Climbing the laundry mountain… So high, the climb.

I’ll admit it, as a family of four I am now getting my butt kicked with the laundry. It is not so much the cloth diaper laundry that is killer but just the shear volume of stuff to wash in a week. Sure the spit up outfits and bedding is a temporary contributing factor as...

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Egg coloring without the chemicals: Looking to nature

I figured this would be a timely post to help parents and children color their Easter Eggs naturally this weekend. Initially we weren’t planning to dye eggs with Everly this year for a number of reasons. I hate the smell, taste and concept of hard boiled eggs. It makes me want to puke and with...

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Food for thought & experimenting with “raw” black bean burgers

Well, I did it! I finally prepared as somewhat “raw” meal for the family and it wasn’t half bad. Technically since we used a skillet instead of the food dehydrator it wasn’t 100% raw in terms of cooking but it was much different that what we’ve gotten used to. I made black bean burgers. Sounds...

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Ten ways to clean more eco friendly, using what you already have around the house.

I’ve had green cleaning on the brain as a result of helping a friend with her eco-friendly cleaning company. Not only is it something I feel passionate about but it is also insanely cheap (cheaper than most of the toxic commercial cleaners sold in stores) and refreshingly many people are looking to green their own...

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Plastic in the undies is no good!

On our quest to live more sustainably and to be more eco-friendly we’ve made several changes to our daily lives. As some of you already know, I’ve made the switch from disposable feminine hygiene products to reusable ones this year. Being a seasoned cloth diapering mom has proved that bodily functions aren’t world ending in...

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Mountains of laundry? Remove clothing stains without spending money

Yesterday our AC was out and we spent the day in a 80+ degree house waiting on the repair man. It started getting warm in the wee hours of the morning, like 3am-ish. The night was sleepless because of the uncomfortable temperature of the house and we all were up and at em quite early...

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… and I am wearing hippy deodorant too!

What Evansville, Indiana lacks in natural food stores it makes up for with farmers… Back in Flagstaff, Arizona we loved our natural food store but when we joined the local CSA we weren’t that impressed with the variety of the shares we got. The things we got were good, it was just the exact same...

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May is upon us and the camera is flashing as usual.

It is only May 6th and we already have over fifty photos in our May 2010 digital photo album. Figured I could make this a photo essay of the last week or so to recap and share it all. What? Pictures are the only way I can seem to remember what I’ve done these days....

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Mama cloth and my thoughts about making the eco-friendly switch.

Last month I took the plunge. I decided to order a set of cloth pantyliners that were on sale at one of the online diaper shops I frequent. They were only like $9.00 for a set of six and I’ve been curious to try the whole cloth menstrual pad thing for a while now (better...

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Big people food time? Noooo!! It’s toxic.

Everly has begun to let us know she’s not interesting in eating jarred baby foods anymore. I even brought one along for our trip to the Olive Garden on Saturday so she’d have something safe to eat. She just whined and refused to take bites of the jar food but when N offered her a...

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