Tuesday, February 28, 2012
First Steps
J took a few steps last night by himself! He's been getting a lot braver lately by standing all by himself to trying to do his crazy lil' J dance moves! So, I guess I knew steps were just around the corner, but it's always a different story when it really happens. Sad how fast my little guy is growing! Soon he'll be chasing the P's around, and jumping off the playhouse! Yikes! He's recently discovered that he can climb his little self up to the fireplace now, and scare the pants off mom and dad! He's starting to talk a lot more now! He says "Hi" "Mom mom mom" "Ball" "Oh Oh" (Uh Oh), and I'm sure I'm missing a few! Oh, and tonight, I caught the little turkey standing up from sitting on his bottom! He just pops his little self up and stands there smiling away! He's always so proud of himself when he accomplishes a new task! He likes to smile smile smile and clap his hands! Awww...I could just eat the little guy! Tonight I got to snuggle away with him while watching a thunderstorm!
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
First Kiss
While standing in the preschool pickup this morning, I was approached by a mom of one of the classmates. She started saying that she owed me an apology because her daughter kissed Peyton last week. Peyton had never said a thing about it to me! Then another mom piped up that she had just been told about it this morning by her son! So funny! There was a little confusion though as to where he was kissed...blown kiss, head or cheek! I couldn't wait to get in the car to ask him about it! I asked him if anything happened last week with her, to which he just replied that they were just playing. He truly had no idea what I was talking about. It was most definitally more of a big deal for the others who witnessed it then Peyton! That is so my child! When I mentioned it to him, it was like a lightbulb moment, and it all came pouring out! He said that she kissed him twice, on the cheek. One was big and one was small. He then proceeded to tell me that she is his "baby girl", and how much he likes her! Then he started telling me that he doesn't want lipstick on him, and that he is going to tell her tomorrow that she can't ever kiss him again! Phew!! :)
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Perfection!
I have to blog quickly before the chaos ensues in my house here soon! I have just experienced the best 12 hours I have had in a LONG time, and I have to blog about it before I forget about it! I'll probably be coming back to read this post often! :)
My parents offered to take the boys (BP and LP) for the night, so Matt and I thought we'd take advantage and use it as our Valentine's Date! J is still little enough that we can enjoy ourselves together still! The weather was beyond freezing so we weren't sure we were going to do anything more then just sit at home in silence, but we opted for a much different night and I'm SO glad we did.
I had won tickets to the local Home and Garden show from the local newspaper, and felt very obligated to go pick them up since I won tickets from them last month and never went to pick them up. (It was an event I wasn't too hip on, and just must have found something better to do that night?!) I wasn't sure we were going to go, but figured I'd better get them just in case.
We ended up getting a late jump on our night last night, so we decided to forgo dinner for the current time, drop the boys off with grandma and head to the Home Show. Why not? Free tickets, and it's so cold outside we'd freeze if we tried to do anything else. Plus, we sit at home a lot with the cold weather, snow, and having 3 kids to tote around with hats and gloves etc! Don't get me wrong, I love going out to do things with my kids, but I'm just as content to stay warm, cozy and snuggled with them in our home!
It was so nice to walk peacefully with my hubby, and not feel like a crazed chicken trying to keep tabs on my little wandering chicks! J was snuggled up in the Boba, and content to just watch passerbyers and smile at them. At first it was a lot of boring stuff....cabinets, counters, fountains, fire pits...well, let me correct myself, not boring stuff, just stuff I can't afford right now or that wouldn't be reasonable to have with little boys! A fire breathing stone alligator...not so much! J was trying to blow all the fire displays out! SOO Funny!
Every few aisle's we'd find something that interested us. We've become very in to healthy things lately and have been looking into our water! Essentially we'd love to be fluoride free, but how can you do that? Drink only bottled water praying that it's truly fluoride free, but then subject yourself to the BPA in the plastic bottles causing sterility? Anywho...I'm not one to push my beliefs on people yet alone begin to feel that I have to justify why I do or believe in something. I like when people do their own research and come up with their own opinion on things themselves! :) Wow..back to topic! We ran into a few home water filtration companies, and we felt so excited and blessed that we found them. Great companies, great attitudes, and great passion on what they do! Cha Ching number one! Well worth it though!
We've also gotten very much into buying fresh and buying local! It's becoming a passion of ours! We want to provide the best healthy food for our kids. Sorry munchkins...no more processed lunch meats/hot dogs/chicken nuggets, no more processed ANYTHING (now I realize that's probably highly unlikely, but it's definitely a goal I'm shooting for! So when you come over to my house next time don't go raiding my cabinets trying to prove me for a hypocrite! :) I'm sure right now you'd find hot dogs and spaghetti o's in my cupboards!) We happened upon a few WONDERFUL booths of local farmers who sell the most amazing/healthy/sustainably farmed foods! I was BLESSED to try a sampling of raw milk cheese and raw milk yogurt (it's marked as PET food...thank you government control...but it was the best tasting pet food I've ever had!)
Getting to talk to some of these farmers is so insightful! I know Matt's heart was pitter-pattering! They are the good in this world! My brain is just overflowing with information that I don't even know where to begin, so I won't! I'll try to process them all better and post at a later date maybe. I just know that this is changing our lives and how we view things, and I'm hanging on for the ride! It's a learning process that we continue to take one step at a time...my oil debacle...veggie oil=bad, so we switched to canola oil, canola oil=bad, switch to safflower oil, safflower oil=bad, switch to..... This is how my life has been, and I was getting very disappointed in the beginning, but have learned that I need to be more flexible and willing to learn!
So back to my great night! Alone time with hubby (with baby J, but he's always a joy to be with! he makes us laugh when we run out of things to talk about, which didn't happen last night at all!), sampling CHEESE and YOGURT (which I haven't had in almost a year because of the MSPI thing-not sure if I blogged why raw milk yogurt and cheese is okay with MSPI, but here goes a short detail..pasteurized milk is heated killing the natural enzymes in the milk (hence why you shouldn't be drinking pasteurized milk!) the enzymes naturally break down the protein in the milk which is what causes the allergy. Hence why raw milk can sometimes be tolerated with MSPI) It's definitely worth a shot...right!? After the show, we drove around midtown and found somewhere to eat dinner! We walked in a fancy restaurant with our 1 year old at 9:30pm with zero degree wind chills! Yeah, we got some stares, but it was just fine! It's how we roll! Dinner was fantastic! J passed out on the way home, and Matt shortly after! :) We woke up to serenity! We slept in until 8:30...no kids in our bed, no whining about when breakfast would be ready, no NOTHING! It was peace! Then J had a blowout..snap back to reality! I completed our peace with a delicious breakfast of Belgium chocolate chip waffles, scrambled eggs, fresh blueberries, bacon...burned but very crispy!, juice and coffee! Oh and we got to eat it WARM! :) Perfection!
Happy Valentines Day Sweetie!!
My parents offered to take the boys (BP and LP) for the night, so Matt and I thought we'd take advantage and use it as our Valentine's Date! J is still little enough that we can enjoy ourselves together still! The weather was beyond freezing so we weren't sure we were going to do anything more then just sit at home in silence, but we opted for a much different night and I'm SO glad we did.
I had won tickets to the local Home and Garden show from the local newspaper, and felt very obligated to go pick them up since I won tickets from them last month and never went to pick them up. (It was an event I wasn't too hip on, and just must have found something better to do that night?!) I wasn't sure we were going to go, but figured I'd better get them just in case.
We ended up getting a late jump on our night last night, so we decided to forgo dinner for the current time, drop the boys off with grandma and head to the Home Show. Why not? Free tickets, and it's so cold outside we'd freeze if we tried to do anything else. Plus, we sit at home a lot with the cold weather, snow, and having 3 kids to tote around with hats and gloves etc! Don't get me wrong, I love going out to do things with my kids, but I'm just as content to stay warm, cozy and snuggled with them in our home!
It was so nice to walk peacefully with my hubby, and not feel like a crazed chicken trying to keep tabs on my little wandering chicks! J was snuggled up in the Boba, and content to just watch passerbyers and smile at them. At first it was a lot of boring stuff....cabinets, counters, fountains, fire pits...well, let me correct myself, not boring stuff, just stuff I can't afford right now or that wouldn't be reasonable to have with little boys! A fire breathing stone alligator...not so much! J was trying to blow all the fire displays out! SOO Funny!
Every few aisle's we'd find something that interested us. We've become very in to healthy things lately and have been looking into our water! Essentially we'd love to be fluoride free, but how can you do that? Drink only bottled water praying that it's truly fluoride free, but then subject yourself to the BPA in the plastic bottles causing sterility? Anywho...I'm not one to push my beliefs on people yet alone begin to feel that I have to justify why I do or believe in something. I like when people do their own research and come up with their own opinion on things themselves! :) Wow..back to topic! We ran into a few home water filtration companies, and we felt so excited and blessed that we found them. Great companies, great attitudes, and great passion on what they do! Cha Ching number one! Well worth it though!
We've also gotten very much into buying fresh and buying local! It's becoming a passion of ours! We want to provide the best healthy food for our kids. Sorry munchkins...no more processed lunch meats/hot dogs/chicken nuggets, no more processed ANYTHING (now I realize that's probably highly unlikely, but it's definitely a goal I'm shooting for! So when you come over to my house next time don't go raiding my cabinets trying to prove me for a hypocrite! :) I'm sure right now you'd find hot dogs and spaghetti o's in my cupboards!) We happened upon a few WONDERFUL booths of local farmers who sell the most amazing/healthy/sustainably farmed foods! I was BLESSED to try a sampling of raw milk cheese and raw milk yogurt (it's marked as PET food...thank you government control...but it was the best tasting pet food I've ever had!)
Getting to talk to some of these farmers is so insightful! I know Matt's heart was pitter-pattering! They are the good in this world! My brain is just overflowing with information that I don't even know where to begin, so I won't! I'll try to process them all better and post at a later date maybe. I just know that this is changing our lives and how we view things, and I'm hanging on for the ride! It's a learning process that we continue to take one step at a time...my oil debacle...veggie oil=bad, so we switched to canola oil, canola oil=bad, switch to safflower oil, safflower oil=bad, switch to..... This is how my life has been, and I was getting very disappointed in the beginning, but have learned that I need to be more flexible and willing to learn!
So back to my great night! Alone time with hubby (with baby J, but he's always a joy to be with! he makes us laugh when we run out of things to talk about, which didn't happen last night at all!), sampling CHEESE and YOGURT (which I haven't had in almost a year because of the MSPI thing-not sure if I blogged why raw milk yogurt and cheese is okay with MSPI, but here goes a short detail..pasteurized milk is heated killing the natural enzymes in the milk (hence why you shouldn't be drinking pasteurized milk!) the enzymes naturally break down the protein in the milk which is what causes the allergy. Hence why raw milk can sometimes be tolerated with MSPI) It's definitely worth a shot...right!? After the show, we drove around midtown and found somewhere to eat dinner! We walked in a fancy restaurant with our 1 year old at 9:30pm with zero degree wind chills! Yeah, we got some stares, but it was just fine! It's how we roll! Dinner was fantastic! J passed out on the way home, and Matt shortly after! :) We woke up to serenity! We slept in until 8:30...no kids in our bed, no whining about when breakfast would be ready, no NOTHING! It was peace! Then J had a blowout..snap back to reality! I completed our peace with a delicious breakfast of Belgium chocolate chip waffles, scrambled eggs, fresh blueberries, bacon...burned but very crispy!, juice and coffee! Oh and we got to eat it WARM! :) Perfection!
Happy Valentines Day Sweetie!!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Homemade Liquid Hand Soap
I'm just finishing up this recipe, so I'm not too sure how the final product will turn out. I'll definitely update when it's complete. I just took a few tips from other sites, and this is what I came up with.
1 cup of a grated bar of soap (I used Dr Bronners Almond soap)
1 TBSP glycerin
10 cups of water
I added all the ingredients together in a pot. Heated it up over med-high heat, until all the soap with disintegrated. Now it's supposed to sit and thicken for 10-12 hours.
I'll let you know!
***UPDATE: The soap thickened. It's pretty much the consistency of snot! Gross, but I'm grateful it isn't watery! I wasn't very prepared in where I was going to store all the extra soap, so I found two empty wine bottles under my sink, so that's what I used! :) It will definitally be easy to fill up my bottles this way! Oh, it doesn't lather, which I've learned isn't a bad thing! We are trained to think we can't be clean without a lather...not true!
1 cup of a grated bar of soap (I used Dr Bronners Almond soap)
1 TBSP glycerin
10 cups of water
I added all the ingredients together in a pot. Heated it up over med-high heat, until all the soap with disintegrated. Now it's supposed to sit and thicken for 10-12 hours.
I'll let you know!
***UPDATE: The soap thickened. It's pretty much the consistency of snot! Gross, but I'm grateful it isn't watery! I wasn't very prepared in where I was going to store all the extra soap, so I found two empty wine bottles under my sink, so that's what I used! :) It will definitally be easy to fill up my bottles this way! Oh, it doesn't lather, which I've learned isn't a bad thing! We are trained to think we can't be clean without a lather...not true!
OCM Update!
Well, it's been a few weeks of using the OCM for my face...and I LOVE it! It's worked so wonderfully that last week for my week of my favorite time of the month, my face, which would normally have some bad breakouts, was virtually spot free! Woo hoo!
I ended up adding a bit more olive oil to my mixture, to where I'm pretty sure it's a 50/50 mix of the olive oil and castor oil. I think with my next batch, I may try adding more EVOO, only because I'm still a little dry in spots, and am still having to use moisturizer. I also added about 10 drops of tea tree oil last week when my face started showing signs of breakouts. I love tea tree oil...smells great and it's great for just about anything you can think of! Side note: I did a food trial with J last week, that didn't go so well. :( He had a killer open wound diaper rash from it, but a few drops of tea tree oil in his wipes water (plus Baby Junk Healing Oil alternated with CJ's Butter) healed the open spots up wonderfully!
So here's the routine right now. If I wear makeup..I use the OCM. When I wake up in the morning..it's a cold water rinse. If I have a lazy day here and there ;) where I wear no makeup...it's just a rinse! At first I was rubbing it into my eyelashes, and ended up having blurry vision for a while after! Yikes, now I just put it around my eyes, and have no issues getting my eye makeup removed at all!
Matt says I'm obsessed with my "oil wash", because of how long I spend doing it! Heehee! How relaxing (and cheap he should realize!) to get a facial massage, have my face steamed with a hot washcloth, and how nice and soft my skin is!
I ended up adding a bit more olive oil to my mixture, to where I'm pretty sure it's a 50/50 mix of the olive oil and castor oil. I think with my next batch, I may try adding more EVOO, only because I'm still a little dry in spots, and am still having to use moisturizer. I also added about 10 drops of tea tree oil last week when my face started showing signs of breakouts. I love tea tree oil...smells great and it's great for just about anything you can think of! Side note: I did a food trial with J last week, that didn't go so well. :( He had a killer open wound diaper rash from it, but a few drops of tea tree oil in his wipes water (plus Baby Junk Healing Oil alternated with CJ's Butter) healed the open spots up wonderfully!
So here's the routine right now. If I wear makeup..I use the OCM. When I wake up in the morning..it's a cold water rinse. If I have a lazy day here and there ;) where I wear no makeup...it's just a rinse! At first I was rubbing it into my eyelashes, and ended up having blurry vision for a while after! Yikes, now I just put it around my eyes, and have no issues getting my eye makeup removed at all!
Matt says I'm obsessed with my "oil wash", because of how long I spend doing it! Heehee! How relaxing (and cheap he should realize!) to get a facial massage, have my face steamed with a hot washcloth, and how nice and soft my skin is!
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