My Beloved: Task 3

Since this blog started as a means of becoming more sustainable; I thought I would make sure I was doing something new each month to hold true to that.  I started this blog with a vengeance in the beginning, and while I continue doing the things I started with (well, not the cloth diapering, we are well out of that stage), I have not started anything new in a while.  The only things that really make the blog anymore are the ducks and garden.  It was time to get back in a groove.  

 

For the month of January, I had planned on purchasing a Dunkin Doughnuts mug to cut down on the cups I throw out during the week.  However, I have a friend who has recently given up Diet Coke for the year for health reasons.  She also calculated the amount of money she spends on Diet Coke and discovered a significant financial gain as well.  Since I can afford to lose a few extra calories in my week, a few more dollars in my pocket, and less styrofoam cups being thrown out; I decided to give up Dunkin all together.  When you factor in 2-4 stops a week, the benefit far outweighs the addiction.  So from today on, I have become a Dunkin free gal. 

Lavender Soap

I am not using my editor on this one, so please excuse any errors that may follow. 

 

The one thing I hate about having to make a new batch of laundry detergent is having to grate a bar of soap for the recipe.  As I was enjoying a bath over break, soaking in some lovely lavender soap a friend brought me from France, I realized the large bag of soap was already grated for us.  The lazy part of my brain thought it would be amazing to use in my detergent.  The practical part of my brain thought my husband would kill me if all his clothes smelled like lavender.  It has been 3 weeks and he has not noticed yet.  Let's see if he checks the blog when he is not editing posts:) 

(The editor hasn't noticed any lavender scents lately. He also just corrected a few mistakes that he saw - but not all of them! And, your laundry recipe is out the window as far as that new HE machine that you just got....)

Give-Task Two

One of my goals for the year is to give material things, or time at least once a month with Little Man.  We do some of that now, but I wanted to make it more intentional this year.

 

Man did I have great plans for January.  Plans that Little Man probably would have hated.  Thankfully Little Man had his own plans.  His school is doing a mitten tree for the food shelf; upon picking him up on Friday he informed me that he grabbed a mitten, and we needed to pick up fruit over the weekend.  Love that Little Man.