Around here, our years are counted from September to September. I'm a teacher so my break is in August and we've got two kids who have the holiday in August too, so it makes sense that we count that way. This post is really because of how bad I felt during the past few months on my beliefs on sustainable living and the low impact movement. In July, as it was going on the campaign #plasticfreejuly, my life was upside down: I had my in-laws staying over, I was working many hours and with the kids going to the beach with school, the routines were crazy. So it was too many the plastic that found his way to my home. In August, we went on vacation and it was very hard to keep up with the stuff we've bought for our kids (snacks, etc...) because we were staying in a hotel and it wasn't easy to accommodate much stuff in our little fridge. The second part, we went camping and it didn't get any better. But... In September, and getting back to the rou...