Can you relate?
24/7 Mommyhood - I absolutely love it! It is the perfect reason to take so many play breaks throughout the day. I mean if I were really an “adult”, it would be embarrassing to be rolling around in the dirt making oink oink noises.
Yesterday, my husband, son, and I along with our dog spent the entire day tending to the yard. It was absolutely perfect. Our dog was reorganizing our pile of sticks we had just gathered from around the yard and our son was exploring the earthworms crawling out of the moist soil as I was cleaning up the flower beds.
Without hesitation, we were playing in the dirt and rolling in the grass. Enjoying creation as creation should enjoy creation!
Spring has just sprung in some parts of the midwest, so everyone is out preparing their lawns with high hopes of being the “neighborhood champ” in the unspoken, unorganized game of “Who’s going to have the best looking yard in 2009?”
We have yet to participate, but as I become more educated on the matter, I just can’t help to be a bit irritated. I mean I’m often on the brink of overload and my mind is blinking “out of order”, but I just can’t look away when we are slowing self-destructing with the careless use of chemicals. Before there is even a problem, pesticides are being massively dispursed in neighborhoods.
How many of us actually consider the domino effect of such chemicals? They were manufactured, packaged, loaded, sent, unloaded, stocked, purchased, dumped, scattered, rolled in, moistened, washed away, ingested, and then… do we really know what happens when they enter into human beings?
The thought has just ruined my day and my “out of order” light is on full-force.
Time for a break… but first I’m going to call Zach, an Organic Lawn Care Specialist, who I met today!
He’s changing the planet one person one yard at a time.
