Runaway October

My Live Earth by Noël Zia Lee

Well, I thought it was going to be a glo­ri­ous day for Earth Day but the tem­per­a­tures are already climb­ing. Maybe I’ll drag a pool out for the boys? That would be fun.

Here are some of my favorite “Earth Day-ish” links:

• How to get rid of moths with nat­ural repel­lants — via Tip­nut
• How to make (and grow) your own Luffa — via Green Groovy
• Green clean­ing and body prod­ucts — via The Art­ful Parent
• Best air­fil­ter­ing house plants, accord­ing to NASA — via Tree­Hug­ger
• 10 Awe­some Eco-Friendly Crafts — via Crafter­shock
• SimpleSteps.Org
• Dirt Cup­cakes — via Sweet­est Kitchen
• What can you make from an empty egg car­ton? — via The Crafty Crow
• 10 Great resources for organic and heir­loom gar­den seeds — via Green Upgrader

There is a plea­sure in the path­less woods,
There is a rap­ture on the lonely shore,
There is soci­ety, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.
~George Gor­don, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Some­times it’s so nice to just wipe a slate clean and start over again.

Last years res­o­lu­tions were hit or miss.

1…) Stop cussing, com­pletely. Neg­a­tive

2…) Smile more. Kinda sorta, I guess.

3…) Spend more indi­vid­ual time with Declan and treat him like an adult. Yes and no.

4…) Cre­ate and add some items to my Etsy shop. Nope.

5…) Do more craft projects — for myself and with the kids. Yes!

So, once again I’m going to set some res­o­lu­tions and think about them ran­domly throughtout the year and feel bad when I don’t hit them 100%. Yep. Sounds about right.

1.) Stop cussing, com­pletely — How did I end up wih such a potty mouth? While I admit that Declan telling me my ass is too big makes me gig­gle, it’s also quite embarass­ing in public.

2.) Detox­ify the house — This one is dif­fi­cult because my mom buys her own clean­ing prod­ucts and calls me, jok­ingly, a tree­hug­ger for my choices. It’s just so easy to have things build up under the sinks. Thank­fully I clean so infre­quently that it’s not a real issue to toss every­thing. I’m also going to start “No ‘Poo“ing my hair again. I tried before while work­ing but couldn’t han­dle going out in pub­lic dur­ing the really wonky phase. Here’s a great Live­Jour­nal com­mu­nity for it. We have an on again, off again rela­tion­ship with the health­ier beauty prod­ucts, mainly because of finances. I think it might be time to just suck it up and buy what I know is best for the fam­ily — not best for my bank account.

3.) ETSY — Seri­ously, why can’t I get this going? I’ve decided not to do any­more swaps, so maybe that will make it eas­ier? Wih the purc­ahse of a new sewing machine (50% off clear­ance sale) I’m definitly going to com­plete more projects, but I’d like to make a lit­tle extra cash too.

4.) Try to cut back on HFCS and MSG — With that com­bi­na­tion it leaves next to zilch to buy. Thank­fully Matt is on board with me and we’ve both done some research into the issue. Frankly it scares us.

Alright, I think that’s enough bab­bling. And the boys are wait­ing on me to watch a movie.

Thanks for reading!