So a lot of you probably think of me as one of your favorite “mommy-blogs” geared toward eco-conscious yet filthy-minded parents like me, and while that may be true (ok it’s definitely true) I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t try to “branch” out every once and a while. So as the mom of a…
Happy Earth Day 2023
Happy Earth Week! Or Earth Day or Earth Month. Yup, they’re all a thing, but if you’re a die hard, dark green eco-warrior like me you don’t care because every day is a celebration of the big blue and green mama. In this house it’s AEAYR (All Earth All Year Round), but this time of…
Happy Earth Day 2022
In my best Golden Girls Sophia voice…”Picture it, Washington, D.C. 1990, it was the 20th anniversary of Earth Day and I was right there on the National Mall standing shoulder to shoulder with Burt Reynolds”. OK, so Burt Reynolds wasn’t really there, at least not anywhere I could see him, but now I’m picturing the…
The Legend of Grandma Helen and the War on Plastic
The wise prophet Neil Sedaka once laid it out for us like this I beg of you don’t say goodbye, can’t we give our love another try? Come on, baby, let’s start anew, ’cause breaking up is hard to do Wiser words have never been spoken, so much so, that even the Partridge Family delivered…
Plastic ain’t Fantastic
You know I’m crunchy AF so it won’t shock you that my favorite holiday is Earth Day. And it’s coming up. Every year to celebrate I do something “green” and this year I’m going BIG! I’m breaking up with plastic. That’s right I’m kicking it to the curb. In a big blue bin. Here’s a…
Scrufah says…Challenge Accepted!
“I love a challenge” It’s the rallying cry behind a lot of crappy decisions. Let’s take the morally questionable and sexually philanthropic decade that I like to refer to as “My 20s”. There were certainly more than a few challenges during that time of my life but most of my friends and I took it…