our family is growing!

as soon as we are in our new apartment ( that has not been found yet!) one of this little guys cousins will be joining our family!! we are so excited! his name will be buster or george michael! and yes i will make him wear the cute polo shirts and rain jackets from old navy!

i still exist

since i started teaching last week and haven't been around germ factories, aka preschool children, in a very long time i spent the last three days on the couch being sick! i went to work today but it was awful! if i had been a parent picking up my child and saw me i would be p-o-ed that the sick woman was there; but no one else seemed to care!

i still exist, i promise, okay i might not exist til friday but come friday lets do something fun!

h.a.g.s!

The only thing about flying that is worse than being delayed before you take off is being delayed after you land for 45 minutes.

fyi

"The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War. The crisis will leave many casualties."

- Former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said in remarks published Monday.

don' t wipe yourself with virgins.............trees!

Every time you blow your nose with Kleenex tissue, you're blowing away an ancient forest. And every time you buy Scott or Cottonelle at the store, you're flushing old growth trees down the toilet.

Most of the pulp Kimberly-Clark uses for its disposable tissue products comes from unsustainable sources. This includes wood from ancient forests like the Canadian Boreal Forest.

As the biggest tissue manufacturer on the planet, Kimberly-Clark has the resources to shift toward sustainability but it is refusing to use recycled paper in its products. Instead, the largest stretch of ancient forest in North America is being clearcut for disposable paper products.

if you are my friend please do not buy/support Kimberly-Clark products! if I am at your house and am forced to clean myself with a virgin tree I will lecture you until your ears bleed, heed this as your warning!

i buy Trader Joe's toilet paper it is 100% post consumer recycled product! It is super cheap, as far as "green" products go,and it is nooot that bad people! you may notice a difference the first few days but isn't having trees left for your children to see and clean air to breathe worth it!

i have tried thus far to not post any of my environmental rants but i could not resist, knowing that some of you are flushing away our forests, i wasn't going to say it but....the last time i was at the maceys they had scott TP....i'm just saying...! my next rant will be about "greenwashing" and how infuriating it is to me!

Green river

dream house

dream living room once developmentally appropriate lead free toys are thrown around by our 2.5 perfect children
our outdoor space where are chocolate lab charlie, newfoundland buster and jack russel gordon will sleep
my dream of all dreams, the duet steam washer set
where we will dream
dream bathroom, you can't see it but our water conscious sauna/steam shower is behind you!