The benefits of drinking the ancient elixir of tea are rumored to be many, being an efficient way to take in nutrients & antioxidants from plants we share this Planet with. From helping with diseases, weight-loss, and comforting the soul, it is a wonderful addition to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
#CrunchyKitchens Instagram Photo Challenge
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr — WIkipedia
In the garden with a Happy Caterpillar
Gardening is a wonderfully messy way for children to engage in an enlightening and healthy pastime. It is also one of the most important skills a child can obtain, period. As a family, it is a bonding and rewarding experience which starts with the excitement of choosing the plants from seed, then learning how to nurture and manage the ground as plants grow, and ending with a harvest of homegrown goodness which all can sit down to enjoy as a meal together.
Keeping Safe in the Great Outdoors of New York State
Now that summer is here, we look for ways to spend time with our children and our families. Getting out in nature is a refreshing way to re-energize, re-center, and re-engage with our loved ones. New York City offers a wide variety of settings where you can feel a little bit closer to nature. However, go just outside the city’s gates and you will find rich landscapes blanketed with forests and sprinkled with lakes.
Ice-climbing; not for the faint hearted
Ice-Climbing having evolved out of rock climbing is not for the faint of heart, and surely ascending a vertical surface of slippery ice does exhilarate the soul. Ice-Climbing is an adrenalin-rushing extreme sport, demanding your whole attention, which is rapidly growing as a Winter activity.
Being part of an active family with my husband, has its perks; I am healthier, fitter and stronger than I have ever been in my life, and I love that! We have also bonded, on a new level as a couple seeing our love of exercise as a daily necessity.