Who am I, who’s my family? How do we live?

We are a family of three, one baby, my husband and I. We live a pretty low-key life: don’t have two cars, we don’t even have one car, we recycle, when we moved to Edmonton we bought furniture second hand (thought that was convenient with a baby joining the family), we buy clothing second hand (it's quality or it would not sell again), we get our books from the library, we take the bus and walk a lot, we plan to cycle once baby is big enough, we only use about half a dozen toiletries on a regular basis, we don’t have chemicals at home, not even for cleaning, we don’t watch TV, only the occasional DVD, we avoid as many processed foods as we can, cooking from scratch, baking our bread, eating organic fresh produce. I started crafts from recyclables, I have always enjoyed crafts.  I hate car races, big cars, and idling. We believe in reduce, reuse, recycle. We believe in a low-impact life because we are a great family that has lots of fun together. We are happy together! I promise it’s got not much to do with living on half the average income of an Alberta household. We did it before, both working full time, putting half of our income in the bank for, don’t laugh, camping holidays. Oh, the good old days! Our biggest foot print: flights to our families and holiday destinations, sorry, we’ll have to keep those up. 

I will go into a bit more detail on some of the above things during the next posts.