I'm not gonna lie. I always thought "organic" food had to be nasty. I equated eating organic with eating slightly chocolate-flavored tree bark. But the truth is, most of it's actually much better than non-organic stuff! Especially apples! Dang. Them are good. Granted, I will still never eat most of the uber weird stuff that people like Kim Smith eat, but I like knowing that what I'm eating won't preserve my body for several years longer than it should after I die.

Maybe you think that's weird. I sure did. I seriously used to laugh at people who did such things. I used think people just needed to relax and enjoy life! But things have changed.

Our kids will have been living on an organic diet. Imagine coming to America for the first time after living your whole life eating all natural food and being introduced to McDonalds! What are chicken McNuggets really made out of anyway? Is anything about a double quarter-pounder real?

We figured that if we waited for the kids to get here to change our diets, it would be an epic failure.

We've made some other changes as well. Even though we got rid of all but 13 channels awhile ago, we still had a habit of coming home and turning on the ol' boob tube. Not sure why...just purely habitual. We've been fighting that urge and spending the time cooking together instead...which has been stinkin' awesome and has led to great conversation and much better food (with leftovers!). And we sit at the stinking dining room table for crying out loud (why doesn't anyone seem to do that anymore?). We still watch TV of course, but only when there's something on we want to see. We're done with flipping mindlessly through channels just to have it on. We prefer conversation, thank you very much.

So maybe I am becoming a hippie...although I'm pretty sure I'm not going to go out protesting wars or tripping on LSD or drawing peace signs everywhere. But they had some things right. Love and accept everyone. That's pretty good stuff (although, I think they stole it from Jesus). I can dig it.

All I know is that I want to never stop growing and learning and becoming a better version of me. I want to keep forming healthy habits and fix bad ones. I want to make a difference with my life, not just go through the routines and follow the crowd. Most of all, I just want to be used by God to do whatever He wants me to do, 24/7...even if it looks weird to everyone around me. I don't really care if people think I'm weird.

If that makes me a hippie, so be it.

Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease.