson in the name of childhood cancer. St. Baldrick’s is an international event that promotes fund raising for child cancer research. We volunteered at the largest local…

For some unknown reason, my brother Jason decided to grown catnip in his garden this year. I was over there just the other day when he was winterizing it and I asked what one of the plants was. He cut off a couple…

Worm Compost Surprises

Every Halloween I wait until last minute to come up with a costume idea. I always get these great ideas on Halloween night, but can never remember them by the time Halloween comes around again. This year I wanted to plan more ahead…

As the summer comes to a close so does our garden. It got off to a good start with the indoor greenhouse even though the seeds got mixed up (bad kitties). There were a few things that I started noticing last year that…