I am finally online!

Well as my title suggests - Here I Am - It has taken me ages to get around to starting this blog and each time I take a picture of something growing in my garden or a delish meal I have prepared for my family I think to myself "Self, start that blog and have your own little 'show and tell' online".  And well.... I'm doin it!

I have chosen a name for my blog that best describes us - my family!. It is an acronym of GREEN which is how we try and live.   

I live on acreage (with my hubby and 2 boys) on the outskirts of a capital city in Australia - I know - how lucky are we? We absolutely love it - perched on top of a hill with views of a lake, the city but the peace and quiet of rural living.

Our dream is to live as sustainably as possible- {well as best as we can in this modern, throw away, must have, materialistic, oil addicted, fast paced, overworked society we live in!}...haha!! Mrs Negativity!! to eat seasonal produce (hopefully grown ourselves) and to eat food grown as locally as possible. I don't profess to ever want to try the "100 mile diet" like that a couple did in Vancouver a while back! but if we can keep to within our state or even within Australia I would be ok with that!

Hopefully I will show you how easy it can be to start doing a few greener things, plant a small garden and it maybe just turning the tv off at the wall - but as we are all part of the same planet - every little bit will help.

I can't wait to show you around my place in the very near future but I must go and collect my kids from school so it is Bye for now.