Greener, One Step at a Time

Life is interesting. It constantly presents us with new opportunities to learn and grow as people. Of course, we are often so busy getting through the day that we miss those opportunities. For example, my kids have been off for a week and the only thing I've really done with them is take them with me to the grocery store. The grocery store is 45 minutes away, so it took all afternoon, but I could have done much more.

This is where we are starting from. When we moved from New Jersey to the Adirondacks we were leaving behind the two-working-parent, crazy-kids-schedules, suburban lifestyle. Or so we thought. It seems you can take the family out of the lifestyle, but it's a bit harder to take the lifestyle out of the family.

Our goal is to learn to live more eco-friendly. We want to eat more natural, healthy food and appreciate where the food comes from. We want our home to be free of chemicals. We want to become more closely connected to the earth.

Except the teenager. She wants to go shopping.

Like every big goal, we've got to break our green goal down into baby-steps. This blog is a journal of those baby-steps. And maybe documentation of some opportunities to learn and grow that we didn't miss.

Now I'm going to play with the first grader.

Mommy