Delinquent blogger

So I started this blog almost a year ago, thought about it from time to time but never came back to it... Until now. I just felt a little discouraged; how to get people to read it, and all that. Plus I found a few hendrences: I returned to work after maternity leave and lost all sense of "free" time, I also found blogging quite difficult without home Internet. All I have is my iPhone to communicate with to the cyber world. But,alas, I have returned to my zero readers and followers to continue to share, even if only to myself, my mission of green-ness.

I alluded to organic previously. I have tried, successfully and sometimes not, to at least buy the "dirty dozen" (peaches,apples,bell peppers,spinach, Lettuce, potatoes) (for those of you counting, that doesn't equal 12 but those are the only ones of the 12 I buy). I have found it difficult to find good organic food in my area, especially out of season, so I've had to start switching to frozen fruits and veggies. They are frozen right after being picked so maintain a much higher vitamin content than their canned cousins and even than sone fresh if they're out of season because of the shipping time. I just watch the ingredients to make sure the veggie or fruit on the bag I'd the only one. And because of our financial difficulties I do have to buy generic frequently and they are also good about no added ingredients. I have tried to stop using canned foods in general but am having a hard time saying goodbye to canned tomatoes, so to lessen my guilt I spend the extra and buy the organic ones. This summer I plan to have a garden then I will can my own tomatoes. But it's not quite summer yet, so this will have to do for now.

Well to all my zero readers out there- goodbye for now. And I'll try not to be quite so delinquent in the future.

Googling

So my husband and family say I Google too much. It all started innocently enough; I had a chemical pregnancy and I wanted to know everything I could about it. A month later I became pregnant and this time it stuck. Now this was welcomed but unplanned pregnancy. I was temporarily off birth control because of the miscarriage and...well to get off the Google topic for a moment it went like this...after the miscarriage, I couldn't start back on BC for another 2 weeks, so we used other forms of protection. See I was the one who wanted to wait...my husband was ready to talk baby. Suddenly I was seeing babies everywhere, and instead of ignoring them, I was feeling a pull of want and desire. This was very uncharacteristic of me. I had always said I didnt want kids. So after walking through Walmart and being Jealous of every women with a baby, I told my husband I wanted a baby. That was the only time we didn't use protection and a baby we created. I must say that my son is truly the greatest thing in my life, but what's funny is the following day I changed my mind and told my husband that we should wait a couple years. Obviously it was too late, and I'm so glad it was.
Okay...back on topic. This being my 1st pregnancy I did my fair share of Googling ... you know pregnancy week by week stuff, but it was minimal. It was at the end that my husband said I was obsessed. My doctor told me I would probably have to be induced, and I really didn't want that, so I started doing my research. I would tell my family everything I found out. Some of it made me feel better and some scared me. That's when they told me I should stop because some information was making me very nervous. Of course I ignored them. Once my baby was born, and I was home with him all day I started looking up everything baby related I could think of. I think as a first time mom this is pretty typical. Questions about baby stages, worries about baby diseases and skull shape just to name a few. I was sharing my learned information with everyone which just reiterated what they believed about my Google obsession.

Okay...now to the point of this blog...finally. My Googling has led me to a wonderful realization. I am on a green mission. I have always tried. I buy the right lightbulb and recycle a little. I've also tried to eat right, but after having my son, I want to go fully green. I see how important it is to keep the world preserved for my children and their children. And I want to be a good green example for them. So, I am going to make affordable green changes to our lives. We are on a very fixed income and buying organic for example can be intimidating because of the price but I'm going to work through it. I will post my successes and mis-steps here for my hopeful future readers. Good luck me!!