Seduced by Green

No, it's not money if that's what you're thinking or a person by that name. The green that seduced me is our environment. Over the last 5 years I've become more enviro-conscious. What really did it for me was the birth of my son 2 years ago Sun.

After he was born, I joined a gym to get back my size 2 (yeah, I wish) figure. Ok, I really just wanted to lose the baby weight and be able to wear my regular clothes. (By the way, I did that). Anyway, I'm at the gym one day climbing stairs like I'm trying to chase down my favorite celeb and all the while reading an article about a few other celebs who've gone green in one way or another and a lightbulb goes on. All that energy used on the machine and I still had enough to turn on a lightbulb :) I realized, even though we have all the child-proof locks on the cabinets with cleaning supplies, it didn't matter. There was residue left behind everytime I used those HORRIBLE chemicals and everytime anything touched one of those surfaces and then my son, he was being exposed. THAT WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE!!! (That was on a Thurs.) But, after chasing down celebs on the stairmaster, I was too tired to do anything that night.

I got home Fri and that was a completely different story. I got online and looked up all kinds of enviro-friendly cleaners and I packed up all those cancer causing, horrible smelling, filthy chemicals and first thing Sat morning, hauled them off to the local Household Hazardous Waste drop off site. Then I headed out to get the ingredients for my new friendly cleaners. I wasn't sure how they would work, but I was willing to scrub twice as hard to keep the bad stuff away from my baby.

Guess what, those friendly cleaners did a much better job. The oven cleaner FAR surpassed any of those horrible smelling ones from the store. The wood cleaner (2 parts oil to 1 part lemon juice) even has multiple uses. It cleans wood great, but is also fantastic on leather furniture. Who'd a thunk it???

Then, according to my hubby, I got a little fanatical. I recycled everything and wouldn't buy it if it had any bad "stuff" in it. I basically told him to get over it. What was more important, our health AND that of our son or being a fanatic? He finally got on the wagon train and is now just as much of a fanatic as I am. Then again, now, he says I'm NOT a fanatic, I'm just being a great mom.

If you've read my other posts, you know we bought our first house in Dec. That's not exactly a good time to start a compost, so we waited. About 2 months ago we got an amazing compost contraption. I don't know what else to call it. It looks like a huge green sphere and doesn't require worms. You just load your "stuff" into, put it in an area that gets lots of sun and wait. We had soil after just 6 weeks. Then again, I also had 4 HUGE bags of leaves I had raked that were just waiting to be composted. Speaking as the enviro-fanatic, guess whose idea it was to buy this contraption instead of using something else...Yep, you're right, my hubby.

I have to say something else about him. He's the most wonderful husband and father I can imagine. He has endless patience and would love nothing more than to spend his days rolling around on the floor or in the yard with our son playing whatever game our little guy wanted. Who could ask for more than that?

It's almost time to pick up my little piece of heaven from daycare, so I'll see you all around later....