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Welcome to my blog, I am a mother of three, a wife, and an environmentalist. I have had many struggles trying to stay true to myself, keeping a healthy family, and following my own dreams. There are many things I have learned over the years about how important our environment is and how it effects the way we live our lives including our health and well being.
My own mother instilled many life lessons about enjoying our environment, keeping it clean, and being respectful of those around us, and when I became a mother I found this to be a very important and time consuming lesson to teach my own children. I have encountered many struggles to provide a clean and safe household, and have learned many things about raising children, environmental issues, tips and tricks to living sustainably, and what it means to actually be sustainable in an urban environment.
When I first became a mother seven years ago I was young and inexperienced. I was still in collage and aware of the environmental issue that surrounded me, but to caught up in living my life to notice them or to take action. When I learned that I was going to be a mother, I became aware that everything I ate, and everything I came into contact with could harm my precious baby. I started on a path to clean up my life and to learn what I could do to help protect myself and the environment I lived in. I started researching all of the harmful things I would and did come into contact with, I changed my major from Biology to Environmental Management and Policy, I also started to search for ways to live my life without harmful chemicals and additives. I started realizing that living more environmentally conscious also means shelling out more money to gain that lifestyle. I then added another goal to try and live more simply, and this in itself was more helpful than pursuing a marketed picture perfect green lifestyle. Together with my husband we started to carve a path to raising our children to live more simply without all of the added consumerism that plagues our society. This has not come easy and it did not happen overnight.
 This blog will follow my daily life trying to discover new ways in which we can save the environment by trying to decrease our waste and footprint, save money by being resourceful and not tempted by consumerism, teach our children to follow a more simplistic way of living, and much more. I can't wait to share all that I have learned and all that I will learn.....Welcome to my habitat!