Blogging break

I'll be on a blogging break for the next three weeks due to a huge project at work. But, don't forget to first sign up for our second seed giveaway. The contest ends Sunday, and a winner will be drawn sometime next week.

Wishing you well!
Robbie @ Going Green Mama

Another seed giveaway and a winner

As promised, we have a second seed giveaway from Nature's Crossroads this week. We'll be picking one person to get a free seed kit. Last year, we tried out the Fairy Garden Kit (which my daughter loves - and still carries around the tin with last season's leftovers inside!), but Nature's Crossroads has everything from heirloom tomato seed-saving kits to a Southern favorites collection that my okra-craving boy would love to get his hands on.

To enter, leave a comment with your name and a way for us to reach you (blog link, link to Google profile and e-mail, etc.)

You can get additional entries by:

(1) Tweeting it - leave your Twitter handle
(2) Subscribe to Going Green Mama in your reader
(3) Blog about the giveaway

Entries must be posted by 11:59 p.m. Feb. 28. One winner will be randomly selected by our in-house, impartial judge (our kindergartener).

And the winner from our first giveaway is Janice (#8)!

Not too late

You can give a lot of excuses why you don't have guests over. Perhaps the house is a mess. The children are out of sorts. It's a bad time at work.

But some day, we will all run out of time.

This week, a good friend of mine found out her father has pancreatic cancer. Untreated the average life is 12 weeks. He's looking at options for extending his life with the most quality he can. Instead of worrying about their kids' gym meets or spelling tests, they're trying to cram a lifetime of memories until the time his treatment begins.

Today, I'm staring at my house. Laundry baskets scattered in the living room. Papers on the kitchen table. Toy room, well, being used well. A couple coming from my church tommorrow for marriage preparation. Work incredibly stressful, with our big project next week. And my daughter having had a rough week at school, having made a few bad choices in the way she reacted to situations.

So I make the call. And invite my parents up for the night. Because we're not too busy, or too messy, or too frazzled. We need to make our memories now, before we wish we had.

Budget gardening: Getting started

Today on the Green Phone Booth, I'm offering a few tips on how to get your garden started on a small budget.

One Winter Market Down in Indy

Disappointed to learn on their Facebook page that the Indy Winter's Eve Market that was taking place Thursday evenings downtown has shut down due to lack of traffic.