One Month Of Blogging, What’s Next?
It has been about one month since we have launched this site and with the excitement of creating a new blog we never really illustrate why we chose to blog about being green and autism and how they might relate to each other.
So this is just a quick post to let everyone know that Andrea is working on a real juicy two part post that will establish the following:
Green Giveaway: Three Free Books Of Your Choice
Hello Green Readers. Today we will be holding our first giveaway with many more to come! We will be giving away your choice of three brand new books from the selection below, shipped to you free of charge.
For this giveaway there are four ways to enter: leave a comment on this post, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our blog via email and retweet this post. Each options you do gives you one entry. Therefore, if you do all four than your name will be entered four times in the draw! If you are already following us and/or already an email subscriber than you have been automatically entered under those options.
Does The 100 Mile Diet Reduce Your Carbon Footprint?
A couple of days ago I was attending a talk at the University given by a fellow graduate student discussing the issue of sustainable farming. It was an interesting talk that went over the history of human farming practices and how farming can develop sustainably in the future. But the most interesting part of the talk was the discussion where many people had some very interesting ideas and questions about farming. And what I found most interesting was a brief discussion of the 100 mile diet.
12 Autism Warning Signs
One of my biggest hopes for this blog is to raise awareness for autism. I feel like we where blindsided when Tristan was diagnosed.
A lot of the behaviors we now know to be typical of autism we thought were just part of who Tristan is, and to a certain degree they are, but they are also because of autism. There are definite warning signs but you won’t read about any of them in your “baby’s first year” books. And unfortunately for us our family doctor was less than helpful to say the least.
Top 5 Tips For Being A Biker Babe
Well ok, maybe riding a pedal bike isn’t as sexy as riding a ducati, but that doesn’t mean you can’t look just as good. I’ll be the first one to admit that I was really, really nervous about relying on a bike to get me everywhere. I mean two kids and no car? How are we going to get anything done? After just a week or so of riding the initial shock of hauling my butt everywhere on pedal power wore off and I felt much more comfortable on my new wheels. So I’d like to share these five tips that I had the unfortunate experience of learning the hard way.
Happy Birthday My Sweet Baby Girl
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since Maya joined our family. Her birth was supposed to be much less dramatic than her brother’s. With Tristan I was in labour for almost 3 days and it ended in a c-section. Maya was breech and we had a scheduled section. Boy did she have a different plan. Four days before the section I started spotting. We went into triage and they discovered I had a placental abruption; the placenta was breaking off of my uterus, which can be life threatening both to mom and babe. Mine was minor though. But my Dr. decided to keep me at the hospital and moved up the section date. Of course everyone had planned on being at the hospital for August 1 and we had family coming to take care of Tristan. So at the last minute we had to scramble to get someone to watch Tristan while Odum got me all settled in at the hospital and then call his mom to see if she could come from Sudbury a day early. Luckily she was able to.
Tristan’s First Speech Therapy Session
Today was Tristan’s day of speech therapy and he did great! Our speech language pathologist (SLP) is starting him on the picture exchange communication system (PECS). Basically Tristan has to give her a picture of an item in order to play with it. For example, she had bubbles and Tristan had to give her the little card with bubbles on it before she would blow the bubbles. She would also hold up two cards with different items on them and he would choose what he wanted, like bubbles or the shape sorter. Let me tell you this kid loves bubbles!
7 Reasons Why You Should Get Rid Of Your Car
One of the first things that came to my mind when Andrea and I decided to move towards a green lifestyle was ditching our car for some bikes and a carrier for the kids. After all, personal vehicles are responsible for 25% of all global warming pollutants entering our atmosphere and if we are going to go green we might as well tackle our biggest offender first.
How It All Got Started
Looking back thinking about how the idea for this blog got started its funny how things came together. Back around Christmas time Odum and I were talking about becoming more environmentally conscious and eco-friendly. We talked about things that we needed to do better not just for the environment but for our kids and their future. We wondered why we, and other people, didn’t do more green things in our daily life and came up with two answers, time and money. So we decided to quit talking and start acting. And while we were at it, why not start a blog and share all our crazy adventures?
What My Family Means To Me
Over the past couple days I’ve been brainstorming with a few ideas of what I should write for my first post. I’ve been going back and forth between wanting to write about my stance on the environment or about our first big green family adventure. But when it came right down to it, I just knew I had to talk about my family and what they mean to me. I must apologize in advance as this post is personal in nature, but without my family this blog would not be possible and it wouldn’t be fitting to start off this blog without acknowledging them first.
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