It's the end of the week! My husband is on vacation next week and I can't wait. I am hoping that we can take some day trips and just plain hang around and relax and have fun!
This week, I've written about a couple of goals that I have.Thanks to a couple of comments, I am more motivated to follow through. First of all, my and my family's health is something that is really important to me. It's always difficult to make changes, but I think in our case, slow and steady wins the race. We have started our plants from seed tis year and so far so good, they are growing. I have started our cold weather veggies in the garden, but we still have more to plant. I am hopeful, that this year, we will be eating veggie from the garden, which will help with being healthier.
My other goal is creating to help others. One thing I am going to do, thanks to a comment, is push myself more to create things for my twins group. I have wanted to be a part of this, but I wasn't sure what to make. I just sent an e-mail to find out some more information so that I can start making things that will help a group that I belong to that has been helpful to me. I am also thinking that if a specific selectman gets re-elected, I may approach him about the farmer's market idea. I'm not sure how much I want to commit, but it's definitely something to think about how to make that idea happen. I have a bunch of ideas, I just need to get things together and clarify how, what, when, and where. It may be a project that I have to work on and maybe start next year, but at least it is a goal. I can get my goal of being creative and helping others taken care of all together. I just have to see if the farmer's market is some where I can start this idea. I'm sure that there will be more thoughts about it here, so that I can get some feedback and ideas on my thoughts and plans.
Amy
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
"Craft Hope"
I keep thinking about someday owning a crafting studio. It's kind of a pipe dream since I don't have the money to open my own business, I will need to have constant income, and I have no business experience. One thing that I would like to do as part of a craft studio, is have time to craft for charities. One thing that I can do is start to do that myself. I can start to create items for different charities and donate what I make. I have a book called "Craft Hope" that is all about creating handmade items for different charities. I am planning on looking through it and see if I can plan a project or two and donate them. I know that there are a lot of different charities on the internet too. This is something that I have wanted to do, but never followed through. I really want to follow through this time.
One thing I would like to add to this is getting my community involved. I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing it though. I have thought about doing something with my church, but I have not exactly been attending. I have also recently thought about doing something at our town's farmer's market. One of the winter farmer's markets that we go to has a donation bin for handmade hats and mittens. I would love to maybe do something similar at the summer's farmer's market. What I would ultimately like to do is participate at the farmer's market and have people do a project while they attend the farmer's market as well as have a bin for drop offs. I have heard of having many people work on an individual square or an individual project so that many people's hands are part of this finished piece. This probably isn't a feasible endeavor, but it is something that I would like to think about. Maybe check out when this years knit out is and do something that day in town.
I have so many ideas, but I'm not sure that they are things that are actually feasible. As usual, I have goals/ideas, but don't know how to follow through. I am off to look through my "Craft Hope" book and hope that it inspires me to somehow follow through with my dreams/goals, or at least one of them.
Amy
One thing I would like to add to this is getting my community involved. I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing it though. I have thought about doing something with my church, but I have not exactly been attending. I have also recently thought about doing something at our town's farmer's market. One of the winter farmer's markets that we go to has a donation bin for handmade hats and mittens. I would love to maybe do something similar at the summer's farmer's market. What I would ultimately like to do is participate at the farmer's market and have people do a project while they attend the farmer's market as well as have a bin for drop offs. I have heard of having many people work on an individual square or an individual project so that many people's hands are part of this finished piece. This probably isn't a feasible endeavor, but it is something that I would like to think about. Maybe check out when this years knit out is and do something that day in town.
I have so many ideas, but I'm not sure that they are things that are actually feasible. As usual, I have goals/ideas, but don't know how to follow through. I am off to look through my "Craft Hope" book and hope that it inspires me to somehow follow through with my dreams/goals, or at least one of them.
Amy
Monday, April 9, 2012
Juicing
My husband and I watched "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" this weekend and I am again, totally motivated to continue to make changes to my health. Joe Cross, the guy who did the documentary, is an Australian guy that is about my age, but a little older and was about twice my weight. He also had an autoimmune disease that I do not have. After a 60 day juice cleanse, he had lost weight, was off all of his medications, and was on his way to a healthier lifestyle.
I am not ready to do a 60 day cleanse, but I am thinking a good couple of days of juicing and not eating solid food may be just what I need to get me over eating the crap that I crave, but is bad for me. I am hoping that maybe a 3 day cleanse will help me to clean out my system and maybe then I can start trusting my body to tell me what it needs.
This morning, I made my normal smoothie. I gave my husband his and then I strained mine though some unbleached cotton muslin. This morning, I used half of a cucumber, some parsley, some kale, a green apple, a red delicious apple, a banana, and some blueberries. It was a little messy to strain it, but it wasn't too bad and I don't have to buy another appliance or find room for another appliance. The best part, is that it actually tastes good. The hard part for me is going to be not eating solid food. For now I am going to have a goal for 3 days, but I am also going to take it one day and maybe even one meal at a time. I am not going to kill myself, but I am also not going to give in easily. If for some reason I feel like I need solid food, I am going to make sure that it is healthy. I am really going to try to only have juice though!
I am actually looking forward to seeing how I feel. There was lots of talk about having more energy. I can only hope that that will be a result. The other thing that they talked about was cleansing your system. I have wanted to do a detox/cleanse for some time and maybe this is the time to actually do one. I need to find some recipes, so that I am ensuring that I get the nutrition that I need, but I am thinking that I can also figure it out on my own.
Wish me luck, and if anyone has any feeling on juicing or recipes, or success stories, please let me know!
Amy
I am not ready to do a 60 day cleanse, but I am thinking a good couple of days of juicing and not eating solid food may be just what I need to get me over eating the crap that I crave, but is bad for me. I am hoping that maybe a 3 day cleanse will help me to clean out my system and maybe then I can start trusting my body to tell me what it needs.
This morning, I made my normal smoothie. I gave my husband his and then I strained mine though some unbleached cotton muslin. This morning, I used half of a cucumber, some parsley, some kale, a green apple, a red delicious apple, a banana, and some blueberries. It was a little messy to strain it, but it wasn't too bad and I don't have to buy another appliance or find room for another appliance. The best part, is that it actually tastes good. The hard part for me is going to be not eating solid food. For now I am going to have a goal for 3 days, but I am also going to take it one day and maybe even one meal at a time. I am not going to kill myself, but I am also not going to give in easily. If for some reason I feel like I need solid food, I am going to make sure that it is healthy. I am really going to try to only have juice though!
I am actually looking forward to seeing how I feel. There was lots of talk about having more energy. I can only hope that that will be a result. The other thing that they talked about was cleansing your system. I have wanted to do a detox/cleanse for some time and maybe this is the time to actually do one. I need to find some recipes, so that I am ensuring that I get the nutrition that I need, but I am thinking that I can also figure it out on my own.
Wish me luck, and if anyone has any feeling on juicing or recipes, or success stories, please let me know!
Amy
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Getting Back Our Health
I always have these goals, dreams, desires, wants and never seem to actually follow through. My goal of being healthy and having a healthy family is not something that I can afford to not follow through on! I need to get back to buying healthy foods, cooking healthy meals and snacks, and not giving into temptation. I need to not give into the kids' wants for unhealthy foods. I need to make sure that we have healthy snacks that can take care of certain cravings that we have i.e., salt or sugar. I need to have healthy juices and mostly give the kids water.
My health, my husband's health, and my oldest son's health depend on me, my shopping, and my cooking. My twins health also depends on me to, but they are healthy and I just need to keep them that way. My husband has high blood pressure, I have had issues with pregnancy induced and stress induced blood pressure as well as food sensitivities, and my BRCA2 positive status, and my oldest son has food sensitivities that seem to cause him to have spacey, behavior issues as well as sleep issues, skin issues and others. Sometimes, I think I may have spacey issues related to food. I want to make sure that my twins have a good foundation with food so that as they get older and have more temptations, they will have a good foundation to know what choices to make.
My goal is to start to research what food does to all of us. I know that we need to have gluten out of the house, sugar out of the house, and dairy out of the house. I am fearful that my oldest son has signs and symptoms of autism and I really want to make sure that what we eat is not contributing to those signs and symptoms. I want to teach my children how to make healthy choices as well as re-teach myself and teach myself some new ideas on health.
This is not going to be easy on any of us, but it is something I need to do. One of the hard things is going to be to allow my kids to refuse meals because they want to eat unhealthy foods. My biggest issue with this is that they are all on the low end of the weight scale. I don't want them to lose weight, but I don't want that to be a reason that they have poor eating habits. They say that kids will eat and will not starve. I just need to remember that I need to stay strong and offer healthy foods for all of us and deal with some of the potential withdrawal symptoms so that we get to the healthy place that I want us to be and crave healthy foods, not foods that are bad for us. I want to be able to listen to my body and give it what it needs. I want my kids to be able to learn this too. Day by day and even moment by moment, is how I need to look at this. I need to get us all on track so that we can move forward and be healthy!
Amy
My health, my husband's health, and my oldest son's health depend on me, my shopping, and my cooking. My twins health also depends on me to, but they are healthy and I just need to keep them that way. My husband has high blood pressure, I have had issues with pregnancy induced and stress induced blood pressure as well as food sensitivities, and my BRCA2 positive status, and my oldest son has food sensitivities that seem to cause him to have spacey, behavior issues as well as sleep issues, skin issues and others. Sometimes, I think I may have spacey issues related to food. I want to make sure that my twins have a good foundation with food so that as they get older and have more temptations, they will have a good foundation to know what choices to make.
My goal is to start to research what food does to all of us. I know that we need to have gluten out of the house, sugar out of the house, and dairy out of the house. I am fearful that my oldest son has signs and symptoms of autism and I really want to make sure that what we eat is not contributing to those signs and symptoms. I want to teach my children how to make healthy choices as well as re-teach myself and teach myself some new ideas on health.
This is not going to be easy on any of us, but it is something I need to do. One of the hard things is going to be to allow my kids to refuse meals because they want to eat unhealthy foods. My biggest issue with this is that they are all on the low end of the weight scale. I don't want them to lose weight, but I don't want that to be a reason that they have poor eating habits. They say that kids will eat and will not starve. I just need to remember that I need to stay strong and offer healthy foods for all of us and deal with some of the potential withdrawal symptoms so that we get to the healthy place that I want us to be and crave healthy foods, not foods that are bad for us. I want to be able to listen to my body and give it what it needs. I want my kids to be able to learn this too. Day by day and even moment by moment, is how I need to look at this. I need to get us all on track so that we can move forward and be healthy!
Amy
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