Today it is raining. Not a hard rain, but a gentle pitter patter coming down on and off all day. Lately water has been on my mind. I know it is one of my soap box issues and here we go again.

We all need to drink more water. It is recommended that we get 6 to 8 glasses of water a day. Do you get that amount, daily? I am thinking not. The average adult doesn’t.

If you take a walk down the water aisle in your grocery store you will see all sorts of different types of water. From spring water, distilled, artesian to water that comes from locations around the globe our water aisles are truly diversified.

While I strongly stand behind drinking your daily amount of water I want to point out that only 2 out of 10 of these single serving water bottles makes it to recycling. The others are sent to the regular trash and landfills. This statistic comes from Container Recycling Institute, and to me it is very scary. Looking at all those bottles for sale and realizing just how many of them are going to end up in the landfill is mind blowing.

So what can we do? Well for starters if you use those single serving water bottles ensure that you are recycling them. Encourage others to do so as well.

It’s a whole new month here at Natural From Home! October is my favorite month! Not only is it my birthday, but have you taken a look out your window lately? The fall colors are in full color. My kitchen is filled with the smell of apples, pumpkins and other wonderful baked good treats. This morning I went and dragged out my October/fall decorations. My house is about to be decorated with all the great things I have collected over the year. I even got a few new decorations on clearance last year for the fall decorations that get to adorn the house.

What can you expect? Let’s start with all natural recipes. Cooking from scratch is the way to go with all of the wonderful produce available at this time of year. Decorating tips to show off your house in it’s most natural light. Let’s make use of some of those great colors on the outside and bring them inside. I will also be sharing some great natural cleaning tips this month. It is time to get our house ready for the holidays and old man winter, lets make sure we have cleaned out all those corners!

So Welcome to October at Natural From Home. You may want to go over there —> and subscribe to the Natural From Home RSS feed so you don’t miss a thing!

The holiday season 2008 is here. That’s right. November 1st has rung in the starting bell for the two months some of us wait for around the year.

Join me in making this a green and natural holiday. My kids and I are really making a push for this. There are so many great opportunites that I will be sharing with you in the next 60 or so days. This will be tips on how to make you and your family a happy natural family during this holiday season.

Topics will include, but are not limited to, cooking, decorating, home care, kid projects and old traditions that we are going to “green” up.

Thanks for joining natural from home on this green holiday season!