Me and my husband and my boys have been renting our house for the past 4 years and our landlord wants to move in so out we go.  At first the shock of having to find somewhere so close to Christmas was awful.    After a week of searching we found one that was relatively ok, so in two weeks we move in.

I am exited that we are moving house because i can now go through all my junk right before christmas and get rid of it. which is  what i have been wanting to do since i first started my journey,  I must admit though i think i am the only one who is exited about the move. I am going to start 2010 as a fully organised mum which will allow us as a family to complete our eco lifstyle. I am really exited that my home  will be junk free.

All the stuff i have will be great for the charity shop before christmas, like they say one mans junk is another mans treasure.

I am always interested in new websites and this one was given to me on my comments. It is  lovley website called eco mum and baby. There are lots of brands that i have used like bio-D  cleaners, earth friendly kids (my boys like the smell of these).  take a look i think you will like it.

Some one in my are decided that they would set fire to our electricity plant which resulted in a very large area of the south east with out electricity some homes for almost a week, for us it was only a few days but we did have 3 hours of power and then 6 hours of no power so whatever needed to be done was done in the 3  hour gap. with a new baby it was difficult (but not impossible),

It got me thinking on how much we rely on electicity. My boys thought it was exiting up until they realised that they needed electicity for the telly, charging up things. Thank goodness for our pump up tourch and the candles).

I do feel that if we did not have electricity we would struggle with day to day living, it is supprising how much we take it for granted. I didn’t miss the tv or drinking tea.

Our two local town centres were clossed due to not having any electricity for work there tills. My local pet shop said that they wanted to use the old swipe cards and paper but they were told that they were no longer valid (which to me is a strange thing because what if there is a power cut for a longer period of time no one could buy anything) with the tills being electical they couldn’t be opened.

I did get more sleep when it got to dark to see propally even with candles it was time to go to sleep. It did remind me alot of my grandma and how she used to live, she had many a tail about what it was like when she was younger. she always said that she seemed to get alot more done.

To add more work to my life i have now adopted a 1yr old lop dwarf rabbit, he is adorable but this now means the search of an eco friendly way to keep a rabbit.

Elvis lives inside so he has full run of the house, he is littler trained so there is very little mess from him. I use care-fresh bedding which is biodegradable and soaks up water really well, it also soaks up the smell.

He is in an indoor cage at night but eventually (especially when we find him a little friend) they will sleep in a dog pen.

A run has been made out of off cuts of wood (waste not want not) and chicken wire. he is not so keen on the outside but is taken out  because its good for him.

All his toys are made from wikka and his bowls ceramic. (uk made)

He isn’t a cuddly bunny but he loves being stroked and follows me about everywere (not including the stairs).

The rescure centre i got him from is in greenich and is full of lovley bunnies needing a home so if you are looking to buy a bunny try and rescure one.  Baby bunnys are cute but you have no idea what there behaviour is going to be like if you get one which is over a year what you see is what you get.

Having three boys and a husband to take care of i have had to get in a completly new routine  which has ment neglecting my site.  By the time my day was over with looking after the family i was to tierd to type or even think.  Now i am pleased to say that my youngest Connor is now 19 weeks old and gives me alot more sleep now so i am able to concentrate much better. So i am going to now start updating whenever possible.

I really do think routine has made us happier as a family, it does seem to mess up at the weekend when my hasband James is at home but he likes to spend time with them.  He works really hard during the week and only gets to see them for about 10 mins some morning before he goes to work and then that is it until the  weekendsIt is really hard to stick to a routine with dad home they are usually spent having loads of fun with dad. The boys love it.

My mum told me that Onya are now selling wrapping bags which come in different sizes, i think these are great. Recently my eldest Kieran has been invited to lots of birthday party’s instead of wrapping paper i just bought really nice bags from clinton cards these can be reused there so nice. For mothers day i bought a nice present but then put it in a nice wash bag from Cath Kidston.

These bags i thought were such a great idea, when you resieve one you could recycle it by passing it on to someone else It is such a great idea.

I have just been given a link to this website on cleaning without chemicals, you can even become a consultant and make some money. take a look and see what you think.

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I hope everyone had a great Christmas and new year, i got an extra special early Christmas present the birth of my son, So i am now the proud mum of three boys. They do take up alot of time i have had to put the site on hold for a few weeks while i get myself into a reasonable routine.

I hope now i can write my guide a little better with the aid of my youngest as it is down to him that i have become a new woman and a teacher to my children and anyone who will listen.

Books are everywhere,  but do we really need to keep buying them from big named shops.  My local library can track down a book for 80p instead of paying out £5.99p for the average book if not a lot more. What happens to your books when you have finished with them? I have recently found that we have about two large bookcases full of books scattered around the house, but how many of those are we going to read again or have we ever read.   I know I have about 30 books under my bed which I have not read so my aim now is to read them and then give them to my local library for others to read.  The charity shop will benefit from them as well. We cut down too many trees to produce a brand new books, do we really need to when we have library’s that have a full selection of wonderful books.  My aim over 2009 is not to buy another book but to read more because I do love to read.  The library is an exciting place for children as well, my boys love going to the library, they get very excited about it.

This is one of the most used websites by mysef, i use it for my toothbrush heads and toothpaste mainly but it is hears not to treat yourself when you start delving in to all the lovley buety products that they sell, it also sells all sorts of cleaning product, Ecover being it’s main brand.  It does have a lot of different brands which sell really nice gift sets so you could take a look for christmas ideas. Take a look