My Love of Kids Music

Today I put together my kids craft binder, set up the little room in the basement as a craft room and put together a kids play list. I'm super excited to have my niece here and do all kinds of creative stuff along with dance and sing! Below are a couple of my favorite kid songs...if you have children  and have some song suggestions for me by all means share them with me!

I could only find a live version of this song.  It's Bottle of Sunshine by Milkshake!  Love them!

I love to do this dance! You can't not smile while doing it!

Fun song for anytime of the year not just Halloween..Trust me!

One of my favorite all time movies and my favorite song off of this soundtrack! 

There are many other kid songs I love and if I get time I will post some more for those with kids who want to get up dance and sing=)....or like me that doesn't have kids but still likes to connect with the inner child

New Ways I've Found to be More Green

Those who know me, know I'm always looking to make my own products for around the house and do away with the toxic counterpart.  This past week I cleared out all chemicals I had left from under my sink and will be putting it in a garage sale next month.  I made a vow that if I need something to clean, get a stain out etc..with I will find the safe non-toxic way in doing it.  So I finally went through a book I bought at a book sale and found some new ideas:

The First two are ones I was still buying but don't have to any longer...WOOT WOOT!

Dishwasher's Soap:

3/4 C Castile Soap (I bought the organic Dr. Bronners at Target)
1/2 C Water
5-10 drops lavender or rosemary essential oil (I got lavender scented castile soap so I probably won't add this)

Dusting Spray:

1/4 C Vinegar
3 drops olive or Jojoba oil
3-5 drops essential oil

All Purpose Spray

1 C Vinegar
2 t Borax
1/2 t castile soap
2 C Hot  Water
Shake in a spray bottle.  Keeps indefinitely.  I posted a recipe for all purpose spray in one of my first posts and this one just doesn't use the dish soap. If you've used and tried the other recipe (I LOVE it)!, I would guess you could follow it and just use the above dishwashers soap you make.

Dishwasher Cleaner

1 C Vinegar

Place in dishwasher safe cup on top rack and run on rinse cycle.  I tried it and I was very pleased with the results!

*To clean the drains in your home once a week pour a teakettle of boiling water down the drain. To deodorize or open up a slow running drain pour a 1/2 C baking soda and then a 1/2 C Vinegar in drain then cover with wet rag.  Let fizz 5 minutes and flush with boiling water
*To disinfect and sharpen disposal blades, freeze white distilled vinegar in ice cube tray and grind cubes while running water

Natural Shoe Polish

Grant uses shoe polish so I was excited about this!
Dime size of jojoba oil and a squirt of lemon to an old tshirt.  Rub mix in a circular motion and then buff shoes with clean end of tshirt

Baked on Food

1/4 C baking soda
Boiling water
Soak overnight

Burned Pots

1/4 C table salt

cold water
Stir and sit overnight

Tips:

For my windows I bought an Eco-cloth and LOVE it! No streaks and gets my windows and mirrors clean with just water!

When shopping avoid buying items in plastics with these numbers on them
3, 6, and 7
these are know as the "bad" plastics

I have a green recipe book on my flash drive ready to print out at anytime with all the recipes I use and love so feel free to give me your address and I'll send you one or however many you want!  I love sharing what I've researched to be some awesome green ways to clean and help others jump on the bandwagon as well! Of course my recipes are printed on 100% recycled printing paper and it's put in a 100% recycled folder

Documentary Recommendations

So I was reading my earlier post about all I wanted to accomplish the 3 weeks I'm off work.  Well I'm down to this being my last week (insert tear here) and oops haven't got a whole lot of it done!  I've done some major dream booking my first week home then nothing. Today I'm doing more dreambooking though.  I spent a day watching documentaries that were not on my movie list and was enlightened! Here is my run down on them:

No Impact Man

I loved this one!  I was and am super inspired to live even more green than before.  As many know we make all our own cleaning supplies except for laundry soap (which I used to) and dish soap, which my bottle now is my last boughten.  I do use seventh generation so hopefully they're as good of a company as they say they are.  I've been doing a little more research on some toxins I can still cut out of the home and I will share in a later post. I honestly didn't think anything they did was crazy or things that we could all practice.  I really want to start a no electricity night a few nights a week and play games by candlelight...soy of course=)

Modify

If you watch this you can be easily grossed out because some things gave me the willies!  I did not know people did such crazy things with their body. Very interesting and if your interested in weird things people do with their bodies it's for you

Food Matters

I've watched enough food documentaries to not eat McDonald's or any other nasty ground up sh*&  This was not so much to gross one out like food inc but was more educational about how food correlates with so much of how we feel mentally and physically. I highly recommend this!

Fall From Grace

This film is about the Westbro Baptist church in Kansas (I believe).  The pastor there and his followers (mostly his family) picket at homosexual events and funerals of fallen soldiers.  It's everything to me as a Christian that we are not and people who see this as the way they think Christians are is very sad to me.  I was deeply disturbed by the children being taught such hatred.  Interesting that people think this way and it should make you angry if you decide to watch it.

I've also watched Lisa Ling's Our America series on the OWN network and they are wonderful!  I watched one on the heroin epidemic in Richmond Co Ohio, one on Sex Offenders, One on Praying the Gay away, One on Faith Healers.  Makes one look at both sides of a situation.  I'd suggest trying to watch any of these. 

So there you have it..hopefully my laziness has benefited someone in someway=D