April 2016
I know I said I wouldn’t do this, but here is one more blog post.
I was sitting here wasting time on Facebook (it’s amazing how much time I can lose just clicking on the garbage that comes up on my newsfeed) when I could be doing something more productive. Like writing. Or like not using electricity at all. Like reading.
While I’ve been on mat leave I’ve been reading a lot. I recently read the Mitch Albom book “The First Phone call from Heaven”. In the story, one of the characters mentions the phrase “The End is not the End” in reference to heaven, and is also apparently a House of Heros song.
I’ve also been trying to wean LM. I’ve decided I’m just done. He’s almost 9 months. It’s ok. I did my best. He’s going to be ok either way. Just when I think we’re done, we’re not. He asks for me (he does a little bobbing bird on my chest when he wants the boob. It’s kind of sweet. 🙂 When he’s really hungry he doesn’t care where the food comes from as long as it comes fast!). And I can’t believe I only have three months of mat leave left 😦
It’s time I put this blog to bed and move on. The amount of electricity I’ve used researching and writing this blog is not lost on me. My family needs me. I need me. And as much as I love blogging, it’s taking up more time than I can put into it to make it the way I want it. I’m too hard on myself for not posting or tweeting regularly, or making timely posts related to current events. I often feel rushed when doing a post and I make mistakes.
My plan was to go back to each post, add tags, edit grammar and spelling, add links for interesting things I’ve found out since I wrote the original post, update my progress, etc. But lets be realistic – as they say “ain’t no one got time for that”!
And I’ve realized, just like I’m not perfect, just like we don’t parent perfectly or the way we might like too, this blog isn’t going to be perfect. So what if it’s not written like a Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Just like parenthood, it’s raw and its real. So why change it now?
I started this blog for New Year’s 2014. Today, my 35th birthday, seems like a good day to finish it off.
So as a final post, here are some things I wanted to write about. I’ve been trying to clean out my e-mail accounts, where I e-mail my blog ideas to myself, and I just seem to have so many green ideas I want to write about while incorporating them into events in my life. I didn’t want to be one of those websites that just lists a bunch of tips without actually trying them myself. But I want to share them for my readers anyway. Who knows, maybe some day I will try them. I guess I can always go back to this list. And some of them just made me laugh.
For each of you who reads this blog, try out a green challenge from the list below. In this way, the blog has no end.
Here they are, by category/topic/tag:
Waste Reduction
How did a sea turtle get a straw up its nose?
101 uses for Mason Jars! (well actually just 18, but who’s counting;-) )
The Destiny of Restaurant Crayons
The Unintended Consequences of Banning Bottled Water
Food Security/Waste
Tax Break for businesses that donate food
Just Eat it Restaurant Waste Video
denHaan Greenhouses – local source for tomatoes and cucumbers
I was going to participate in the National Geographic Hashtag challenge, but as with a great many things I ran out of time. So here’s the photo
#UglyFoodIsBeautiful
Infant Feeding
Breastfeeding & Alcohol Consumption
Sustainable Diapering
Environmentally Friendly Sanitary Pads
Now that Aunt Flo is back in my life I’ve been thinking about this a little more.
Environmentally Friendly Funerals/Burials/Estate Planning (not that I plan on trying these any time soon – for all the right reasons!)
Pets
Our kitty has recently had some health problems, which got me thinking about this even more
Natural Pest/Weed Control
Water Conservation/Pollution
Water used to grow favourite foods
Eco-friendly Shopping
Chemicals in Dollar Store Products
Dollar Store Product Contaminants
Parenthood
10 things kids should see their parents doing
Journey from Anti-Vaxx to Science
10 ways to really help someone with a new baby
As I’ve said before, through this blog, I’ve learned that as with every thing in life, we have to make decisions. Just like we can’t always be that perfect parent, we can’t be the perfect environmentalist. But we try. We try and we hope it’s enough.
And then there’s this guy. Am I him? I don’t think I want to be him. If you can’t follow my blog, follow the frog.
THE END