I hope you all are enjoying beautiful spring weather wherever you live! I love Spring, and am hoping to enjoy it as much as I can even with my bulging belly! Here is our Spring Bucket List of activities that we are hoping to do in the next few weeks before the baby arrives!

Now, it’s time for Your Green Resource again! Remember that when you link up your post to Your Green Resource here on Live Renewed, it will also be shared on these ladies’ great blogs!

• Andrea at The Greenbacks Gal
• Stacy at A Delightful Home
• Megan at Sorta Crunchy

In addition to making this a weekly place where you can both share and learn new green ideas, each week we’ll be Pinning our favorite post to the Your Green Resource board! We want your green posts to get as much exposure as possible – so we’ll pin the post for you!

This week’s featured post is:

Apple Cider Vinegar Facial Toner from Laurel of Leaves – I always love finding new and simple recipes for beauty and personal care products. I’m looking forward to trying this one out!

Now it’s your turn! Link up your green posts, old or new, on any of the following topics:

• Real Food Recipes
• Repurposed Projects
• Upcycled Projects
• Organic Gardening Tips
• DIY Natural or Green
• Thrifty Solutions

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

**Please make sure that you link back to one of the hostesses in your post. Your post cannot be chosen to be pinned and featured unless you’ve linked to one of us! **

As always, I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

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I had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday — thanks to my awesome husband and kids. They spoiled me and made me feel special. I hope that all of you mamas had great days too.  And if you’re feeling a little overwhelmed, or maybe less than the best as a mother, my hubs wrote this post for me yesterday over on Babble, I hope it will be an encouragement to you!

One of my requests for Mother’s Day was that we get started working on our garden, since that had been neglected as we dealt with family stuff over the past month. My husband was great yesterday, doing the majority of the hard work, as I can barely bend over, and get out of breath if I so much as lift a rake or a shovel, at 35 weeks pregnant!

This is how we started — the beds were full of weeds! And my kids were excited to help!

So, we got the raised beds all cleaned out, and mixed in a layer of compost from our backyard compost bin, before planting some seeds. It was really great to be able to use compost that we had made, just starting at the end of last summer. Is it weird that I think it’s so interesting and fun to think that we made really nutrient dense dirt for our own garden out of food and yard scraps? Oh, it’s the little things that make me happy!

Another fun thing was that we were checking out our little strawberry patch and found that we have lots of little ripening strawberries! We got to pick four of them, and each of us enjoyed a fresh, right off the plant, strawberry! They were really sweet and juicy and yummy, the kids were pretty upset that we couldn’t pick any more, but I had to teach them that we can’t pick the berries until they are totally ripe and ready.

Actually, the kids were great helpers, of course they loved digging in the dirt, and they also liked to help plant the seeds. My daughter especially did really well with helping me plant the sugar snap peas.  All together we planted the peas, zucchini, spinach, carrots, and some oregano, basil and cilantro.  I can’t wait to see my little seedlings come up!

We still have a few more boxes to fill, and I’m trying to figure out what else I want to plant. I’m planning to get some tomato plants from the Farmer’s Market, and a friend has some cucumber, squash and possibly tomato seedlings for me. I’ll also do another planting of carrot seeds, and I’m thinking about trying watermelon and maybe cantaloupe.  I don’t want to overdo it, because I am just a month away from having a newborn baby, but I also want to utilize the space that we have out in our garden to grow our own food, and because I do think it’s fun to get out and work in the dirt and watch our plants grow and produce food!

So, that’s just a little update of what we’ve been up to around here. We’re trying to ease back into life as normally as we can, although the reality sets in on days like Mother’s Day that I will never get to hear my dad tell me what a wonderful mother he thinks I am again, so I have my moments of sadness and grieving. I don’t mean to be a downer, but that is just where we are at with life right now.

We’re also busy preparing for Baby #3 to make her arrival. We’re still planning a home birth, and working on getting things ready for that. We are excited, blessed and at the same time a little nervous to be welcoming this new little one into our family. We’re realizing what a change it will be to have a little newborn baby around, but we can’t wait to meet her and snuggle her and love her. And we know our kids will be a great big sister and brother!

Thanks so much for sticking with me during over the past month, I am hoping to be able to update a little more frequently, and am also looking for guest posts for next month after the baby is born.  Please send me an email if you’re interested in posting on Live Renewed!

What are you planting in your garden this year?

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Time for Your Green Resource this week! I’m slowly getting back into a routine, and working on preparing for Baby #3, due to arrive in about 5 weeks! I am sorry that it’s been so quiet around here, but I find myself lacking the energy and concentration needed to sit down and actually put coherent thoughts together into a post. I’m hoping to get back to more regular posting soon, because I do miss it, but I’m just trying to give myself the grace and space that I need to ease back into it, as I feel more ready. Thanks so much for hanging in there with me – I will be back, I promise!

So, anyway – Your Green Resource! Remember that when you link up your post to Your Green Resource here on Live Renewed, it will also be shared on these ladies’ great blogs!

• Andrea at The Greenbacks Gal
• Stacy at A Delightful Home
• Megan at Sorta Crunchy

In addition to making this a weekly place where you can both share and learn new green ideas, each week we’ll be Pinning our favorite post to the Your Green Resource board! We want your green posts to get as much exposure as possible – so we’ll pin the post for you!

This week’s featured post is:

Troubleshooting Cloth Diaper Problems and Recipe for Antibacterial Diaper Spray from Cheeky Bums Blog — I am venturing back into the world of Cloth Diapering as I prepare for Baby #3. Confession: It’s been a while since I used cloth diapers regularly, between working on potty training Brenden, and him growing out of most of our one-size diapers, but I’m so excited to start again fresh when this baby arrives! I’ve been working on building my newborn cloth diaper stash, and thinking about getting back into the routine of CD’ing. This is a great post about some common issues you might encounter with cloth diapers, and simple solutions for dealing with them. I also can’t wait to try the homemade Antibacterial Diaper Spray!

Now it’s your turn! Link up your green posts, old or new, on any of the following topics:

• Real Food Recipes
• Repurposed Projects
• Upcycled Projects
• Organic Gardening Tips
• DIY Natural or Green
• Thrifty Solutions

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

**Please make sure that you link back to one of the hostesses in your post. Your post cannot be chosen to be pinned and featured unless you’ve linked to one of us! **

As always, I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

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It’s time for Your Green Resource again. Sorry I missed last week, I was right in the middle of helping prepare for my dad’s visitation and memorial service, and not really up for getting on the computer and posting – I’m sure you understand.

I just want to say thank you so much to all of you who have offered your support and prayers to me and my family during this difficult time. It means so much to me. I’m back at home now, and easing back into regular life, but I realize that I still have a long road of grief and recovery ahead of me. I’m just trying to take it one day at a time, and I am so thankful for the Lord’s peace and comfort that is carrying me through.

Remember that when you link up your post to Your Green Resource here on Live Renewed, it will also be shared on these ladies’ great blogs!

• Andrea at The Greenbacks Gal
• Stacy at A Delightful Home
• Megan at Sorta Crunchy

Since I didn’t host last week, I don’t have a featured post for you this week, but I can’t wait to see what you link up this week, and I may try to feature two posts next week, just to make up for it.

So, link up your green posts, old or new, on any of the following topics:

• Real Food Recipes
• Repurposed Projects
• Upcycled Projects
• Organic Gardening Tips
• DIY Natural or Green
• Thrifty Solutions

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

**Please make sure that you link back to one of the hostesses in your post. Your post cannot be chosen to be pinned and featured unless you’ve linked to one of us! **

As always, I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

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On Saturday morning, after a five year battle with cancer, my dad went to be with Jesus. I wanted to repost this post I wrote for Father’s Day in 2010 in honor of him and the amazing way that he lived his life and loved me, my sisters, my mom, and really everyone around him. I love you, Dad and I will miss you every day.

Originally Posted on June 21, 2010:

In honor of Father’s Day yesterday, I wrote a letter to my dad thanking him for the way that he shaped the woman that I am today. This is really personal and important to me, but I wanted to share it on my blog because I think that it is that important.

I haven’t written about it before, because it’s obviously pretty hard for me to talk about, but my dad has stage 4 (terminal) prostate cancer. He is doing pretty well right now, and although it’s not imminent, we live with the reality that this disease will take him from this life here on earth to be with our Heavenly Father sooner than we would have expected.

Fathers are obviously hugely important in the lives of their children. I believe that a Father’s love and care cannot be replaced by anything else in this world. As I have reflected on the influence that my own father has had on my life, I am always drawn back to these seven simple, yet complex, sayings. When I close my eyes, I can see and hear my dad saying these to me over and over during my growing up years.

So, I wanted to share those things, and tell my dad how important they were to me, and how much they, and he, mean to me, now that I am grown and have a family of my own.

This is the letter I wrote for my dad:

My Dad is one of those people that has lots of sayings that he is known for, at least within our family. There were lots of saying and phrases that he would repeat to my sisters and I over and over when we were growing up. He would even make up acronyms for things that were a little too long to say on their own.

Sometimes I didn’t even really understand what he meant, and definitely didn’t usually get the meaning behind the words, but now that I am older, those sayings are coming back to me and I understand the wisdom and life lessons that my father was trying to teach us and instill in us from a young age. And I am so grateful and thankful that I have a father that was wise enough and patient enough to keep at us about these things, even when it seemed like we just didn’t get it, because he knew how important they were. I get it now, Dad, about time right? Thank you!

Important Life Lessons I Learned from my Dad:

1. CMGMGC – Catching My Girls Making Good Choices.

My dad would say this to us when he saw us making a positive choice in life. He was trying to teach us that we all have choices that we make every single day and we can either make positive choices that are good for ourselves and others, or we can make negative choices that hurt ourselves and others.

He wanted to reward and support the positive choices that we made independently, to help to teach us about making good choices. There is so much value in understanding that we have a say, that we can make choices, in life. Choices about how we act and react, choices about how we choose to live our lives. We are not just bystanders on this road of life, we are active participants and we need to learn to choose wisely. Thanks for teaching me the power and importance of choice, Dad!

2. Garbage in, Garbage Out

I would always roll my eyes at this one, especially during my teenage years. Dad would say that what we watched and listened to and even read, were putting messages into our minds and hearts about life. And if those messages were garbage – inappropriate movies or shows on TV, music that had underlying messages of sex and promiscuity, materialism and power, and books or stories of good and evil where we were rooting for the evil over the good, that those things would be what we reaped in our lives.

I really did not agree with him for a long time. I thought that I was strong enough to stand against the messages that media was sending. Now that I have my own children, I think I’m finally beginning to understand what he meant. I want to shelter them from the life-stealing messages that our culture promotes. I want them to seek truth and beauty, love and grace, peace and justice – and those things don’t come naturally to our lives unless we are actively seeking them in our lives. This leads to the next one too…

3. There is truly nothing more important in our lives than our relationship with Jesus.

This one was not so much a saying, but the way that my dad lived, and still lives, his life. He modeled this for us through his actions, and you know the saying – actions speak louder than words, right? I remember going to Cedar Point on a youth group trip and my dad was a chaperone. He brought his Bible along to read while we waited in line for the roller coasters. I was mortified. But now I understand that to him, there was nothing more important than spending time in the Word of God and he was going to take every opportunity, every free minute to do what was most important to him.

And so, this one is like the opposite of garbage in, garbage out – if something is truly important to you, it needs to be reflected in how you actually live your life. It’s not enough to say that you follow God, that you love Jesus, you need to act like it, and it needs to be reflected in the things you say, and do, and watch, and listen to, and read, day in and day out.

4. You have to mean not to.

This one I never understood when I was growing up. It just didn’t make any sense to me. He would say this when we did something that was probably an accident, but maybe also could have been prevented – we would say, “I didn’t mean to.” And he would reply, “You have to mean not to.” Ugh – it was always so frustrating to me – What? What does that mean?

Now I realize that he was trying to teach us about being intentional, about thinking ahead about not being impulsive. Sometimes things happen in life that we don’t have control over, but other times things happen and we say, “Oh, I didn’t really mean for, or want that, to happen.” But then we are not taking responsibility for our lives and our choices. If you want to avoid something in life that you have control over – you have to mean not to. You have to purpose and be intentional about avoiding it, and not just sit back and be the victim of your circumstances. We all have the ability to be proactive – now I get it, finally!

5. You’re my favorite (insert age) year old in the whole world.

My dad would say this, actually he still says it, to each of my sisters, and of course, we were different ages, so that was his way of telling us how important we were to him, how much he loved us, without singling out one of as a “favorite” or making us feel like he loves one of us more than the others.

As a girl, it’s so important to know that you are special and loved, especially by your father. I hope that I am able to let my kids know and feel how special and loved they are. Really, it’s so important to let all the important people in your life know how much they mean to you.

6. Find something that you love to do, and do it with all your mind, heart and strength.

Again, not something that he said, but something that he modeled through his life. If anyone has met my dad, they know he is a little crazy. Crazy about speed skating, crazy about recumbent bikes. He LOVES skating and riding his bike. And when he realized how much he loved those things, he poured his life into them. He learned, and researched, and practiced, and practiced some more, and keeps doing the things he loves. He taught me to how good it is to find pleasure in something that you love and to put everything you can into it (without going overboard, or crazy, of course.)

7. The most important things in life aren’t things at all. 

When I was much younger, I had a little bit of a hard time understanding this one, but now it is the most important one to me. It took me a little while to really learn and understand it, but now it is as obvious and plain as day to me. The most important things in life are not things, but people. And I want to live my life in a way that reflects that this is true for me.

People and relationship come before stuff, before any other things, always. Besides bikes and skates (see above), this is the way that my dad lives his life. Okay, just kidding about the bikes and skates. But really, those who know my dad, know how important people are to him. And he makes it a point to live like that, and I hope that I can follow in his footsteps that way.

All of these things my dad taught and instilled in me and my sister’s when we were growing up. We didn’t realize it at the time, but he was shaping the kind of women, the kind of people, that we would become. I really don’t know who I would be today if my dad had not begun teaching me these important life lessons at such a young age.

And even though I would, often, roll my eyes at him, I now see how the things that he taught us, through sayings and acronyms and the way he lived his life, were so much more powerful and lasting than lecturing or yelling, or a “do as I say, not as I do” kind of teaching. And for that, I am, and will forever be, grateful. Thank you, Dad, for being my favorite Dad in the whole wide world. I LYMTSLI! (Which was also another one of my dad’s sayings – I Love You More Than Skates Love Ice)

Although I am facing the reality that my dad is gone from this life here on Earth this week as we deal with his death and plan for his memorial service, I don’t know how I would do it without the belief and knowledge that my dad is fully healed and restored and living in Heaven with Jesus, and that I will get to see him again one day when I leave my life here and also go to be with my Savior in Heaven. And for that, I am eternally grateful. 

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It’s time for Your Green Resource again! I’m looking forward to reading all of your posts this week!

Also, I just want to remind you of the Simplify Your Family Life ebook sale which ends tomorrow morning at 8 a.m.!

When purchased separately, these 38 ebooks are worth $375, but for four days only, you can purchase the entire collection for just $29!
Click here to purchase your collection today!

Okay, now back to YGR! Remember that when you link up your post to Your Green Resource here on Live Renewed, it will also be shared on these ladies’ great blogs!

• Andrea at The Greenbacks Gal
• Stacy at A Delightful Home
• Megan at Sorta Crunchy

In addition to making this a weekly place where you can both share and learn new green ideas, each week we’ll be Pinning our favorite post to the Your Green Resource board! We want your green posts to get as much exposure as possible – so we’ll pin the post for you!

This week’s featured post is:

Why I Don’t Coupon + A Peek Inside My Pantry from Cheeky Bums Blog – I tried couponing several years ago when my hubs lost his job, but I found that it just really didn’t work for me and I could have written most of this post myself. I love how she explains why she doesn’t use coupons and what she does instead.

Now it’s your turn! Link up your green posts, old or new, on any of the following topics:

• Real Food Recipes
• Repurposed Projects
• Upcycled Projects
• Organic Gardening Tips
• DIY Natural or Green
• Thrifty Solutions

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

** PLEASE READ THIS! I have found several entries I’ve wanted to pin in the past, but some of them didn’t link back to YGR! Remember, you can link to ANY of the hostesses, but you must link to one of us in order to be pinned and featured! **

As always, I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

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With my dad and sisters on Easter

I’m sorry it’s been so quiet around here lately, and that I haven’t announced the winners of the ebook sets yet. Some of you know, but probably many of you don’t, that my father has terminal prostate cancer. Last week he entered Hospice and we have been told that he probably only has a few weeks left to live.

So, I’m going to take the next few weeks to spend time with him and my mom and sisters, and it will remain pretty quiet around here as we go through this time as a family. I would definitely appreciate your prayers for my family during this time.

I am so, so thankful for you all — that you read, and comment,and link up to Your Green Resource, and just generally make this little blog one of my favorite places to be and interact and share and learn and grow together. So, I will definitely be back, and I’ll still be posting Your Green Resource each week, so you can check in for that on Thursdays.

In the meantime, there are a few things I need to take care of.

First of all, the winners of the ebook sets – Healthy Pregnancy Superfoods and Breast to Bib: Modern Alternative Mama’s Guide to Nourishing Your Growing Family are:

Alicia – aliciahobson@ and Jessica – smithjessc@  Congratulations! Watch your inbox for your copies of your ebooks!

If you didn’t win, you can still use the code: RENEW25 for 25% off of either book through the end of the day today!

Also, the Simplify Your Family Life ebook sale kicks off this morning at 8 a.m.!

If you’re like me, and LOVE ebooks, this is an amazing opportunity to get some of the best ebooks out there for an unbelievable price! Corey from Simple Marriage and Mandi from Life…Your Way have brought together some of the top authors in the family life space with 38 ebooks covering a variety of topics related to family life.

When purchased separately, these ebooks are worth $375, but for four days only, you can purchase the entire collection for just $29!

This collection is only available from 8 a.m. on April 16th to 8 a.m. on April 20th. There will be no late sales offered.
Click here to purchase your collection today!

When you purchase the Simplify Family Life collection, you get instant access to each of the 38 ebooks listed below:

Entrepreneurship & Blogging

Blogger Behave by Laura @ 10 Million Miles ($4.99)

How to Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too by Mandi @ Life Your Way ($12.00)

Make Money Blogging by Tara @ Feels Like Home ($4.99)

Tap Into Your Unique Creativity and Self Expression Webinar by Lisa @ WellGrounded Life ($39.00)

Tell Your Time by Amy @ Blogging with Amy ($4.99)

Your Blogging Business: Tax Talk & Tips from a Bookkeeper Turned Blogger by Nikki @ Christian Mommy Blogger ($4.99)

Food & Cooking

Get Lean Recipe for Success by Nisha @ Healthy Mom’s Kitchen ($37.00)

Got Dinner? by Susan @ The Confident Mom ($4.00)

How To Cook For Yourself: A Complete Beginnerís Guide by Rachael @ Kitchen Courses ($35.00)

Plan It, Don’t Panic by Stephanie @ Keeper of the Home ($4.99)

Real Food Basics by Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama ($6.95)

Real Food, Real Easy by Erin @ The Humbled Homemaker ($9.95)

Smart Sweets by Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship ($9.95)

The Everything Beans Book by Katie @ Kitchen Stewardship ($9.95)

Homemaking

2012 Confident Mom Weekly Household Planner by Susan @ The Confident Mom ($9.00)

Clean Start: Your Guide to Natural Home Cleaning by Michelle @ Open Eye Health ($4.95)

Complete Printables Download Pack by Mandi @ Life Your Way ($7.00)

Food on Your Face for Acne & Oily Skin by Leslie @ Crunchy Betty ($7.99)

From Debtor to Better by Barry @ Debtor to Better ($15.00)

My Buttered Life {Summer + Gift Giving Editions} by Renee @ MadeOn Hard Lotion ($10.00)

Not a DIY Diva by Melissa @ The Inspired Room ($3.99)

One Bite at a Time by Tsh @ Simple Mom ($5.00)

That Works for Me by Kristen @ We Are THAT Family ($8.00)

Marriage & Relationships

A Simple Marriage by Corey @ Simple Marriage ($4.99)

Buck Naked Marriage by Corey @ Simple Marriage ($2.99)

Entangled by Amy @ Permission to Peruse ($4.99)

The A to Z Guide: 26 Ways in 26 Days to a Happier, Healthier Marriage by The Dating Divas ($9.97)

Minimalism for Families

101 Ways to Simplify Your Life by Laura @ Journey to a Simple Life ($9.95)

321-Stop by Lori @ Loving Simple Living ($9.97)

Inside Out Simplicity by Joshua @ Becoming Minimalist ($11.99)

Simple Ways to Be More with Less by Courtney @ Be More with Less ($9.97)

The Minimalist Momís Guide to Babyís First Year by Rachel @ The Minimalist Mom ($9.95)

Parenting & Kids

4 Moms of 35+ Kids Answer Your Parenting Questions by the Moms @ 4 Moms, 35+ Kids ($7.99)

Flourishing Spring by Michele @ Frugal Granola ($5.95)

Mindset for Moms by Jamie @ Steady Mom ($4.99)

Nurturing Creativity by Renee @ FIMBY ($3.00)

Parenting with Positive Guidance by Amanda @ Not Just Cute ($9.00)

Truth in the Tinsel by Amanda @ Impress Your Kids ($6.99)

The Simplify Your Family Life Sale is brought to you in part by Plan to Eat, an online meal planning app that makes eating at home simple. Receive an exclusive coupon code on a one-year membership with your purchase!

Click here to purchase your collection today!

The sale ends at 8 a.m. ET on April 20th, and there will be no late sales offered, so don’t wait.

Thanks so much for being a Live Renewed reader, and for your support!

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It’s time for Your Green Resource again! I’m looking forward to reading all of your posts this week! Remember that when you link up your post to Your Green Resource here on Live Renewed, it will also be shared on these ladies’ great blogs!

• Andrea at The Greenbacks Gal
• Stacy at A Delightful Home
• Megan at Sorta Crunchy

In addition to making this a weekly place where you can both share and learn new green ideas, each week we’ll be Pinning our favorite post to the Your Green Resource board! We want your green posts to get as much exposure as possible – so we’ll pin the post for you!

This week’s featured post is:

Easy Homemade Furniture and Floor Polish from Intentional Homemaker — I was just looking around for an all natural and safe wood polish, and I love that this recipe is so simple and uses ingredients I always have on hand! I can’t wait to try it on my wood floors!

Now it’s your turn! Link up your green posts, old or new, on any of the following topics:

• Real Food Recipes
• Repurposed Projects
• Upcycled Projects
• Organic Gardening Tips
• DIY Natural or Green
• Thrifty Solutions

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

** PLEASE READ THIS! I have found several entries I’ve wanted to pin in the past, but some of them didn’t link back to YGR! Remember, you can link to ANY of the hostesses, but you must link to one of us in order to be pinned and featured! **

As always, I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

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Happy April! Even though we’ve already been having lots of great warm weather around here, I think that April is one of my favorite months of the year because it means that spring is officially here!

I love the renewal and rebirth of spring, and the motivation it gives me to tackle projects, clean and organize around my home, and implement more green living ideas into our lives. But in my third trimester of pregnancy this year, I’m definitely lacking some of the energy needed to actually act on that motivation!

I’m looking forward to reading all of your green spring posts this week! Remember that when you link up your post to Your Green Resource here on Live Renewed, it will also be shared on these ladies’ great blogs!

• Andrea at The Greenbacks Gal
• Stacy at A Delightful Home
• Megan at Sorta Crunchy

In addition to making this a weekly place where you can both share and learn new green ideas, each week we’ll be Pinning our favorite post to the Your Green Resource board! We want your green posts to get as much exposure as possible – so we’ll pin the post for you!

This week’s featured post is:

How to Get Rid of Ants Naturally from Living Crunchy. We always have problems with ants in our house every spring, and every year I find myself trying different natural ways to get rid of them.

Now it’s your turn! Link up your green posts, old or new, on any of the following topics:

• Real Food Recipes
• Repurposed Projects
• Upcycled Projects
• Organic Gardening Tips
• DIY Natural or Green
• Thrifty Solutions

*Please make sure to link to the post with your green/natural living idea, not your homepage. Also, to spread the word about Your Green Resource to your readers, please make sure to include a link back to one of the four hostesses for this weekly link-up!

As always, I’m excited to see what you have to share this week!

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Don’t forget the two great giveaways ending soon! The Spring Cleaning Challenge Giveaway (Win a washer/dryer set!) ends today, and the Healthy Eating Ebooks Set from Modern Alternative Mama ends tomorrow!

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As you can probably tell from the giveaway this week, I love e-books! I just love all of the amazing information out there that I have access to read, to help me learn and grow in so many different areas of life.

One ebook I got last year that I poured over, and still refer back to again and again, is Parenting With Positive Guidance by Amanda Morgan. It is just packed with great advice about raising children, teaching them discipline, and helpful parenting tools, that can be used to address difficult behaviors in children every day, and help teach them to make better choices, instead of just reacting to them in anger or punishment.

Now, Amanda is offering even more great parenting information with a brand new Ecourse on Parenting With Positive Guidance!

The course actually kicks off today – but the great thing about an Ecourse is that you can join in at any time, and use the materials at your own convenience! This course includes four weeks of video sessions, broken down into 15-20 minute segments, so you can watch them when you have just a few extra minutes. You’ll also get a copy of the ebook, Parenting With Positive Guidance, and another ebook Patience for Parents.

I am so excited for this ecourse, besides the book, I’ve been feeling like I needed some more help and guidance with the whole parenting thing lately. I’m looking forward to starting the video series today!

If you too want to learn how to parent from a positive place, teaching your child discipline, instead of just always reacting to them, be sure to sign-up for this Ecourse, and you’ll be able to get the first week of videos today!

And be sure to enter the giveaway this week for two great ebooks on healthy eating during pregnancy, and feeding your babies and young children well!

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If you’d like to learn more about living green and living frugally I’d love to have you as a Live Renewed reader! You can subscribe, either by email or in a reader, to get the latest posts, ideas and inspiration for living frugally green. You can also connect with me on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest!

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