2010 August — We are THAT Family

Links I Love: Food/Health Edition

10:48 pm Bykristen

The conversation in the comment section of the post, Growing Up Too Fast (about our kids, puberty, and our food) was very interesting! Many of you asked me to put all the links left in the comments in one post, so here they are:

Book: Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax
Book: Girls on the Edge by Leonard Sax
Documentary: Food, Inc.
Documentary: King Corn
Documentary: Supersize Me
Article: Some Girls Puberty Age Still Falling
Article: BPA in Plastic Blamed for Early Puberty
Book: The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Book: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Blog: 100 Days of Real Food
Article: Drugs in the Water
Book: Master Your Metabolismby Jillian Michaels
Article: First Sign of Puberty in Younger Girls
Healthy Food Co-Ops in your area: Local Harvest

If you have more, please leave the links in the comment section.

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And these links have nothing to do with food at all, but I couldn’t resist sharing them:

Twitter-The Movie: I love Twitter and I think this is so funny!

Rules for Christians who use Twitter-hilarious

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Summer: We Will Miss You the Most

10:07 pm Bykristen

Today is our last day of summer.

You’ve been a real splash! We will miss you.

Have you had a good summer?

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Pinch Me:

10:09 pm Bykristen

Coming Soon!

March 1, 2011

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WFMW: Make a Family Memory Box

10:22 pm Bykristen

I can hardly believe that summer is nearly over!

If it weren’t for the HEAT, I’d let summer stay forever. But the heat index of 111 the past few days, makes me glisten.

We’ve made some pretty great memories this summer and I want to treasure them.

Last summer, in one of my DIY posts, I showed my readers an old printer’s tray, turned-unique-table. I got it for $10 and wasn’t sure what I would do with it.

Here’s a peek at it:

Several of my readers suggested turning into a memory box to store trinkets and treasures from family moments.

We’ve done just that with our summer memories:

It’s one of my most-prized possessions: every ticket stub, seashell and special rock is a precious memory. Now that we are geocaching, we have a place to store our caches! My kid’s love looking at it and talking about the memories.

A family memory box works for us!

Here are the WFMW guidelines.

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Paper Bead Necklaces {Giveaway}

9:42 pm Bykristen

*Updated with Winners* Congrats to necklace winner: Linda R-reader (blog@gfawana.com) and bracelet winner: Tiffany C

Last week, I had a party.

It was a gathering of friends and family. We sat around and talked about these women:

They live in Uganda, many are widows, refugees. They are all heroes. They are a defeating poverty, one bead at a time. Four college girls traveled to their war-torn country, saw a need, and started a company, 31 Bits, to sell their beautiful creations.

I love stories like these. I love world-changers.

Today, I’m giving away this gorgeous 3-strand necklace ($36):

And this pretty bright green multi-strand bracelet ($16):

Visit 31 Bits

and tell me what you love to wear.

If you decide to book your own party (it’s easy: the jewelry is mailed to you), you will get FIVE extra entries. Just let me know in the comments and I can tell you how to do it.