So its been a while! But I think I will be able to pick up the pace some now! By combining personal, home educating, and business!
I am in need of a news letter for business purposes, to draw attention to what I do and the services I offer, and the products I offer, but not just send out spam and junk, and sales ad’s. I was thinking about all the people who ask me to continue wacky Wednesday, and/or Huffin Stuff news letter. They I got the brilliant idea of combining my business with home school and life! So this is the first of the new Huffin Stuff, Featuring Wacky Wednesday. There will be others that feature Funky Friday, or business services, or product, health tips, home school ideas, natural safe ways to clean and get rid of unwanted germs! Possibly a guest writer here and there, and I think some links that may interest readers.
My hope is that what started out fun stays fun! That readers continue to follow, spread the word and help me grow. This will be written and received several ways. Those ways will me through 2 blogs, email, and possibly Face book. Although I am unsure about posting the entire thing on FB, or just a snippet and a link to one blog or another. I have 2 blogs, you may follow one but not the other, thats ok!
So this weeks Wacky Wednesday will be Rock Painting! I have a kit to get us going! But plan on a rock hunt and nature walk somewhere during it. When we are done with our creations as usual I will post new pics!
Next up I know one section of Huffin Stuff will always be Wacky Wednesday! Can not do away with that, it started the news letter.
But what to call the other sections? I was thinking a section on Natural Living from caring for your body and hair naturally to house cleaning Naturally. Ways to make your own cleaners, supplies, places to buy, and other Natural Living type stuff.
Then a 3rd section on Holistic Health Care. Things like preventive care, weight control, diet, nutrition, herbs, tea, Reflexology, and other Alternative Health Care options.
Then finally a Q & A section! You the readers can write and ask me questions about Wacky Wednesday/Funky Friday, home school, Living Naturally, and Holistic Health Care. I will answer the questions weekly. If there are to many questions and I am unable to answer them all I will try to save the unused questions for the next news letter.
So to wrap it up welcome to the New Huffin Stuff News Letter. Covering Home school, Wacky Wednesdays/Funky Fridays, parenting, Natural Living, Holistic Care, and finally Q & A with Lady Jae. Please send all questions to ladyjae@renaissanceofnaturalhealth.com put huffin stuff Q & A in subject line so I know its not spam.
I may not know it all, but if I dont have the answer I can search, or find someone else with the answer. Please send any topics or suggestions you may have to the above email, or leave a comment here!
For Now I am still unsure how frequently this will come out, I am thinking bi-weekly!
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I was given freedom in form of a walker today, a nice one with wheels, seat and basket! This has been rather difficult for me to accept in life, I saw using one as giving up, until I learned to see it as a tool, I can walk with it instead of being stuck home, freedom to take kids out. Its not what I expected to be part of my life, remember Im the runner, now I rarely walk without falling, and never without pain and fear of the next fall. So now my new tool, my walker gave me freedom! I walked around the park, enjoyed it knowing if I felt a fall coming I could sit, yes I felt weird, at first especially, thoughts in my mind were a jumble “ahhhh people may see me with a walker” dumb but true today I learned, grew, accepted and instead of giving in I fought and walked! Awesome!
I could continue to refuse the “tools” in my life, feeling like using them is giving up, giving into my disabilities. Missing out on things, hurting due to walking when I could have rode, using a “tool, a wheelchair” doing more, enjoying things more, with less pain. Or I can fight every step and accept my limitation, and use the many tools available to help me, to make life easier. Its not giving in! Its not giving up! It IS fighting! Taking back my life, altered yes but mine to live not watch it pass me by! So I will gratefully use the tools I have, my walker, my shower seat, my hotpad, tens unit, my foot brace, and when I find one I can afford(praying its soon I need it badly) I will use a wheelchair when needed. These give me freedom to go when without themIm home stuck, watching life pass by. I cant wait to go walk at the park more! Field trips, family outings, museums! Things available with the use of my new tools. Without my tools I miss them all!
Im truly blessed to have a husband as understanding as I have who loves me and helps me accept without giving up, helps me see the shower chair, wheelchair, walker, cane and more as tools, ways to be free, not as a hinderance.
Today was a big step for me. Admitting, accepting, using, fighting and walking!
LadyJae

This Thanksgiving we had an awesome time, and had so much to be greatful for. We were able to spend it with Larry, and it was the first visit with him for kids aside from with the therapist. It went real good. We enjoyed it so much. The kids and Larry played tag, all kinds of tag outside, running and laughing. It was nice to hear.  We ate until I was sure I would pop! Emma and Larry made chocolate pudding from scratch for pie! It was yummy, Aldarion made a beautiful German Chocolate Cake! It was pretty and tasty!  Melista made her yummy Apple pie! We all loved it a lot! It was good. Larry and the kids all played Jenga a lot. I just watched and listened, while knitting hats.  It was nice, not fights between kids! a lot of talking and laughing, and everyone working together and playing together.  The only way it could have been better is if all our children would have been there for it instead of just part of them. I made a slide show of some of the pictures I took.

I have my blogs on Blogger.com, but missing blogging here, the closeness of the home school community! And I loved sharing our adventures, projects, experiments, here. Plus who else understands the ramblings of a crazed home school momma better than other home school mommas? So I think its the perfect place. I’ll keep my other blogs going also, but I wanted to get back to sharing about our school life!
So an update I think. We started our school year later than we used to, and so we will end later. I like it this way. We also have expanded the materials to include a lot of Waldorf materials now. Not complete Waldorf but some, still use RC, CM, Unit studies and anything else that fits my need.
I have had some medical issues, that have made it so we change the way we do things, and think! So now school can take place in the morning, or evening, afternoon and weekends! When mom feels up to it we study!
The kids are growing so fast. I am a grandma! Soon to be a grandma to 2 babies!.
I am writing in a few places, nothing big but I am lucky enough to be able to write about what I am passionate about in life- home schooling, Holistic Health, and dairy free living and food allergies, nutrition! So I get free rein to ramble about my favorite topics! Gotta love that!
I will update more, share in projects, pictures, and life! and your always welcome to check out my other blogs at blogger.com!

Ok I have to share this. A friend who is struggeling in her marriage came across this. I know this lady from a support group I am part of. We at the group all have similar issues in our marriages, and are LDS. We can connect on a spiritual and earthly level while going through the struggles our spouses have brought into our lives. When I read I was deeply touched. It really made me think. And I wanted to share. You dont have to be struggeling in your marriage to have this help, or apply. I have learned so much from the support of these ladies. They are there, understanding my feelings at all times. I have included her thoughts as she read. I copied exactly what she typed. I did not want to take away from it by changing it.
As she was reading it occured to her to interchange marriage or relationship with seed or tree.
Read Alma 32

28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give
place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a
true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief,
that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to
swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions,
ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is
a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my
soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it
beginneth to be delicious to me.

29 Now behold, would not this increase your faith? I say unto you,
Yea; nevertheless it hath not grown up to a perfect knowledge. (or
nevertheless it’s still not a perfect marriage)

30 But behold, as the seed swelleth, and sprouteth, and beginneth
to grow, then you must needs say that the seed is good; for behold it
swelleth, and sprouteth, and beginneth to grow. And now, behold, will
not this strengthen your faith? Yea, it will strengthen your faith:
for ye will say I know that this is a good seed; for behold it
sprouteth and beginneth to grow.

31 And now, behold, are ye sure that this is a good seed? I say
unto you, Yea; for every seed bringeth forth unto its own alikeness.
32 Therefore, if a seed groweth it is good, but if it groweth not,
behold it is not good, therefore it is cast away.

33 And now, behold, because ye have tried the experiment, and
planted the seed, and it swelleth and sprouteth, and beginneth to
grow, ye must needs know that the seed is good.

34 And now, behold, is your knowledge perfect? Yea, your knowledge
is perfect in that thing, and your faith is dormant; and this because
you know, for ye know that the word hath swelled your souls, and ye
also know that it hath sprouted up, that your understanding doth
begin to be enlightened, and your mind doth begin to expand.

35 O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is
light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible,
therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have
tasted this light is your knowledge perfect?

36 Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither must ye lay aside your faith
(marriage), for ye have only exercised your faith to plant the seed
that ye might try the experiment to know if the seed was good.

37 And behold, as the tree beginneth to grow, ye will say: Let us
nourish it with great care, that it may get root, that it may grow
up, and bring forth fruit unto us. And now behold, if ye nourish it
with much care it will get root, and grow up, and bring forth fruit.

This is the part that got to me:

38 But if ye neglect the tree, and take no thought for its
nourishment, behold it will not get any root; and when the heat of
the sun cometh and scorcheth it, because it hath no root it withers
away, and ye pluck it up and cast it out.

39 Now, this is not because the seed was not good,(this is not
because DH is no good) neither is it because the fruit thereof would
not be desirable (neither is it becasue your marriage is not
desirable or wont work); but it is because your ground is barren,(we
planted in the wrong place…we started off wrong and have been going
about it all wrong) and ye will not nourish the tree ( we don’t pray
together or read scriptures together or do anything but fight
together…both of our faults), therefore ye cannot have the fruit
thereof.

40 And thus, if ye will not nourish the word, looking forward with
an eye of faith to the fruit thereof, ye can never pluck of the fruit
of the tree of life.

41 But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it
beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with
patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root;
and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto everlasting life.

42 And because of your adiligence and your faith and your patience
with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold,
by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious,
which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all
that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall
feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not,
neither shall ye thirst.

43 Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your faith, and
your diligence, and patience, and long-suffering, waiting for the
tree to bring forth fruit unto you.

I have included her thoughts as she typed them. I really liked the message you get by inserting marriage or relationship. This could apply to so many things in life. Our marriages especially. If we truly feel this way, act and treat our marriages as we do our testimonies can you imagine how they would grow! If the world treated their marriage that well, as such a precious thing marriages would not fail. People would work harder to save them, to protect them, to nurture them from the start. So often we take for granted, and we do not place it in as important a place as it should be. Celestial marriage is our number one goal as LDS people, yet so often we do not make a concious effort to save, improve, nurture our relationship, our marriage, our love. We should! I am printing this and hanging it on my wall as a reminder. I am also sending a copy to L. I know my marriage is not in a good place right now. But I pray for it daily, I pray for God’s will daily, his guidance. I think making the decision to nurture my marriage is the best way to possibly save it. No matter what happens on earth I know I want the Celestial marriage, Eternal marriage. There is no way to have that with out nurturing and growing the relationship. I hope that you can read, ponder, pray and apply to your lives, you relationships, and marriage. And for those of you that have already done so- Keep on doing!

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. The choice is different and unique for each mother and each family. Many are able to be 'full-time moms,' at least during the most formative years of their children's lives, and many others would like to be. Some may have to work part- or full-time; some may work at home; some may divide their lives into periods of home and family and work. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."M. Russell Ballard~