The look on my husbands face when I told him that I wanted to start a blog was priceless! He was encouraging and supportive but I think he was a little shocked! I am not one for too much computer stuff. Sure I like to email and to Facebook to keep in touch with my friends, but I am not one for too much clicking around on the computer. So wanting to start a blog was probably a little surprising to him. He probably thinks that I am being converted to be a computer geek like himself!
Over the past few years, I have been inspired to make some lifestyle changes. After our oldest son was diagnosed with a serious health issue, I wanted to do all I could to make his life, and ours, as healthy as I could. I wanted to make more of our food from scratch, buy foods whole and not processed, throw out less waste, and so on. Now I am not perfect, but when I see the changes that I have made, I am pretty pleased with my efforts and I hope to keep up the changes in our family.
One change that I have been working on the past couple of years is trying to make my oldest sons lunch for school "litterless." This means having no waste to go into the garbage after he is finished his lunch. Living in Nova Scotia means that we have a pretty great waste management program - we compost, recycle cans, bottles, plastic, paper and cardboard. At the end of of two week garbage cycle, our family of five throws out less than 2 fulls bags of garbage! We are fortunate that a lot of our schools also participate in composting and recycling programs and , therefore, make my quest for a litterless lunch possible.
I hope to be active in my blog posts but bare with me because as I mentioned above, I am not one for clicking too much on the computer! And the truth is, I have no idea how to design a blog - it's amazing that I have actually made a post at all! I hope to share with you some of my ideas, find some web links to help inspire, and don't forget to share your ideas too!
Joanna
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