Starting fresh. I can’t say that I’ve really missed blogging but I was playing around online one night and registered for blogsome. The banner quickly followed and it has been calling me with it’s clean, bright, and fresh cheeriness ever since. A few things have changed in my life since I last wrote (on the now deleted Wordpress blog) and I’m planning on even more changes, slowly putting them into practice.

I don’t remember exactly when I stopped blogging but quite possibly it was before I bought my little house in July. So that is one change: I’ve bought a house. I’ve also met the most amazing man in the world (despite not wanting to meet anyone) and my happiest times are when the four of us (my son, B; my boyfriend, S; his daughter; and myself) are spending time together. The daily changes and steps towards change, though, are in relation to trying to be more frugal, live more simply, and spend more time just enjoying the world I live in. I have many plants started for a garden this year, plans to do a bit of landscaping and beautifying of the yard, plans to cook more from scratch and use whole foods instead of processed as well as eliminating refined foods (like white flour and white sugar) and reducing sugars. I want to live a simpler life, drastically de-clutter, and get rid of things that I really do not need (and yet have been hoarding just in case I do). I want to get more sleep, get up earlier, and enjoy my child more.

B is a very spirited 3.5-year-old and often has me at the end of my rope. I’m hoping that the change in diet and major reduction (hopefully elimination) in artificial products going into his body will effect some behavioural changes and together we can have a much happier relationship. To borrow Mary Sheedy Kurcinka’s definition of a spirited child, from her book Raising Your Spirited Child, a spirited child is one who is more. "The word that distinguishes spirited children from other children is more. They are normal children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change than other children. All children possess these characteristics, but spirited kids possess them wiht a depth and range not available to other children. Spirited kids are the Super Ball in a room full of rubber balls. Other kids bounce three feet off the ground. Every bounce for a spirited child hits the ceiling." 

And so, now that I’ve given you a rambling incomplete intro, I’ll leave you with this photo of a couple of my seedlings as they were a few weeks ago. I’m now just waiting for the long weekend (and for me to actually build my garden) so I can get them outside and really watch them take off growing. Currently they’re quite big and definitely ready for transplanting.