I am pleased to present this week’s Make it From Scratch Carnival entries! This week’s entries span a wide range of topics, but I have organized them into two categories: Summer Fun: Fimby provided a recipe for Homemade Laundry Soap–what better way to have good, clean, summer fun? The Sojourner wins the award for most [...]

Not only have we been invited to our first ever zero-waste birthday party, but I am hosting the Make it From Scratch Carnival next week, so I just had to come up with a way to make zero waste wrapping paper from scratch. Now of course, if you want to, you could cut up old [...]

OK, I just had to jump on the YouTube Bandwagon, especially since it looks like both my day job and my volunteer job are going to have me working with video in one way or another soon…I’ve always taken tons of video of the kids, but have never done much with it (at least not [...]

A new survey launched last week by two long-time advocates of co-sleeping lets co-sleeping families, so often marginalized or misrepresented as radical, irresponsible, or just plain odd, the ability to stand up and be counted. The Fennells have been involved in promoting safe co-sleeping for many years. As parents of six and inventors of the [...]

In the past week here in Colorado, the birds of summer have arrived and Matt, the kids, & I have been glued to our picture window just waiting for the next new bird to visit our newly-added feeders. I have already blogged about the migration of juncos, who vacate Front Range gardens each spring, but [...]

Remember those unfettered summer days spent outdoors from dawn to dusk? The smell of cut grass, the warm sun on our backs as we “bombed” ant hills, played cowboys and indians, or devised some other imaginative adventure? Todays over-scheduled, “plugged in” children may be missing out on what are some of our generation’s fondest childhood [...]