70 New Year’s resolutions to save the Earth!

Let me start with the words of Roger Ebert about Al Gore’s movie: ” In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you…

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Going “green”!

There are so many important things we have to do to take care of our children, that sometimes we overlook and maybe even forget, that the Earth is not only our home, but the home of the generations to come.It is more than obvious that we do not take good care of her and that…

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How to wear a baby

Threading the sling You will have to do this only once, afterwards you just need to slip into the sling. Place the sling on a flat surface with the hem near the rings facing up. Gather together both ends of the sling tail ( opposite on the rings side) by walking your fingers together from…

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Native American Festival -part II

Another attraction we went to see were the wigwams (wigwam means “house” ).There were two present- one bark covered( the small picture on right), made by JeffreyKalin for this year’s Festival, andanother that was made of fabric( the big picture on the left).We didn’t get the chance to go inside the bark one, but I…

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Native American Festival -part I

I have to tell you, that I’ve never been a big history (books) fan, mostly because I find that history as a concept is just someone’s truth about events, that happened in the past. That, however does not mean it describes exactly what happened, does it?On the other hand there is no other way of…

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Starting a new tradition

After a “long” absence, I’m back ( and I’m knocking) 🙂Just kidding! (I’m saying, in case you haven’t seen the Mr. Opportunity TV commercial) It’s been quite a week – couple of books, dozens of magazines, one new CD and I don’t remember how many movies!In a brief manner, here is the summary: Books: Nice…

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Baby monitor Nation

What a great innovation was the baby monitor when it first got on the market!Parents were fascinated with it, babies were left in its company for long, without the fear of the parents, etc.Then, people discovered it is not so reliable- sometimes it is not sensitive enough, sometimes you just can listen radio station on…

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Why wearing a baby?

And since I started the whole wearing-a-baby topic, here is an article written by me about the benefits of the babywearing : First of all, because it is CONVIENIENT, for you and your baby- you can go whenever, wherever, and do whatever without feeling overwhelmed by the many things you have to carry with you…

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Me as a babywearer

Why I did not wear my first baby ?Well, the simple answer would be because I did not know what baby-wearing is.When Kalin was born I was an unexperienced mother that only wanted the best for her child.Well, I tried to do my best- I have read huge amount of maternity books, tried to eat…

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Surprises- a curse or a blessing?

There are people that don’t like surprises and there are some that just die for a surprise. I am the latter , but I just don’t remember when was the last time I was pleasantly surprised. I say pleasantly, because you know, you can always be unpleasantly surprised but a nice surprise is another story.Don’t…

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