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This here is the Perfectly Flawed weekly round-up, so if you missed me on Pinterest & Facebook, this is where I’ll be sharing some of that LOVE on Fridays. Enjoy!

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Dinner, Produce Bags & Baby Steps!

Woo Hoo, got my cooking grove back this week! Love Pinterest, so many great recipes being shared. I’ve made Gingery Soba Noodle Soup, Shrimp in coconut sauce over rice, Roasted rep pepper & goat cheese alfredo and last night we made homemade chick pea veggie burgers with a side of Brussel sprout & Swiss chard salad!

Finally purchased our reusable produce and bulk items bags. I bought five of these from Flip & Tumble, I also got 6 of these from Kootsac on Etsy. I can’t wait to get these, another stride towards being plastic free!

I’ve been gathering information on making our own cleaning products. I already use alternative non-toxic products, but they come in plastic so…. Next Tuesday on Natural Living Tips I’m switching from Coconut Oil to Home-made cleaning products and I’ll be discussing them throughout April. It is time for Spring Cleaning after all!

Though I did manage to make home-made toothpaste this week, Gavin’s not thrilled, lol. He’ll get used to it.

Just a reminder to anyone trying to go green or make strides in that direction. The best way is baby steps. I’ve not arrived here quickly or without challenge and I’m still far from where I want to be. Here’s an article, from Almost the Truth,  I read this week about Baby steps and why it’s so important to celebrate every one of them. Please read it.

What Baby steps are you taking?
Peace!

Harry says "chill"!

I’m watching my family gather and take the recycling to the curb. I’m so happy that my kids are excited and on-board with my saving the planet fanatics.  We have just begun a small compost bin in the backyard.  I wanted to begin to be ahead of the game once we move into the new house in a month, I’m going to need some nutritious yumminess for the fruit and vegetable garden I have planned to start.  The kids are so eager to throw the egg shells and fruit and veggie peels in the bucket.

I love that part of homeschooling, which begins in a week, will focus on how we can better take care of this beautiful planet and make it better for generations to come.  We will be visiting local farms, hydroponic and dairy too!  There is one only 13 minutes from the new house called Hunsader Farms, the one we used to visit when the kids were younger.  We’d go to their festival in October, it was over 45 min away then.

This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

* Set a timer and write for 5 minutes only.
* Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
* Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
* Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
* Link up your post at all.things.fadra.
* Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

P.S. One of my faves is Good Girl Gone Green!

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” ~Native American Proverb

Mother Earth Day is officially April 22nd.  It began in 1970 in the United States and was taken international in 1990, with organized events in 141 nations that year.  It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year.

Since this issue has been forefront in my life for as long as I remember, I feel it necessary to use April as the month to post about all things GREEN:-). There are so many ways to go GREEN, from what you eat, water/electricity usage, what you drive, to what type of businesses you support. It can be a very overwhelming thing to ponder, and with many other concerns in ones life, sometimes the environment takes a back seat. What most don’t realize is, most of the time, saving money and supporting the environment goes hand in hand, but we’ve gotten so used to the ease that modern day technology has given us, we’ve forgotten or never learned how to do things more naturally.

Let me begin by saying that my current foot print on the earth is, in my opinion, very muddy and dark. There was time I was much more “Crunchy” and have been taking strides to get back there again. We will be taking a leap later this year with downsizing. We will be moving back into our other house, we’ve been renting it out for 8 years now. It’s only 900ish sq. ft. We are a family of 4 humans, 8 cats and 2 dogs, so luckily the back yard is good sized, for St. Pete, and there is a separate 200 sq. ft. unit out back as well. We won’t have a dishwasher and will be using our clothes line again, like we did the 2 years we lived there before, when we cloth diapered our new baby, I have pictures:-).

I’m really looking forward to it, the need to get rid of half our furniture to fit in there, less STUFF!

Anyway, this is the first of many posts about going GREEN. I follow many blogs on this topic and I’m excited to share them with you, hopefully they’ll be helpful to your journey in going GREEN too.

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This morning I took myself for another early morning walk on the beach and I noticed the litter dotting the sand. A variety of things, beer cans, Caprisun pouches, a little boys polo shirt, plastic bags, etc. This of course isn’t the first time I’ve noticed this. When my family and I go for walks at night we make it a point to pick all the various trash we come across. I can’t consciously be ok with seeing litter and not pick it up. How would that be any better than those who left it behind?  Now, I’m aware that not all litter is there for a conscience reason, it may have blown overboard on a boat and washed up on a beach, it may have been accidentally left there unnoticed. There are always exceptions. Littering is one of my greatest pet peeves and when I see it happen it gives me a little growl.  I once was at a gas station and witnessed someone, whom had just been pumping gas, open there car door while waiting to be let into traffic and throw a full McDonalds bag of trash on the curb.  URRRRRGH.  What?? and Why??  Is it laziness, lack of caring and responsibility, the idea that someone else will clean it up?  Whatever, it’s just wrong.

Anyway, I was smiling ear to ear when on my walk back, (I had been picking up litter on the way), I came across a gentleman who had a bag full of trash he had picked up and he let me add mine to his collection.  We both thanked each other for helping to clean up the beach and went on our way.

Where ever there is bad, there is also good:-)

Happy day!