Simple, Green Strategies
As opposed to Simple Green strategies. Which I just discovered has had non-toxic, biodegradable cleaning products on the market for over 30 years. I mean, duh, it’s in the name, right? Anyway, here are some things I’ve implemented at our house.
Did you know that distilled white vinegar and baking soda will clean virtually everything you need them to? They’re cheap, non-toxic, biodegradable, disinfecting awesomeness. The vinegar smell doesn’t linger, and your house sparkles.
Turning Green
I began a journey, a long, long time ago, and I’m really beginning to understand where it’s taking me now. That is to say, alot of things I’ve been absorbing since I was a little girl are beginning to make sense; I’m seeing how I want to implement them in my life and in my home. Things like watching my Grandmacita grow tomatoes and roses and plants innumerable in her front and back yards. Helping my mom plant snap dragons and pansies in our yard. Growing radishes, onions, and potatoes with my Dad in east Texas. My fascination with raking leaves as a young girl. Observing my grandmother save twisty ties and rubber bands in jars. Knowing that she woke up at like 5 o’clock in the morning to make a days worth of food for all of her children and grandchildren to eat. Taking handfuls of vitamins from my homeopathic mother. Only being allowed to eat one coke a week, and virtually never candy.
Thermodynamics
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God” (Romans 8:18-21).
