A change

I realized I wasn't blogging without any purpose behind my blog. Sure I had random ideas (Hello cute baby monkey) but I wasn't making any attempts beyond the random post here and there.

So I thought to myself, what's going on in my life that I could actually write about and share with readers here and there? Sure I'm a mom, but so are bazillions of other bloggers out there, and I have no problem being mainstream and identical to other women out there (it's what brings us together) but I wanted something that was more *mine*. Hell yes I'm a greedy one...woot!

So...here's the things going on currently:

• I'm 41 weeks pregnant. Yeah...you're supposed to be done around 40 weeks...epic fail on my part.
• I have Preschooler named Damien, he's 3 and some months and is currently the center of my universe (he will be sharing this position gladly soon - he constantly talks of the baby this and the baby that)
• I am going to be cloth diapering baby # 2 shortly after his/her arrival. With Damien we did disposables, and while I didn't feel any remorse or guilt at that point in time I now realize how much money was wasted not to mention the growing environmental aspect of it all. Our plan is to use disposables for the first short while during the adjustment period and then in emergencies or longer outings. Hopefully the rest of our family will get on board with this too.
• I just finished making my own laundry detergent - recipe HERE - and am very excited to see how it turns out. Everything but the Fels Naptha soap was ridiculously easy to find between normal grocery store aisles and a lovely visit to our "green" store - Earth's General Store where I got to scope out cloth diapers AND buy washing soda all at the very same time.

So I decided, screw it, sure I can still be a mom and blog about daily things like crayons on the walls (which btw, white bread apparently works just as well as a Mr Clean Eraser - another subject I'm sure I can go on and on ) or who pooped where and what their response was...but I can also try to catalogue the trials and very clear successes I've had with various things I find. I have a lovely book Clean House Clean Planet which will be considered my bible for this beginning stuff. If you have other books you can recommend I'll gladly check things out because I'd like to make life as easy and green as possible.

It's getting late, I'm going to go throw on a load of laundry to see how I feel about my new detergent, and I will hopefully be back in the next few days with a report and possibly a new baby :)