No-Poo

I had not heard of No-Poo until last week when I read about it and then spent the entire evening summoning up the courage to try it. I tried it last Monday night and my result was somewhat greasy. I tried again the following night and the results were shiny goodness. I continued to try all week only having one more greasy day. I determined the greasiness had to do with my improper applying of the no-poo.

Now you must be curious about what no-poo actually is. Well it is washing your hair without shampoo. I chose baking soda and apple cider vinegar, but there are many other ways to go. I normally have very oily hair, I wash it every day and twice a day when I work out, but so far not oily. I have not tried spreading out my washes and I probably won't (I kind of can't sleep if I think there is a possibility of dirt anywhere near my body), but others do and have great results.

Hello

I have finally decided to go ahead with this blog after checking the domain availability over a year ago. I decided to make the plunge after finding this challenge One Small Change.

I was lying in bed trying to fall asleep and I kept thinking about the small changes we had made as a family. We have made quite a few changes in our lives over the last 3 years (besides getting married, purchasing a station wagon and having a baby). We recycle (we both did this before marriage, but now we are better at it), we use mostly cloth in the kitchen, we moved closer to Jed's work (so we could see him at lunch), he bikes most days, I make baby our baby food and we have mostly given up meat.

These aren't huge changes, but they have been wonderful changes to our life and to our environment. We know many people do much much more to impact the Green Movement, but we are doing what we can right now. We try to do our best.

The direction of this blog hopefully will be to chronicle our changes as a family toward a greener lifestyle. This will also include a more detailed view of how raising your children while practicing Child Development guidelines will aline you with a simpler-greener life.