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My article on 10 Eco-friendly Summer Activities For Your Children was featured on Inhabitots today. Hooray! Jump over and check it out. 
I was delighted to receive two bottles of lovely wine from Mendocino Wine Company in the mail last week. We received a bottle of Parducci California 2008 Pinot Noir $ 12 and a bottle of 2008 Parducci Mendocini County Chardonnay $11.
The 2008 Chardonnay was my absolute favorite. I love the crisp, clean taste and the aromas of apple and pear were fabulous. I love, love, love this wine and think that it went perfectly with the fresh baguette and local organic cheeses.
We visited our Costco Saturday night to pick up a few essentials and to see if they had organic turkeys for Thanksgiving. They do, Yay! While we were there, the mister suggested that we look for pajamas for Eben. I usually buy him pajamas for the holidays, but he is in desperate need of warm pajamas, since his no longer fit and I don’t think he could wait much longer. I wasn’t sure, if we would find anything Eco friendly in the pajama section at Costco. However, what to my wandering eyes should appear, but Children’s 100% SKAL Certified Organic Cotton Pajamas. Even the tags were 100% recycled paperboard, printed with soy ink. I was a little stunned and overjoyed. They were a great deal at $11.99 for a 2 piece set and they had sweet designs perfect for any little boy or girl. Eben picked the space and dinosaur pajamas.
If you are looking for lovely organic cotton pajamas for the little ones this year, these would be wonderful
Sunday morning, we awoke to a fresh blanket of snow on everything. This Colorado weather really baffles me. Last week, it was so warm that only a light jacket was necessary. Today, we are building snowmen with big rosy cheeks. {I added all natural red food coloring with water to a spray bottle to make our snowmen rosy} Who knows what next week will bring? 
How is your weather?
Who doesn’t love the ocean? If you live near an ocean and can visit anytime that you like, you are lucky. We lived in Southern Florida for five years and our favorite part, bar none about Florida, the ocean. We spent almost every single weekend that we lived there at the beach. I don’t think that a weekend went by that we weren’t at the beach at least one of the days. The ocean is so calming, so beautiful and so exciting, we had endless hours of free fun at the beach. This is the one major thing that we miss now that we live in Colorado. On our recent ten day stay at the beach in Southern Florida, we had a blast. It was so fun to play in the warm waves of the ocean and watching Eben learn how to snorkel was amazing. He has zero fear of the ocean and wanted to spend every moment in the water. We built huge sand castles, collected seashells, dived through the waves and watched the fish.
Eben enjoyed picking up and observing the jellyfish that washed up on shore. {unfortunately, deceased}
It was a lovely trip that only secured the fact that we will be visiting the beach every year from now on.