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!!