I have a lot going on right now. With looking for our sweet dream home, spending time with the children, running, swimming, building friendships, crafting, blogging, working …

Working?

I will be starting a little writing gig for The Savvy Source!!! I am so excited to have the opportunity to write for the site. I will be sure to share with you when my first post is up. I have also been frantically finishing up stray projects so I can settle into a routine and maybe start accepting new design jobs. I finished J’s site and I have two sites that are in tweaking stage now. It feels so good to have a side thing going and actually balancing it with the children’s needs.

I have a few books I looking forward to sharing with you guys in the coming weeks. I have been reading so much. I love that I am at that time, where there is time to do all this. The infant stage is so consuming (and wonderful). Now Ethan is content to play beside me as I work on projects, still ever present with them both yet my own person too. Becca is totally absorbed into her own thing. I am more of a nuissance when I am not occupied too!

It is such an amazing feeling. Being this content, happy … settled. I am waiting for the next thing to rock me, yet not really holding my breath for it anymore. I have arrived at my good place. I like it.

To add just one more thing to my ever growing list of challenges, I am going to attempt to Ditch the Disposables! A challenge from the uber talented Crunchy Domestic Goddess.

You can make the switch from:

Paper napkins to cloth napkins
Paper towels to cloth towels
Tissues to handkerchiefs
Paper, plastic or Styrofoam plates to your kitchen plates
Inexpensive plastic “Take & Toss” sippy cups to Sigg or Camelbak bottles or the Kleen Kanteen
Disposable water bottles to (again) reusable bottles like Sigg or Camelbak
Plastic sandwich bags or paper lunch bags to reusable containers/bags
Swiffers (or similar products) to a broom and dustpan or mop (or use reusable cloths like cloth diapers/terry inserts in your Swiffer)
Disposable dust rags to cloth rags
Disposable diapers to cloth diapers
Disposable wipes to cloth wipes (inexpensive plain washcloths work really well)
Disposable feminine products (tampons, pads) to reusables like DivaCup, MoonCup, Glad Rags, Luna Pads, Pretty Pads, or New Moon Pads, among others
Grocery store bags to reusable bags

We are already using cloth grocery bags, cloth diapers (at home), we reuse all our containers, so there are only a few things on her list that I am still un-green.

Disposable feminine products — I want to switch, but oddly I stocked up YEARS ago in preparation for the world to end or something along those lines, so I want to use what I have before switching. The Diva Cup is a Canadian company that I have only read rave reviews about.

So I am going to challenge myself to Paper towels to cloth towels … I still way guilty of using the quick and easy routine. So from this day forth I will try not to use paper towels, opting for cloth towels instead!

Are you up for the challenge? Are there any areas that you could make a little change? Check out the Crunchy Domestic Goddess for more details and tons of great Green tips and more.