It's mid-morning, we're running late to meet friends - again. So far, I've been up since 5, I've written two articles, attended a yoga class, gotten GK up, fed and dressed and myself more or less presentable. Instead of grabbing the car keys to get out the door, I grab a basket of wet laundry and head outside to the clothes line.
Feeling like a 50s housewife in my sundress and slip-on Mary Jane's, I pin the wet laundry to the lines. Tiny shirts, cloth diapers, yoga pants. And while I pin the clothes, I stop feeling so rushed. I stop feeling the need to go, go, go.
I look up at the window of our dining room and spy a little face watching me. "Mama!" I smile, make goofy faces, hide behind the hung laundry and spring out again to hear him laugh.
I go back inside smiling, gather my keys, purse and a little hand to hold and we make our way to the park to see friends. Who cares if we get there right at the minute we're supposed to or two minutes past? We'll walk up smiling, happy and content.
I started changing so many things in our lives for one reason or another - it's cheaper, it's healthier, it's easier - but I keep doing it because I've discovered so much more. I can't say we live a simple life or a green life, but I do know that we live a changed life that is simpler, greener and more frugal than it was 2 years ago and that we've never been happier.
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