A New Year, A New Neighborhood, New Necessities

Or maybe not Necessities at all?l What comes to mind When we think of a necessity? Air, water, shelter, health, food? Well that's what should come to mind anyway. As I sat tonight Unpacking box after box of all these endless belongings accumulated by poppa bear and i together this last year, I began to realize how much of it all was totally unnecessary overly priced consumer goods that we are lured into purchasing thanks to innumerable flashy television radio and print ads. When I began to take a rough tally of the dollars and dollars wasted in each and every one of the boxes, it literally sickend me.

And we wonder why the expenses far outweigh any measly savings we may have. If we seriously took a look at all the things that you and I consider the Necessities, and not only how much they cost but the cost and the Labor and the environmental damage that goes into making these Necessities that we slave day in and day out over. Ok I get that these things being made supply millions of people with jobs, but when these products end up in landfills and the environmental damage caused by the rotting garbage and the impact of exhaust and other commercial pollution, we rather soon may not have a planet to inhabit let alone have billions of dollars worth of junk to buy and quickly discard.

Ok so I ran off on another tangent because my point wasn't about the larger mass obsession with creating thousands of millions of pounds of waste and unnecessary packaging each year. It was really more about the things in my life that I have always thought or was taught to think were neccessities. As I unpack boxes of things that have been sitting in a storage unit for 12months (which of course cost us 50$/month).., it is Literally ALL trash. What was so important in all these boxes that I wasted 600$ to put in a 5x10 even bigger metal box for a year only to find that I'm throwing 95%of it away.

Sorry lots of numbers and boxes, but my point is, I don't nor have I needed any of the shit in these boxes but why have I held on to them for so long? What was so important? So NECCESARY?

Needless to say, I'm not sure what the reason was, but I do know this... not anymore, not ever again. If I haven't used it in 6months or even remembered that I had it, why keep it? Why clutter my life any more than it has to be? From now on, everything has a place and it stays there. No more boxes full of crap I have no use for, no more keeping things because maybe I'll use them one day but have no real intent to. Cut the emotional ties with piles of junk and live clean, live minimal, live happy.

I'm determined this year to make it the best and greenest one I've yet to have. My "neccessities" went from highheels and makeup (not that those even really qualify as neccesities) to feedings, diapers and insurance (which is a whole nother post ill get to later).

I have this beautiful new house, a beautiful new family and a blank canvas to create our future upon. Now-to do it the best I can!

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January 26th

Today was possibly the laziest day that boogieboo, poppabear and i have had in a long while. We most definitely spent the entire day in bed. Not sleeping the whole time, but cuddling,laughing, eating, sleeping-repeat. Sometimes its nice to be able to spend a whole day away from the hectic lives we lead and relax and enjoy the company of our families.

I had a doctors appointment to follow up on my meds. All is well and anxiety is under control so im happy. Left my script there so i had to return and get it after id driven 20 minutes towards home. Pharmacy gave me trouble of course, so tomorrow will be a better day hopefully.

Trying out some grovia, happy heinies and smartipants cloth diapers for the next few days to see if i like pockets or which brand i prefer before i make my big purchase :-)

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January 23

Last April poppa bear and i moved to downtown tampa into a two bedroom, one bathroom condo near channelside. It was beautiful and convienient and a " right time right place" sort of deal. As 2010 passed us by the mounting pile of baby gear and clothing became larger and larger. We filled the "nursery" with baby furniture and stuffed our storage unit(5x10) to the brim.
Baby arrived and more and more things piled into our lives making less and less room in our apartment. We didnt even have enough space to bring our two pitbulls - kingston and piper- back after the baby was born.

Our lease is up January 31st, and luckily we've found a gorgeous bungalow in the neighborhood of historical South Seminole Heights. It was built in 1919, has gorgeous cherry wood floors and 14 foot ceilings. 3 beds 2 baths (one equipped with clawfoot tub!) And a sitting room. It has a big backyard with a shed and plenty of room for the doggies to roam.

Today we got the keys to our first house, and began moving boxes, one truckload at a time. My parents brought us Panera and we enjoyed a family picnic on the floor or my bedroom. I truly have the greatest most helpful parents one could ever hope for.

Also went to see my friend and her son to talk more about cloth diapers.,

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January 22nd

(Poppa bear put pants on her head. She
thought it was hilarious)


.Tonight was Poppa Bear and mines date night. Once a month my mom watches boogie boo so we can get out of the house and have some adult time. While i appreciate it and all, i love my daughter, and i feel like shes mine, why would i WANT to leave her with someone else. I created her, I carried her for 9 months, I gave birth to her. She is my child, my responsibility. Maybe i just dont feel like i need to be away from her. She is the best thing thats ever happened to me. Every second of every day i have with her is a gift and a blessing. Ive never enjoyed life more than i do now.

I did alot of research today on vaccinations, and i cant help but still be very against it. Poppa bear wants to vaccinate, but the fact that she had her vitamin k shot when she wasnt bruised at all still haunts me. I know they "say" the autism claim was fraudulent in relation to vaccines, but autism was incredibly rare 30 years ago and right about thirty years ago we began vaccinating...all of a sudden autism is prevalent enough to give it a 3 digit number. WTH?! Coincidence?

It comes down to the fact that i dont think my daughter needs to be injected with all these foreign chemical filled substances. I know this will cause a shit storm at my pediatricians, but im just not comfortable. End of story

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January 21 st

I would like to say that today we were incredibly prouductive, Poppa Bear, Boogie Boo and I. However I cant say that, because for all intensive purposes we were a bunch of lazy-butts. Which- i might add is quite counter-productive for

Boogie Boo had been quite constipated the past 5 days or so. She's usually the doodoo queen, bestowing upon her mother 5 heaping piles of her baby bottom specialty (need i elaborate?). So instead of pumping her full of enemas or liquid glycerin(wth?) I opted for a one-time, solid on a mission, table spoon or two of mashed organic pears.

~ here is where i would like to clarify for anyone who may be questioning my feeding my child solids at such a young age, or for those who are wondering why its taken me so long. At two weeks my mother shoved a box of rice cereal into my vulnerable sleep deprived hands and said "here, this'll help her sleep. Not knowing any better I gave in and battled with the lovely baby tounge thrust reflex pushing out 9/10 of the baby rice cereal i had made. Thinking i was sneaky and going to "show him" i gave her a tablespoon or two that night to get her to sleep longer to prove to Poppa Bear that it was fine to give her solids (ie chemically processed cereal, YUM!) Because he was against it. So i did, and i got maybe 45 minutes of extra sleep followed by 2 days of grunting and screaming with constipation. Then i started to read things. Allergies, obesity, food aversions, virgin gut, open stomach cells , DIABETES!! - all things that are caused by introducing solids too early! Before 7-9 months babies really dont even process the food theyre given because the proteins are too large! Babies cells in their stomachs contain gaps btwn them allowing food molecules to pass thru into the blood stream creating antibodies which can lead to severe allergies, and not neccesarily to THAT food. After reading so much, ive decided no solids as food untill a year, or whenever she shows genuine interest-but even then not before 9 mos earliest.

So today, she had a few tablespoons of pears to get things on the road again. I'll be damned if an hour and a half later i wasnt lookin at a full diaper after two days of nothing!

On a nother note- noticing LOTS of drool and a tooth feels like its cutting thru! My baby is getting so big!!!

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January 20th

Salvador Dalí has always been one of my favorite artists, and an inspiration in my life in many ways. As a you child, my parents were always "dragging" my sister and I to museums and art festivals hoping that some of their love of the arts might thru osmosis seep into our spongey adolescent brains. At the time i hated it, it was boring and i couldnt have cared less.

Now as i watch the wonder and amazement in boogie boo's big blue sparkling eyes, i cant help but want to immerse her in everything that i was surrounded by. With one exception. I want her to want to be there. Is that asking too much? Of a two month old-yes. But what about a child? Is it beyond all possibility that a child could be interested in museums and art? That tv and media and "popular culture" could take a back seat to Mozart, Bach, tchaikovsky? Take a back burner to Dali, Vangoh, Renoir? I can only hope that as she gets older and i introduce her to the things that changed the way i veiw the world and shaped who i am today that she finds something in it that nterests her. I can already begin to see how wonderous and inquizitive she is, its like every moment of every day she is discovering something new. And I get the priviledge of experiencing those moments with her all over again. It is her father and i that are shaping the person she is to become in the future. It is through our love and our guidance and our faith in her that she will grow to become a smart, beautiful and kind young woman.

Somehow i managed to wander off onto a little tangent up there....but there are no rules about blog-tangents are there?
Anyway. Boogie boo, Poppa Bear and I joined my family at the brand new Dalí Museum in St.Petersburg. i had been many times to the old one, but the architecture in the new museum is truly mindblowing. 2 months old and already at her first museum....youre never too young, right? She let grandma know which paintings she liked by letting out a coo and sstaring intently. The troubador caught her attention with its bright colors and patterns. It is also one of my favorite of dalí's large works.

My new favorite however, thanks in large part to my newfound love for breat feeding is Dali's A Fountain of Milk Spraying Uselessly on Three Shoes.

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