Category: Nest
Loving the Home You Have
A few weeks ago, my husband and I and our two boys were setting out to a children’s birthday party. My husband offhandedly commented that he thought the home we were going to was one of the big fancy houses in the hills above our town. My strong reaction surprised me—I teared up and suddenly [...]
Healthy, Eco-Friendly, and “Normal”
“You’re letting him eat a Sun Chip?!” Joe’s voice resonated at the neighborhood picnic. As a new father who had watched his wife carefully shop for organic food and BPA-free bottles, he was horrified when she casually gave their 15-month-old son a corn chip, brought by another parent, which was neither organic nor all-natural. When [...]
Sticks and Stones and Sun-Bleached Bones: Encouraging and Preserving Your Child’s Nature Collection
It’s possible that being a pack-rat is genetic. My grandmother was a pack-rat, and so is my father. Though I denied it for years, I must now admit that I, too, am a pack-rat, and the evidence that my children have inherited this trait is mounting. My daughter was three when I discovered the oatmeal [...]
Tips for Raising Financially Responsible Kids
Kids need to know what money is and what it does; a basic financial literacy is crucial to their success. Better for you to instill values about money in your children before the world does. I have several tips for how to raise financially responsible children, but first, a quick story to illustrate one of [...]
Streamline Your Grocery Shopping
Before I figured out how to streamline my grocery shopping list, I used to walk a mile weaving from one side of the store to the other trying to fill my cart with all that my family needed for a week. And I just don’t have time for that anymore. Although I love my life, [...]
De-Clutter Your Life
“Simplify, Simplify, Simplify” –Henry David Thoreau So much of our identity is tied to our material possessions; our homes, our clothes, our cars and our gadgets. We identify ourselves through these items instead of through our actions. We end up spending so much time and money caring for our items, storing them, maintaining them, that [...]
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