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The Basket Hunt!

Friday, March 21st, 2008
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Each year at Easter, we hide the Easter Baskets..or ahem, the Easter Bunny does. He also does something that my mother did for me when I was a kid. She leaves clues. The kids come downstairs on ...

Easter Eggs!

Friday, March 21st, 2008
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We dyed some Easter eggs this morning and I wanted to share the results. The above purple is from blueberries. I didn't follow to the T any instructions. I put about 2 cups of frozen blueberries into a ...

An Organic Green Easter

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
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Easter is coming! As per usual, I'm behind in getting started but save the info for next year if you're already 10 steps ahead of me. ;) Basket One thing everyone can do to green up Easter is to NOT buy those ...

Happy Holidays!

Monday, December 24th, 2007
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I am not a baker.  I'm a good cook so I can adapt to just about anything but my ventures into healthy baking have always produced pretty dismal results.  SO....I made a decision to first excel in the not so ...

A Christmas Song Favorite!

Thursday, December 20th, 2007
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Dear Santa…

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
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I found this in my email box this morning and it is cute enough to share..... Dear Santa,   I've been a good mom all year. I've fed, cleaned and cuddled my children on demand, visited the doctor's office more than my doctor ...

“LED” the Way! A Green Christmas

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
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Last year we started gradually changing over our incandescent christmas lights to the newer, and BETTER LED christmas lights.  This year, we're just about done with only some white incandescent light wrapped garland that we use on our front porch ...

Its that time - Teacher Gift Ideas

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
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This is going to be short and sweet.  There's so many things that I'm sure a teacher would appreciate but we've always just given gift certificates.  Either to Barnes & Noble, Target or just a Mastercard/Visa gift card.  I'd much rather ...

Have a Healthy Fair Trade Halloween!

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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Yikes, how did it get to be October already?? I swore last year that I'd have my fair trade organic chocolates early "next" year. Right. Well, its too hot where we are in NC right now to ...

Happy Father’s Day

Sunday, June 17th, 2007
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Harrrumph....daddy is working today.  But we're celebrating tomorrow.  Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dads out there.Â