I Am A Sorta-Kinda Crunchy Mama

Sheena, from Mommy Daddy Blog, is one of my favorite mom bloggers.

She recently did a post (linked above) on ways that she’s a Crunchy Mama. We’re all a little crunchy in our own way, whether it’s getting organic fruit or bathing two kids at once…because we’re totally only doing that to conserve water…right? LOL

The point is you probably have some crunchy behaviors even if you’re not trying!

Here are some of the ways I’m crunchy:

  • Me and the kids (and sometimes even Randy) drink kiefer (it might be keifer, but I just don’t have the energy to check in the fridge right now.)
  • I drink goat’s milk, and the rest of the family drinks raw milk.
  • Almost all of our fruits and veggies are organic. We have a garden in the backyard so pretty soon we’ll have organic, homegrown fruits and veggies to snarf down.
  • Since it started getting warm, most of our meals have become “raw” – a.k.a. no cooking required.
  • I cut my kid’s hair myself.
  • We are buying a rain barrel for garden watering next weekend.
  • We go to the farmer’s market (starting today, HA) so we are buying local as well as organic.
  • I have a midwife for my homebirth – if she can’t get to my house in time I’ll be having an unassisted childbirth.
  • We are selective with vaccinations and give them out on a schedule based on weight and age (Sadie is just too petite to jam a bunch of vaxes into all at once.) The goal is to be caught up by Kindergarten. Or 1st grade. Whatever. I have an awesome supportive doctor so either way won’t matter.
  • My goal, every summer, is to keep my air conditioner on as little as humanly possible. Fans don’t use as much electricity as air conditioners do, plus, being cooped up in an air conditioned house contributes to allergies and other potential ickiness. Our windows are open and the fans are on. Other than that, get some iced tea and relax to cool down. I will probably break down sometime in August for a few hours a day – last year our highest electricity bill was $190. The year before (when we did not do this with the air) our highest bill was $360. Almost a 50% reduction. So it’s frugal and healthy (in my opinion.)
  • Most of the children’s clothing in our house comes from the local consignment store. Why buy new when you can buy almost-new that preschoolers are bound to stain within a week anyway? LOL
  • I’ll be wearing my new baby in a sling. I tried one out with a friend’s child and it was comfy!
  • We eat whole wheat pasta.
  • We co-slept with our girls until they slept through the night. When they slept through the night was also right about the time they would take over the bed and start trying to push us out. When I end up on the floor, my kid ends up in a crib. While I loved sleeping with my girls, I don’t think a 2 year old REALLY needs a king size bed to sprawl out on. Juuuust sayin’
  • This is a little crazy, but my girls take a total of four vitamins a day. One Flinstones (when the bottle runs out we’re replacing it with something more … vegan) two calcium + vitamin D vitamins – one straight up vitamin D gelcap. My girls call the gelcap the “swallow vitamin” and they have been swallowing vitamins since they were 2yo without a problem.
  • I take a total of (wait for it….waaaaaait for it….) 8 vitamins a day. A prenatal, a beta-carrotine, two vitamin d, a co-q-10, a lutein, a vitamin e, and a vegetarian DHA. When I am no longer pregnant I will cut down to one vitamin d and will probably continue taking the rest. Yes, I understand I am probably over-vitamined, but I’m okay with that. You can steal my pee and sell it on the black market if it makes you feel better about my wasteful vitamin hossing.

It’s funny, I have a long list but none of them seem particularly OMGreen you know? We don’t compost (yet) or do a lot of the other things I consider mandatory for being a really awesome dirty hippie.

Not that being an awesome dirty hippie is even my goal. I just want to create a life that if I saw it on a show or during some documentary I’d say, “Wow, I want to be like that!”

I don’t think it’s so wrong to try and turn your life into the one you’d want if someone else had it. Unless that’s just a twisted way to think about it.

Basically I don’t want a life others will be jealous of….I want a life *I* would be jealous of … and we’re well on our way there.

How are you crunchy?

June 20, 2009 | By: Jennifer Gniadecki | Filed Under The Everything Basket | 1 Comment 

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One Response to “I Am A Sorta-Kinda Crunchy Mama”

  1. Dynila on June 21st, 2009 10:36 am

    Replied here “Ka-runchy Mama” cuz my comment got too long.

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