Since the weather is finally starting to show signs of warming, our family decided to hit up the zoo this weekend. Our family purchases a “Dual Family Pass” each year to the Louisville Zoo/Louisville Science Center. When bought together, the “dual family pass” gains us year round entry to both at a decent discount. We get our money’s worth soon after purchase as our family are ardent fans of both science and animals.
Release Some Energy at the Zoo
April 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Earth Hour: Type A Mom Article
March 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This was our family’s first year to participate in Earth Hour. I planned plenty of “unplugged activities” for our family to participate in Saturday and got plenty of cleaning done. After an early morning grocery stop for me, it was back home to spend some quality time with my family. I also wanted KG to understand what we were doing and why it was important for us to participate in Earth Hour.
Unplugged Activities
When deciding to take on such an undertaking as no electricity for the day, it became evident many great activities were going to be required. To read more about what my family did to participate in Earth Hour head over to Rural Moms on Type A Mom and check it out!!
Earth Hour is Observed in Our Home with Activities and Education
March 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last Saturday was Earth Hour and our family participated with over 4000 cities in 88 countries. Earth Hour was a huge success and thanks to people like you all over the world, it is thought to have been the largest public outcry for climate change awareness ever.
It is my hope that our families will continue to do our part to make our private part of the Earth a bit cleaner and that it will catch on…that next year we have an even bigger group on moms, dads, grandparents and children who stand up and say WE CARE! It is my prayer that we begin acting like the stewards God intended for us to be.
Our family spent the majority of the day “unplugged” and enjoyed it immensely. We played many games together, managed to do a bit of house cleaning, and we had to work together and get inventive on what to fix for lunch and dinner. When 8:30 rolled around and it was just gettting dark in the house we started up a rousing game of “In the Dark Hide-n-Seek” (aka. Ghosts in the Graveyard), then our bedtime story by flashlight under the covers.
I took the time twice that day to work in many activities that educated the girls about Earth and why we were participating in Earth Hour this year, how the Bible says we should take care of Earth and what we can do to remember Earth Hour more than once a year.
It was absolutely the best time I have had in a looooong time and I am so grateful we joined in. To learn more about how we observed Earth Hour Saturday, check back later! I’ll be posting on Type A Mom later in the week a more in depth look.
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