Life, Love, & Laundry — Christmas

Sometimes the hardest areas in our life to convert to the going green lifestyle is the traditions we have that we are deeply connected to from our past.  Christmas is one of those areas for us, and likely you as well.  The extra lights for decorations, the gifts, the wrapping paper, the excessive food, the deliveries, and much more.  We have said in the past our purpose of these blog posts is to make permanent changes once a month in our normal practices.  We hope that this not only has impact on our way of living and our planet but...

Unless you have lived in a cave for the last few years, you know there has been much discussion about using the phrase Merry Christmas.  The more recent trend, that is deemed politically correct, is Happy Holidays.  As you read this, for any of you that know me, you are likely suspecting I will say it should be Merry Christmas, because of my Christian upbringing and that I was a pastor for 12 years.  Some of you may be thinking, Ben is a pretty liberal guy despite his religious views, he is likely going to say we should use the...

Christmas is coming....whether you have started thinking about it or not. Today is our first snowfall that actually has visible snow on the ground here in Notre-Dame. With more in the forecast...So, you may not be ready to think about Christmas, but it is coming none the less.  We have done a few different kinds of Christmas's over the years. One of my favourite was the year we gave the kids something they could do. Andy got a bow and arrow, Adaliah got a sewing machine...that kind of thing. It was nice for them to have something to do after the...