The Great Compost Start-up

Who gets excited about trash?  THIS GIRL!  No lie. 

I just bought a composting sack (instead of a tumbler) to begin my adventure in composting.  Figured I'd start with a cheap option and be sure this is something I'm really into, and will continue to "do" rather than spending a few hundred to only have to put it on craigslist in a few years when the husband gets tired of mowing the lawn around it. 

A few weeks ago I started collecting compostable trash from kitchen scraps.  While doing some replanting in the yard I saved grass/dirt tufts.  Yesterday I shredded some old newspapers, and saved all the vacuum crud from the Dyson.  I was READY!  I've read that compost needs a mix of "green" and "brown".  Green being organic/wet, brown being paper/dry.  So after a few weeks of collecting treasures of the trash world, I was ready to make gardening gold.  So I opened up my sack and dumped everything in.  Layering as the experts say to do, of course.  And I placed it out in the back yard so it can begin to brew it's lovely self into magic soil.

My garden, herbs, flowers, and lawn are going to be ROCKIN' next year!  I'm really more excited about this than I perhaps "should" be, but it's one of those things that makes me simply ... HAPPY!  And I'm sorry, but how cool is it to be using my trash to make things better?  Dryer lint, vacuumed hair and dust, junk mail ... it all gets turned into making my yard, garden, flowers, and herbs awesome. 

I think everyone knows that I switched to cloth diapers for both kids in early summer.  My son is totally out of diapers (at 2 years old, thank you very much) and my daughter is still using the cloth diapers only.  I LOVE them, while most of my friends and family thought I had absolutely lost my mind.  But, I gotta tell ya, it makes me feel like a better person.  I'm a work at home mom, I do laundry all the time, so it's no bother, no extra work, it's saving us TONS of money, and it's keeping diapers out of landfills. 

Once I had two sets of amazing blue eyes looking at me from the angel faces of my newborn babies, I knew that I needed to do everything I could to be sure they had the best life and best future I could give them.  I'm not saying that diapers and compost will change the world, but it will (and has) changed the world of my two babies, and that makes me happy and proud. 

There's a saying that will always be true.  "If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."  And this Mama is happy with making her world a better place with trash, dirt, and baby-poop.