take 2

I have fixed a quick dinner for the kids, which they didn't eat, despite liking the items.  All I can think about are all the hungry people I alone could feed with my childrens' wasted food.  There are only so many dishes you can reheat, and when my husband is on travel, I am generally not fixing those dishes.  So scrambled eggs went into the trash.  At least I got about 1/2 of a peanut butter sandwich into them.  And yes, it was on whole grain bread, and No, sugar was not in the first 3 ingredients on the list.  
 I also handled a major BM before fixing dinner.  The kind where you don't even think of using wipes, and go straight for washing it down the drain.  Thankfully, everybody wanted to bathe.  So dirty clothes made it to the washer, and clorox made it onto the counters.  The bathroom itself was Lysol'd, but I confess my kids were in the tub at the time.  Sometimes you just need to make that call, weighing the researched evidence carefully.
  And PBS didn't go anywhere this morning.  Instead they painted; and I managed my mounting anxiety. Because even though we use waterbased paints, I just have to remember that there is actually nothing in the entire house that my husband and I are truly attached to keeping in great shape because it is all older hand-me-down furniture.  Thank you friends and family!!  It is because of you we could rid of that 70's sofa with the birds flying through the forest!! 
  BUT we made it to the consignment shop, out of 12 items they took 2.  So we went to another one, and they took a few more, and finally the rest went to charity.  But really how much good am I doing for the earth by driving across town a few times?  Until next time...AIM4peas