Simple Recipes for Busy Living
Earth Day passed this year without me even noticing (gulp) In years past, I celebrated this day by planting trees, collecting garbage in my neighbourhood, working at environmental demonstration “booths”or at the very least, gardening, but this year, I really, honestly, completely *forgot* all about it, until now.
Perhaps this says something about our society in general. I checked out the Coming Events section of the newspaper the other day (before I forgot about Earth Day!) and there was only one event listed within our community to celebrate our beautiful planet…sad, but true. Then again, I can’t really say too much seeing I lost track of it…
I think so many of us (myself included) take this earth for granted. We pollute our environment in so many ways, yet there are simple and effective things we can all do to help the earth to begin to heal. Maybe, we should all try to make every day Earth Day?
Ten Tips To Help Our Planet:
Use your car less often by choosing to bike, walk or carpool to work
Reduce, re-use, re-cycle and compost everything you can!
Use energy efficient light bulbs
Plant a vegetable garden or buy local produce
Eat less meat
Plant trees, shrubs and a garden
Don’t litter, but provide a good example and try to pick up litter when you see it in your neighbourhood
Use cold water when possible to wash your clothes
Wear a sweater and turn down the heat in the winter, and use the A/C sparingly in the summer months
Turn off the water while brushing your teeth, scrubbing veggies, doing dishes…etc.
(Many of these tips will also save you money!)
Today, we got our first glimpse of our baby to be! It was a short ultrasound which only lasted about 10 minutes, as it was just to “date” the pregnancy (I found out I am 14 weeks, 3 days) right around what we thought actually…
It brought back all of the memories and emotions from when I saw Liam for the first time via ultrasound, and despite the obvious signs and symptoms of the pregnancy such as fatigue, nausea and the “bump”, it made our baby feel that much more real.
It is such an astounding thing really. I don’t know anything about this little person sharing my body, yet I feel such a connection to him or her, and a sense of protectiveness and love. It excites and amazes me that in the near future, this same little being will be calling me “Mama.”
~How wonderful!
Before I was overtaken by illness that rendered me useless for 2 days, Stuart and I had gone out on a date to enjoy the BeeGees/Neil Diamond concert here in town. As we walked into the theatre, I made a snarky comment to Stuart that we were the youngest people there, and that I hoped the older folks in attendance were able to last out the show. Ironically, we ended up leaving about half way through the second act. As we sheepishly snuck out the side door, we were ushered out by an older gentleman with a flashlight. I felt the need to tell him “we have a baby waiting at home for us” instead of “to be honest Sir, we’re just too tired to stay any longer.” This was at approximately 10:00 p.m. I guess this time, the last laugh was on us.
