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Day 21: Gift to my family of purging our house of processed "non-food" items. No more packages in the house with lists of ingredients that I can't pronounce, never mind know what they are, and what they are doing to our bodies. We didn't have a lot of it around to begin with, but I just wanted it out of our house so we can "clean-up" our eating acts and focus on eating organic, whole foods.



Day 22: Josh and I gave our spare change to the Pennies for Peace collection jar at his… Continue

My gift today is our homecoming and the night time rituals that go along with it. The kids were so excited to be home tonight. Bree was chatting away about sleeping in her own bed when we got home, and seeing the dog and the cat. Once we got in the door, the kids exploded with energy (despite having travelled two straight days, for roughly 11+ hours each day). My gift to them was their bedtime routine of PJ's, teeth brushing, family bedtime stories and then getting tucked in. For my son, we… Continue

When we arrived in Maui for the start of our vacation, there was a sign outside the Hertz building that said you were welcome to use any of the items in the box below during your stay. They were items that previous travelers had used and parted with - like nearly full containers of sunscreen, a styrofoam picnic container, etc. I had planned to leave my bottle of laundry detergerent in this box for others to use. But, planned giving doesn't seem to go my way. We were rushed to return the car and… Continue

Today was our last day in Maui. We're leaving the island at 6:00 am on Tuesday. It will be so dark, that we won't see any of the natural beauty of the island. As I've noted since the start of our trip, my in-laws have generously given throughout our stay in Maui. The first gift was the gift of the trip itself, followed by purchasing numerous family excursions for us to go on and meals, as well as little gifts along the way for the kids and us like t-shirts, trinkets, a beautiful hawiian… Continue