Compliments of Jennifer Chait at Tree Hugging Family.

I wanted to get everyone into the winter holiday spirit before kicking off December. However, I didn’t just want to post classic Tree Hugging posts. That said, with a little help from the rest of the channel, I rounded up a huge list of killer holiday (and eco-friendly) posts.
Sit back, browse, read, and linger in the holiday bliss!

Remember, no matter the treat or recipe, you can always green it up by exchanging organic and natural ingredients for conventional.
50 Cute and Tasty Christmas Cookie Ideas
Cherry Dot Cookies
Organic Holiday Cookies!
Hey It’s Sugar Cookie Day – …read more

Tomorrow will kick off the beginning of our Second Annual b5media Lifestyles Channel Blogtoberfest Two Week Giveaway Event!
This year, we’re happy to introduce our sponsors, who with a combined effort, are giving away over $7,000 in prizes.
Go through the list and see what you can’t live without, or would just love to give to someone you know.
Now, to make things especially fun, we’ve mixed up the prizes and placed some on unlike sites so it won’t be so easy to figure out where those prizes are lurking.

Cleatskins- A cleat that you can take to the streets. These are A …read more

Blog Carnivals build traffic so go visit the ones who have been kind enough to feature me:
Carnival of Family Life
Parents Helping Parents
Total Mind and Body Fitness Carnival
Health and Fitness Articles

Ginny, of Getting Free from Debt and Mom of 2 Dancers is the winner of last week’s Bloggy Giveaway.
Ginny has won my copy of Mama Gena’s Owner’s and Operator’s Guide to Men. Put it to good use Ginny.
Because I love the rest of you I’ll tell you the best piece of advice I got out of Mama Gena’s book.
It was to buy another book. Not just any book, but a really, really useful book that gets hidden in an underwear drawer or on the top closet shelf once your kid learns to read.

ESO: How You and Your …read more

In honor of this season’s Bloggy Giveaways I’m giving away my copy of Mama Gena’s Owner’s and Operator’s Guide to Men.

I went to this Life Coach Shrink in Atlanta to learn about Tapping to get rid of some of my hang-ups about sex and money and marriage (before my Law of Attraction mentor Jeff Howard told me to just go online and learn about it for FREE) and paid $150. One of the things I walked away with was a recommendation for THIS book. When I was cleaning out my office I found it and thought, for $150 I should …read more

This month, Lifestyles decided to have a little fun
with one of summer’s favorite pastimes – picnics.
As we take a stroll around the channel, you’ll find recipes, tips and a
few laughs thrown in for free.
Let’s get going, while everything is still fresh.
Strawberry
Rhubarb Crunch by Robust Cooking
Watermelon
Raspberry Lemonade at All Holiday Cafe
Rice
Krispie Treats at Keeping the Castle
Homemade
Oreo Ice Cream at Chocolate Bytes
Cool
Summer Snacking at Inside Motherhood
Pasta
Salad at Thrifty Mommy
Baking Delights is bringing enough chocolate for everyone to catch a
chocobuzz with her favorite brownies
Nothing like sweet
tea on a hot, summer day…Wait..I taste lime..mint…is
that a non-alcoholic Mojito? Kettle and Cup has the answer.
Blogfabulous …read more

You’ll want to head over the the Carnival of Feminists, hosted by Redemption Blues.

Laurie Toby Edison of Body Impolitic asked me to guest blog. I submitted Body Image: No Name Calling about how I try to teach Ainsley that the habit of self-deprecation is wrong and carries a real cost to the self-esteem.

Thanks to Laurie for the opportunity. Laurie will be sitting on the BlogHer panel about body image with me in San Francisco in July.

Please stop by and read it while I decompress from my political trip and spend extra time with my kids – they missed me.

There’s another reason to leave the kids every once in a while – you can’t …read more

Check out the Feminism at its Finest Carnival. You don’t want to miss it.

Crap your pants last time you filled up your tank?

Visit Ask Patty’s Fuel Efficient Blog Carnival.