Mama Gone Green is a blog dedicated to raising happy children and reducing our impact on the Earth. My name is Taryn and I am the mother of 2 young kids and an environmental studies instructor at a community college in Portland, Oregon. Please join me as I journey through life as a mama, teacher, knitter, photographer, gardener, and environmentalist!

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

December Photo Project: December 18th

Zoo Lights
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December Photo Project: December 17th

Ladies' Holiday Party: Cranberry Mojitos

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

December Photo Project: December 16th

I spent most of the afternoon at urgent care today with poor Phoebe. After 3 weeks of being sick and 3 trips to the doctor, we couldn't seem to figure out what was going on. What started as a gastrointestinal-stomach flu thing had morphed into a fever/cough/crying all night/not acting herself. I mean, she went from her normal climbing on furniture and tearing apart the house to sitting still on the couch for hours at a time. We just knew that something wasn't right. Finally, today, a lung x-ray showed that she has pneumonia. Poor gal. Fingers crossed that these antibiotics will have her back to her old, crazy self in no time.
Plus, Finn woke up puking this morning! Although in classic Finn-style, he acted completely fine in-between throwing up and was back to 100% by 9am. Unfortunately, we missed out on a lot of fun holiday activities and plans with friends this weekend, but glad that we are on the road to recovery and will (hopefully) be healthy for Christmas.

Quick Nap While Waiting for Results...
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December Photo Project: December 15th

Posting this a day late.... now with 2 sicks kids in the house, finding a minute to myself seems nearly impossible!

Party On
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Friday, December 14, 2012

December Photo Project: December 14th

Finn's preschool performance of Rudolph.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012

December Photo Project: December 13th

Candy Eating Gingerbread House Decorating
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Some Holiday Art

Over the past couple of weeks we have been busy crafting for the holidays. Here is some of what we have made....

The Best Paper Snowflakes (instructions can be found here):


Snowflake Paintings. I saw the idea on The Feminist Housewife, and found a tutorial here:



Thumb-print reindeer, inspired by this.


Snow Globes (Courtney of A Life Sustained recently wrote a tutorial in Rhythm of the Home)


Salt Dough Ornaments (a yearly tradition around here). I posted instructions last year. This year, after they cooled, we painted them with watercolors and had a sparkle party with the glitter!


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