Slow Living Month by Month

One of the blogs I have been following for a few months is Slow Living Essentials.  One of the things I love about this blog is the Slow Living Month By Month posts, it becomes a diary of sorts that allows you to see the progress you are making, the small steps that you are taking to make the big differences in your life, so here goes... my first month of recording these small steps....

Bread.....

Nourish:  This month I haven’t baked a lot, its been far too hot to have the oven going.  I have pulled out the bread maker and baked a few loaves, at first it was out of pure laziness, I just couldn’t be bothered to go to the shops to buy bread and I knew I had a couple of packs of breadmaker mix in the back of the cupboard that I have been wanting to clear out, but I hate throwing food away, so it had sat there waiting.  The few loaves I have baked have been much enjoyed by hubby and Miss Cheeky.  We have also been using up the Banana’s that are going soft (very quickly in the extreme heat) and baking banana cake cupcakes, I find if I make them cupcake size rather than in the traditional loaf pan it is easy to freeze them which means hubby eventually remembers to take them to work with his lunches and I don’t end up throwing half a loaf away.



 Prepare: I haven’t done much stockpiling this month, in fact I am in the process of using up what is in the cupboard to try to clear out the old stock and the things I tend to buy and then never use before hubby and I go on a major detox and make some big changes to our diets.

Green: Umm… well I’m still using the vinegar and bi-carb for lots of things, but maybe I need to focus on this one a little more J

Grow: Well I haven’t grown much as its been too hot to plant anything new.  I had expected everything to be dead when we came home from Christmas holidays but to my surprise we had a reasonable haul of Capsicums and a half a dozen or so cobs of corn that the insects hadn’t destroyed (any advise on how to keep the 28 spot lady beetles’ away would be much appreciated!)

Create:  I haven’t exactly created but I’m preparing to…. Yesterday was spent fabric shopping to purchase fabric to make into laundry bags for the wonderful Aussie Hero Quilts

Discover: As I mentioned above we are preparing to do a major detox and change of diet soon, this is happening because hubby has a range of gastrointestinal issues, including a mild tendency to Coeliacs Disease, so I have been browsing lots of books looking for useful recipes and looking around the internet lots to try and find the cheapest and best way to purchase GF flours etc.



Enhance:  I stared my blog this month, and am grateful for the encouragement I have received so far.  I have also slowly been working my way through a project I volunteered to do for Aussie Hero Quilts.

Enjoy: While its been hard trying to catch up with many people this month with people on holidays, or returning to work and preparing for school, we have managed to catch up with a special family who are very dear to us, but due to work commitments we only see during the school holidays and we cherish the times we get to spend together.  Also this month we have caught up with one of Miss Cheeky’s friend who we haven’t seen since early December and it was lovely to have some adult time and catch up with a lovely lady who has become a steadfast friend.

If you want to see the original descriptions for these you will find them here slow-living-month-by-month.

Sitting here thinking about and documenting these things has actually been really theraputic, I was a little scared when I sat down to write, because I didn't feel as though I had achieved much this month and was a little down about that, but actually looking back I have had a few successes and a more productive month than I thought.....

Thanks for joining me tonight,

God Bless you and yours.