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Food for Thought on Earth Day 2010

April 22, 2010

Today is the 40th Earth Day! To celebrate this, I want to encourage you to read previous posts of mine that dealt with being green. You can find them, apart from a green blogroll and green resources, on my Go Green page. You might also like this article I wrote for Bedford-Katonah Patch: In 2010, [...]

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14 Ways to Save Money and Be Green

November 14, 2009

It’s time for another frugal entry. Here are just a few money-saving tricks I use, and some of them not only save you green, they also let you BE green: 1. We just moved, and I didn’t pay a cent for moving boxes (and we needed a lot of them). I asked for free ones [...]

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Dagmar Bleasdale Featured on Colloquymoms.com

August 30, 2009

Kat Robertson, who blogs at For the Love of Chaos, contacted me and asked me to write a guest post for her other blog, Colloquy Moms, which she writes with her friend Shynea Hunter from PennyPinchingDiva. She gave me free reign — write anything about breastfeeding. How could I resist? My article, 3 Invaluable Tips [...]

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Tips for Moving with a Toddler

August 2, 2009

We are moving, and I am super exited. The new place will have a big yard for Landon and much more living space. The kitchen is a lot bigger, so my goal is to spend more time in there. Maybe I’ll actually cook once in a while? As luck will have it, our new neighbor [...]

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How to Prepare Your Child for Preschool

July 2, 2009

Can you tell that we were in a hurry? Look at that hair! Landon is now two years and eight months old, and today was his first day in preschool! Since our neighbors moved away — and with it my wonderful babysitter — I had to enroll him in preschool to have time to do [...]

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Child Safety and Childproofing Tips

May 28, 2009

I learned today that Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter died on Tuesday after a tragic accident. She slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill’s console and was suffocated. I feel just terrible hearing this news, and it brings to light again that we as parents can’t be vigilant [...]