I blew it-not really....

I have been asked...where did I go? Well...we are so busy recycling I have no spare time...not totally the truth but just go with it.....seriously recycling a lot. We have our bins...the girls use them and my husband uses them and I use them. Sometimes I get lazy and then I hear my friend who told me how she can't stand NOT recycling and she thinks about a piece of something sitting in a land fill not going anywhere for years and years and years all because she did not recycle and that does it...I tear it out and recycle. It has created another arm of anxiety in my life I really don't need. But a good one.

There have been several changes in the house both good and bad.....the bad news is we have had an increase in these annoying bugs...yea-gross-I know-my over zealous juicing habit has created a HUGE amount of compost vegetation that can't seem to make it from the kitchen to the back yard in time. The bugs are really uncool. I swear we are not dirt ball but the bugs-ya-that is a problem I am working on. Add that to my to do list....and anxiety level as well.

Then there was the minor problem with the recycling taking over the house. Bag after bag was filling up. It is not like plastic bottles crush down like the soda cans we stepped on as kids for that great crunchy sound effect..they just layer until they fall out and then we start another bag and then another...well the bins came as I said previously and I was all fired up with my abundant supply of recycling when suddenly I realized the abundant supply was MIA. I had actually lined it all up-bag after bag after bag-we were making serious progress with the recycling organization....I finally asked my husband "Where did all the recycling go?" I was so ready to be mad at him...in fact...I was already mad...Here I was totally trying to make this positive change, teach the girls, educate our family, etc. etc. and he had gone off and thrown it all out. As if swimming in recycling is not acceptable? And I was totally organizing it anyway. What did he care? His reply "The girls and I loaded it up to take to the recycling plant but it was closed so we went to the skate park instead" say WHAT? My husband totally took the kids and the recycling to turn it in? I was so stoked! I couldn't believe it. I had gone out for a few hours and left him with the girls and they went on a mission to recycle. No Way! I had a moment of realization that my little quest was making waves in our home.

So where have I been? Totally at home-recycling-doing our thing and trying to keep up my quest for change. It really is working.