Our awesome new house is in a great neighborhood, close to work and school and daycare, close to good friends and stores with good food. Our neighbors are friendly, our mortgage is affordable. So much promise in our new little house! And so, so much to do. And do it soon we must! Without systems, the waste creeps back. We have been generating about one can of trash every ten days or so since we moved because there is just too much to organize, rethink, and figure out. And honestly, a fair number of things to buy, too.
But, I can see the future, and the future is good.
Already, we have whittled our commute from twenty miles to five. Now, Sergio bikes to work whenever he can. I drive, but always with at least two or three passengers in my vehicle (ok, ok, nothing new there). We do use our bikes as much as possible on the weekends, and we also tried a couple of different bakfiets. Big investment, but huge return. Right now we are debating between a two- or three-wheeled model. Sergio likes the two-wheeled Work Cycles bike because it handles like a regular bike and is fast, and I like the three-wheeled Babboe model, primarly because it seems safer for the baby, and frankly, I'm a slow and steady kind of rider. Seeing as we are not in the market to spend 7K on bikes any time soon, we'd better decide between them. And, we still need to test more bakfiets out before we buy anything at all.
Now that we have a house, we have a little yard for planting vegetables and hanging laundry out to dry. Have we done these things yet? No! We still have 101 boxes to unpack. But, the goal exists.
What we have that we value more than anything else in the world is more time. More time to spend together as a family, and more time to do the things that will help us achieve our waste free goals, like get back to making our own bread and yogurt. Time, it seems, is one of the only things that can be well wasted.
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