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September 20, 2008 By Mom Spark 7 Comments

I’ll admit, I was a skeptic. $8 for a shopping bag, are you kidding me? With a family of six, I often have 20 bags of groceries to unload. That would be $160 for recyclable grocery bags. And that doesn’t even include groceries! There’s got to be an alternative. Let me save you the pain. I’ve tried every alternative. I tried the bags you can get at the store for $.99, which are (I think) smaller than an actual plastic bag. I tried re-using my…

September 14, 2008 By Mom Spark 6 Comments

When my daughter started on solid foods, I wanted to try and make most of her food for her. It really does save us a lot of money. I read somewhere that avocados are very healthy for babies. They are full of omega3 fatty acids that are great for baby’s brain development. So I decided to give some to my baby, and she loved it! The following is a recipe I came up with that is by FAR her favorite thing to eat. 2 ripe…

September 8, 2008 By Mom Spark 1 Comment

Many of our kids are going back to school, and when we get busy, we tend to forget to take care of our needs and sometimes even important needs of the kids – like staying hydrated. Make sure you take plenty of breaks. I know I’m terrible at hitting “stop” when I get going – especially when I’m out digging in the yard. I also know when I’m out digging, I’m sweating out essential electrolytes like sodium and potassium… Because kids metabolisms are higher ours…

September 6, 2008 By Mom Spark 5 Comments

I am just a little bit green. I have not gone all the way there yet, but I would love to get there (eventually)! It would be so much easier to be green without the munchkins negating everything I try to do as soon as I try to do it. The one thing I HAVE gotten them to do is use cloth napkins every night for dinner. I realize that no one has that many cloth napkins, and neither did I, so I went to…