Link-worthy

You can find recipes for nat­ural clean­ing sup­plies all over the web. I have tried a few and tend to impro­vise each time. Here’s the link I used for a start­ing point today: http://www.eartheasy.com/live_nontoxic_solutions.htm#substitutions

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Suburban Fizz

November 12, 2007

Suburban Fizz, a blog writ­ten by a local mom, is enjoy­able to read and also includes plenty of local tidbits.

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Moondance Soaps & More

November 10, 2007

moondancesoaps.com 6013 Old Horseman Trl. Raleigh, NC 27613 877−762−7728 info@moondancesoaps.com Nice soaps are a rel­a­tively cheap way to indulge on a daily basis even when the bud­get gets tight. While I still just talk­ing about start­ing Active Family Services, my hus­band sur­prised me with a gift of hand­made soaps from Moondance. He had come across an […]

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dooce.com

November 3, 2007

dooce.com This blog, writ­ten by a mom in Utah, cap­tures the tran­si­tion to moth­er­hood, sleep depri­va­tion, and a strug­gle with post par­tum depres­sion very hon­estly. Peter found it for me now that I am long past all that, but I hope some of you enjoy read­ing Heather Armstrong’s posts on par­ent­hood ear­lier in your journeys.

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A Toy Garden

September 22, 2007

This web­site was rec­om­mended on a list I was on, and when I checked it out I was WOW-ed. Even my inlaws were WOW-ed and they are some of the most dis­crim­i­nat­ing con­sumers I know (in a good way!). A Toy Garden is filled with lots of thought­fully cho­sen options. If you are look­ing to start […]

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Mothering.com

September 16, 2007

This is the web­site for Mothering Magazine which labels itself as “the birth­place of nat­ural fam­ily lifestyle.” Despite the arro­gance of that asser­tion I have found their forums to be kind of online home where I can turn for infor­ma­tion on par­ent­ing in a style that is gen­tle on my chil­dren and the earth. If […]

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Jardinains

September 9, 2007

Jardinains is not good for adults. Jardinains is not good for kids, but man-oh-man is it fun. Sometimes on a lazy Sunday after­noon the kids pull up a bench to watch and we bounce gar­den gnomes up and down and lis­ten to them say “ouch!” When we intro­duced our 5 year old niece she loved it! […]

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Starfall

September 9, 2007

Starfall was rec­om­mended to me as tool for preschool­ers to prac­tice let­ters and mouse con­trol at the same time. It is a cool site! I appre­ci­ate its sim­plic­ity, and my almost four year old son has given it his stamp of approval.

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