Busy Little Bee

I must apologize for such a delay in posting. Between wrapping up my end of the year classroom things and starting my position as Children's Ministry Assistant at our church, I have been quite a busy little bee!

As you know, I love nature! Planting and nurturing trees is one of my favorite hobbies and probably the reason my neighbors refer to me as "The Tree Lady." I was given this tree at the Haltom City Arbor Day Celebration. It is a beautiful Texas Ash and I can't wait to see its Fall color!

In May, my family and I FINALLY started our compost. I researched online and discovered how I could convert our old trash bin into a compost bin. My wonderful husband drilled holes and, wa-la!, we now have a compost bin. We are alternating layers of green matter and brown matter.

Our typical Green Matter consists of: Coffee grounds, tea bags, egg shells, apple cores, grape stems, orange peels, banana peels, broccoli stems, cauliflower stems, romaine lettuce stems, etc.

Our typical Brown Matter consists of: newspaper ripped into strips.

Once a week, I turn the compost bin on its side and roll it back and forth to mix up the green & brown matters. Adding worms is not a necessity but my daughters had a blast going down to the creek with daddy to dig for worms!

At the end of this nature filled day, we were able to appreciate yet another one of God's beautiful creations!

FRESH the movie

Green Girl has been asked to be one of the panelists after a local screening of FRESH the movie on Friday, May 14th. I am so excited to be a part of this and am highly anticipating hearing how we can be a change!

We just recently watched Food, Inc. and were prompted to improve our food choices even more. We've always tried to buy as many organic foods as possible but this movie really opened our eyes to the necessity to buy from local farmers as well.

We did some research and discovered the Keller Farmers Market which is open on Saturdays from 8am-1pm. I have enjoyed meeting and getting to know a few of the KFM board members and look forward to having a tent set up at the Wellness Fair on Saturday, May 15th.

Earth Day celebrations

I think it is easy sometimes to feel overwhelmed with the hustle and bustle of being a mom, wife, teacher and superhero..ha!...but, at the end of the day, the sweet words of encouragement I hear from my cheerleaders (my kids & husband, teachers, parents, and students) are what make all the hard work worth it.

Thank you all for your support!

Earth Day ~ April 22nd

On Tuesday, Green Girl performed at my daughter's Girl Scout meeting about respecting ourselves and others (our planet) so that the girls could earn their purple petal. We made some delicious fruit smoothies as our snack using a recipe I saw on our Silk soymilk container. Frozen fruit, soymilk, and honey...yum!


On Thursday, Green girl performed for preschoolers and elementary kids during chapel time at the Fort Worth homeschool partnership where I teach. One of the 1 year old teachers stopped me at the end of the day and said, "That was awesome! I have never seen my 1 year olds sit still during chapel. They were in total amazement!" One of my students said, "I liked your shiny legs...you looked like a super hero!" A few days later, I received this note from one of my student's parents.

"I want to THANK YOU so much for all that you are teaching our kids about taking care of our environment! Our daughter adores you and Green Girl. I love that we are having good conversations about recycling and not using plastic products. My girls are really learning and have a passion for the environment. Thank you for impacting my family.

I love the go green sheet you sent home today. We just discovered a stainless steel product called Lunchbots that our older daughter has been using. I enjoyed finding out about kidskonserve.com. Thanks for sharing good ideas. Keep them coming!

You have been God sent to our school! We are honored to have you as our teacher!"

On Saturday, the Bob Jones Nature Center in Southlake hosted a Girl Scout event from 9am-1pm. They had stations set up and the girls rotated throughout the 1 mile course to learn about such things as rocks, butterflies, dragonflies, wildflowers, etc. We had beautiful weather and we all really enjoyed ourselves.


We left the nature center and headed straight to the Prairie Fest in Fort Worth where, although it was super windy, I had a fantastic time performing impromptu as groups of kids and parents came to my tent.


Although this was a very hectic week & weekend, we still had time to stop and appreciate the beautiful wildflowers!


What a great Earth Day week!

Cowtown Great American Clean Up

What a great success!!! Some of my daughter's Girl Scout friends, moms & sisters, my neighborhood friends and I participated in the yearly Great American Clean Up today.

After volunteering for 2 hours, we collected approximately 300 pounds of trash and five or six bags of recycle material in our neighborhood park.


My daughters and I went to pass out Clean Up packets for the City on Thursday after school and were given these adorable "US Census 2010" hats that the girls can't get enough of wearing!

Green Girl had an opportunity to present at the volunteer celebration afterwards along with Radio Disney!!!

Thank you all for your help and willingness to support my efforts at litter prevention and waste reduction!