Week 19
Our lives have finally – finally – returned to normal. I feel like we’ve been working toward normal since mid-August, when we moved into our new place. The last box is unpacked, there is art hanging on our walls, and the laundry room, which became a “catch-all for everything we don’t have a place for” got cleaned out, thanks to a visit from an Oregonian photographer. I’m not sick, neither is Adam, and I’m facing my first full week of teaching (minus the distractions of holidays and parent-teacher conferences, etc.) since November started. Even our garbage-free way of life seems exceptionally normal to us now – we have a system down, so it’s no longer impacting our daily activities.
We added some more minimal stuff to the box. For what I think is the third week in a row, a lightbulb burned out, and these irritate me each time we add them to the box, since they weren’t ours to begin with – and had they been ours, they wouldn’t have burned out yet, since we use the twisty CFLs. Nevertheless, into the shoebox they go, along with some plastic seals from toiletry items. And that’s been it.
We’re prepping for the holiday season, both Thanksgiving and Christmas. My parents are hosting Thanksgiving this year and we are theming the meal around locally available foods. I’m in charge of pies, but I still need to decide what to make. I did go ahead and buy some fun Christmas fabric for wrapping presents. We also found a package of eco-friendly Christmas cards at the local department store, meaning they are readily available. Our cards are made with recycled paper and came packaged in a cardboard box with – gasp! – no plastic packaging whatsoever.
Seriously, that’s been it for us for the past week. Things are rolling along smoothly. Thanks for reading!
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Hey Amy it is Aimee H.!! If you are wanting a “green” way to wrap Christmas presents my mom and sister’s and I made fabric covered shoe boxes that you use over and over again!! You use spray adhesive on the fabric and then wrap the shoe box. The boxes that come with lids are fun because you can use contrasting/coordinating fabric for the top and botton. Plus use ribbon and a fabric pin to pin on the tag. They were a lot of fun to make. Just an idea for you!!