Day 1

Okay, maybe today wasn't the best start. For one, my husband was working and decided to go out to eat for dinner so I couldn't make him dinner, one of my favorite ways to show him that I love him (hey, I love it when I can come home from wherever and have dinner on the table, so why wouldn't he?). But instead I focused my kindness on my pets.

For Christmas/Winter, I had a centerpiece out that had pine cones in it. Well, last night to help usher in the new year I tore down the tree and all of our Christmas specific decorations. So the pine cones stayed out, and since Karma (our cat) couldn't systematically rip off ornaments anymore, she turned her focus onto the 'cones. Karma will hop onto the coffee table, pick one up in her mouth, and jog off to the kitchen where she begins to bat it around and do kitteh Parkour around the house. Eventually, Chester will decide that she's having way too much fun without him, jog into the kitchen, and start barking at her. Eventually she gives him the pine cone, he picks it up, trots to wherever I am, lays down, and starts munching. Of course I then take the pine cone away from him because I don't think that's good for him to eat, but that's also right around the time it starts all over again. I kid you not this happened 10 times today. Right around the 2nd time it occurred to me to just take the pine cones away, but the kids were enjoying themselves so much I decided to let them play a little longer. Did it drive me crazy? Yes. But they had a lot of fun and I'm glad they were playing "together."

I also posted about how I had made homemade laundry detergent and it needs to cure for a day, then I'll get to test it out. I still have most of a regular bottle left, but I wanted to make some up so that I won't have to worry about running out and getting caught with a full basket of laundry and no soap! So I'm very excited about that, as it is kind to our budget as well as the environment.

As far as being kind to myself, I've decided to do something...that I'm still kind of on the fence about. I've decided to try not using shampoo. I say this is being kind to myself because shampoo is actually horrible for your hair, and the more you use it the more you need to use it. If you've never heard about this before, try a quick Google search. You will get tons of results. It's actually really popular, if anything because it actually improves your hair's health and look, but also because it's better for the environment (decreases plastic use, fewer detergents going into the environment). So with great reluctance, but a lot of curiosity I put my two shampoo bottles (yeah, I alternated, so sue me!) back into the linen closet. And then I bought a big box of baking soda, because I'm going to need it... So we're going to give it a shot. I hear the first week is the worst. And hopefully if I use baking soda every day this week it'll slow down the nasty. We'll try it. Can you tell I'm nervous?