Happy Earth Day!

Today we cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful planet we call home! All over the world, Earth Day cel­e­bra­tions are planned, con­certs being held, and dona­tions being made.  Dis­ney is releas­ing Earth,the first movie in its nature series today.  I can’t wait to go see that one!  The trail­ers for that are gor­geous, and it looks so inter­est­ing !   Since you’ve prob­a­bly already seen that, though, I’ll share this look at the Earth from the inter­na­tional Space Sta­tion, cour­tesy of NASA.

Around our house, I’m going to do some talk­ing with the kids about why our fam­ily makes some of the choices we do.  Walk­ing to school is nor­mal for us. We always use tap water instead of bot­tled water.  The ther­mo­stat is com­pletely off, and we’re try­ing to accli­mate our­selves to a broader range of tem­per­a­tures in the house.  Alabama has moody spring­times, so this has been a bit of a strug­gle lately. I’ve been com­pro­mis­ing by only run­ning the fan when it gets stuffy, unless we have company.

There is so much room for improve­ment, though.  Today will also be a good time to make a few changes.  My fam­ily hasn’t been recy­cling lately, and that bugs my con­science to no end.   I finally found out the hours for the local facil­ity, and we’re going to rem­edy that sit­u­a­tion imme­di­ately.  We’ve already spent some extra time out­doors enjoy­ing the gor­geous spring weather, but I’m plan­ning a bit more.  We’ll go walk­ing later on, armed with trash bags and focus­ing on clean­ing up the paths as we go along.  It will be a fun, sim­ple way to share some con­struc­tive time with the kids.

Are you doing any­thing in celebration?