So, remember when we had our first day of school.....2 years ago! Guess we got a little busy!
I don't know why, but I woke up this morning with the desire to blog. I know, weird. When Keenan first decided to start this blog I told him I thought it was a great idea but I was not going to commit to writing any posts on it. He was starting his first year teaching and I was getting ready to go back into my third and I knew how crazy teaching is. The last thing I wanted to do was commit to writing posts. He got 10 posts written.....then he wrote about The First Day of School. If you scroll down a bit, you will notice that that was the last one written...until today. I guess things got busy for us! And now, here I am, with all my non-committing, waking up and actually wanting to blog. I don't even know what I want to write about so....here goes:
Not only did I wake up this this crazy desire to post on our blog but I woke up with so many things on my mind to get done. So. Many. Things. It is not unusual for me to wake up Saturday morning with a pretty long to-do list and normally I wake up between 7 and 8am (the joys of being a teacher). This morning, however, I set my alarm (just in case) for 9am so I have time to do some things before I go pick up my Bountiful Basket (more on that below) and the alarm woke me up. Then, I reset it for 10am...seriously. Woke up at 10am thinking of my many things to do (remember, not so abnormal), but I had already lost 2-3 hours of my "get it done" time. Ahhh! I grabbed a quick breakfast and headed off to get my basket.
Bountiful Baskets is a non-profit co-op where I (along with many others now too!) get my produce each week. The basket is guarenteed to be 1/2 fruit, 1/2 vegetable. I did it for the first time about 8 weeks ago thinking...surely, this cannot be as good as it seems...but it SO WAS. I have been doing it every week since. It costs $15 (plus $1.50 processing fee since it is non-profit) and here is was I got this week in my basket:
Just in case you are so shocked by the amount of produce here and cannot quite get over it in order to count all of the items, here is what I got: broccoli (2 big bunches), pineapple, lettuce, 10 bananas, 7 potatoes, 3 onions, 4 lemons, 5 grapefruits, 3 tomatoes and a carton of blackberries. WOW!
We split our basket with Keenan's brother and wife each week, so we really end up paying between $7-$8 for half of this awesome produce. I saw in one of the first few weeks of the co-op, a man had gone to Wal-Mart to price compare the produce and it would have cost $49 for the same items. For real!
Needless to say, when I stumbled onto a pic of all this produce on facebook (a lady I used to work with in Madison County a few years ago runs the Athens division) I was amazed. Again, I signed up for the first week a skeptic but it really is one of the coolest things ever. Here is the national site where you pay for your basket- Bountiful Baskets -They also have a facebook page for the Athens division- Facebook Group -
By the way- you're welcome for just changing your life. Well, probably anyway-haha!
Ok- so I also just made a list of all the things that I should probably blog about- like my meal planning (apparently, everyone I know does that now), my homemade laundry detergent (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!), our upcoming trip to Scotland this summer, my new camera and an upcoming craft day, but alas- if I blog about them now (even though I REALLY want to), I will run out of things to write about and not post for another 2 years.
So, here's to me hopefully posting at some point again this year...and to me getting all those things done in 3 less hours than I normally have!
Sarah
2 comments:
Erika said...
Well I, for one, am super excited about the produce thing. Diana had mentioned it a few weeks ago and I totally forgot about it-- so glad you reminded me! Also, do share about the laundry detergent soon-- I feel like I'm the only tool left still buying Tide! I need to be convinced to go to the other side!
Jessie said...
Yay! Yay!! Keep blogging :) love it!