In the book The Happiness Project (which I reviewed here) one of the steps the author takes in her own happiness project is to start a collection. She had always wanted to collect something ever since childhood but never did. She never had the elated feeling you get when you find something exquisite that will compliment your collection, or the joy of seeing your collection grow. After some deliberation she decided that it would make her happy to start a collection and she proceeded to collect … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Natural Teething Remedies and Relief
One of the struggles of trying to parent as naturally as possible is handling obvious pain and discomfort in our children without going the mainstream route and medicating them with potentially dangerous substances. Whether or not they like berry or bubblegum flavored medicated syrup is a non issue when you won't give them that stuff regardless. Teething may be one of the first times we go looking for a way to relieve their pain naturally and there are no shortage of safer, more natural teething … [Read more...]
Planning Nature Day Trips With Your Family
A grand summer vacation or spring break may not be in the cards for every family. The costs for family travel seems to go up every year and you may not live close enough to an amusement park, so what do you do? Well, if you are like me I plan lots of small day trips instead and most of them revolve around free or low cost activities that take us outside to explore. This is all part of our family simplicity project. We work as little as we can, taking the lower pay with it, so that we can spend … [Read more...]
My Art Place Hanging Art Gallery
Just wanted to share a VERY cool product I came across at Hearthsong. It is a hanging art gallery that a child can hang in his or her room on their door to display their artwork and spotlight it in and organized and attractive way. With this great display, kids can open their own rotating art gallery AND finally have a display place for their latest drawing or painting. They just slide five of their favorite masterpieces into the pre-fitted openings (one 11" x 14", four 8" x 10') to proudly … [Read more...]
Nourishing Potato Leek Soup
This is actually my fave soup evah! Or maybe it is tied with my Mushroom and Sherry soup, tough call. Either way this soup is nourishing and delicious and it utilizes one of my fave veggies... the leek. In order to make the soup green you need to use all of this delicious vegetable from the white part to the dark green. Often times recipes only call for the light part of the leek but I use the whole shebang. Part of why that works so well is because I blend the majority of the soup to … [Read more...]
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