I can’t remember a time in my life where I haven’t been around
children. I love the whimsy, the sense of nothing to worry about or fear, the
ability to let loose and do twirls in the middle of a crowded room, mud in
between your toes, wind in your hair and not responsibilities to manage. The simple
pleasures of playing were fulfilling back then, when not having one specific
color crayon was the end of my entire world. Those were simply amazing days! Fact
is we grow up too fast; those days go by before you know it and next you’re
looking at an apartment, paying bills and playing grown-up.
I love
being able to sit down and make a picture with the kids, get my fingers in the
clay and make a wobbly horse/satyr type thing, creating homemade cards,
learning, playing and growing with them. I believe the only way to make a
better future is by jumping in and making those changes needed – not waiting
for someone else to start.
Facts
are as is; The Earth we have is being depleted and we (none of us) have a plan
B. We NEED to do something to prevent our grandchildren from not being able to
enjoy the things we do. The Grand Canyon, lakes, fishing, the glaciers, ozone,
animals all of these things are at risk by our wasteful behaviors. I simply
want to instill the concept of looking around, instead of buying new all of the
time, see if there is anything around you that you can turn it into what you’d
like from what you have. Guiding into ‘waste not - want not’ at an early age, by
showing that you can still do what you’d like in life but in a less wasteful manner.
Instead of spending $60.00 on Play-Doh for 5 lb.’s I can buy a 5 lb. bag of
flour, add water, baking soda and for ingredients less than $12.84 I have
home-made dye free Play-Doh. Bird houses, scrap wood from an old deck removal
supplied enough materials for 6 birdhouses. I re-use all newspaper and papers
materials for craft projects. I have blue-prints for a pond made of old
waterbed liners and old tires. I also have a water system I’m researching to
take rain water run-off, into pond and from pond will run off into the garden
providing the fertilizer from the fish and growing better plants.
I sincerely
feel that we all need to make a change, now I understand that we have to work
and we can’t absolutely everything on our own but I want to help you raise your
children making this earth a better home for us all.
