Oct. 7, 2008 - Allergic Reaction?
I am wondering if I am having an allergic reaction and if anyone knows anything about sudafed please share your information :) I usually take sudafed for my sinuses or if I am not sure I am pregnant or if I am then I will take it to get some relief from 1st trimester migraines. Since one can't take imitrex while pregnant. Anyone lately when I take a dose of sudafed I become overwhelming hot and sweaty, can't think straight, and VERY irritable. My DH is thinking I am suffering a adverse reaction and should quit taking the stuff but there isn't much left to take that is safe to control migraines should I become pregnant. I know my children have all shown extreme agitation from taking OTC sudafed when it was still on the market and I no longer give them that even if it's presribed. So just curious, what do my readers think? An allergic reaction and should stop taking it? What do I do for my repeated sinus infections and migraines that is safe for pregnancy. I AM NOT pregnant yet, but I am praying that the Lord blesses us again soon.
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Oct. 6, 2008 - One of those days
Have you ever had a day that you couldn't even run a brush through your hair? I have and today it was it. Thankfully when I throw it back in a bun you can't really tell LOL so that is my hair today. I finally got all the clothes out of the hamper, the last two loads are in the washer and dryer - now just to fold it all and put it away. I also need to wash our comforter and sheets. Finally got the cat little scooped - I can days without scooping and it's not pretty - have to get better at it, maybe once all the boxes are out of the way it will be easier. The other day I made cookie dough, lots and lots of cookie, why you ask? We enjoy cookies but I hate having dozens and dozens laying around so the next best thing is to freeze them. So I made a trip batch of chocolate chip cookies, put them in balls and froze them - I have almost close to 4 dozen!!!! When we want one or two (the limit) after lunch or dinner (not both) we just pop them in as needed and voila homemade cookies! I made 50 oatmeal cookies, those I actually baked and once cooled I froze them. All I have to do is again pull one or two out, let them thaw and again homemade cookies. The only problem with this is that my house doesn't smell like baking on the days I just thaw them LOL. These are also good to grab on the go for Hannah's ballet rehearsals, they thaw while she is rehearsing then on break she has a somewhat healthy snack. Also, this is just today - I have cooked up 3lbs of hamburger and made 18 burritos w/ beef, cheese and salsa. Yep those are now being frozen as well. I can eat one for lunch without spiking my blood sugar, a little sour cream and a water and lunch is served. These will last us about 3 weeks depending on how many we eat (the children won't eat them). Also freezing right now is 50 (yes, 50) homemade, from scratch (no store bought baking mix) biscuits! I made a triple batch. This will help limit how much we eat of them so instead of having them laying around waiting to be eaten I can just say a couple a person. I will be posting a tutorial later on how I make my biscuits, so come back for that! Hannah helped take some pictures so hopefully they came out as I am not making anymore for now. I am off now to make dinner then cook up a 1 lb of sausage for breakfast burritos. I also plan on making some apple cobblers to freeze as well - - - - but not tonight LOL. God bless.
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Oct. 6, 2008 - Serenity
I don't know about most of you but I dream of having serenity in my life, I imagine a peaceful home - no yelling, fighting, arguments, tension - but I also know some of that comes along with being in a small home with five people, three of whom are children 6 and under. I am working on getting my yelling under control and we need to work on the children's, I admit they learned it from my husband and I. I am trying to find the inner peace that comes from knowing Christ and forwarding that on to my children in hopes that they too will work on controlling themselves in like manner. I am at a point in my life where there are some things that are bothering me within our four walls, I will not go into detail since that would not be honoring to myself or my husband, suffice to say sometimes I find it hard to be a Godly wife. My current issue of http://www.teachmagazine.net/home.php arrived the other day and it's theme for this one was Serenity. What does serenity mean? the quality or state of being serene (taken from Miriam Webster Online Dictionary) what is serene? 1 a: clear and free of storms or unpleasant change
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Oct. 3, 2008 - Another contest
Don't you just love contests? I know I do, especially if they are educational in nature. I stumbled onto Mustard Seeds on which the owner has a great giveaway and there will be 2 winners! So come on over to Alphabet Train Giveaway and enter, it only goes until October 13th and is open to all U.S. land residents.
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Oct. 3, 2008 - The Old Schoolhouse Magazine Fall Promo!
I have been reading TOS for about a year and a half now and cannot say enough how much I enjoy getting it and reading it. Sometimes I read it too fast and then have to either re-read or wait until the next issue, which means the wait can be unbearable :) TOS has great articles to support and encourage homeschoolers from a Christ like perspective as well as unit studies with all links and materials needed listed, letters from other homeschoolers as well as h.s. helping other h.s with their words of encouragment and advice.
Here is the information about the fall promotion that is going on now!
You can get two years of the magazine, 6 fabulous physical
gifts (no downloads!) worth over $120, plus the current issue of The
Old Schoolhouse Magazine that is full of ideas for the new school
year, so you start receiving your magazine in a flash!
It really is one of their best deals ever and you don't want to miss
out. In fact, they've got a really cute Homeschooling with Heart tote
bag (valued at $13.95) for the first 1000 to subscribe. About half of
them are gone, but you should still be able to get one if you hurry!
(They will remove the info from the subscription page when the bags
are all gone.) The total value is over $212, but you receive it all
for only $39 - 50% off of cover price! Plus subscribers get their
online monthly Teacher's Toolbox which focuses on a different topic
each month, giving you words of encouragement, hands-on teaching
ideas, book recommendations, field trip ideas, and a bonus download
item.
So in closing if you like to read more and be encouraged in our efforts to what is best for our children visit http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com/US_Promotion.php and check out the Fall Promotion! TOS is a great magazine one that I look forward to getting.
God bless.
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Oct. 3, 2008 - Friday Fill-Ins #92
1. October is such a wonderfully, fallish month.
2. Drivers on cell phones (any kind) scare me!
3. Leaves are falling all around, it's finally cool enough to enjoy ourselves outdoors.
4. My favorite horror movie is _____________ because _____________. (I try not to watch unless my DH forces me too)
5. The births of my children = good memories.
6. It was a dark and stormy night and I curled up on the couch with a mug of sugar cookie tea and a good book.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to working on Christmas presents, tomorrow my plans include Nutcracker rehearsals and a community festival (maybe) and Sunday, I want to go to church!
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Oct. 2, 2008 - Good night America!
I saw this in an email and wanted to post it here, it sums up exactly what I feel about this election and who I am voting for :)
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." -- John Quincy Adams
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Oct. 1, 2008 - Home Sanctuary: Filling pockets of Time
If you see in my right side bar there is a button called Home Sanctuary and each day there is posted a new little thing you can do in your house to make it more clean, healthy, livable, etc and today is filling the small pockets of time. I am good at doing things I shouldn't be, a good example is me being on the computer while a sink of full of dishes needs washed, so I wanted to post a little list (some of Rachael's ideas, except I delete the dishwasher as we don't have one) of things I can do to fill pockets of time :) Oh by the way did I mention you get points for each small thing and then you can win a prize at the end of each month?
- Fold a load of clothes.
- Do a sink of dishes. (mine)
- Put dried dishes away (mine)
- Wipe down a sink and mirror.
- Scrub a potty.
- Clean the kitchen sink.
- Pick up an entire room.
- Make my bed.
- Water the plants.
- Straighten a junk drawer.
- Read a story to a preschooler. (sometimes I would put it off, thinking I didn't have time...but it actually fits in a pocket, too!)
- Shave my legs. (it counts as a task)
- Clean a stove top.
- clean off computer desk/printer (mine)
- straighten up our school bins (mine)
- scoop cat litter (mine)
- go for a walk (mine)
So there are some ways to fill a pocket of time or two during the day. Idle hands are not good and so this is a good way to make idle hands, busy hands.
God bless
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Oct. 1, 2008 - Cricut Giveaway
Scroll down to see new posts, this will stay at the top for awhile :)
If you are a fellow papercrafter like me then you have been eyeballing this:
if you don't know what this is, it is the Cricut machine. It does everything all without a computer! Okay well it won't clean my house or drive my children to AWANAS, soccer, co-op or friend's houses but it is good for papercrafting, school projects even vinyl lettering! And also, if you are like me, the average run of the mill homemaker can't afford the hefty price tag that comes along with it, so why not try your hand at winning a free (yes, FREE) one. Who doesn't love the pricetag?!?
So go on over to: The Secret is in The Sauce read how to enter to win.
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Oct. 1, 2008 - Homeschool Memoirs: Snack Foods
Today is all about snack foods. DH and I have talked about it and we are agreed we are going to start purchasing more fruit and veggies instead of cheese curls for snacks. The children really like fruits and veggies so this won't be terrible but they also like their cheese curls and occassional little debbie snacks. I am also trying to eat healthier snacks as I strive to loose weight. My favorite things to snack on are a few vanilla wafers, cottage cheese with a little salt and pepper, cheese, yogurt. My children enjoy the same but they also like celery, carrots, bananas, apples. Of course there are seasonal favorites like pumpin pie, apple pie (the only time I will eat apples LOL), and of course a homemade loaf of bread with a little butter and pesto on it :) Oh the smells of fall!
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Sep. 30, 2008 - Cleaning House
so to speak. I figured since we are working on decluttering here at home, why not my blog as well? If you notice my right side I have deleted a few things. Some things just weren't in my best interest in getting things done here, if I were to spend my time doing everything I had listed I'd never be able to do school or have a remotely clean house LOL. I will also be cleaning up my favorites, I have well over 50 or 50 blogs and I know I never read them on a regular basis as well as for sites I thought I'd use but never have. It's kind of like that rule, if you haven't used it for a year, get rid of it - well the same is true for internet stuff to. I want to streamline everything so that the things I NEED are there and easy to find and the things that are CLUTTER are gone. If you visit my blog and leave your blog address I will come by and visit :) I have also deleted the blog rolls I had up, I just don't have the time to devote to these things. I find that my time spent on the computer is too much so I want to cut down on it. I am still Quiverfull and still trying to eat healthier I just can't devote the time needed to visiting all these blogs and it can be stressful when I think that I am not holding up my end. I think my blog looks a bit more streamlined with all the other stuff :) If you notice I did get picked as an alternative on the TOS Crew! Which is nice and will enable me to review products if a vendor likes my demographics.
Also if anyone knows how to resize these pictures (I use photobucket) please let me know, it takes up so much space. When I try to resize them in photobucket it tells me I need Adobe 9 but my computer won't allow me to install it.
Thank you and God bless.
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Sep. 30, 2008 - As promised: Pictures
Sorry it took me until this morning to get the pictures up but I wanted to include some of Bethanne's birthday. There was no party this year but she still had fun :)
First up is my embroidery. This is the dresser scarf, I am now working on the pillow cases. I finished it, washed (the blue lines are gone) it and hung it to dry. I did put mine inside a pillowcase and washed it on the handwash cycle as I was paranoid my stitches would come out. The lighting looks a bit off (the up close one) for some reason, maybe because it's so close? There were satin stitches (the butterflies thorax area), back stitches (inside the butterflies outer wings), stem stitches (the green vines, blue outline for the butterfly), lazy daisy stitches for the leaves and flowers and inside butterfly wings) and french knots (the middle of the flowers, inside butterly wings)
And Bethanne's birthday. Her cake is made from a box mix. It is confetti (she requested it) and this cake mix came with the edible decorations and less than $2.00! She really liked it.
This is her new Baby Alive baby doll - it has no off switch! The carrier turns into a bag, feeding chair, car seat, baby carrier, rocker and something else but I can't remember. This is from my mom.
God bless.
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Sep. 29, 2008 - Happy Birthday
Why is there a penguin? and what does it have to do with a birthday? Bethanne loves penguins and hippos (see the bottom of the post) and so what better way to have a Happy Birthday post than to put a penguin and hippo on my blog LOL. Bethanne is 4 today!!!!! I can't believe. At this time 4 years ago I was being prepped and prepared for my induction. My friend, Pam, was there acting as my unofficial doula and also helping with Hannah, my husband, Don and of course Hannah. I went several LONG hours before needing an epidural for severe back labor and then as I was begining to push she laid on a nerve which was so painful I could feel it even with the epidural! Once she was out the pressure was relieved and I felt fine. Bethanne was my first VBA1C and while it was long it was well worth it. My OB/GYN was great and followed my wants as much as he could and the nurse I had for most of my labor (she got off before I delivered) was excellent and Christian! We travel between 45 minutes to an hour to get to the hospital we use and it's definitely worth the drive.
So Bethanne happy 4th Birthday!!!!!!!
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Sep. 29, 2008 - The countdown begins
As you can see from the top of my blog I have begun counting down to Christmas. I love the time of Christmas and the reflectiveness of the season wether it's on family or on Christ it always brings a feeling of peace. I am halfway finished with my inlaws present, and she they don't read my blog, I will write and post about it. I am making them a dresser scarf and pillow case set that I am embroidering. I have enjoyed learning embroidery and making this for them. I stayed up until 1a.m last night working on the dresser scarf at that time I only have something like 12 French knots to complete. Once I wash, dry and iron it I will leave pictures here on the blog. My friend's MIL was very impressed and liked it when I showed her the half finished design.
We are starting our 7th week of school today and there will be an exciting completion to something that I will post about later as well.
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Sep. 26, 2008 - My new blog
come on over to visit me at My Low Carb Journey . It is going to be a blog dedicated solely to watching what I eat, portion control, low carb and losing weight :)
God bless.
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Sep. 26, 2008 - Another contest
You know me I love contests especially blog candy contests :) so visit Angie's Angels when you comment let her know I sent you so I get more entries :D and then go post on your blog so you get an extra entry and send others to her blog :)
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Sep. 25, 2008 - Homeschool Memoirs: Summer Photo Essay
It's another week and this week's assignment is to write an essy or photo captions for photos taken over the summer up until this week (the first week of fall). We didn't do a whole lot this summer as it was hot and I don't do well in the heat and humidity and there wasn't enough in the budget for a vacation or enough gas for a mini road trip LOL so on to my pictures, some of which you may have already seen posted.
This is the girls making a 'pond' out of vanilla pudding and blue food coloring for Ping.
Here are some of the surviving tomatoes from our small garden.
Our trip back in time to the Fair at New Boston
Christian eating his birthday cake on his 2nd birthday
Hannah having her picture taken at the fair for her participation in 4H Cloverbud show and tell
The girls on the Ferris Wheel with my mom, their Grandma
Christian and Bethanne out riding bikes.
Hannah riding her bike
And it wouldn't be the end of summer without remembering the Hurricane named Ike that hit us with strong 75 mph winds and ripped the porch roof and gutter off the house.
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Sep. 23, 2008 - Cast list for the Nutcracker 2008
We were given the results for the 2008 performance of The Nutcracker and the results are:
Hannah will be in the the party scene (she was in this last year as well), children of the Nations (same as last year) and she is also a mouse this year! She is very excited and cannot wait to get started. We have a mandatory full cast w/parents meeting on Saturday and rehearsals start on Oct 4th. I am excited to be a 'stage mom' again and also can't wait to get started, it's a busy time but also very neat :) With my losing weight now maybe we definitely make it a family affair next year :)
God bless.
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Sep. 22, 2008 - Prayer Request please
My friend IRL sent out an email last night after returning from the hospital with her daughter, who is a friend of my daughter. Her daughter, M, had to spend 48 hours in the hospital after discovering that she is now Type 1 Diabetic. For those who don't know Type 1 is VERY different from Type 2. Type 1 will have this their entire life, no thing such as losing weight or diet will let them go off medication and it means a lifetime of insulin injections or pumps inserted into their bodies. M is going through 4 or more a day and she is only 5. This is hard for her and her family as they learn to live with this. There is no cure for Type 1 as it is the bodies inability to make insulin at all. M is five with a long life ahead of her so it's hard to picture at this age her having to deal with this from this point on. Please pray for my friend, her daughter as well as her husband and son they are going to need a lot of support in the coming days and months, some of which will only be possible through our Lord Jesus Christ. She has given me permission to post this :) Feel free to leave comments here and I will forward them on to her.
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Sep. 22, 2008 - What is today???
We are excited today, it is the first day of Autumn!!!!!! Technically according to those who decide when things start fall doesn't start until 11:40 am but who is counting, not me. We love fall here, all the sights, smells and everything just wonderful. It's also a time I love to enjoy baking since the house can be cooled with the doors open and the oven can be on without heating things up.
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