Earth Hour

Today we celebrated Earth Hour (http://www.earthhour.org/home/). The boys and I sang songs and did nursery rhymes in the dark. Mattie tries to count to 10 and coming up with train names starting with A to Z. We only got to F and he got bored. Mikey usually doesn't join in on our nightly ritual, but since he wasn't asleep by 8:30 he listened to us sing and goof around.

I think it was great to have an Earth hour to remind everyone to conserve. We got a free Brita today because they are trying to reduce use of plastic bottles. So here are some things we will try to do to help Planet Earth ---

1. reduce disposable diaper use
2. reduce battery-powered toys
3. reduce plastic bag use (Ontario is starting to ban use of plastic at the superarkets or at least you will have to pay for bags starting June)
4. turn off lights -- or go outside more until bedtime
5. recycle things -- finish food rather than thrwoing anything away. either to good will or people we know

Notice I say "reduce" since I don't know if I can eliminate. We tried cloth diapers for a while, but it was hard to keep up with the diapers between cleaning and constant changing. We will try with Mikey when he is fully trained for number 2.