I'm headed to the green, green jungle!

Not the real jungle but a place called, the "Jungle" with fake green everywhere and nothing organic or healthy to eat. This is where my four year old begged to have his birthday party. I resisted and wanted to do a charitable birthday party and be the greenest mom I could be. I lost. There’s something about a cute face that came from your womb begging you to have saturated fat, high fructose corn syrup soda, cupcakes and play putt putt golf while running around like a wild baboon, playing video games. I really did resist. So then I needed to figure out how to sprinkle some of my green mom qualities onto this, not to so green birthday party. We used recycled, make your own invitations and soy crayons from the best place ever, Stubby Pencil Studio. I’ll tell you more about this eco-friendly company later and how you’ll get to win some earth friendly art supplies! The birthday boy will wear his organic shirt from MamaOm, so everyone knows that we’re an earth lovin’ family. I wanted to get the kids the organic playdough from Wild Dill , but it's made fresh and it takes two weeks to ship, bad mom I didn't plan ahead. I'm not wrapping my sons gifts, he has to go on a dinosaur hunt to find them (guess his gift) and they're dinos (he has a little obsession)! I think my good intentions and green sprinkle here and there, should really count for something! Oh, and to end the day I’ll have a green margarita with some family members (that counts, right). I’ll need it after all the screaming, yelling and begging for more tokens. And did I mention the annoying parrot that squawks and won’t shut up? Yeah, that will drive me to have two green margaritas!

I wasn’t going to write all of this and flaunt how oh, so very ungreen I am going to be this weekend but then I thought, nah, readers need to see that I’m normal. I’ve written this a dozen times over but folks, being green isn’t a contest and we shouldn’t pass judgment. We all just have to do our very best and be some shade of green each day. Hopefully I won’t turn green from the not so organic margaritas either! I’d love for my kids to want earth friendly birthday parties and will continue to encourage it and when possible impress upon them the importance of having a charity party or doing something o’so green but I cannot force them. You might want to check out a post I wrote this winter about having a charitable birthday party for my daughter. I gathered some great ideas that I hoped to utilize this spring as well, no such luck. Nature Mom & Enviromom write good posts about having a green birthday party for your wee one but this Green & Clean Mom just didn't cut this year for this child. Oh, well if I’m going to go to the jungle with fake green grass and painted elephants and giraffes all over the walls it might as well be for the good of my sweet little boy turning four.

BabyLegs sprinkles some green love!

Remember leg warmers? I can’t even tell you how many pairs I had or how high I would tease my bangs when I wore them! Now my little punk rocker, Josie, can be like her mommy and wear funky, hip and trendy BabyLegs! They’re leg warmers but for babies and luckily the teased bangs and lots or aerosol hair spray is out! Wait this is a green blog so why am I writing about BabyLegs? To tell you that they have an organic line and they're trying to help Mother Earth out. The company is actually donating 10% of their sales until April 22nd to The Nature Conservancy. In on honor of Earth Day they're sprinkling some green love, isn’t that nice? I thought so and figured some of you out there might want to try a pair of these or give a pair for a gift and why not help the environment too? Sounds like a good deal to me.

My daughter has a pair (not the organic ones though) and she looks so cute wearing them. Any age can wear them so maybe I'll get a pair and look cool again! I will not spike my bangs though! Check out the site and if you’ve gotten a pair and loved them, help them get on Oprah!

Win a Sexy & Sassy Organic Tee!

I can never have too many t-shirts, black shoes (weakness) or books. Having a tee that is organic cotton, supports a good cause and can make someone think, is a plus. Tees for Change, are fashionable, soft organic cotton tees. The company was started by a mommy like me who cares about the environment and for each tee purchased at retail cost, a tree is planted. So I can give twice when I buy one of these great shirts. Personally, I like the
"embrace change" inspiration the best. They’re all so catchy though, it’s hard to choose.

So guess what…you could win one of these comfy and inspirational Tees for Change! Here’s how…

Bloggers and Non-Bloggers:

1) Post a comment with which tee for change inspiration you like best (1 entry).
2) Post a comment with a new change for inspiration idea (2 entries).
3) Blog about this contest on your blog with my button linking to this post, see side bar for button (5 entries).
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Try to leave all of these in one comment so I know that how many times to enter you. For example leave a post that says, "I subscribed via email, posted at myblog (blog URL listed), posted a new inspiration and stumbled you. My favorite inspiration is...." This lets me tally your entries very quickly and eaily so I don't miss any! I will randomly draw a name and the more entries you have the better the chance you will win. Lori over at, A Cowboy's Wife , does her contests this way and I just love how it works and hope you do too!

The contest runs from Wednesday, March 19 through Wednesday, March 26th! So you only have one week to win one of these sexy and sassy tees!! Good luck!