The Chirping Moms

A Fun Earth Day Craft for Kids

A Fun Earth Day Craft for Kids

We have been talking about taking care of the Earth in this house as we are preparing for our celebration of Earth Day next week!  To kick off our “Earth” week in our house, I read Our Earth by Anne Rockwell to the boys.  We talked about how Earth is made up of land and water and then we created this fun… Read More

Smoothies On the Go for Little Ones!

Smoothies On the Go for Little Ones!

It’s breakfast time in this house and one of our new favorite things to make right now, especially with summer time on the horizon, is SMOOTHIES!  Today, I’m going to share one of our favorite smoothie recipes with you: Handful of frozen berries One banana About 1/4 cup of milk About 1/4 cup of orange juice Approximately 1/2 cup of… Read More

Where to Wednesday: A Garden Party!

Where to Wednesday: A Garden Party!

Our kids love to play outside. Now that spring is finally here to stay, we’ve been outside a lot. Maggie helped my mom garden a lot last year & constantly asks when we can start this year’s garden. I figured it would be fun to have a little garden party at our house this week to “practice” gardening before we… Read More

10 Simple Ways to Conserve Water at Home

10 Simple Ways to Conserve Water at Home

Today we are sharing a guest post from my favorite green living blog: Groovy Green Livin. This blog has so many great, simple ways to make your house more earth conscious. 10 Simple Ways to Conserve Water at Home By: Lori Popkewitz Alper I really never gave a lot of thought to water. I turned on the shower, brushed my… Read More

Cloth Diapering With Charlie Banana

Cloth Diapering With Charlie Banana

I’ll start by saying I was the mom that said “I will never use cloth diapers”.  I didn’t understand how anyone could possibly want to wash their diapers. On most days there are at least 5 loads of laundry waiting to be done – so why add another load? I could go on & on about why I thought cloth… Read More

Baby Steps to “Going A Little More Green”!

Baby Steps to “Going A Little More Green”!

Yesterday, we kicked off our “Going a little more Green” week with a really AMAZING giveaway, Our Giant Earth Conscious Giveaway.    One of the shops that we wanted to highlight today, as part of our For the Moms Tuesdays, is Anne Riggs Designs and I am going to share some of favorite “Pinterest” DIY cleaners below as well!   I,… Read More

Our Giant Earth Conscious Giveaway

Our Giant Earth Conscious Giveaway

For 2013, my resolution was to make our house a little “greener”.  We don’t eat all organic, wear organic, recycle enough & have too many chemicals in our house. The thought of changing everything at once seemed overwhelming & too expensive. I decided to start small & that every little bit helps. As I started having a more earth conscious… Read More

14 Must See Shops for Kids Clothes this Spring!

14 Must See Shops for Kids Clothes this Spring!

    1.  Bella Bliss:  This company has a beautiful spring line that we featured here with the summer bubbles, high quality play clothes, pima cotton pajamas, and the most adorable layette collection.  From their super soft layette to beautiful clothes up to size 12, Bella Bliss has all of your kids covered!  Enter at the end of this post to win a $50… Read More

Friday Favorites: Wunway

Friday Favorites: Wunway

A few months ago, while reading Style Smaller, I saw an adorable pair of pink & green heart tights. I clicked to see where they were from & discovered Wunway. Wunway is a girls clothing line started by 3 moms. They have 10 kids between them & say “style starts young”. It can certainly start young with all they fun… Read More