Earth Day....How Do You Celebrate?

We are celebrating Earth Day by planting our garden ! We bought our soil yesterday and are excited to get planting!

Honestly though, it bothers me that we have to have an Earth Day to remind people to take care of the earth.

Isn't it something we should be doing daily?

In our home, Earth Day is every day. Taking steps to be kinder to ourselves and to our planet, should be something that  we all strive for....on a regular basis. 

If we all just do one thing on Earth Day, it is not going to amount to enough to help our planet. What is going to help our planet is the daily task of  caring for the soil that we live on.

Recycling. Reducing waste. Eating clean whole foods. Reusing items instead of trashing them. Buying used instead of new. Eliminating harsh chemicals from our lives. Using cloth diapers. Breastfeeding.

These are just a few of the things we can do to help our Earth be healthy and clean.

Interesting fact, Baby A's name means "Earth's Companion" and she is turning 17 months old today on Earth Day. I love that she is an earth baby. I want her to feel connected to nature. I want her body, mind, and soul to be nourished by whole things, beautiful things.

She is full of laughter and love, she loves the outdoors. Every day she wants me to open the blinds so she can see outside, and every time we go outside she gets so excited! 

I wish that more children had the opportunity to be connected.

Sitting in front of a TV all year long ( although once in a while TV is okay), then only venturing outside for Earth Day or the occasional trip to the playground.....is not healthy. People are so disconnected from what feeds our lives and makes us whole.

This Earth Day, I want to challenge each and every one of my readers to reconnect.

Make a commitment to reconnect to the planet in some way. Whether that be planting a garden, starting a clean whole foods plant based diet, or committing to spending at least 10 minutes outdoors each day. I want to challenge you to make a commitment to reconnect with the Earth in some way for an entire year, starting on Earth Day.

What are you committing to?

I would love to hear, no matter how big or small!

Every day is Earth Day!

Be Happy Healthy and Strong,

Lolli

EARTH HOUR!

Celebrate Earth Hour on March 23, 2013 from 8:30 pm to (:30 pm local time!

Don't know what to do during Earth Hour? Inhabitots has some ideas: http://www.inhabitots.com/celebrate-earth-hour-on-march-23-2013-with-more-than-a-dozen-family-activities

Sign the pledge here:

http://wwf.worldwildlife.org/site/PageServer?pagename=EarthHourPledge_2013_Individual

Join us for Earth Hour.

Every little bit helps.

Be Happy Healthy & Strong,

Lolli

Thankful Thursday

What a wonderful way to start off 2013, by giving thanks.

I have a confession, this is the 2nd Thankful Thursday post I have written today, the first one was deleted by accident some how....right after I posted it. 

So I am thankful for the ability to re-write it, even if I don't remember everything I wrote before.

I am so thankful for the New Year, the ability to make goals and start fresh each year is wonderful.

I appreciate my friends, my handsome Hubby, and my beautiful baby girl who I gave birth to over a year ago now, and I am thankful for my blog friends and blog readers! You all are so important to me. 

I appreciate my Hubby who has supported me in my goals. I have kept every resolution I have made, and I have changed my entire life through these resolutions. My Hubby has changed his life right along beside me, with his own goals throughout the years...in his own way. We have supported each other through everything, and that to me is something to be thankful for.

On that note I am thankful to have met my Hubby 7 years ago, and I am thankful for the amazing relationship we have.

I am thankful for life and the adventures it holds. 

I am thankful that I will be another year older next week. I like to think of it as growing young, not growing old, and while I will be far from old at 27, I want to maintain my youthfulness both physically and mentally through the many more years I am hoping to have on this earth.

I am grateful for my family, my friends, my home, for my health, for the opportunity to work out as hard as I do, the opportunity to blog for my readers, and the opportunity to blog about products from sponsors.

I am thankful for the earth God created and the amazing food that it grows for us to live off of, I am thankful for the air, for the water, for the dirt.

Most importantly, I am thankful for God, for without Him, nothing in my life would be possible, only with Him are all these things possible. I am so blessed. I am so grateful.

What are you thankful for?

Be Happy Healthy & Strong,

Lolli