These days I mostly try not to write. My life is so full of work and family and weeding. But every now and then, my brain starts to itch and the only way to scratch that itch is writing. This is where you will find my most recent scratchings.
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Is Your Sustainable Life Sustainable?
I have been thinking a lot about sustainable living, and the so-called simple life lately. Dixiebelle wrote a self-flagellating post recently about her wicked fall into a fast food lunch, and in general about falling short of one’s ideals. Oh sweetheart. I’m not particularly old (33) but I came to this “green consciousness” early, I think. I’ve got 15 years of trying to find and live a sustainable, ethical life under my belt, and let me tell you, I’ve weathered many a storm myself. I’ve been up, I’ve been down, I’ve felt superior, I’ve felt like worthless shit. I’ve wasted…
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1R/D to a Clean House!
I’ve been meaning to give you an update about my new 1 Room a Day to a Clean House plan, and now seems as good a time as any. I have a fat list of blog subjects in my line-up, but cleaning is what I’m doing right now. So, to refresh, the 1R/D plan goes like this: 6 rooms in our house, 6 days in a week and on the 7th I rest. The room of the day gets scrubbed up shiny. All the usual picking up and sweeping, but then I take it a step or two further– mopping,…
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Get Back in Line, Fool!
I didn’t think I was bragging when I wrote The Glory Days a few weeks back. I didn’t mean to be bragging. I just meant to appreciate the moment, you know, not take good stuff for granted. But apparently someone Up There thought I needed to be bitch-slapped off my high horse and back into line. Enter more than a week of passing that hideous stomach flu around, like a family game of Old Maid. Both kids spent two full days each puking their little guts out, with lingering wickedness lasting for another few days. Myself, thinking I was all…
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How I Came to be Heaving 60 Pounds of Screaming Kid From a Waldorf Open House
You regulars out there are wondering where your semi-reliable Saturday post is, right? Well, it all started when I ate my breakfast, Saturday morning. I had been feeling just dandy since I got up, a whole hour to myself to drink coffee and read. I was on top of the world really. Once the kids were up, I scurried around to get everything together for our morning outing– a visit to my favorite local bakery, then a Waldorf open house at 10. I made breakfast tacos, a never fail way to get protein into the 3YO. Halfway through eating, my…
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The Glory Days
I hesitate to say my life is easy lately. I don’t want to give anyone the wrong idea. I know there are some readers out there without kids and, no offense, but our standards are just different. I’m quite sure that if you spent the day with us, you would not consider it easy. But to you mamas out there, especially those with two little ones, I can safely say without fear of miscommunication that my life has gotten just a little bit easy lately. Oh, there’s still screaming, daily. And plenty of long, drawn out nap fighting, and way…
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