A life less ordinary.

Going against the genetically modified grain, living a life less ordinary, grabbing life by the homemade horns...get the drift? I am devoting this next blogging year to taking the path less chosen...through making things from scratch, opting out of the mass produced machine, asking the questions that we do not usually ask. Raising a little human is making me think more, about cell phones and how much we use them (when the phone rings she holds her hands up to her ears and babbles), about genetically modified ingredients and how much we eat them (see article on effects of GMO's), about unsafe factories producing cheap products that we don't need in mass quantities, about landfills, about garbage, about climate change, about debt. We do the little things that we can do to help (we recycle, Dave drives a hybrid, we compost, we raise chickens for eggs, Lane is back in cloth diapers, we use green cleaning products, we have a clothesline, we keep our bees) but if we're going to live on our farm someday, I want to take things one step further...I'm talking a homemade pasta, jarred food, pickling, homemade laundry soap making, garage saling, rain water collecting, house clutter purging, toy donating, volunteering step further....and thus our year begins.

 

I'm still a mother, still a business owner, still a wife and I cannot make this my full priority but in the little ways that I can, I want to conserve - to act - to help - to learn and to teach.  I want to raise a grateful, thoughtful, aware little person...a little person who just pulled my box of pencils down, spilled them all over the floor and is now putting them back in the box and dumping them out again....and who's best friend is a dog leash....maybe my aim is a little high.....but I am going to give it a shot.

 

This weeks project, homemade granola - baby steps people. Why buy it surrounded by plastic, in a cardboard box for twice the money when you can make it at home and it's just as good. Healthy snacks for little human and I are always appreciated. Oh, and I am going to do a monthly pic of Lane. She's still changing, still growing, still learning so fast that I can't help but document her expanding world.

 

Some pics from our week:

 

Gates are her enemy and our best friend

 



National Clothesline Day



 



We had a visitor



so Dave caught him

 

and relocated him.

 



Homemade granola ingredients

 





Baking



 



Next time I'll double the recipe.

 



This face says 'I am in the dog water - you better come get me'

 



Then she noticed the dog.

 



Then she climbed the stairs.

 



Then the dog left.

 

Here's to you all catching your dogs this week! Happy Tuesday!