How Create a CLUTTER FREE and Eco-Friendly Playroom
A clutter-free and eco-friendly playroom: Steps to a simple and sustainable in your playroom, and how it can lead to a slower, more peaceful life.
A clutter-free and eco-friendly playroom: Steps to a simple and sustainable in your playroom, and how it can lead to a slower, more peaceful life.
Every year around this time, I see a plastic explosion! Between the eggs, the candy, the toys, the baskets themselves, and the grass (oh! That grass!) there is just an explosion of plastic and waste every Easter. But, it doesn’t have to be. You can still have a very festive Easter celebration without all of the…
As I mentioned last week, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Every year, around this time, Halloween costume and decoration shops pop up for a month or two at a time. They sell plenty of disposable decorations, one-time wear (and often toxic, polluting, non-biodegradable plastic and other synthetic materials). But, there are ways to make…
The scariest thing about Halloween isn’t the ghosts and goblins… it is the costumes and décor. But it doesn’t have to be with these eco-friendly Halloween decoration ideas. I absolutely love Halloween. Second to Thanksgiving, it is my favorite holiday. Halloween is the second most decorated holiday of the year (I’m sure you guessed it,…
That are as beautiful as they are earth friendly! For me, one of the more stressful parts of Christmas is the waste. I can’t seem to let go of the feeling that, in order to surprise and delight our children and friends, we are creating a lot of unnecessary waste. If I let it, it…
Note: this post was originally published as part of the Play module in Peaceful Mamas, (yes! there is an entire module on play, because it is so important) but I know that many of us feel guilty because we don’t like to play with our little ones, so I thought I’d publish it here. If…
Many of us strive for perfection. Our kids deserve the best, right? But what if this perfection is hurting us? Hurting them? What if we became “good enough” moms
Faster. More. Busier. The words that define our lives much of the time. But we can choose slower, simpler lives. Here are a few habits for slow living that have changed our lives for the better and allowed me to live more peacefully and more inline with my values.