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Happy Earth Day!

As I was getting a shower this morning and slathering on the "Sweet Pea" body wash, stepping out and spraying it with that shower spray, it reminded me of the Oprah question "What does clean smell like?" I know, clean doesn't have a smell. I get that. But not really. In my house, clean smells like Lysol and Clorox and Citrus and all kinds of other, unnatural and potentially harmful things. For every day cleaning, I'm all over the new "green" products (although they have a smell too so not sure what that's about!) but I can't seem to get rid of my Lysol and Clorox products. My mother-in-law passed on a note about a new cleaning product that replaces all your existing cleaning products. Of course, it recommends throwing all your existing ones in the garbage. Not sure that's any better for the environment. At least if I use them it's a slow seep, right? But maybe not. I want to be green. I try to recycle (alright, not at home, but at work definitely), I try to buy recycled or used, and renewable/reusable products. I mean, hey, I love the environment! I really do (I promise) and I'd be totally bummed if it wasn't around for my kids' kids' kids. So I'll continue taking baby steps - buying the energy efficient lights, used clothes sometimes, and recycle more. Baby steps so our babies have as much fun on this earth as we've had. Happy Earth Day!

The pool...

So I did it. Literally took the plunge... I decided today to take the kids to the pool. Which means I decided today to put on a bathing suit. So not pretty, but hey, it's for the kids right? We had a good time but the pool has all these water features that spray every which way and it was hard to find a spot to be where you weren't getting splashed in the face. Which may not seem like a big deal because you're in the pool - but hey, I wanted to control the wetness factor.

And now we're back and Ryan hasn't even made it upstairs since he had to check the baseball game score and I'm sitting on the couch watching the Internet and listening to Xavier sing in the shower. I wonder if he realizes that he's singing out loud because honestly it's not that pretty and he's making up words.


So I guess tomorrow I'm going to have to get serious about working out - for more than 2 days at a time :) so that I can go to the pool without even thinking about putting on the suit. We'll see how that goes!