Catching up...

I've been such a bad blogger lately. With birthday parties, Mother's Day, school plays, meetings and my job going full time (!) I've hardly had a minute to think about blogging.

Frugal Fridays
This is the time of year when we're totally over being cooped up in the house all the time. (Did I mention we woke up to snow again today?) We can't wait to start exploring the great outdoors and many of the other fun things to do around Colorado. I'm going to be starting a new feature this week called Frugal Friday where I share some of the frugal things our family is doing for fun.

Community
Speaking of frugal and fun... I'm happy to have met some other frugal fun families in our neighborhood. I know, after almost 2 years here it's about time! Our girls are all in the same class at school and their moms are sweet, fun and down-to-earth. I know I've blogged before about being sort of the hillbilly tree-hugger in an upper-class town, so it's nice to meet some people I don't have to pretend to be classy around. (ha!)

I'm also finally getting more involved in some of the community groups that I blogged about after Earth Day last month. Last week I attended a meeting of the Green Scouts. It was more of an informational meeting than an actual troop meeting. I'm really excited about the potential for this group. It's going to be community run and focused - definitely a different take on scouting than your traditional/typical scout groups.

Green Scouts is working in conjunction with (i.e.: started by the same folks as) Evergreen Alliance for Sustainability + You. Their big goal, to be implemented next spring, is a community garden. The plans for the garden are amazing and it's going to be just beautiful.

Among the plots, there will be 8 educational plots where community members (or Green Scouts!) can go to learn from some of the gardening experts. The harvest from these educational plots will go to a local organization that helps families in need. They're also planning to ask anyone with a plot of their own to donate 10% of their harvest to the same organization. That is the type of community to which I want to belong!

More short term, EAS+Y is working to fix the issues we're having at our town recycling center. Long story there, but let's just say it isn't running well anymore. EAS+Y is working with the company to come up with an amicable solution so that we don't lose the center altogether.

So that's about all the news that is news from the land of Greenhab. Hope I still have some readers left out there!