The Real Reason Why

I am disappointed to say that while our son John has undergone many, many tests, we still have no answers as to what this mystery illness might be. Tomorrow we meet the neurologist, and well, we're hoping for some answers, and we're optimistic that it will be nothing very serious.

Yesterday I was talking to a TV producer who is working on a CBC documentary on environmental toxins and men's health. We talked about many things, namely men's health and environmental toxins (obviously!), but also about making green choices for our families and how these translate in our day to day life. At one point, she asked why I do ecomama.ca. I'd been on autopilot for most of the day, and I started to give her my standard answer: because I want more flexibility managing my working life on my own terms and making it fit with our family life. I also told her that I wanted more for my family. Then I paused to think about what that really meant. We always hear parents say that they want more for their children. Our parents come from a generation who, for the most part, having grown up in more modest times, wanted more "stuff" for their children - more money, more resources, a nicer home to raise them in and the list goes on. Then I realized that because my parents worked so hard to provide me with their kind of "more", I now have the luxury of being able to want a different kind of "more" for my children. I don't want more stuff. I want more health, more quality of life, more clean air and more choices for them. And that, is the real reason behind ecomama.ca. And thank you Sarah for helping me articulate it.