300 Posts Old, and a Winner to Boot!

Woo hoo!  These fireworks are the best kind . . . that is, a photograph of fireworks, which inspires the feelings of excitement and joy, are better for the environment than actual firework displays.  To read more the EPA’s Richard Wilkin’s research about the ill effects of fireworks on the environment, visit Physorg.com.  Honestly, latex balloons (or pictures of them) may be the more environmental way to celebrate, but since we’re in a virtual space, I figured, what’s the harm?

But I digress.  Okay, so do you want to know why I’m setting off fireworks over here?  All right, I’ll tell you.  This week marks my 300th post for Green Mamma! Yay!  I started writing the Green Mama blog in July of 2007, about 8 months after the birth of my daughter.  I had been blogging away about her for our family on another blog and decided that I needed another outlet for my interests in the environment and natural parenting (I figured that family and friends were more interested in cute photos of my daughter and less interested in what I had to say about this or that).  And so I got the idea to write another blog, which became Green Mama.

Months later (and let me admit that I pretty much ignored my blog for several months), I rekindled my passion for blogging about the environment and watched as the traffic to my blog grew and grew.  Eventually, with my husband’s encouragement, I decided to find my own domain space and named it Green Mamma.org (which is what was available at the time and which I’ve explained to myself as being something like fate).

And now I have written over 300 posts, collectively, for the Green Mamma blog!  Amazing stuff, isn’t it?  Of course, I wouldn’t be writing these posts if it were not for the encouragement from friends and readers.  So, I just wanted to say thank you for everything.  It has been a real pleasure crafting Green Mamma, and I am totally looking forward to yet another 300 posts.

Meanwhile, I thought that this would also be another great opportunity to announce the winner of the Santa Cruz Organic Tea giveaway.  Congratulations to Organic Needle!  You are the winner.  Would you please e-mail me at greenmamma@greenmamma.org with your mailing address so that I may forward your prize to you?

Again, thank you to everyone who stops by and reads Green Mamma.  I am enjoying my time spent with you and am learning so much.

Cheers,

Jessica