Gift in a jar There are many ideas on the internet for gifts in jars that you can assemble with ingredients that you may already have at home!  Search for ‘gifts in a jar’ and explore the possibilities that will fit your budget.  Layer all the dry ingredients to make your jar attractive and attach the recipe.  This works well for cookies, soups,  brownies, and hot cocoa.  Other ideas include “spa” items, such as sugar scrubs, homemade body butter, or bath salts.   Art from the heart Even the littlest kiddos can create art for a loved one.   Fingerprints made the leaves on this beautiful little tree.  Find a frame at a thrift store to make it extra special! Upcycling Repurpose a favourite t-shirt or blanket into a teddy bear or special pillow.  A crazy quilt or a simple block quilt is also a really fun way to reuse those favourite items from childhood. Cork stoppers make fun ornaments Get creative with an old barn board and some paint.          Fill up their love bucket Fill a jar wit

The climate, OUR climate, - the only one we have, is changing. This is very important  in our world, in this home for the human family, in this home for our grandchildren. This is large and complicated, about environment, energy and the economy. Understanding some of this can help us take care of Mother Earth. We are all in this together, being affected by it, reducing it or adapting to it - oil sands worker, activist on the street and all in between. Share the load, minimize the disruptions, at all levels - in families, cities and towns, provinces and country, and even globally. Take care of one another. For the children and youth, for the children of tomorrow, we need to do everything we can for stability and security. Think about this at every level, from families to countries and more, fitting into a larger pattern. Seldom does trouble stay in only one corner of a lifeboat. Flatten the curve. We can reduce and slow the change. Act together, locally and globally, to flatten and redu

  If world representatives at the UN climate conference in Glasgow put talk into action, we could forestall the worst impacts of the rapidly accelerating climate crisis. But we have to look beyond the Conference of the Parties —   COP26   this year. If agreements under the   UN Framework Convention on Climate Change   are undermined through other international structures, we could face a grim future. Negotiations at COP26 — from October 31 to November 12 — are critical to building on and strengthening measures set out in the 2015  Paris Agreement . They include raising climate finance and finalizing rules on international carbon markets, agreeing on transparency and a global goal for adaptation and more. One shortcoming of the COP process, though, is that the Paris Agreement’s system of accountability doesn’t allow for enforcement of “ nationally determined contributions ,” which spell out each country’s plans to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. Many countries are