Meet Our New Green Baby

Until I decided to have children, I have to admit that environmental or “green” issues were a rather vague concept.

Sure, I was willing to support cleaner air and water. I mean, who wouldn’t? However, with the advent of my beloved internet that I adore so much that I wish I could kiss it, my eyes were soon opened to some really unsavory facts.

For example, I remember first reading that dairy cows were being implanted with devices that would constantly dose them with synthetic growth hormones (rBST, rBGH) made by chemical behemoth Monsanto.

As if that weren’t gross enough, I also read that scientists were linking that same hormone to female early onset puberty in S. America where the implants were totally unregulated and heavily used in both dairy cows and beef cows, too, to fatten them up faster.

Monsanto? Implants? Synthetic hormones? Seven year olds with boobs and pubic hair? WTF??? How is that even legal?

It was then that I started to realize that our government doesn’t necessarily act in the best interest of the people or the planet and corporate interests seem to have an awful lot of leeway when it comes to keeping products safe and industrial practices environmentally sound.

The bottom line? The government seems to care almost exclusively about the economy and corporations care about profits. I realized you have to approach these issues from that standpoint so I committed to buying green, eco-friendly and organic whenever possible.

A green mom was born! I bought my first half gallon of organic milk when I was newly pregnant and I’ve never looked back. I’m committed to raising my children with the healthiest food I can buy (within our budgetary constraints), removing as many toxins and chemicals from our household as we reasonably can and trying to make environmentally positive choices in everything we do.

All of this to tell you, my very smart and attractive readers, that myself and my fantabulous partner Cristina are today launching a new website called Green Mom Finds.

It’s both a resource site as well as a place to get new ideas every day for safer and more earth-friendly alternatives to the products that your family needs and uses.

We’ll be having some great green giveaways, as well as tracking other green contests around the web and scoring you some discounts to lots of eco and people friendly goodies.

We’ll also be highlighting other green moms around the web and serving up simple tips to help you and your family go green or get greener!

We’re really proud of the site and we hope you’ll enjoy it, too. This is the part where I try to flatter you into putting one of out pretty little buttons on your site because you are so cool and awesomely awesome.

And if that doesn’t work, I’m not averse to a little begging. My pride isn’t that important. So if you like what we’ve done and you want to lend us your support, pleeeeeeze put our button in your sidebar. We’ll be your best green friends :)

(If you’ve made it this far, thanks for being ever-so-patient and letting me prattle on about our new baby. You rock!)

A Disturbing Trend

When did soccer moms start wearing short shorts and high heels? To the grocery store? Seriously, ladies… Dressing like Victoria Beckham when you’re not Victoria Beckham just makes you look like one of those secret suburban hooker moms that Oprah’s always talking about. Please stop.

So my 18 yr old cat was sick and I took her to the vet yesterday. I told the vet I thought she had a urinary tract infection. $310 later? The vet tells me she has a urinary tract infection.

Oh, and the vet did that hairdresser maneuver where they very subtly shame you into buying the really expensive shampoo cat food from them because if you don’t you’re clearly a bad hair pet owner who doesn’t care about your appearance cat because if you did, you’d just fork over the twenty bucks for a bottle of shampoo 3.5 lb bag of cat food.

I bought it. Am spineless.

It was 28 degrees here yesterday morning. It snowed on the east coast of Florida. The day before that?

I was wearing shorts. Without my heels.