Earth Day

Well, I suppose I took my own advice and unplugged for awhile. I didn't mean to go over a month without writing, but life happens and posts need time and motivation to be born.

Today is the 40th Earth Day. In celebration, I took the day off. It was an absolutely beautiful day. To start it off my brother took baby boy to OG for 'take your child to work day.' While they were being social, I ran some errands.

Speaking of, it is absolutely amazing to me how quickly I can do things when the baby is with someone else. I did a quick Target trip, since they were giving out green reusable bags in honor of the day. However, they didn't have them out, or had already given them all out, when I was there. I need to stock up on more canvas bags. I have three, but a few more would be nice.

I hate going to the store and unloading my goods only to have mounds and mounds of plastic bags. To me, plastic bags are the perfect opportunity to reduce, reuse and recycle. Reduce by using environmentally friendly bags or declining a bag. I reuse by choosing them to put the baby's cloth diapers in. Recycling is easy. Every recycling center takes bags. If a recycling center isn't an option, most Krogers have large bins that take plastic bags.

Back on track, bub and i went to Qdoba for lunch, then I took the babe to Borders to look at books. At the mall, I remembered he needed walkin' shoes. He's days away from his first steps, so off to Journey's Kidz we went. His ankles are too fat for the hightop chucks I wanted, so I chose a pair of "Jesus sandals." yep, my kid is a hippie. A cute, yummy smelling hippie.

After hanging out with bub and babe, I picked up the littlest sister and we headed to the middle littlest sibling's African Drum and Dance concert. Very fun time. I was reminded that the Bailey clan is Irish, therefore very, very white. While music and dance likely originated with humanity, so dancing should be natural, it is so not. Especially when you're dancing next to a native African.

Then, I went to our friend Mark's place and bought a Neti pot. It is wonderful. A little odd at first, but it feels fantastic after.

Then my honey bought me dinner :)

Really a wonderful Earth Day.