So, I have had this rather annoying cough.. This cough has been lingering in my house for a very long, long, long time. Well, my mom started to get worried that I had developed pneumonia and wanted me to go to the doctor. The only issue I had with this is that I don't currently have health insurance.... It's kinda a pesky thing since you need it usually... So I went and spent A LOT of money for the doctor to tell me that it was just a cough and give me a prescription for Z-PAK he said would clear it up.... Well one week later I'm STILL coughing. So my mom who is into these essential oils from DoTerra gives me this little humidifier and two oils called breath and on guard.
Breath is supposed to help with the coughing and plugged up nose and on guard is to disinfect germs and kill the virus or whatever it is... Well I ran this little humidifier for one night and the next day I felt amazing!! My cough had lessened and wasn't so deep and my lungs didn't ache! It was incredible!! So for about the same amount of money this little amount of oils ( Which was about three drops each) had already started working where this doctor couldn't really do anything!
Now I'm not discrediting doctors because they are great and they do know what they are talking about but there are some areas that modern medicine can't really fix and the same goes for the oils I'm sure! I didn't use it for a night and did notice a difference I was coughing a lot more than I was while using it!
For some one who can't spend ninety dollars to go to the doctor everytime she gets sick this is incredible!! And if the ancient peoples of the world used these methods with out modern technology and they worked then why can't we?? Especially since nowadays most prescriptions have so many other additives that they almost hinder more than they do good who wouldn't want to use a natural path that doesn't have side effects?
Well, that was my little rant and I think I should stop now but they really do work period!
Monday, April 2, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Thank you! a million times over!
This has been a very long time coming, I probably should have said this a year ago or more but atleast i am saying it now!!
to my in laws: You have been AMAZING!!! with helping out when we found out about sophi and buying us a crib and being soo incredibly supportive!! Thank you for always being willing to take sophi while i go to work! it has been such a relief knowing that she is taken care of and that i can trust the babysitters to love and protect her.Thank you for feeding us EVERY sunday and letting us come over all the time to bug you and use your washing machine. I will never be able to repay you for your love and kindness and i am already in your debt probably for the rest of my life! Thank you for always having advice and encouragement and being amazing grandparents to sophi.
To my parents: I LOVE YOU!! i am so greatful for everything that you have done for me. By simply wanting another child and adopting me you have done more for me than I can repay. Thank you for putting up with my mood swings, bad grades, immature friends and so much more. MOM you are my best friend! i love hanging out with you and going to lunch and movies and of course watching glee and vampire diaries with you! DAD: thanks for always making me laugh and making sure i never forget that im your little girl for life! Thanks to both of you for being amazing parents and grandparents and letting me use your washer and dryer A LOT!!
To my beautiful sister: I have always looked up to you for everything and i have always wanted to be just like you! from laying with your toys to wearing your clothes to wishing i had your grades and everything else. but i especially wanted to thank you for always answering my questions about kids! and being a great role model!!
To my newest siblings: thanks for being the younger siblings i never had and thought i wanted! and giving me a place to be crazy and have fun!! i love you guys
To my big brother: thanks for really living up to the title! I am so glad that you came into my sisters life! your a good husband and daddy and i love that i can come to you for some brotherly advice anytime! I love you!
And lastly to my husband: we have been through a ton of stuff to get to where we are now. it has been a great adventure and i am so excited that i get to have more adventures everyday for the rest of eternity. you work so hard for our little family and you are an amazing daddy to sophi. thank you for loving me everyday and reminding me of that. thank you for listening to my worries and making me always feel better. you are my rock and i love that each and every night i get to crawl into bed and cuddle with you! heres to eternity babe!
Thursday, March 8, 2012
I call it Mexican Chicken
I got this recipe from my sister yesterday!! And it's an easy crock pot meal! I am way excited to try it Because it sounds way yummy. You can serve this over rice or chips like my sister does or I can imagine you can just sprinkle cheese over it and use it as a dip!!
Chicken.....
1 8oz package of cream cheese
1 jar of salsa
1 can of corn drained
1 can of black beans not drained
Throw it all in the crockpot and I am cooking it on low for 8 hours because I have to work and I want the chicken to shred but you can eat it either shredded or whole!! And if you like spicy stuff use a hot salsa! I'm kinda a huge wimp when it comes to spicy so I used mild salsa! But that's the great thing about this recipe you can tailor it to your own wants!
Enjoy!!
Chicken.....
1 8oz package of cream cheese
1 jar of salsa
1 can of corn drained
1 can of black beans not drained
Throw it all in the crockpot and I am cooking it on low for 8 hours because I have to work and I want the chicken to shred but you can eat it either shredded or whole!! And if you like spicy stuff use a hot salsa! I'm kinda a huge wimp when it comes to spicy so I used mild salsa! But that's the great thing about this recipe you can tailor it to your own wants!
Enjoy!!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Homemade yeast free cinnamon rolls!!
So I have started to be quite the homemaker recently! Thanks mostly to pinterest none of it is really me at all! But I have been making some crazy delicious and easy recipes and I have decided to share some of them. This cooking thing has become something that I really really enjoy! And I have always loved delicious food so here we go!
Filling:
• 3/4 cup of packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons of melted butter
• mix well with a fork and set aside.
Dough:
• 2 1/2 cups of flour
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of butter milk
• 4 tablespoons of melted butter
• mix with spoon just until the dough comes together. If you mix to much the cinnamon rolls will be hard. Kneed the dough with hands and divide into two halves. Don't be afraid to use more flour to stop the sticking.
• roll out the dough into a rectangle just a bit bigger than a piece of paper. Fill with half of your cinnamon mixture and leave the sides of the dough clean about a 1/4 of an inch around all sides. Then roll up like a huge sausage, pinch the seams shut and cut your roll into eight pieces. Repeat with other half. Put your pieces in an 8 X 11 dish. Make sure to spray it with non stick spray!
• melt one more table spoon of butter and brush the tops of your cinnamon rolls.
• put in the oven( pre heated to 425) for 15 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Icing:
• 3 ounces of softened cream cheese
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 4 tablespoons of buttermilk
• mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar till smooth.
• add the buttermilk one table spoon at a time until creamy.
• pour over hot cinnamon rolls and smooth evenly.
• stick them in the freezer for five minutes and voila! Enjoy yummy deliciousness!!
Now I apologize for my horrible pictures! This was kind of a spur of the moment thing. And they didn't turn out as pretty as I wanted them but they taste delicious nonetheless!
Filling:
• 3/4 cup of packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons of melted butter
• mix well with a fork and set aside.
Dough:
• 2 1/2 cups of flour
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of butter milk
• 4 tablespoons of melted butter
• mix with spoon just until the dough comes together. If you mix to much the cinnamon rolls will be hard. Kneed the dough with hands and divide into two halves. Don't be afraid to use more flour to stop the sticking.
• roll out the dough into a rectangle just a bit bigger than a piece of paper. Fill with half of your cinnamon mixture and leave the sides of the dough clean about a 1/4 of an inch around all sides. Then roll up like a huge sausage, pinch the seams shut and cut your roll into eight pieces. Repeat with other half. Put your pieces in an 8 X 11 dish. Make sure to spray it with non stick spray!
• melt one more table spoon of butter and brush the tops of your cinnamon rolls.
• put in the oven( pre heated to 425) for 15 minutes or until golden brown on top.
Icing:
• 3 ounces of softened cream cheese
• 1 cup of powdered sugar
• 4 tablespoons of buttermilk
• mix together cream cheese and powdered sugar till smooth.
• add the buttermilk one table spoon at a time until creamy.
• pour over hot cinnamon rolls and smooth evenly.
• stick them in the freezer for five minutes and voila! Enjoy yummy deliciousness!!
Now I apologize for my horrible pictures! This was kind of a spur of the moment thing. And they didn't turn out as pretty as I wanted them but they taste delicious nonetheless!
Friday, February 24, 2012
Childlike once more!!
Today, my Sophi and I had macaroni and cheese for lunch! It was delicious and cheesy and we loved it! But all I could think about was how before she came bursting into my husband and my life I was wishing that I could be a little kid again and do kid things, eat kid things, and play like a kid again!! Well here it is folks the double wammie!! I get to do all of it again!!! Yay!! But now I mostly think about what it would be like to be able to do grown up things all the time!! What is this I thought I was doing what I wanted!! But I guess we are never fully satisfied until we achieve the opposite of what we want...
Now I sit here typing and daydreaming about what it would be like to go out to romantic dinners and spend a whole day in CLEAN clothes! No boogers, no remnants of previous meals, no questionable stains or spots you don't remember getting! Don't get me wrong being a mommy to my sweet Sophi is the best and I enjoy every minute even when I am tempted to rip my hair out from hearing "momma momma!!" thousands of times a day!
Now I sit here typing and daydreaming about what it would be like to go out to romantic dinners and spend a whole day in CLEAN clothes! No boogers, no remnants of previous meals, no questionable stains or spots you don't remember getting! Don't get me wrong being a mommy to my sweet Sophi is the best and I enjoy every minute even when I am tempted to rip my hair out from hearing "momma momma!!" thousands of times a day!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Potty Training
Sophi has decided that she is ready to potty train! this is exciting seeing as she is only 16 months old! She has been going very well on the potty for the past week unfortunately that didnt last because we have recently reached a stand still in her training...
"Yesterday as i was getting Sophi undressed to go pee pee in her potty,
(she likes to be completely stark butt naked. She can't even wear socks!) she sat down and looked like she was ready to go. she suddenly stands up and slams the lid down on her potty and climbs on top of it. i was sitting on the toilet watching her slightly amused, when she starts screaming "pee pee" and she starts peeing on me and on her potty and all over the floor! she starts giggling and runs naked into the front room....needless to say i will no longer be asking her if she wants to go pee pee on her potty...it will be rephrased to "go pee pee IN her potty."
"Yesterday as i was getting Sophi undressed to go pee pee in her potty,
(she likes to be completely stark butt naked. She can't even wear socks!) she sat down and looked like she was ready to go. she suddenly stands up and slams the lid down on her potty and climbs on top of it. i was sitting on the toilet watching her slightly amused, when she starts screaming "pee pee" and she starts peeing on me and on her potty and all over the floor! she starts giggling and runs naked into the front room....needless to say i will no longer be asking her if she wants to go pee pee on her potty...it will be rephrased to "go pee pee IN her potty."
Friday, July 8, 2011
I am woman!!
God said" 24 hours should be good! They will have so much time they won't know what to do with themselves!" but as he is a man.... He was wrong because add children and there are NEVER enough hours in the day! I only have one kid. So to those who have five or six etc.... Heaven help you! What were you thinking?!?! Obviously you were only thinking of the pleasure that comes with making children and not the actual out come.( sorry to some of my more conservative friends but... If your really my friend you wouldn't get offended and just come to expect this of me) I have never been an extremely organized person... My husband knew this when he married me yet he still gets annoyed when the house is in shambles when he gets home. But with sophi... It's hold her and clean with one hand or clean while she is napping which is never the same amount in a day it's either one hour to maybe an hour and a half.
Now that that is all out of the way let's get down to what it means to be all that is woman... To me women are not those big breasted women with perfect skin and size zero jeans. The ones with their hair always done and their makeup applied perfectly everyday. Because what have their perfectly manicured fingers ever do? Have they ever scrubbed poop off the carpet because their child decided to smear her diaper and then walk in it? No.. They haven't. Have they ever dared to go to the grocery store in an oversized t-shirt and jeans with their hair quickly thrown into a ponytail? Again.. No they have not! Those are the real women people! The real women out there are the ones you see with bags under their eyes. The ones who are wrestling with their children in public because if they don't they can't get anything done! And I am proud to say that I am one of those women! So REAL women of the world stand up and say " I am woman because I don't always get a shower and I still go out in public!!"
Now that that is all out of the way let's get down to what it means to be all that is woman... To me women are not those big breasted women with perfect skin and size zero jeans. The ones with their hair always done and their makeup applied perfectly everyday. Because what have their perfectly manicured fingers ever do? Have they ever scrubbed poop off the carpet because their child decided to smear her diaper and then walk in it? No.. They haven't. Have they ever dared to go to the grocery store in an oversized t-shirt and jeans with their hair quickly thrown into a ponytail? Again.. No they have not! Those are the real women people! The real women out there are the ones you see with bags under their eyes. The ones who are wrestling with their children in public because if they don't they can't get anything done! And I am proud to say that I am one of those women! So REAL women of the world stand up and say " I am woman because I don't always get a shower and I still go out in public!!"
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