tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067003645515361062011-07-07T20:42:56.115-08:00Blogging my life as a scientist and new mom.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17348065180620691650noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306700364551536106.post-83040119426598319062010-03-31T13:52:00.000-08:002010-03-31T13:52:47.679-08:002010-03-31T13:52:47.679-08:00

Back to blogging, with a meme!  Bold indicates something I've done.  In some cases, I've elaborated on them. 1. Started your own blog – Sadly, I've started many.  What I'm not so good at is continuing them! 2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band – Symphonic band in high school.  Yup, I was a band dork. 4. Visited Hawaii – Three times.  If it weren't for the bugs, I'd say that I could live

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A few months ago, I received a $100 gift certificate to Overstock.com. I was really excited! I could buy something for myself, something decadent to spoil myself at a time when money is relatively tight. I spent, quite literally, months poring over the website, trying to figure out what I wanted the most, what would make me the happiest. I eventually decided that my 5-year-old hair dryer,

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Fall is definitely here! We have hard frost on the cars every day, and it snowed two days this weekend. With thoughts of winter come wonders about whether we are heating our house in a sustainable way. I think that we could do better, use more wood, less heating oil, but in general, I think that we do a fairly good job. Our house is older (almost 60 years old), but has been extensively

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Win a Keen bag filled with Organic products from Mambo Sprouts!These amazing upcycled tote bags are filled with loads of your favorite products from some of the manufactures in our newest booklet: Seventh Generation™ , Clif Kid™ Organic Twisted Fruit & Organic ZBars, Pirate's Booty®, RiceSelect™ , Lundberg® and Ian's®. Plus, you'll get a TerraCycle

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So, I think I've found what I'm getting all the coffee and tea drinkers in my life for Christmas this year: Sof-T mugs from active-gear.comWith a $10 donation, you get a stainless steel, silicon-coated, dishwasher safe travel mug. And it's cute, to boot!Win one of your own at http://busy-mommy.com/

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Baby Star is having a fantastic sale right now! They have a lot of really nice baby items at 50% to 80% off, and then if you use the coupon "20twinkle09" at checkout you get an additional 30% off the already reduced sale prices. I can attest to the fact that their stuff is really fantastic - Ollie was given a poodle blanket of theirs (it's the blue and brown one in the photo above) and it is my

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Are you breastfeeding, and pumping?You need a PumpEase*. Trust me on this. I lived without one for four months, and it was four months too long.I have had to pump since my first week home from the hospital. At first it was because I was engorged, but now I just make more milk than my almost-five-month-old baby needs. So I pump, and freeze it.I pump twice a day on workdays, because I'm able to

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Mother Greenest loves hearing from companies that offer products that are eco-friendly. I am a married mom of one child, a boy who less than a year old. I cloth diaper and exclusively breastfeed. I love knowing about new companies and products before anyone else. I will give you my honest opinion about your products. So, if you have a product you feel we would enjoy and my readers would love

Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17348065180620691650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-306700364551536106.post-19558822423674615192009-07-21T09:22:00.002-08:002009-07-21T09:40:34.180-08:002009-07-21T09:40:34.180-08:00

Inspired by Finn is having a Babylegs sale again!The last time they had these on sale, I bought 6 pairs for Ollie and he's been wearing them pretty much nonstop ever since.Use the coupon "BABYLEGS" to get organic Babylegs for $4.90/pair, and organic wool Babylegs for $9.80/pair. This is an awesome deal!

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When Ollie was really young we had quite a time getting him to go to sleep and stay asleep. We tried swaddling him the way that the hospital showed us, we tried the swaddling blankets available at our local department store, we tried everything we could think of, all to no avail.Finally, in desperation, I asked my friends who had babies what had worked for them. (Note to self: DO THIS FIRST!

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My biggest concern with starting to use cloth diapers was that Ollie would have terrible diaper rash, and we wouldn't be able to use diaper rash cream anymore, because none of the barrier creams were safe for use with cloth diapers.Enter Grandma El's. This amazing diaper rash remedy and prevention cream has worked wonders for Ollie when he has (very, very rarely) gotten diaper rash while in

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So, we started cloth diapering our baby when he was 6 weeks old. By that point his cord stump had fallen off (it took a long time and fell off around 4.5 weeks), and I was feeling pretty darned guilty for using disposable diapers. I wasn't sure how I'd like cloth diapering, but I was determined to do it since I hate the environmental impact of disposable diapers.I. Loved. It.He didn't smell

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I just entered an awesome giveaway for the Wacky Baby Knits book here:http://www.futuregirl.com/craft_blog/2009/7/giveaway-wacky-baby-knits.aspxI wish I were a better knitter, so that I could knit something like this:

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The goal of this blog is to provide information about what works for us as a family trying to live an eco-friendly life, and what doesn't work.

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