ecomum: 2008-09-21

Tuesday 23 September 2008

Renewable Energy

Have a look at this site... http://www.regeneration.org/
Incredible people trying to get some kind of world view on renewable energy.

COMING UP THIS WEEK ON ECOMUM... Green views from the eco-fairies.. yey! They give ecomum eco ideas for pregnant women.. Ace.

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Welcome to Ecomum!

Hello!
So, i'm going to be a mother. i can't actually believe i've just written that down. hang on.. i need to read that through.. yep. i'm gonna be a mum. not that this might be very interesting to you. its pretty interesting to me. and the people around me. lots of smiles and tears and shocked faces all round. you see this wasn't a planned person. no. a complete surprise actually. a nice surprise though. when the little pink line came up on the stick.. i mean, the line didn't take 3minutes like the test says. boom, it came up straight away. and i bought the cheapest test you can get. don't believe the hype about getting the best most expensive test for a correct result. if you're pregnant that thing is going to tell you. standard. no messing about. there i was, almost homeless, jobless and penniless with a little person growing inside me... bloody hell. there was no going back on this, no 'choice'. this is how it is. my new life will be as a mum. i'm up for it.

i spent the first few days frantically trawling the internet looking for likeminded people going through a similar experience - to which i never found. so i spent days looking at askbaby.com, newbaby.com, prettybaby.com blah blah blah.. typing in the date of my last period and thinking oh god i've created a saggitarius (theres some history there. i won't go into it). but the whole time thinking that i must be some kind of freak as all the sites i saw seemed to cater to the opposite kind of woman to me. have you seen those sites?? don't get me wrong but its like as soon as women have children they become a pale comparison of their previous self. a parody. a carbon copy - and the fifth carbon copy at that.

it got me thinking. and i thought i'd start up a blog to air my views.. if anyones interested. its for women who love life, like to be green and ethically aware, and have or are having kids. there seems to be some great things out there for dads. that bloke in the sunday times style supplement, hang on let me go get it from the loo... thats it, andrew clover, seems to have fathering off to a tee and he makes it seem pretty funny too. who do us ladies have?? Nigella Lawson, Melanie Sykes, Lisa B. all amazing women but really, really really. what do their lives have in common with ours? they've given birth. tick. they have hormones and have shouted at their friends and partners. tick. they like to be ethically aware. tick. but what we really don't have in common is that they have nannies, pa's, hubbies credit card, beautiful houses, not a money worry in the world. I trawled through the book selection at borders, only to find books by all the above women and many more just like them, trying to give us regular folk advice on bringing up baby. sorry ladies, but i can't and won't be taking advice from you. I want to create my own place. for people like me. people who are living life without a goldcard and with an ethical conscience.

So here it is. Ecomummy. i wanted ecomum but someone else has that name in new zealand, so its ecomummy. its fine. i'm over it.

I'll be posting randomly about life being a pregnant woman, tips on how to cope with it all, whether i find somewhere to live, how to live on a budget and most importantly of all advice from the ecofairies who will be giving their precious knowledge on babies, pregnancy and being green as you go. and other stuff like new bands i'm into.

bye. x