So as I posted last week, this year I am making homemade gifts. The first gift I’ve finished is handmade soap. I used a recipe I found online for goats milk honey oatmeal soap, though I made some adjustments to use what oils I could find. I must say, I think the experiment was quite successful.
I realized this week I have little to no money for holiday gifts this year. While I did good by setting money aside in a special account for the past few months to cover our Christmas Eve “feast of the seven fishes” traditional dinner, I did not specifically set aside gift money, so with the loss of our second income, there is none.
Enter the “Pick-Your-Own” Gift bag.
All my life I’ve heard how important breakfast is. Don’t skip breakfast! Most important meal of the day! is a part of this complete breakfast! Bingo, I’d eaten breakfast…right?
As it turns out, no.
My husband was let go from his job Saturday. I was ready for change in my life, but I wasn’t quite expecting that big of a change. But life is change. I can’t say that this is for good or bad, it just is. We mourned the change for a bit, and then we let…
I’m a cancer survivor. My chance of getting cancer again, either the same cancer or a different cancer is actually rather high. The treatments I have seem to have damaged my thyroid and given me anemia and raised my blood pressure significantly. Every night I take multiple pharmaceutical medications for blood pressure, indigestion, allergies, hormones,…
My hubby says this smells like Christmas. I say it smells like YUM! Very nice for either man or woman, I should think.
I love baths. Given the choice between a bath and a shower to clean off, baths win hands-down….
Shades of Green
As I read through my various books on green housekeeping and personal care, and peruse green blogs and their comments, I’m often struck with how one persons green is another person’s toxin. There seems to be quite a spread of opinion on the subject of what’s actually “green”. I’ve decided there’s really no right or wrong in this, there’s simply different shades of green.
#3 in a series of reviews of “green” books. This time looking at A Guide to Green Housekeeping by Christina Strutt
For the past several days I’ve been sick with a terrible headcold that’s going around. It came hard on the heels of a terrible multi-day allergy attack I had while trying to do some long-overdue decluttering my laundry room. I’m finally over all my congestion and a day where I had no voice, and hopefully soon I’ll be over the nagging tickling cough.
Mostly out of sheer sickness/laziness, I took care of my cold with what I had on hand in my house, applying new greener techniques to my symptoms, being sick as naturally as possible. Here’s a few things I’ve learned….