GREAT Interactive about Paper vs. Plastic

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23358591/

Going Green- Part 2

Well, as most of you that know me expected, I am too absent minded to be Green. I can't remember to take those darn bags with me into the store! In fact, I have been taking my groceries to the car with NO bags just to avoid the "told-you-so" (my head telling me so) guilt. I carried one into school with J's snack the other day and his super cool teacher was so impressed. I had to confess that the groceries had been taken out of the store in nothing but the cart and then transferred once I was at the car. That gave her the freedom to tell me that she bought 8 at Christmas time and hasn't used them yet. She's so great!

How did I just hear about this?!

Cure to perfectionism....

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
--Mother Teresa, Catholic nun and Nobel Peace Prize recipient

So what really IS important?

"Say that you rail and your rail with your children about all kinds of things: drugs and rock music and Christian music and weak Christianity and sugar and white bread and recycling and ‘those’ people and bad literature and mud on their boots and dirty houses and vaccinations and feeding babies and chocolate and vitamins and natural childbirth, how will your children know which of these things is really important? Maybe one day they find out that some Christians eat sugar and they are nice lovely people who truly love the Lord but from hearing you day in and day out he thought that anyone who ate sugar had a free ticket to hell. Now every single thing you have tried to teach your child ever has been undermined by your passionate intensity." from http://dominionfamily.com/blog/ which I found at http://www.humblemusings.com/ .

I have considered this often when beginning to date after my divorce and now having dated Donnie for two years. There are several things that we don't have in common, but the really important, like altering, eternal things we do. I can be passionate about lots of things that are not really worth the little bit of time I have to devote to being passionate! But, how do we know if we are "supposed" to give something energy? What if MLK decided that inequality wasn't an eternal issue and didn't poor his life into changing that? Am I suppose to be so passionate about breastfeeding that I help change the way Americans view it? Or, am I suppose to poor my life into helping create legislation that protects children from poorly tested vaccinations? Or maybe, just maybe, I am supposed to learn how to keep my kitchen sink clean, my laundry done and my children fed (not fast food- really fed!), all while speaking kindly to them.

Quote by Maria Montessori

These words reveal the child's inner needs: "Help me to do it alone."

HAPPY NEW YEAR- Going Green

I watched an old Oprah last night about ways to be more "green". I have always been interested in keeping my family safe from chemicals, hormones in food, avoiding GMO etc. but I really haven't felt as strongly about "saving the earth". But, I realized after watching this show that there are so many things I do every day to contribute to the overwhelwing amount waste in our country. While cleaning up today I think I threw away 50 plastic Publix bags. I bought a few of the reusable bags that Publix is selling yesterday. Funny enough, I did that before watching the show but now I'm more convinced that I should use these, not just have them because they're "cool" and only $1. I have decided not to write a big list of resolutions this year. I rarely accomplish even one of the items. Instead, I am going to make a few small changes like saying "no thanks" when the bag boy asks "plastic or paper?".