• Living Waste Free: Reusing Our Plastic for Plastic Free July

    July 23, 2018 /

    So I’m not by any means plastic free yet but I do try to do some waste reduction – we do the easy stuff or what we can with having three so little. Simple things like get a CSA every year to reduce our packaged food, use reusable cups/shopping bags when we go shopping and we try to reuse the packaging we do get as much as possible. Not much, but its all about baby steps right!? So in honor of plastic free July and in trying to keep a few things out of the landfills/oceans I thought I would share a couple of our favorite recycled toys!   The…

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  • Entertainment

    June 2, 2018 /

    One lesson I’ve learned being a mom is don’t waste your money on toys. My steadfast rule if I’m just looking around is nothing over $10 (I know it sounds cheap) and even then it has to be really worth it.  And my kids are very well stocked! Of course we get bigger stuff for their birthdays, holidays etc. and they have some very generous loved ones, but I find most of the expensive toys (unless they are a big ticket item) just don’t pan out. In fact many of my kids favorite toys are the ones you make at home.   This morning my kids played with ONE thing…

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