I like my life

I was thinking today just about how we are now living like I have been wanting for some time.  I love being a family of four, my heart bursts with love for all of them.  We have oodles of family time now and are really finding a good rhythm, tweaking when necessary.  My spouse is supportive and loving and sweet and caring and helpful, my true partner.  My kids are so freaking amazing and I really enjoy being their mother, even when it sucks sometimes.  We are working together to meet our family mission statement, namely with regards to money, parenting, our household, and our life.  I like how we are being conscious with our choices and consumption - I breastfeed, we cloth napkin and diaper, we make our own laundry detergent and deodorant, the kids and I use only natural products from small companies (still working on E), we got rid of our microwave, we buy fresh, local food from farmers at the market (and it is AMAZING), we have recently cut out grain, legumes, and most dairy from our diet and are feeling FABULOUS (and dropping some extra weight too!), we have a Berkey water filter, Vitamix, and SodaStream and I love them all for their healthy aspects, we compost now(!), and of course, continue to recycle.  It just feels like all of these things that I have been wanting to do but have been on hold for one reason or another is finally coming together.  I am living the way I have always wanted, and it feels great (notice a theme?).  It totally helps that Eric is on board and going the journey with me - that whole "same page" thing really makes the difference!

We still have work to do with being more active, but it is hard where we live, especially when it is freezing cold and you have a baby.  But with time, and season change, I have no doubt we will get there.  I still want to change up a few things in the diet area with my little bear, and she how it affects her.  We got complacent when we moved and I need to weed out the "yucky" cleaners in the cabinet.  All in our efforts to strive toward as chemical-free life as we can.  We also want to jump back in to some sort of church life - it has been harder than we realized to leave the church we felt was home to us, and just aren't feeling it up here.  I know we will get out what we put in, and so this is another area to work on.  Eric and I need to work on finding time for us when we aren't exhausted to connect without little bear or the cubby around.  But our communication is going strong, so that is a plus.

I still have goals for 2012 that I will put up sometime soon, I promise!  There is ALWAYS room for improvement.  Our house is not always happy, and there is plenty of frustration, but it is one of JOY.  And, that my friends, is the ultimate goal.  And we will continue to work to make it so.  I really like where I am right now, and really really like my life!