Life With Frenchie

One of the joys of having a young child in your household is that you, at some point or another, have the chance to experience many of the new “fads”. There’s one that’s been sweeping the nation lately that doesn’t inspire the usual cringe when MM walks in the room and starts a conversation with “Hey Mom! I want to try something new…” Today’s generation of youngin’s are being taught to be much more environmentally concious than I was. It’s not that it wasn’t that it was not talked about when I was in school (hey, I was president of Student Activists for a Viable Earth at my school!!!), but it didn’t have it’s own cool moniker then.

So MM wants to “go green” in our house.

Easier said than done! It’s apparently going to take baby steps. She chastizes me for leaving the television on when we go in the kitchen to eat (yes, our family eats dinner together, in the kitchen, almost every night!), yet she leaves her iPod playing all night long and often leaves her CD player on while she’s at school. *shakes head* One place that we’ve started has been with our dishes.

For some reason, our small family goes through enough dishes to make you think we ran a boarding house. It seems like we are forever doing dishes. When it was just MM and I, I always washed dishes by hand. But, once we moved in with EP, I realized I would soon have prunes for fingers if I tried to keep that up. Even with using the dishwasher, there are still times when I do a lot of dishes by hand. Okay, so baby steps…let’s start by using products around the house that are more environmentally friendly. I found out that Clorox has a new line of products called Green Works. It’s natural cleansers with plant-based ingredients. One of those products is a dish soap, so I decided to give it a go….

At first, I was skeptical about even trying it. I just knew there had to be some flaw that would cause me to say “See! This is why we aren’t going green!” but I actually really like it. It doesn’t have any funky scent to it. Actually, it’s a fairly pleasant scent compared to the stuff we normally buy. Also, an added bonus is that it doesnt’ dry out my skin! LOL I’m sure that’s probably not what Clorox was going for with the dish soap, but it’s a plus for me since my hands get so horribly dry and cracked whenever I do dishes. Normally, I have to run from the sink to my bedroom for lotion as soon as I’m done. But, with the Green Works, I don’t feel like my hands are getting anywhere near as dried out.

I’ve since found out that Clorox has developed a whole line of Green Works products, all of which I regularly use around the house. Maybe this going green thing isn’t going to be too hard. Just don’t ask me to turn off my computer!

Stumble it!