Have you ever vacuumed up a shoe? I have. Yesterday I was thorougly cleaning Miah's bedroom, I was giving 100% to the task, I was focused. I spotted something pink, it looked just like the dried up pink playdough that was mixed in the carpet, so I moved the vacuum toward the tiny pink object, and just as it was being sucked up, I saw it. A tiny little doll shoe. The size of half a dime. I gasped! What do I do? I truly felt bad. Will she notice it is missing? Do I tell her or wait till she is looking for it? I decided to empty the vacuum dust into the trash and try to find the shoe. Long story short, no shoe found.
I have a few of my own little ways of "Going Green". These help the planet, and they help save money! Some are just weird.
1. I cut my fabric softner in half and only use 1/2 a sheet per load.
2. I hang dry lots of my laundry, to use the dryer less, save electricity.
3. When buying produce in grocery stores, I try not to use those produce plastic bags if I only have one pepper or 2 cucumbers, etc. And if only buying a few items I don't bag my stuff.
4. I only do dishes like once a day, and if the plate from breakfast doesn't look really dirty I use it for lunch, and maybe dinner too, and same with glasses and silverware.
5. I keep off lights as much as possible and I unplug little things like toasters and blenders when not using them.
6. I turn the water off when I am brushing my teeth.
7. I reuse plastic baggies a lot.
8. I don't use papertowel at all. I use cloth rags.
9. I tell my kids to wear their clothes more than once, if it is not dirty looking or smelly.
Cameron gets the whole process.
Jalen was trained to put clothes in the laundry basket every time he takes them off. So now I am trying to teach him to look at it and decide if it is dirty or not, but I have now been noticing that he puts everything back into his dresser. So he went from everything going to the laundry, even if he wore it for 2 hours, to now everything goes to the dresser to be worn for weeks on end. Kids are funny.
Miah saw Pajamas in the laundry and she said "what are those doing there?" I said "they must be dirty," she said "Pajama's don't get dirty." Which I remember telling her quite awhile ago, that Pajama's go back into the drawer cause they don't ususally get dirty when your sleeping, but she understood it as NEVER WASH PAJAMAS.
Cameron loaded the dishwasher and put soap in and ran the dishwasher all on his own today. I was very greatful.
Yesterday, Miah begged for me to let her help do dishes, so we did them together and she sang "Oh, I love helping Mommy, oh I love helping Mommy......oh I love helping mommy..." on and on she sang. It was priceless.
Tomorrow I get to go shopping with a great friend for about 4 hours! Can you say WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited just thinking about it!
I love how Miah says "Mama"
Cameron has been asking a lot of questions about Heaven. I have been praying that God will give him dreams of what heaven will be like, so he can tell me about it!
I have much to be thankful for:
1. Justin and I both have jobs.
2. All five of us are healthy.
3. Our bills are paid.
4. We have a warm, nice home.
5. Our kids love each other (most of the time)
6. My vacuum is fixed............because at this very moment I have mud tracked all across the living room, that I will now go take care of.
Friday night plans....
Reading with the boys, dinner - scrambled eggs and potatoes, and maybe a bath for Miah (she keeps itching her butt).:)
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3 comments:
Jenny you have a wonderful gift of writing and making every experience a blessing have fun shopping. Mom
Kennedy itches her but all the time! Kids are gross :)
I also can't believe that you felt bad about the shoe. I throw my kids stuff away ALL THE TIME! If something is laying around too much it gets tossed. Even things you wouldn't think should get tossed...like the directions to XBox games. I have been know to throw away the actual game if I see it in my face too much. In fact, Keegan keeps asking me where his Star Wars game is. I tell him the truth. I threw it away! I just threw away some dumb Scooby Doo toy that was under my feet by the sink for too long.
My kids are going to grow up hating me for that. The will be sitting around a table having drinks talking about their mean old mom and all the things she tossed. :)
Jenny, I agree with Judy, you are great at writing down all the stuff. You are quite the comedian! It's great how you are going green. It's like my mom taught me all this conserving stuff and YOU are implementing it! My mom would love it:)
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