A big change.

This year for me has been all about change. I feel the need to change a lot of things in my life. I started the year off with purging things from our home and its still a work in progress. I have come a long way, a very long way. I can not tell you how much easier it is to keep my house clean. I still have more to do, I haven't made my way through my attic or garage and I'm still working on backing up all of our pictures, Years and years of pictures just sitting on my computer. I must have been completely crazy to do that. Why did I not back them up and delete them then?! It would have saved me so much time. So I feel like it will most likely take me till the end of the year to be completely done with them. No lie. Its that bad.

I've been motivated yet again by the next change coming for me and my family. There is an awesome little book out that I feel like is changing me forever. I have barely made my way through it and I'm so deeply touched by what I've read. If you haven't read 7 by Jen Hatmaker, I would highly recommened it! It touches on all the things that have been weighing heavily on my mind lately. Living with excess. We have way too much. We don't even realize it.

The next step for my family is simplifiing what we eat. Oh my goodness, I've been blinded for far too long. I've always felt that my food choices for my family have been a huge priorty for me. I mean, we love food. Food is one of my favorite things. It brings my family together. It makes up happy. But honestly I've let things slide. majorly. After reading Jen's 1st chapter I've been awakened. I also have been reading this blog. My eyes have been opened, opened wider than ever before. I see that what we've been eating is garbage, poison, fake, however you want to put it.  We have made a commintment as a family to eat real food for 14 days. Not a diet, not at all. Just eating real food. Real as in God made it, it came from the earth, grew from a tree or from the ground. Not a labrotory. A little experiment for myself especially. I have been feeling tired, rundown, cloudy headed.just plain bad. I want to see the difference in the way I feel.
Yes, it will take some time to get my family adjusted to eating real food, taking out processed foods will be a challenge because we've become so used to them. Its funny though because I've always thought of myself as a very smart shopper, I would always buy the healthiest version of whatever I was buying, we have vegies with every meal. But i also have boxes and boxes pf processed foods in my pantry that claim to be healthy,but thats not always the case. Like I said, my eyes have been opened. It scares me to think of what I've been feeding my kids and myself, and I know this may sound a little extreme and my husband did look at me like I had lost it. (Dont worry, hes on board now) But why am I crazy for wanting to eat real food? Shouldn't I be crazy for wanting to eat mechincally engineered food or scientifically motified versions of food? Yeah, I think so!

I'm not trying to make anyone feel guilty or bad about their food choices but it is worth looking into what you are eating. the website I listed above is very helpful, lots of information.

So, I've made my list, we talked to the kids last night about the changes in our food choices, Eli especially is on board. Ava will be the one I will have to talk into trying new things. She's my picky eater. But I will not let that stop me!

So, let the next phase of simplifying our lives begin!