This new way of living in the country and away from stores and malls is having an effect.
I’m enjoying doing all the extra cooking, experimenting with soups and salads, rustling up fish tacos, fermenting cabbage, compoting fruits, hardening apple cider and baking gluten free goodies.
I’m diligently researching the best ways to prune my fruit trees to ensure a bumper crop next year and testing soil and location for the modest vegetable garden I’m planning.
I’m devouring home magazines for ideas on re-decorating and laugh when I find newly popular ideas I incorporated into my decor a lifetime ago, concrete floors, re-purposed wood, floating shelves, vibrant wall colours and whitewashed furniture.
My latest enterprise is making my own toothpaste!
After confirming what my friend told me about the warning on the back of my innocent looking tube of paste,
‘if accidentally swallowed get medical help or contact a Poison Control Centre’
I reckoned that anything that may cause me to seek medical help or call PCC does not belong in my mouth and whipped up her simple concoction:
3 parts coconut oil
1 part baking soda
10 drops of peppermint/myrrh/frankincense oil, to taste
According to my friend, who has been using her special blend for the past six months, her hygienist exclaimed,
“It looks as though you have been doing a really super job flossing this time round and your gums are healthier than your last check-up. Good job!”
She, like me, is a self-declared floss avoider!
“Well…tell me what you’ve been doing differently then?” Her dentist asked when he came in to take a look.
“Making my own toothpaste.”
Before long all the staff had drifted into the consulting room to witness, first hand, the cleansing effects of bicarbonate of soda and coconut oil, marveling at the results.
“What made you start making your own?”
“Anything that has a warning sign on it to call poison control if accidentally ingested doesn’t belong in my mouth…” she said as she pointed to the small print on the sample tubes of Colgate being handed out that day.
My sentiments exactly.
Daughts across the way in our barn has been using it for a week,
“My teeth feel silky clean and my breath is sweet…I love this stuff!”
So do Hubs and I and our teeth are looking brighter too!
Simplification is becoming more interesting every day, I feel I am becoming more like my grandparents!
As an added bonus, the slight oily residue on the bristles keep bacteria from forming on my toothbrush.
And the coconut oil moisturizes my lips…making them all the better for smooching with!
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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