Permanent

March 4, 2011

I want to make some changes in my life.  Some things I know I want to do, but don't know how to start.  Other things, I know what to do, but it's a matter of willpower.  The name "Change For Good" is two-fold.  It's addressing my desire to change my life in positive ways and my desire to make those changes stick.

1) I have recently become a pescetarian, which is a person who eats fish, but no other meat after watching the documentary "Food, Inc."  I'm on day four and, so far, it's been remarkably easy to make this change.  I've been eating salads and pasta a lot, but also some soy and yesterday I had the best falafel ever.  Chickpeas are a good source of iron, so . . .

2) I want to spend more time playing with my kids.  I go to school full-time and by the time I get home, I'm exhausted although not so much since I cut the meat.  I tend to put on cartoons and space out until dinner, then give them dinner, and then get them ready for bed.  I want to cut all TV while the kids are awake during the week. It will be hard to do, that one actually really scares me. I'm like so many of us, I plop kiddos in front of word world so I can cook, or do schoolwork (or have twenty minutes alone to play The Sims). What now?

3) I want to nag my husband less, even though I find him annoying a lot of the time. More on that later.  I don't have a course of action mapped out yet.

4)I want to grow ALL my vegetables this summer except my potatoes.  I live in an apartment and don't really have space for them.  Maybe I'll also buy corn.  Everything else, though, I'm going to know where it came from.

5) The last one, but the big one.  There are a few hot button issues for me in the world, thing that really bother me, but I don't do anything about them.  I want to quit doing that.  I will find a way to help with these things.

This blog is going to be my experience with these changes over the next year and it's going to be honest and it's going to change.  If I slip and eat a big old fat side of bacon, I will post.  If my veggies all die, I'll post.  Mostly, though, I hope someone out there will read this and know that I'm just a full time student and a mom of two but I'm going to make changes that I hope will impact the world in some way, even though there is nothing special about me.  My thought is that hopefully people will see that if I can do it, if I can CHANGE my life, anyone can and then they'll be inspired to change, too.