Above: My daughter is playing with her Spellmaster by Tag Toys Is Christmas on the brain yet? Every year parents hear about toy recalls and the latest toys to have failed safety inspections and expectations. Tighter regulations passed but that ultimately ended up meaning we had fewer options and the huge corporations making the toys typically recalled got free passes to go about business as usual. Cause you know... safety legislation is too tedious for mega corporations to deal with. From lead … [Read more...]
Lead Free Toy Guide
There are many occasions for which we might seek to buy toys...holidays, birthdays, graduations, and other special events. These days though, walking into a big box store or shopping on Amazon to buy toys can be a dangerous thing. Foreign made toys can be downright unsafe if you don't know the company or what they stand for and you might end up buying toys with toxic chemicals or lead paint. I am pretty sure that poisoning the children in our lives is NOT what we had in mind, so I have started … [Read more...]
Getting Settled
Yes, I moved again. As you may already now from my hints in other posts I moved yet again. Unlike my recent cross country trek from Arizona to Ohio, this time I just moved across town. My first place in Ohio was a very old Victorian house and I was very excited to do some green remodeling. Well I admit now that I bit off more then I could chew and with 3 kids to watch after every day I just could not see living in a fixer upper anymore. The street the house was on was also a major part of … [Read more...]
A Green Move
Did I tell you that I am moving again? Well, I am. My cancer treatment is over and has been since December so I am going back to Ohio and our home in Arizona is being sold. So within a few days I will begin the treck I described to you in July only this time in reverse. It will be an adventure since the restoration on our 19th century Victorian home in Ohio has yet to be completed. It has plumbing issues, it has no heat, one of the bathrooms is completely torn apart, and the house is … [Read more...]
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