Bittersweet Blessings of 2021- just a TMI Journal Share

I'd have to say today is more BITTER than SWEET so far in my feeling antennae. There are really no words to express my pain knowing Mickey Leo turns 1 today and he is it! How bitter when I know that I had a body and a love capable of 18 or 25 children, those miraculous impressive women you only read about.... My 12 children (11 living) should be enough, you say? You cannot understand then the love that multiplies to a heavenly love. Let me tell you that my children ALL work. Even the young whiny ones...lol! They all fill a job for an employer needing a work ethic, a respectful human being paying his/her own way. Hopefully they are a joy to behold; a LIGHT in a broken, fallen, often depressing, world. Aren't all the children? There could NEVER be TOO MANY children. There can never be too many flowers. As the country struggles to find workers and people trample on moral values and ideals of loving each other in Godly ways... my blessings far outweigh my bitter but my heart is breaking. I took a picture the other day of Mickey and I. He was nursing to sleep and my varicrosity was hugely my focus. Today he turns 1, tomorrow my appt is medical care for myself. It is time to do some things to move on in my adult life, but oh how I am grieving the beauty of pregnancy, labor, birth...first love, newborn smells, private all nighters just babe and mom.

Summer has FINALLY arrived! 2019 records...

Record Breaking Year!

I enjoy having a blog to share in .... life carries me away from sharing as much as often as I would like.

Every season of our lives bring new challenges and happenings to change our abilities and our perspectives.

I hope to be able to look back to my this, my 'online' journal and see where we've been and where we are going. My hope for the reader is merely to add value to what you know, add a tip to your arsenal that has been gifted to me, and my prayers for your well being. In other words, I like trying to help. My goal in life for many years now is to leave a legacy of help, hope and kindness. The things we mothers worry about are no small matter...

Our children's spiritual and emotional health. Their souls. Our family stability as a unit that feels love, is love, gives love to a oftentimes broken world. We worry this though we can't control it. Only guide.

May you be blessed! I have a long catch up to manage here in my blogspot over whence my 2019 has gone but for today I am begging you to just comment a feedback that you check in or read here. Mention if it is something that I should continue on with now that I feel called again to share some values, some insights that might encourage more than my little world.

May .... May Flowers bless You! (Drafted in May 2016)

May flowers!

I was touched this week by my eight year old son's attempt to thank some special teachers in his life. He wanted to spend his own money on flowers for them. Once we found the rose bouquets that we could mix to make two beautiful arrangements arrangements, it was off to the work of rearranging them as gifts. He kept thinking of more and more special women he wanted to gift as a Thank you! He ended up making two bouquets into 3 red and white rose arrangements with greenery. Then he managed to give away one to another friend who was visiting and does nice things for all my kids. So now... He is anxious to go back to the store to buy his sacraments teacher some flowers. He sees her on Sundays and he had already ran out! He's wanted to get her roses since his classes ended at the beginning of May. I'm touched by his generous loving nature and thoughtfulness. This is quite an expenditure for a little man to be willing to spend his $20 on. May you be blessed with flowers before May ends! Hopefully, if you are really fortunate, a sweet soul will bring you a dandelion picked with all the love one could imagine! Or the neighbor's violets.... Happy May!

Herbs - Powerful healthy taste!

This link will take you to another site for some ideas. I do not necessarily agree with every opinion or support all advice on said site. Use at your discretion.



https://blog.fitbit.com/go-green-healthy-cooking-with-fresh-herbs/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160418_F_US_E_NW_TK_00_04News_NA



This was such a good list I needed to save to my blog. I have to say some of these articles were very inspiring! Way to go, Fitbit! I use an incredible amount of herbs. So instead of drying them my sister showed me to pack fresh herbs in coarse sea salt in beautiful (sometimes colored!) Jars with a plastic sealed lid! Now I have fresh rosemary everytime we have roast or souped chicken!
BEAUTIFUL TO DISPLAY. Healthy way to add flavor easily.

I should mention that the band in my Charge HR was breaking and customer service was quick and easy. They replaced with a new one straight away! It was a few minute hold or they called me back so getting ahold of them was the longest part of the process. I like to caution against constant wear of any electronic device. This fitbit has helped me track my sleep pattern and set a goal to get more sleep. It is an aid and the one reason I broke down and purchased one. I do enjoy using it.


However, like your phone, (studies say much safer as in pacemaker) read and heed the fact that it is carrying, receiving and emitting radioactive signals. Practice not keeping phones next to your skin or on constantly. Use them wisely and make sure you are setting them aside when possible.

Happy healthy day to you!

RESULTS. What we REALLY want

Results. Do you want healthy results? I get so tired of all the modern marketing. The 'green' flooding that is only as good as each company is honest. As I research companies almost constantly it strikes me that we are so busy as parents that we forget to do our research. If someone we know promotes a company or the company advertises 'natural', 'Organic', 'green'... We don't want to have to take time to prove the information is correct. I've decided the'proof is in the pudding' and we are truly healthy. Great healthy results are what we all strive for in our search for better for our families. I'm so thankful that changes we've made over the years and watched some friends make have given us success stories. Just health success stories from normal people like you and I. My bloodwork numbers were so healthy last week that my doctor apologized for having an extensive draw. The numbers of a healthy teenager age. They were shocked. After all... I was complaining of the extra 30 lbs I'm working on leaving behind and how I've been pregnant eight times! 8 busy children from 19 to 2 keep me busily stressed. Maybe I've done some things right!! I know that having the best Olympic standards supplements customized for my needs helps. I know that having a one stop safe U.S. supplier for my family affords us peace of mind and results. I know a mostly whole foods diet from scratch just as my mom and grandmothers cooked helps.

I know that YOU deserve the chance for real results in your family. If you have any goals for your family health you would like to visit about contact me. I'm happy to show you a picture of how our family makes happy a reality- my listening to your needs and sharing our way is FREE.

New Year Awakenings 2016!

First week of 2016 is already days gone by! Today I had an Epiphany of sorts! Lightbulb! I've been struggling with my WORD for this year. Today as I wrote a list of possible goals I have, and virtues I'd like to work on it came to me that I want to be STRONG! And in that a source of STRENGTH for others! As I looked up on the wall of the school I saw then my favorite verse from High School, "I can do all things in Christ Who strengthens me" and smiled. After work I was glancing through emails and one of the radio blogs I follow was titled "Mothering From a Position of Strength" !! I was filled with that secure conviction of purpose, that AHA! moment that I hope everyone who reads this can reflect on for THEIR own personal use in the new year. I'm working on not sweating the small stuff in the normal course of life while trying to instill some new healthy changes for our lifestyle. This has become increasingly challenging with high school age children who buy and do make some of their own decisions. Working on a book but that is in 'spare' time so it is a slow process. How many of us refuse to make resolutions so that we won't fail? I AM ONE OF THOSE! I'm fairly picky about what we have in the house. I let up at holidays and summer bbq's over some of the processed garbage I dislike immensely. So after Christmas and New Year's celebrations and travel I almost always feel the need to cleanse my system and offer this to my family. <<<<< My new favorite kidney cleanse help >>>>>>> Watermelon and 1 peeled Lime Blended in my Nutribullet. I definitely recommend an extractor or machine that does not remove all the pulp in your juicing method. My next favorite meal is always Asian Weight Loss soup. I've posted it here before so I'll spare that time. In that fashion though I just found a jump start broth to detoxify with that I'm going to try this weekend... I'll pass on the results and the recipe / diet if I feel it worthwhile. Much joy and love to your precious homes in 2016! May you be STRONG in your convictions and comfortable in your own skin.

Jumping into July!

Halfway through 2015!! Think on that a moment. Where does the time go? As I hear of the restrictions on fireworks because of the heat, it has been a great time to reflect on our independence as a Nation. I can only imagine the number of people who will get in trouble because common sense and legality will not prevail over their personal sense of 'freedom'. Freedom does not mean we get to do our own thing regardless of the health of a society. That would be counter productive. Freedom DOES mean having a choice. I hope most choose to be responsible for the good of our communities. As I reflected on the Independence Day values that most of us hold very dear it struck me that there is definitely a lack of understanding and appreciation of how much this FREEDOM has cost us. Even myself, in awe of our military and our wars over the years to gain a land and freedom and help others out of oppression lack an actual experience of fighting for freedom. We have it easy, maybe we've had it too easy these last 60 - 70 years. Basically a lifetime of being able to freely make our own choices. Some abuse this privilege and claim free speech to abuse and slander others without regard. Some are sheep and feel we have to tolerate everyone and every choice they make if it is true for them. TRUTH isn't wavering, doesn't change- or it cannot be TRUTH. So this giving 'to each his own' mentality a platform is saying 'anything goes' . Do we really want our nation to be a FREE FOR ALL playground for any person to choose what feels good to him/her? I think that is far from a TRUE freedom where our nation cares for one another and respects natural boundaries which have to be in place for a society to survive. Most natural boundaries show themselves by our innate ability to see wrong for what it is. It just fits if it is the natural right. A man and woman fit together in a complimentary way, mentally, physically, spiritually. Man and beast cannot. And we all know that stealing, killing, harming, fighting, lying are actual wrongs by something bigger than ourselves- even if not professed believers in God- it is obvious to the majority what is evil. As you celebrate our Nation's Independence Day be aware that freedom isn't gained without sacrifice.