The Hippies Have Gotten to Me!

I don't know what it is, but this year, I'll get all jazzed up for a holiday, and by the time it's over I'm all, "Thank god! Let's all move on!"

So I am not posting about Thanksgiving (both awesome turkey dinners we enjoyed) or our successful trip to beautiful Flint. For the love of god, my poor hometown. Or my 5 a.m. venture on Friday with my Venti Latte (40% off at Pottery Barn Outlet! Party!). O.k I am done.

Instead, I am sharing thoughts/changes/efforts happening at our house these days.

1. We are moving over to some organic items. The biggest change over: organic milk. I have been thinking and wanting to do this for a long time but felt cost was kind of a barrier for us (and my cheap, stay at home mom status self). I've been doing organic yogurt for quite a while now. Well, I have found a good price on milk so onward and upward we move! Organic milk in our fridge from here on out!
2. I am phasing in all organic bread and produce. If you checked my kitchen today, you'd see I'm at about 50%. These are the items I am most focused on changing over (that we eat a ton of regularly): Bananas, Apples, Strawberries, green beans, grapes and spinach.
3. I am "going green" on cleaning supplies. I was watching one of my favorite (and inspiring!) shows, Jon and Kate Plus 8, and Kate had this Sara Snow chic on the show. Sara was giving Kate ideas on ways to "green up" her home (Kate is already an organic whack-job woman, cooking 90% organic for her family of 8 children!). Well, her homemade cleaning products are so simple that I couldn't get it out of my head. I have printed out the ingredients to make simple replacements to Fantastik, Windex and Pledge and away I go!

So, I write all this stuff to help me mentally commit to my new goals. As Sara Snow says, it's about baby steps and I think these are some small but mighty changes I can make happen. It seems to be a good time to embrace what I have been wanting to do for a while.

This has sort of evolved for me over the past year. I have started really enjoying cooking and getting into new ideas/recipes/etc. But to be honest, our one-income household situation always seemed to be this barrier for me. I was in a rut for a while, thinking I could only feed the kids sloppy joes and spaghetti.

Now, I review/check out recipes, create a weekly list for groceries and then do one big grocery trip a week. This equals more efficiency and money saved! My type-A self loves efficiency and saving money! The world is a happier place...

O.k. I will now get off my feeble, partly-broken soap-box and go back to blogging about poop on a playset tomorrow...