Do you recycle? I make a sincere attempt to. I admit most of my kitchen recyclable stuff does not go to the recycle bin and I promise to make a better effort to recycle and reuse more often. Here are some recycled goodies that caught my eye this week.

Keyboard clutch from www.perpetualkid.com

Plastiki - the boat made of discarded plastic bottles to create awareness - say no to plastics and think twice before you toss of your next bottle. To read more about the boat click on the image

Recycled Vinyl Record Clock from www.elsewares.com

I read about this in one of the many blogs I lurk around – Baby Olympics. It was the time I was pregnant and I shared the article with R with vows we will not fall into the rut.

A few days back, I was thumbing through my copy of “What to Expect – the First year”. I did a quick glance at the 5 and 6 month chapters where we are right now and I had extra few minutes to take a glance beyond the 6th month mark and I reached upon a section which read “How to identify exceptionally gifted babies”. I read it the first couple of paragraphs and subconsciously tried to make connection with my lil girl and then suddenly I realized what I was doing and stopped.

Why are we pressuring ourselves and our little ones who are barely eating table food? Why do we need a gifted children section in a book meant for babies below the age of 1? Why are they forcing over-excited parents like me to read and look for signs?

If you are not familiar with my big plans 2010 read them first.

Taking a break helps me a lot. It puts things into perspective and helps me breathe out and relax and then jump into my projects. I had numerous reasons to let go and I am so glad I did what I did. I slowly did tackle some things on my Plans 2010 list and here is my progress report

Blog more often – No. I stayed away from my blog.

Lose the baby weight -I started dancing! I have mentioned it somewhere else but after a class I end up high on adrenaline and I can dance just for the rush. Will dance help me lose weight? Probably not, but it will get me more flexible and more toned. But I have taken a step forward. It is a pain dragging myself to class once a week after my lil girl is asleep but I have been making myself do it. It also helps to have a “partner-in-crime” who drags me and cheers me up. Thanks P!

Bake More – Not much but I did bake some mocha chocolate chip muffins which I did not taste. Coffee is not my flavor but R loved it.

Read Geography –

Keep kuttyma’s baby journal updated - Yes! Suddenly I feel that unless I document these memories they will be overwritten by new ones. There are a lot of memories to smile at and put into words.

Finish my handicraft projects – I have not touched my projects in hand but I have selected a few crafty projects to do. I will be doing them along the coming week and will post pictures and updates. Typical me! I want to do things but would not do what is in hand.. blah! I really need to get over it.

Have an organic container veggie  garden – I have ordered some of my plants online and the rest I will have to head out to the nursery. I have it on my to-do list but to get my lil girl to work on my schedule is next to impossible. I will be heading there soon.

I am happy. A week’s break helped me and I need to take breaks occasionally for my sanity and happiness.

The coming week is my crafts week so I will probably not concentrate on other tasks but will try to do something.