Life, Love, & Laundry

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...

As a mother it has always been important to me to let my children feel the freedom to express themselves through their clothing. Sometimes that works in my favour, Adaliah (11) LOVED wearing fancy dresses from the age of 2 till about the last year or so. It was so much fun to find (cheap, used) dresses for her. And since we always got them second hand, she was free to wear them wherever and whenever she wanted. She always looked dressed up and put together..made me feel like my job was easy...hahahaha Allora (12) has always preferred comfort over...

Not that long ago we had chickens here at Ever After Acres but decided it was best for our family to get rid of them.  One particular chicken will always be remembered because we are pretty sure he was a zombie chicken.This particular rooster was a very large and aggressive bird that after a variety of attempts to deal with the issue we realized we had to kill him, as he wasn't safe to be around.  He would literally attack the kids, and trust me chickens have very dangerous beaks and claws.  Our oldest son was responsible for the chickens...

We have never really shared much about the story of what happened to all our chickens.  This is that story.When we moved to the country here at Ever After Acres we were convinced by the kids that we should get chickens.  We agreed making it crystal clear the work involved was on the kids and that we would help, but ultimately it was their responsibility.  It grew a few chickens here and a few chickens there and before we knew we had over 50 chickens in our backyard.  Initially, we let them roam free with a coop to sleep in...