As active parents here at Ella’s Wool, we are always looking to connect and collaborate with like-minded moms and dads. We love to hear the tips, tricks, and ideas from other families that manage to stay successfully active, despite the whirlwind schedule that inevitably comes with raising a family. The web is full of parenting blogs for all types of families. It is wonderful to be able to connect with so many other parents at the click of the button, but it is quite a time-consuming task to narrow down which blogs and whose posts are going to really appeal to our particular family. As a family that loves to hike, camp, and bask in the enjoyment all things outdoors...
We all love taking trips as a family but there’s a lot to think and worry about, especially if it’s the first big trip for the youngest members of the family. Luckily at Ellas's Wool, we like to keep things simple. By dressing them in wool, we simply have fewer problems to worry about.
Some of my best childhood memories from Norway are of spending almost every weekend from December to April at our family cabin in the mountains. When we got there, us kids would start playing outside right away while our parents dug out the snow to let us into the cabin and started warming it up inside. Meanwhile, we were having so much fun outside! We’d only come inside for meals and when it got too dark. Every day the whole family went either cross country or downhill skiing. When we got back to the cabin, we’d spend hours making the perfect slide down the hill behind the cabin. We watered it every night to make it extra fast, too! When...
Keep Your Kids Dry This Winter Break - From the Inside Out! It’s the middle of winter, and you’ve got a few young kids who each need a bunch of layers before they can head outside. You know what that means: you need to put each layer on them yourself.The problem is that by the time you’ve finished dressing the last kid, the first one has been sitting in her snowsuit for 10 minutes, sweating like crazy! Then, when you finally make it out the door, she’s going to be cold and clammy within a few minutes.Parents might recognize this problem, and Scandinavians might recognize the solution: merino wool. This type of wool is soft against the skin, resists odor,...
