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The 2 Dollar Children’s Birthday Party
My son likes to have a big birthday party. I have a large group of friends whom I met at the local Early Years Centre and have met a lot of other wonderful moms during my time as a stay at home mom. The birthdays are often a time for both the adults and the kids to re-connect and reminisce about our “babies”. There’s something warm and fuzzy about celebrating the birth of my child – seeing his excitement and enthusiasm, and his moments of pure bliss, running around wild with his friends. There is one sore point, however, that I feel when I think of a big birthday party; excessive gifts. The volumes upon volumes of presents he has received in the past, quite honestly makes me cringe. We already have too many toys in our house, and they just seem to keep accumulating, even though I try to donate unused ones regularly.
Make Good Food Fun For Your Kids
Feeding my children a healthy holistic diet is one of the most important aspects of parenting to me. Providing them with the best food nature has to offer ensures that they are healthy, energetic, and happy kids. What parent doesn’t want the best for their children? Yet the world we live in makes it difficult to make healthy food choices. Processed, chemical and preservative laden junk is EVERYWHERE. From supermarket checkouts to billboard signs on the highways, my children are bombarded with images of junk food.
Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
When I found out I was pregnant with my son, I became hyper-aware of how toxic the world around me is. I had been aware for quite some time, but suddenly I had a new life growing inside of me and mother bear instinct took over. I made my husband fill the car with gas to avoid the fumes that leak out into the air and I quit my volunteer job at a local animal shelter because of the potent bleach and chemicals they used to clean with. I would put on the microwave to heat food, then walk away from it until it beeped. I couldn’t believe how daily tasks and certain habits I had formed, mostly for convenience purposes, suddenly had an element of danger to them.
