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After four and a half years of blogging, I need to make a change. That means I need to say goodbye to Accidentally Green.
For years, Accidentally Green has felt like my baby — my blog baby.
It started from nothing. I had been writing and editing newspapers for years, but didn’t know what all the blogging hullabaloo was about. As a new stay-at-home mom, I wanted to keep writing. And since I had just learned that my past product choices were very unhealthy — and many common products and practices for infants were hazardous — I wanted to warn other parents.
BPA was bad.
Bottle feeding brought a host of problems.
Artificial food colors — and even some natural ones — do nasty things to a child’s body.
Flame retardants on mattresses can cause serious health issues.
I spent my babies’ nap times in three different homes researching and writing, warning as many parents as I could. I have stayed up countless nights trying to figure out the behind-the-scenes of blogging. Accidentally Green has become a major, major part of my daily life.
Yet as my own children grew, my family’s healthy choices became second nature. Our green, healthier life made sense to me. The choices became easier. I stopped feeling like I was making radical changes because finally I was comfortable with my healthy habits.
My babies were this little when I started blogging in 2011.
Now, in 2015, they’re this big!
Time for a change
I’ve loved getting to encourage and educate you through my own learning process that’s been Accidentally Green. And I’ve loved connecting with you over social media.
But I’ve felt a change brewing for a while. I don’t live and breathe healthy choices. I still don’t consider myself green — I’m still as accidentally green as I’ve ever been.
I’ve been blogging about healthy choices for the past four and a half years. In some ways, I feel like it’s been a high school career — or like I’ve earned a bachelor’s degree in blogging. And it’s time to graduate.
In the past four and a half years, my passion for healthy living has changed. It’s turned to a normal part of my life.
It’s kind of like parenting: when I was a new mama trying to understand how to care for babies, I obsessed over it. It’s all I could think about. Now, it’s second nature to deal with my children. Sure, I face different challenges depending on how my son and daughter are developing, but things work out without a ton of drama because my children have become a normal part of my life. Healthy living’s the same way: it’s no longer an obsession or new thing for me, but a normal part of my life.
As a writer, I need to be authentic. I long to share what I’m passionate about. Because of that, I need to make a change.
And I need to say goodbye to Accidentally Green.
It brings tears to my eyes to see how far this little blog has come and to think of it ending. But I’m still excited for the next chapter.
On Saturday, I’m welcoming a brand new blog — No Place Like Home — at hilarybernstein.com. Accidentally Green posts will be archived there, but I’ll focus on encouraging you to create a healthy and happy home. Homemaking has always been a passion of mine (long before healthy living!) and I truly believe homemaking should be simple, not stressful. I’d love to help you discover how!
Thank you for being an important part of my Accidentally Green journey! I hope you will continue to make healthy decisions that honor God and happen to help the environment.
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