Runaway October

My Live Earth by Noël Zia Lee

Well, I thought it was going to be a glo­ri­ous day for Earth Day but the tem­per­a­tures are already climb­ing. Maybe I’ll drag a pool out for the boys? That would be fun.

Here are some of my favorite “Earth Day-ish” links:

• How to get rid of moths with nat­ural repel­lants — via Tip­nut
• How to make (and grow) your own Luffa — via Green Groovy
• Green clean­ing and body prod­ucts — via The Art­ful Parent
• Best air­fil­ter­ing house plants, accord­ing to NASA — via Tree­Hug­ger
• 10 Awe­some Eco-Friendly Crafts — via Crafter­shock
• SimpleSteps.Org
• Dirt Cup­cakes — via Sweet­est Kitchen
• What can you make from an empty egg car­ton? — via The Crafty Crow
• 10 Great resources for organic and heir­loom gar­den seeds — via Green Upgrader

There is a plea­sure in the path­less woods,
There is a rap­ture on the lonely shore,
There is soci­ety, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gor­don, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Some Links:

• 75 Tips for Left­overs and Ingre­di­ents - via The Kitchn
• All-Natural Mois­tur­iz­ing Kitchen Hand Scrub — via Good Life {Eats}
• Child Cre­ativ­ity Linked with Out­door Free Time — via Steve-Olsen.com
• Your Favorite ‘Nat­ural’ Brands May Not Be What They Seem — via Mercola.com
• Nutella Self-Frosting Cake — via Car­men Cooks

Some awe­some tutorials:

• Funky Quilted Binder Cover — via Moda Bake Shop
• AWESOME Dog Bed — via Jezze
• Kid’s Teepee — via My Tiny Sweet Cheeks
• Hot Pink Cross Quilt Block Tuto­r­ial — via Betty Ninja
• Alpha­bet Quilt — via Reese Dixon

And a funny:

New Car via XKCD.com

Rowan has always had what we affec­tion­ately called “Old Man Hair” — Really fine, wispy and eas­ily messed up. Recently it has got­ten too long for me to be eas­ily amused by spik­ing it up, so it was time for a hair­cut. Since it was to be his first hair­cut we were going to go to one of those salons for kids, but we arived to find that they had per­me­nantly closed their doors. Makes sense in this econ­omy, I guess. Declan was sad, he had talked about get­ting a hair­cut all morning.

So, we just fig­ured we’d do what we always do: Buzz ‘Em!

Declan Before:

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Dur­ing:

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After! So handsome!

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Rowan was quite unsure about the whole experience…

Before:

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He did really well.

I’m sure the buzzing feel­ing on his head felt funny at first. About halfway through we had to stop to let him nurse so that he’d hold still for the rest of the “styling”.

Dur­ing:

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After! Yay!

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Look at all that beau­ti­ful hair! Declan and I had a con­ver­sa­tion about what to do with it. He wanted to wad it all up and put it in his lit­tle tin lunch­box, but I won out by telling him that the birds needed it. He thought it was really cool that the birds could use his hair to make nests out of. Hope­fully I can find a nest full of hair so he can see how his gen­eros­ity is being put to good use.

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… and in need of haircuts?

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