Far Too Long

You know what's annoying?  Accidentally hitting backspace when your touchpad is not clicked in the text box - especially when you are JUST about to post the very loooong post you had just written. 

Here's the briefer version.

I like Scotch nail polish.  The company rocks. They don't pink-wash, but actually get behind cancer research in the month of October. This year, they did that with a trio of pink nail polish.  Check them out. They are awesome.  The products is tricky to find, though, and have a hard time paying shipping on something so tiny like that. I happened to find some on an anniversary walk with my husband.

Anyway, next part.

I've been craving time with my husband. Quality uninterrupted in-your-face talking time. It's hard to come by these days.  Last night we had an impromptu date night and watched a good movie we had never seen. Usually, I am knitting or doing something with my hands.  Last night, I held his hand. We had quality time sans kids. It was glorious. Now, I want more. We've been looking in to ways to do this. 

How does this relate to toxin free living? Well, it is a roundabout way, but bear with me  I've been listening to a few good sermons on marriage lately and what we can do to encourage longevity and joy.  It's been about things like fighting well, being quiet AND listening, asking how hurt and asking for forgiveness, and thinking things that are pure, noble, true, etc about your spouse, and ,making time for the other.  The example was given that we are all on a continuum (that word looks strange, no?) of one extreme being bitter and the other better.  When we are not actively working towards better, we are slipping towards bitter.

Bitterness, I think, is toxic to our daily life. I know it is for me.

Some things I've been thinking through that help us along the continuum towards better:

- pray for my husband
- write letters to him in the journal I bought for for that purpose
- spend time WITH him, not next to him
- don't let myself get distracted by things that are less important
-PLAN for quality time


What do you think? Any things you can think of?

xo,
Bliss

It's been a while

So, it's been a while since I had the wherewithal to post.

My family and I have been traveling for the last few weeks, and are now just getting back in to the swing of things.

I just wanted to share a few things we did on the road to keep some of our toxic free living alive.

 - we brought some liquid castile soap with us and bought some pump foamers to use at the house we were staying, as well as the living arrangements we had for the classes we were in

- we brought our hair soap and conditioner along

- carried water bottles with us everywhere, so we didn't have to buy or use single use plastic water bottles

- I bought new mineral foundation at a health food store (because I lost mine, we think at a hotel)

-found an awesome store that sold organic conscience items - I got some Scotch nail polish that I've been on the look out for almost forever...(I'll write a post on in in a little while), we got some organic cashews with cacao nibs.  They had some awesome stuff I wanted to get my son, like organic paint powder that you just add water to in order to finger paint (or with a paint brush) and things like that.  If anyone is ever in Jordan Village in Ontario, go to the Amazing Day store!

- when we had to buy groceries, we made sure to make them as health/organic conscience as possible

 We were not perfect by any means.  We definitely are feeling the detox from eating much that was processed/preprepared. It's not bad, but our digestive tracks are not happy with us.   On the other hand, we did enjoy some foods that we have not had on our plates for close to two years. 

Well, this wasn't a grand post, I'm working on thinking through the next few, so I hope you have a marvelous pre-fall day!

xo,
Bliss