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I've mentioned a couple of times that I'm taking some supplements which are helping with healing my gut and my insides. The hope is that as I heal inside this will lead to weight loss. What I love about this product is it is NOT primarily a weight loss product. It is a healing product. What am I taking? I'm taking Plexus , and taking 3 of their different products that are in the Triplex. Yes, I can sell it to others, yes I can make money from it, and yes, if this is something you would like to use I can help you in that! However, the money is NOT in any way, shape or form my reason for taking it. I'm taking it for health. I want to get healthy. I want to heal my gut in ways I can't with simple diet alone. I love Plexus! Why? Well, it's all natural. All of the ingredients are natural, from NATURE, from plants and the like. Not weird, synthetic (man-made) ingredients. There are no strange side affects that leave me wondering if I need to stop using it. The ingre...

I mentioned last week that David and I have been on a journey of health .  Because of my different dietary issues/needs it's been hard to find something to help get us over the hump and get us moving. Most things have a lot of fillers, preservatives, or other ingredients that would just make life worse. We aren't interested in any meal supplements because we eat quite clean. We don't eat processed foods so we didn't want to do so to lose weight. We had resigned ourselves to do this the old-fashioned way. With really getting down to business with our eating (we do great at meals...it's snacking that we have the most issue) and just get out of the house and be active! We've been doing a lot better in this regard, thankfully.  What we have come to learn/realize is that eating is just as much a drug as smoking or alcohol. It's our go-to when we're happy, sad, angry, stressed, whatever. And this is wrong. As Christians we need to be going to God for these...

Here are a few things you have to know to fully grasp how exciting this is. 1) My husband is allergic to cats. 2) Because of this, I have never pushed for us to have a cat, which is why we have a dog. 3) My husband is quite allergic to cats. 4) My HUSBAND decided we needed to get a cat! That's right! It was HIS idea. Absolutely NO prompting from me or anything. All. on. his. own. Several years ago we were told about a product you can put on a cat that will help with the allergens. Our youngest LOVES cats (animals in general, actually) and while at the farmer's market we saw there were kittens and cats. We see them every week and every week Rebekah, especially, goes nuts. So, David thought it would be fun to add to the birthday weekend by getting a kitten! I agreed!!!!  On Saturday we got to the farmer's market early (the whole week I was praying the cat people would be there!) so we could pick out and take our kitten home and get her acclimated to the house before t...

Here are some other photos of Bekah and Ben on their respective birthdays! For Bekah we went out for supper and got ice cream, joined by my grandma. The kids' party was on Ben's actual birthday so we didn't do anything really, although as I mentioned yesterday he got to go out for breakfast with his grandparents!

We are coming down from a very, very, very busy weekend. Do you ever have weekends where it seems every single day (and there are only 3 of them!) is jam-packed? None of the things are bad, they're all meant for fun and enjoyment, but you end your weekend tired and worn out. That was this weekend. Friday was pretty low-key with swim lessons and getting some prep stuff done for the kids' birthday party. Saturday was ca-RA-zy. We had decided to get a kitten (I'll do a post on that later), so we got up early and went to our semi-local farmer's market and got our kitten, which was delivered in the middle of the party. ANYWAY! After that, David took the girls to a daddy-daughter breakfast sponsored by Chick-fil-a. They had a good time doing that! All dressed up for breakfast! After they left, my MIL and her husband arrived and took Ben out for his birthday. It was 10 a.m. and I found myself alone. I vacuumed then ate breakfast and drank hot chocolate, all without b...

Benjamin Monroe is 4 years old today! I don't usually do a blog on Saturday, but I can't NOT write a blog about my little boy who is getting to be so big! He is our blond-haired, blue-eyed wonder boy! He reminds me more and more every day of my grandpa, who's in heaven now. I do believe the 2 of them would've gotten into a lot of trouble together. It's been a good year this past year, but a challenging and hard year too. Ben has now been in speech therapy for a year. He has come leaps and bounds this past year and is doing wonderfully! I would say, as a family, we can understand about 90% of what he says now, as opposed to about 10% last year. He has gone from not having many words to now having so much to say we have to remind him to slow down, concentrate and say the words he knows. We are so thankful for his therapist and especially thankful the Lord led us to the place we take Ben.  Ben has also become way more interested in coloring, painting, cutting a...

Rebekah is 2! Life is just zooming on by! I remember feeling as big as a house 2 years ago. Ben and I dropped Cora off at vacation Bible school and then went shopping for some shoes for him. I was having contractions in the store but dismissed them as I had been having them for weeks now. I was 39 weeks that day. We got home, I decided I ought to sit down and drink some water so we could get on with our day. I quickly realized that any plans we had for that day were to be thrown out the window because the baby was coming! We got to the hospital parking lot at 2:00 p.m. and Rebekah was born at 4:06 p.m. Yep. She was ready, and she was coming whether we were or not! And, such has been our baby girl ever since. Rebekah is our fearless child, our child with a HUGE personality. She has a mind of her own and even at this young age knows WHAT she wants, WHEN she wants it (now) and usually knows HOW to get it. She has been a challenge. We know God has something great in store for her becaus...

We are participating in our 3rd year of swim lessons at our community pool. Our small town has a great outdoor pool, they employ high school and college aged kids to life-guard and teach the lessons. They do a fantastic job. You can start enrolling your child at the age of 1, and then there's a swim team for the kids who are good swimmers and need a bit more challenge. Our kids LOVE it!!!! They get (2) 3-week sessions during the summer and we pay less then $100 for ALL 3 KIDS for the entire 6 wks. We really can't say enough good about it all. Plus, we get to swim during the week and weekend as a family to help their swimming skills. Since the pool is about 1/4 of a mile from our house it's an easy way for us to stay active during the summer. Yesterday was the first day, and as with most things that only occur 1x a year, there were some bumps along the way. One of which was confusion as to when the Tiny Tots (Bekah's class) would be meeting. I was told to take her at 1...

Our family, mostly David and I, are on a journey of health. We've been on this journey for almost 4 years now. You might think, "Gee, you don't seem to be doing a very good job!" That is partly true, but what I'm learning is that health is, indeed, a journey. Our bodies are full of layers and as the top layer heals the one underneath can heal. Over the past 4ish years we have changed the way we eat. I am not able to eat grains of any kind, soy or dairy. As a family we pretty much each all eat the same, with an exception here or there for David and the kids. We HAVE figured out that the less grain, soy and dairy we eat the better we all feel. Cora is getting to the point of being able to read her own body and is getting good at knowing what foods affect her adversely, etc. We have eliminated processed foods from our house, I make everything from scratch. We eat organic eggs, use aluminum-free deodorant and fluoride-free toothpaste. We've also incorporated the u...

YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! It's the summer!!!! My most favoritest (I know that's not a word, but I'm using it anyway!) season! Probably because I grew up ON the equator. I swear my body has never quite adjusted to a 4 season environment even though I've now lived in such climate longer then I did the other. We have lots of plans for the summer--some doable, some lofty, and some we're hoping to accomplish! We have been proactive this summer and written down the things we hope to accomplish this summer including goals for all of us. And, how is it mid-June already?????? ACK!!!! Living in the snow belt there just doesn't seem to be enough summer for me before fall and WINTER come along. The kids will be starting swim lessons on Monday, we have Ben and Bekah's birthdays next week, we'll be going to a minor league baseball game, a beach vacation, participating in our town's festivals they have all summer, and well, I'm sure there are many other things that ...