I made yogurt!!! In my crock pot!!! And it was easy!
It's the little things that excite me.
So let's see... I breastfeed, cloth diaper, make my own baby food, and now that includes making yogurt. To quote someone on DCF, "I'm not green, I'm just cheap!" Now I just need to start baking my own bread and sewing my own clothes, and I'll be set.
A related thought: Joe and I have been looking more closely at our own diet since John started solid foods, because as it turns out our son eats better than we do. He gets fruits and veggies with no added sugar or salt, no preservatives, etc. Not that eating healthy means only eating bland boring food, but when John and I are both having oatmeal with apples and cinnamon for breakfast, and I am adding heaping spoonfuls of brown sugar to mine... well, maybe I could cut back a little. Enough to taste the apples, anyway. ;) We need to eat more fruits. Vegetables we do pretty well, although maybe adding a little sweet potato or squash here and there wouldn't hurt.
At some point early on, Joe asked when John could start eating "real food". To which I replied that he DOES eat real food. I think that is when it dawned on me that his food is often a lot more "real" than ours is. I've started reading labels a lot more carefully and am not really keen on giving the little guy food that's packed with a whole bunch of ingredients I can't pronounce. Not that he won't eventually get some of that... I guess I'm hoping to meet somewhere in the middle, with John getting some of the convenience and junk foods that we eat, and us eating more of the fruits and veggies that are good for us.
I also wonder if I would even be thinking about this if we fed him mainly the commercial baby foods in a jar. (And I'm not saying he never gets those or that they're bad. It's definitely a lot more convenient, especially if we're going out, and there's actually something kind of satisfying about feeding him from a glass jar. But there's also something satisfying about cooking food for him myself, and I like the different textures he gets that way. Stage 2 baby food is all the same consistency. Plus I think it's cheaper to make it myself, and I'm all about cheap. But I digress.) Anyway, I guess I was just thinking to myself, if baby always eats baby food from a jar, I think you subconsciously get conditioned to thinking that "baby food" is somehow different than "grown-up food". Kind of like how "cat food" is something different than "people food". It's really not, if you think about it. (Especially if you give your cat some of the Fancy Feast type canned foods. Meat and vegetables -- how is that not the same as what you eat?) So anyway, if your baby eats "baby food" then naturally at some point he will make the leap to "grown-up food" which is whatever you happen to be eating. But since my baby just eats food, the same food I eat in fact (or should eat), the lines are much more blurry, and thus the rethinking of my own diet. Hence, other babies my son's age eat Goldfish crackers and tater tots, but I'm hesitant to give him any of those things. (Brutally honest moment: I'm irrationally horrified by the thought.) The closest thing he gets to junk food are those little "puffs" cereal finger food thingies. But he usually just gets plain Cheerios to snack on. (And I have learned to eat plain Cheerios myself, with no extra sugar heaped on top. And they're actually not half bad.)
I probably sound insane, but these are things that really go through my mind.