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Healthy Child Healthy World Book Review and GIVEAWAY

hchwambassador

In 2008 I wrote the following book review of Healthy Child Healthy World and since this time I have recommended the book to hundreds of people and given away dozens of copies for gifts. Fast forward 2 years and I’m proud to announce I’m an official Healthy Child Healthy World Ambassador. Unofficially, I can say [...]

Eco-Friendly School Lunch

Eating healthy sandwich

Tis the season for packing lunches. I’ve gotten some emails asking for tips on how to pack a healthy school lunch and to “green” the lunch box. I have to say, when it comes to packing a healthy lunch I think parents have to keep in mind, the lunch room is competitive and there are [...]

Preparation for BlogHer 2010

frazzled mom

Only 20 more minutes before the children wake and I pack lunches, make breakfast and get them off to school. A whirl wind morning of last minute packing, quick shower and shaving of my white pasty legs and oh, email, Twitter, Facebook, newsletter for work, order promotional supplies for work, find husbands shorts he cannot [...]

Recycling Is Not Always Easy But I am Lucky

Emmet County Recycling

Over and over you hear about how important recycling is and how it is the easiest thing that you can do to help the environment. It should be easy but in all communities that just isn’t the case. Some cities do not have recycling and those that want to recycle have to drive more than [...]

Children, Body Images, Media and Marketing

white cloud photos

Tonight at dinner my daughter loudly said, “Mom I cannot eat that, it will make me fat!” My jaw dropped to the ground. My eyes filled with tears. I felt angry at my husband laughing as though what she said was cute and funny. My husband has no idea what women go through or how [...]

Please.

Anita from Mom’s Rising, Margie from Safer Chemicals and Robyn from AllergyKids Foundation have come together to create this video, asking you to become educated, think and then do something about the toxic chemical concoctions that are allowed to be bottled into pretty packing and put onto our shelves. The truth is we have over [...]

Kinda Sorta Not Really: Help Wanted and Prizes

the soft landing

No, I am not hiring but if you work for free please feel free to contact me. I am looking for help (not mental help) from my readers and subscribers and if you keep reading there are thank you prizes involved! Here is the problem, I am personally not receiving my own blog updates via [...]