A New Day dawned.....

Hello world, It's been quite a while since I have sat down to post anything. I am hoping I don't disappoint any of you who subscribed in the beginning of the original adventure - but I am taking my blog in a new direction.
A lot has changed since then. For better and worse I suppose. I have learned though that this is how things are and isn't that exactly the way they are supposed to be?
I a now the mother to a baby girl Belle who was born Spring 2010.All those baby posts were put into practice there!! This summer my oldest became a teenager! I have started to see the light of God shine in my son as he became a Baptized believer in Christ this same Summer. I also seen the ugly head of commercialism and peer envy in both he and my now six-year-old daughter. Don't get me wrong there, I think it's lovely to have nice things. I just don't believe the clothes make the man or the girl for that matter.
We withdrew Addy from public school, a conflict of interest I suppose you could say was the general reasoning, and have begun homeschooling her.I am really enjoying it so far.
I became inspired by other bloggers, the Bible and a huge source of tutorials to be a mend and make due mom. I resolve to take only what I need, share what I have, make what I can, buy local and and handmade when I have to.
My Dad getting sick with cancer and realizing the his overexposure to environmental toxins caused it (also in the absence) only served to further my belief that changing the way we do things was no longer just a hobby or idea but was fundamental.
As my husband has grown closer to Christ we as a couple have experienced a conviction over haul! A lot of things have become less important. Some have become essential to who we are and what we are here for.
You know what hasn't changed much..... this desire to be as basic as possible to cut out all the fancy and just be who we were created to be.
A light was shined on us and we began to share ideas and search for answers in the Bible and in the old wisdom of the generations before us.
Dave Ramsey points out that our grandparents *(these would actually be my great grandparents) didn't go into debt for homes - they saved for them, That same generation grew most of their own food. All these women sewed, made fabric in some way, had basic health and healing knowledge, most taught their children at home for sometime anyway(in rural areas), canned what they grew and made use of all that was given to them.
That is the generation that I admire, and that is the generation I believe balk and shake their heads at my generation. My generation for the most part that wastes, rely on instant and has no idea how to do anything for themselves in most cases, including programing the technology that does everything for us!
It is my sincere hope that even though some of you may not be believers, you are concerned for our shared world, and that you will stay and continue to see where this goes. I don't seek to offend anyone,believer or non, nor those who believe and still aren't going green... just sharing my slice
So where are we now? What's all this have to do with the green life? Just you wait and see.
Crystal