I’ve been hearing a little bit of buzz about the Take Your Kid to Work Day on April 22. Since I work for myself, out of my home, I’m wondering how this works for us work-at-homers. Max knows I work for Egg Marketing and that my computer makes money (I think he envisions it spitting out cash), but the rest is fuzzy for him. Is he too young to learn about what I do?

It’s one thing to take your child to your job and show them how you make cabinets, or see sick children or help customers. But how do you explain marketing? He asked what Facebook was the other day, and the closest I could get in his language was, “It’s like email.”

So question 1 is: How do you explain a consulting job to a child?

And question 2 is: How do you “take your child to work” if you work down the hall?

OK, give me answers. Do you plan on doing anything to teach your child about your job on April 22?

One thing we’ve discovered here in California Land is frozen yogurt. Or as we now jokingly call “froyo.” Because that’s what SoCal people do, right? Shorten two words into one? Right??

So being the former owner of a failing Marble Slab Creamery, I didn’t expect to be impressed with frozen yogurt. In fact, I never ate the yogurt we sold. The ice cream was just so much better.

But here there’s a frozen yogurt store in every strip mall. Yogurtland is our favorite, and near Max’s school. Here’s why I love it.

You serve yourself. Not genius, but unique. You pick your flavor, fill up your cup and add a topping. The pimply teen behind the counter does no more than check the weight and ring you up. Done. You pay per ounce (and already I’m nitpicking when I have to pay $.39/oz vs $.32).

I had a Pomegranate Raspberry with blueberries on top. I’m still fantasizing about that one. I also like Plain Tart, which tastes like plain yogurt with a bit of sweet. Max likes to put gummies and jellybeans on his. A cardinal sin in my book, but what are you gonna do? He’s 5.

Now he asks, “Can we go make froyo, Mama?”

How do I say no to that?

I’d thought that maybe I was swayed by slick advertising into thinking that frozen yogurt was better for me than ice cream, but that it probably is just as bad for me. Ha ha! Here it tells me that my Raspberry Pomegranate is just 26 calories per ounce. I ate 4. So 100 calories. Not bad.

Sorry to cut this post short. I, er, need to go get some froyo. Later tater.

So I’ve decided to have a regular Friday post I’ll call Eco Friday. Every Friday I’ll talk about my journey (and sometimes struggle) in being more green. I’ve been interested in using more organic and earth friendly products over the past few years, but since we moved to California, I’ve stepped that up.

It also came at the same point of a major epiphany for my business, Egg. I’ve long been looking for a niche for my marketing firm, and as I honed in on products, I realized I should market natural products, since they’re something I’m personally interested in. And with GiveDaddy moving to weekly giveaways, we’ve really focused on eco friendly and organic products for our prizes (oh, and yea, that means I get to review them too!)

Today I just want to talk about being more conscious. Being aware of what is in your food, in your cleaner, and where your food came from is a start. Here are some of the things I’ve gained consciousness of over the last few weeks:

• Leaving a light on (and quickly turning it off)
• Ingredients. New policy: if I can’t pronounce it, I shouldn’t buy it
• How many food products have corn syrup
• How much more plentiful and affordable organic and eco friendly products are in San Diego
• Forgetting my reusable shopping bags (I feel like such a sinner!)
• How much of our waste we can recycle

I’m working to teach Max about recycling and turning off the lights. At the store, he is the designated reusable bag holder. I’m not sure how to explain organic (or my sporadic purchase of it) just yet, so we’ll save that for another day.

All in all, going green is fun, and it’s making me feel like I’m contributing to something greater than myself.

Favorite Green Blog Posts

4 Items You Don’t Need in Your Bathroom: Taught me to think in terms of not making waste via buying things unecessarily. I took shaving cream off my grocery list!

7 Cheap Ways to Go Green: No more excuses about the cost!

When Should I Buy Organic? This tip helped me finally get it: if it’s naked (i.e. doesn’t have a skin) buy organic. Otherwise the skin will protect the fruit from the pesticides.

What about you? Are you making efforts to go green, or are you interested? Let’s do this together!