They say it better than me!

I have come across 3 very meaningful blog posts which are in-line with my current transformation and I just wanted to share them.

This one is a post on how eating at home can save your life.  The whole post is amazing and really drives home the power of the fork, and our dollars, in making some big change occur even simply in our own homes.  But those small changes have a huge impact on the economy, environment, and the world at large.

I also found my new favorite blog, Kitchen Stewardship.  She is a Catholic mom who is striving to make some changes in her life, and I love her tenets.  From her site: 

Kitchen Stewardship is about finding the balance, doing the right thing to give glory and honor to God, becoming more prayerful in the kitchen, and rejoicing in the accomplishment of baby steps on the road to perfect stewardship.

I love the mix of faith, stewardship, balance, and nourishing ourselves and our families.  She offers recipes, experiments, and challenges tempered by the idea of baby steps and progress.   This is the stuff of my aspirations.  In some ways we are there, in others, much more improvement can be made.  This post, On Conscious Thought, really spoke to me.  The challenge at the end, to stay conscious of the choices you make daily through questioning, thinking about wants and needs, examining your decisions, and refining your skills of observation, is sort of the journey that I have undertaken.  It is through this consciousness that I hope to connect.

And finally, this post on being "too connected" online and how it impacts our families.  This post hits home for me as I have seen some version of this play out in our life at different times.  Sometimes it is "work" and other times it is Facebook that can make me unavailable and not present.  It is scary the level of preoccupation and "involvement" that one can have with social media.  I see its value in connecting moms that otherwise could be very isolated, but most often, it can feel like a drug.  Almost obsessive or compulsive with its use.  Ick.  I am NOT going to stop Facebook or blogging, but I am going to put some big-time boundaries on it.  No more newsfeed - I love reading and catching up on people's lives, but the it becomes too much.  Twitter I don't really get or use properly, so that is no big deal.  I am going to keep the computer closed when I can, the tv off (for my daughter) so we can do things together.  What is the point of being a (mostly) stay-at-home mom if I am not present for her?  So yes, social media can be a great tool, but not when you are connecting more with virtual friends than you are with those residing in your same house! 

All about balance.  Lately, as I have mentioned, I have been off-balance.  I am going to swing the pendulum in the other direction now.  My resolution for bedtimes and making good use of my time has not been successful for no good reason.  This is going to change.

Enjoy the posts and the resulting pondering they may evoke - I sure am!