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!!