Wood Toddler Toys from Plan Toys

Hammer Balls from Plan Toys is a curved wooden box with three colorful balls and a mallet, this toy helps children to improve hand-eye coordination, aligning, slotting and aiming. Pound the balls and watch them roll out one by one. It is now one of my all time favorite toddler … [Read more...]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Activity

Any container that I do buy I either recycle or look for a way to reuse. We have mountains of carrot juice bottles that I am always trying to find ideas for. This was a very fun simple activity to do and will help me when my daughter needs something quietly to play. I have been … [Read more...]

Lead in Vitamins: How to Pick a Vitamin that is Most Likely to be Lead Free

Isn't that crazy? I can't write the title of this post as "lead free vitamins", because none of them can be definitively described as lead free. And I know, no one is lead free, lead is in our foods in small amounts. But it is still simply astounding to me that lead is in … [Read more...]

The "Green Effect": Nature Makes Us Healthier and Happier

Like many eco-minded moms, I recently read Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods and came away with a firm belief that human beings need, on a basic, primal level, the therapeutic value of an ongoing relationship with nature. It appears that the science agrees: studies have … [Read more...]

Thera Wise Natural Therapeutic Ointments Are Available at CVS Online Store

I was lamenting the day we would run out of our Thera Wise Homeopathic and Natural ointments. We have been using them religiously for every scrape and burns. The Zit Ointment has become EC's favorite, but being that the company is from Canada; I didn't think we would be ordering … [Read more...]