Some of my Favorite Things!

This post is about a few of my favorite places to shop online for great homemade things. There are two sites that I love to search to look for gifts to holiday's, birthday's, and baby shower gifts. They are Etsy and Hyena Cart. Both have many different stores within the main site, and both have great handmade items for people of all ages. Hyena Cart has more little people things than adult things. Etsy has a good mix of both.

I've also found a great website called CraftGossip.com. This site if great for those of us who are crafty. They are having a great contest right now to win a gift certificate from Etsy to win $100 wish list...
So here is my wish list:

1~ Mother's Necklace stone pendant-sjengraving $20
2~ 52 piece Mixed Wood children's building blocks (cedar, cherry, ash and black walnut) $40
3~ Wooden Tray Puzzle- Rainbow Fish $35

These are just a few of the amazing things I found that I wanted when I was trying to make this list. It is always fun to surf Etsy.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Life has been very busy as usual. I completed 15 credit hours this summer toward my B-K teaching License. I'm now taking my last class, then I will student teach in the spring and I'll be done. Unfortunately this has meant not as much time to spend with my amazing little boy. Hopefully this will provide him with a more secure future though...at least that is my reason for doing this. We stay busy on the weekends going to the farmer's market every Saturday morning, and trying to do things as a family on Saturdays. Z-man is an amazing little man. His knowledge continues to amaze me every day with the things he understands that I have no idea where he learned. I guess we are doing all right by him. He is a gentle loving soul and the is very caring of others. We were talking about seeing a friend of our and we had been talking about wishes, and he said to us "I wish that ____ would feel better soon, Her back hurts her. That makes me sad." It brought tears to my eyes and when I told our friend she gave me the greatest compliment. It made me realize that somehow throught all the conflicts with a 2 and a half year old, and the time that I am away from him, we have done something right to raise such a sweet gentle soul in this world. It gives me more hope for the future.

Too Long

It's been too long for me since I posted anything here and I said I would do better. Well I could give a ton of excuses, but I won't. I'll just move on from here. I've continued to do well with the no plastic bags for the most part. I need to come up with my next "green" project. We continue to recycle and other basic things like that. My son and I have been busy, we go to the farmers market each week to get fresh fruit and veggies. This past weekend all 3 of us went to the zoo and had a blast despite the heat. I've also been back in school this summer so it's been a very busy summer. I hope you all enjoy a few pics from our summer so far.

Hello Blog World!

This blog is going to be my way of attempting to become more of the person I always wanted to be and the mother I want to be for my son. I have always had great visions of being a super natural, green, laid back person and mother. As life has made a few decisions for me over the last year or two, I've felt like I have gotten away from this and want desperately to get back to it. I have many reasons for wanting this, but mainly I want to pass on a better wold to my son and teach him how to really take good care of the world we live in. I also want him to explore it and enjoy all the aspects of it. I want to improve our "green" imprint on the world. My first goal it to try the small changes challenge I have see on other blogs. I will have to figure out what to try first for February, but I'm thinking of triying the no plastic bags in the house challenge first. I would also love to try family cloth...I doubt my husband would try this, but I think I am the main TP consumer so far since Z-man isn't potty learned yet. I currently use cloth diapers most of the time...I also tried cloth wipes, but never really got into the flow with them...maybe I will try that again with family cloth. Stay tuned.