Month: April 2007
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Mother’s Day Gifts
I love coffee. I also like to get Mother’s Day gifts. My idea of the perfect gift is a coffee cup my kids have made. (I have simple needs – my first couple of Mother’s Days I just wanted a wheelbarrow for my garden. My sweet but silly husband kept buying me jewelry.) Anyway the…
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Protect Your Child From A Shooting – Read
This week started with a trio of tragedies: floods, the massacre in Virginia, and the death of a local senior on a charity trip to Ghana. The following are my thoughts on how to protect your child. There are some things in life you cannot protect your child against – airplane parts falling on your…
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The Downside of Teaching Your Children to Garden
When I first moved to town I had a fabulous ‘landscaper’ (that’s what you call the person who mows your lawn on the East Coast). He wasn’t like the other landscapers in town who would come in fair weather or foul and mow the lawn (no one really minds huge ruts in their lawn as…
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Carnival of Family Life #50
Welcome to the 50th Carnival of Family Life! Some days I want to change the world and other days I love to sit back & enjoy it the way it is. Kailani’s carnival, hosted here this week, is definately for enjoying.
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Ghoststories & the 10-yr-old Techies
When I was young (9? 12?) we would occasionally have sleepovers with several kids. Turning the lights down, getting under the covers, we’d tell ghost stories and shriek when the tree branch rubbed against the window (or maybe it was my brothers, or a burglar – who knew?) In a momentary fit of insanity I…
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Stop Your Gardens – We’re Saved
Well, maybe don’t stop teaching your kids to garden but there is a lot of interest in saving the planet’s food production by moving it indoors. The world food supply is vulnerable to climate shifts, the globalization of pestilence and blight, and improvements in crop resistances that can lead to pollinator failures (bees getting mites)…
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Poisonous Plant Picture Gallery
Spring is in the air (sort-of – it’s still very cold here) and I’m looking for new disasters to discuss. In my travels I found this lovely Rutgers site  showing the poisonous/harmful plants in New Jersey. Thank goodness it is Mother’s Day and and not Sister’s Day coming up or I could see every cub scout…
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Carnival of Family Life
I’m very happy to host the 50th Carnival of Family Life this week. I’ll be giving special prominence to anyone who submits stories of family community service or involvement. Thanks for participating.
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The Sweets of Spring
Spring is a time for growth and reflection on our hopes for the future. There are many signs of this. More4Kids gives a list of things to teach our kids in preparation for Earth Day. Scribbit is sponsoring a growth carnival. I attended a Seder, the Jewish meal that commemorates God’s role in freeing the…
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Windy
We choose a Neuf because we always have numerous small guests underfoot (2-footed) and we lived next to a lake – although I never would have let my children go down to the lake alone, extra insurance never hurt. Windy arrived as a small ball of fur (she never looked that beautifully brushed again) with…