Earth Day 2012

Take Care of Planet Earth, It’s Our Home!

Taking care of the planet “our home” is very important. Everyone can take part, big or small, we can all contribute to making our living spaces a little cleaner, brighter and better, for today as well as for tomorrow. This weekend, April 22nd, we will celebrate Earth Day. A perfect reminder that everyday is earth day and a great opportunity for our San Diego families to work together towards making this south coast corner a better place! What better place to start than right here in our community, our home.

We have some ideas to help your family celebrate Earth Day:

#1 Go for a nature walk.

-This is a great way to get everyone outside playing and learning. Try and identify the trees, plants and animals and discuss how you can keep the area clean and safe for the plants and animals as well as for your next visit.

#2 Plant flowers. Or start a garden.

-Like honeysuckle, that attract bees and butterflies. Green beans, radishes, kale and lettuce are easy crops to grow.

#3 Build birdhouses or feeders and hang them in your backyard.

-An easy but messy arts and crafts project that comes to mind is making a bird feeder out of fallen pine cones, slather them in peanut butter, dip them in bird seeds, hang them up outside on a tree with string and wait for the birds to come by for a treat!

#4 Visit the San Diego Zoo!

-Learn about endangered animals. Find out what you can do to help animals on the endangered list.

#5 Go no waste for the day!

-This might be a bigger challenge, but plan ahead and make it fun. Watch what a difference it makes.

There are many ideas your family can do together to celebrate Earth Day and making it fun! Check out the EPA’s Earth Day Take Home Kit as well for great ideas! Here is their link: http://www.epa.gov/earthday/takehomekit.htm 

Also, one more thing! If you didn’t know, EarthFair, will be held in Balboa Park, on Sunday, April, 22, 2012, from 10am to 5pm. It’s their 23rd annual event and the largest free annual environmental fair in the world. We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and remember…take care of our earth, it’s the only one we have.

Ashely Perry Photography

Ashley Perry Photography

From the first glance of her work, I instantly became a fan. It’s neat to come across photography that makes you feel the moment as if you were right there, it’s like how a song feels and not how it sounds.  It’s so warm and intimate.  Ashley Perry captures the personalities and the happiness shared in a true moment.

Conveniently located in our very own Ocean Beach neighborhood, Ashley Perry Photography is highly recommended by us! Check out some of her work below, as well visit her blog ashleyperryphotography.blogspot.com and view her website ashleyperryphotography.com for further information.

April is National Autism Awareness Month

Don’t you just love how each month gives you something new to celebrate, learn about, support or advocate?  Months can have many different meanings, such as birthdays, anniversaries, when rent is due…but for many each month is a reminder of  very important causes.

South Coast Nanny, LLC was established on the basic principles of caring and sharing. We view each month as an opportunity for sharing, advocating and bringing awareness of important issues that not only affect our every day life, but our community, our nation and our world as a whole.  So many of you already knew or were informed that April is National Autism Awareness Month. And April 2nd was World Autism Day. These annual events serve to educate us about special issues within the special needs community and we feel it’s important to highlight them as they come along.

According to the Autism Society, Did you know that 1 out of 110 American children are on the autism spectrum? That’s a big number. This might not be as alarming to you if you have a child with special needs or know of a close friend or neighbor who does. It’s more common than we think. If you would like to learn more about Autism, for more information or to find events in your neighborhood here are a few sites you can visit: autism-society.org or lightitupblue.org.

July 25-28, 2012 – Will be the 43rd National Conference And Exposition for the Autism Society. It will be located here in San Diego, California. For registration information please click on the link below:

Happy Passover and Easter San Diego!