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School Years: A Family Keepsake of School Memories giveaway winner is…
Congratulations to the winner! I hope you all have wonderful first days of school this year. Be sure to check out my green tips for back to school for ideas on how to make it even more happy and...
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Wordless Wednesday: getting ready for kindergarten
It’s that time of year again- kindergarten round up. I am getting ready to send off my second child to kindergarten in the fall. All I can think about is just how fast the time has flown. I feel it all...
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Wordless Wednesday: a new beginning – a new school year
This is the week, the week that they all go off to school. What did I say about wanting my kids to all grow up and successfully leave me (one day)? I take it back. Just a little. The boys started their...
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Green your way to school on National Walk to School Day!
How many of you still have grandparents, or great-grandparents, that talk about how far they had to walk to school? In the snow. Uphill both ways. Sunset School built in 1890 The school that my boys go...
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Nature Immersion Schools: A New Trend? {Guest Post}
{Editor’s note: Today’s post is a wonderful look at an emerging trend in early-childhood education. Based on European models and the knowledge that being immersed in nature only connects us more. If...
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Struggles and Joys of Childhood
Today feels like a Monday. It was a morning full of late wakings, groggy from sleep, desperate need of coffee and no time to make it. Struggling to get a girl into clothing that didn’t feel right. In...
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Back to School Challenge, Whether You Have Kids or Not
It seems that summer just breathed her first breath of warm air on our faces and yet here we are with autumn leaves just around the next corner. Kids across the country are in the midst of the...
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Eco-Friendly Travel Questions
We slept under the stars last weekend. Lying in the darkness, listening to the crickets, my mind passed over each of my sleeping children remembering our summer together and thinking forward to what...
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Just Breathe
The theme of the first week of school: breathe. I know your new shoes are hard to put on, just take some deep breaths and we’ll try again. Buddy, it’s ok that you don’t know what to do on this...
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Save the Children. Get Ready. Get Safe.
Colorado National Guardsmen respond to floods in Boulder County, Colo., Sept.12, 2013. CONG are working with local agencies to help citizens in the area affected by the flooding by evacuating people...
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