Creativity!

For those of you who have a life of your own, many blogs are starting Christmas creativity challenges.

Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas for the fourth year, I still don't have my other 3 years finished.

www.timholtz.typepad.com/

Becky Higgins has something going on.

www.beckyhiggins.com/blog/

The 2o days of holiday sharing at two peas should have hints.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/events/12-20-days-of-holiday-sharing/

I think Ali Edwards is doing the December Daily again.
http://aliedwards.com/blog/


Lots of my scrapbook celebrities that I have enjoyed following giving us nice things to enjoy.
Have fun and take the time to create.

Holiday Splurges

Dr. Phil is advertising a new diet, how to stop from gaining the holday 12.

Hello! Splurging on the holiday is not the problem, splurgeing for the next 5 weeks yep could be.

The answer is nothing more than, splurge on the day, yep Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Then eat sensibly for the other 32 days. Hello you don't need to gain during the holiday. You can't eat enough at one meal to gain 12 pounds.

Stop this insanity.

Sleeping on Black Friday.

Well I should have went shopping.
Would be less tire and gotten more sleep.

Watched Santa Paws last night it finished about 11. Kids were two hyped up to go to sleep. Now it is 6:30, I have been up since 4.

Between coughing, snoring, moning, tossing, turning. And I am on the couch. No sleep to be had.
Six kids and I do not make a great night of sleep.

Hope they are all in good moods when they arise, cause I know I won't be.

The tree is kind of decorated. The choo choo is running. So a few things were accomplished.
Turkey day is over and it is on to Merry Christmas.

I made carmel corn and it is good, but I need a lighter coating anyone have a tried and true recipe.

Thankful!

I am thanful.
Thankful that everyday I can decide to get out of bed and move.

That when I do choose to move that I feel better, stronger, need less pain medicine and have less pain.

Thankful that I can do things my way, tho sometime modified from what I use to do.

Thankful that I don't have some of the horrific diseases or situations that others have had to live with this year.

Thankful that I can choose how I live, believe and celebrate.

Thankful that we have been so blessed, with the easy life that we have here in America.

Thankful that we are able to give of ourselves.

Thankful for you family and friends.

Normals

My normal is not your normal.

In most cases that doesn't make mine right and yours wrong or vice versa.


But there are rules to follow, life laws to follow and because your life has not been the best doesn't mean you can't pull up your pants and become a better person.

Isn't that what we all should strive for? Improving ourselves to make life better for others.

Shouldn't we concentrate on being positive, learning, teaching, giving, appreciating what we have.

Shouldn't we remember it doesn't have to be our way.

It should be the way for the better of world.

Shouldn't we know good or bad, easy or hard, it isn't all about you.

Be an example, be good, give of yourself, and be thankful for what you do have.

Crafting

Rememeber when we use to craft?
Felt, plastic canvas, cross stitch, hot glue, beads, fabric, wood cutouts, paint, modpodge, styrofoam.

What do they all have in common,

Ornaments.

How I love making ornaments.

A couple blogs are starting ornaments this week, T!M will be starting his tags on December 1,

I am looking for some books with music in them, for what else ornaments, if you see any on your journeys please let me know where.

By the way which is the best thrift shop now adays, I know that Findlays Goodwill use to blow any of Limas stores out of the market.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is this week. A time to gather and give thanks and eat. Again eat and again eat.

You know what? It is okay to indulge yourself on Thanksgiving. How often do you get to eat that turkey and dressing and potatoes and gravy and pie? Once a year right?

If that is all we did we could do it and not have a weight problem, but just like birthdays and any other holiday now days, it becomes a month celebration.

Choose one day to splurge, make it be your favorite cook and recipes, and then eat a normal meal with proper portions at all the other celebrations and enjoy the company instead.

Pretty simple Uhhh?

Fats

Somehow in the past 40 years we have became fatter and less healthy. About 40 years ago is when the AHA, FDA and numerous others decide that fats was bad, sat fat was super bad and we all were getting heart disease because we consumed unhealthy fats. We chose to start using manufactured "healthy oils", now we know that they have transfats, and that these fats become more unstable as we heat them.

FATS are not bad, some are better than others, some are evil, and some are good for you.

It is like anything else find the right formula for you.

The Weston Price meeting for December is on FATS. Please join us and find out the truth about fat. I think it is on December 13, (second Monday), there is another meeting in Putnam County which I think is held on the first Tuesday of the month.

Just a little more knowledge about fat and sugars.

We added sugars and salt as we trimmed the fat.

We know that sugars cause us to be fat and that they feed cancer.
Sugar is not just sugar, you body converts carbs to sugar, so you need to add in your carbs when you are determining how much sugar you are consuming.

All you people who are "scared" of cancer YOU ARE FEEDING IT WITH YOUR DIET!

Also Food Inc, will be shown at the YMCA on December 9, if you have not seen this movie, it gives you a good idea on what is happening with our food and why we are not getting the proper nutrition anymore.

Its beginning to look a lot like......

Thanksgiving.
Well we do tend to overlook a great holiday. So much hustle and bustle to get to the big one, that we don't celebrate in November.
But then again, when did any of the holidays need a month or more of celebration. Halloween starts in September, Christmas starts in October, Thanksgiving never gets it due, birthdays are celebrated any time and go on for days on end. You might not beable to make it a true CELEBRATION if you actually celebrate you birthday on the day you were born. Period.

How entitled we think we are, and how we forget to give thanks for all we have.

Celebrate Thanksgiving everyday this year, start today or on the 25 and give thanks everyday for your blessings. Pray and ask for help for your challenges and listen as our savior blesses you with his wisdom. Concentrate on your blessings, journal those blessings. You can journal on a blog, on facebook or even the old fashioned way with paper and pencil. Review those entries once a month and give thanks, give thanks, give thanks.

Raising Kids

Watched 19 kids during the night last night.

I don't normally watch this, but do find the people fascinating. They seem so positive and work hard at doing things right. Not sure even with kids being a blessing why you would want that many, but they are supporting them.

So Michelle philosophy on the most important things to teach your children.

Attentiveness
obedience
self- control

I need to add one more that is bothering me.
Teach your kids to follow the rules.
It doesn't matter whether you believe the rule or not.
It is there for a reason.
Stop changing it to fit your criteria, stop trying to adjust it. Just teach them to follow them.

Knox County

Remember my post on Scrapbook Bootcamp. Well the area we visited has been having a disturbing situation for the past week.

Four people were ubducted and only one has been found. A 13 year old young girl was found gagged and bound in her abductors basement. His parents lived by her home, there was beer and blood found in her home, and nothing else. Very challenging for law officials.

This has made national news in the last few days.
This is whole situation has played out in Pams hometown, it is very disturbing.

Just another situations on good people having bad things happeing to them with no rhyme or reason.

Toddlers and the Zoo!

Note to self. Toddlers are self-centered and want your undivided attentions and do not want to share you with other toddlers.

Zoo was challenging to corral three of them.

Tween boys really do not hear a thing you say and can only concentrate for a few seconds on helping.

Enough said.

The animals were amazing. But lots of stuff not opened.
Plenty to see and 4 hours is enough for two and three year olds.

Colton loved the aquarium need to group him with Ethan, but then neither one has a clue on staying together so they could be lost with each other and we never would find them.

Taylor you can find cause she was throwing a hissy every few minutes.

Ky and Dalton just went along with the flow. And that means there is hope for all kids. They both were the challenging ones a few years and months back.

Got to love spending time with all of them. Mickey D's always solves the hunger pains and Toy Story and Beauty and the Beast keeps them entertained in the car.

A long exhausting beautiful day. November and 70 sunny degrees. FANTASTIC!

Diets

Do you know that diets don't work! That statistics show that only 2% of any population benefit from any one diet. ANY DIET. That is stagering considering that the diet industry is one of the fastest growing business in North America.

And we are the unhealthest population also.

So where are you spending your money?

Weston Price Foundation Meeting

was last night.
If you are not familiar with Weston Price, he basically teaches eating for health, with good whole foods.

So lots of info on Cholesterol drugs and cholesterol it self the health benefits and problems of both.

It is amazing how different studies look when you understand the way the study was conducted and how the results are shown. We learned about relative and absolute risks and how different the results are when you understand what they are telling you.

Also that sometime in the future your doctor will be telling you not to worry about cholesterol, you need to be concerned with the numbers of your triglycerides, the partical size and the density of cholesterol.

Also that inflamationis is what causes heart deaths not cholesterol.
Sugar causes inflamation. ALL SUGARS. WHITE REFINED FOODS = SUGAR.

Along with candy and sodas, bread, crackers and all those processed foods turn to sugar in your body. Even those healthy foods in the health food store when they are made from processed grains with the added "fiber".

Please learn to cook and take the time to cook for yourself. Take 10 or 15 minutes off of facebook and you can throw a meal together. A healthy meal with meats and fats and vegies and no processed foods.
You just can't trust the manufactures to gives us the healthy foods we need. That is why we look the way we do.

Scrapbook Bootcamp!

Well four of your favorite people survived Scrapbook Bootcamp.
Several of us traveled to the hills of central Ohio to scrap for the weekend.
We started on Friday morning, ate breakfast in the large metropolis of Upper Sandusky.

Next we jouneyed on to Marion, OH where we found a nice Scrapbook Store called A2Z. It has a banner on the upper building which says Mad Scrapper, but is under new owner.
I know the Mad Scrapper use to be located down town, so I was never at the store at the shopping center so don't know how similar it is to the last Mad scrapper.
The A2Z store is small but very nice. Lots of new type products that I had not seen before.

We than ventured thru Mt Vernon, Ohio and to the east we went, up and down and all around we traveled to the great small community, you may either call, Dannville or Milltown or near Howard or whatever. You are now visiting rural Ohio, with beautiful scenery, lots of farms, small stores at crossroads, beautiful new schools and a really nice, large, friendly, scrapbook store.

We really had a great time, lots of space to crop, lots of product, both old and new, many new friends.


Mark you calendars, we are planning on going back in May, (if not before) for National Scrapbook Day, so if you would like to join us, it is Scrapbooking Bootcamp!

You get to get up early, go to bed late, eat on schedule, have fun, be abused, make new friends, copy lots of inspiration, and scrap, scrap, scrap.

I even snuck off for a short walk one morning, crisp, beautiful accelerating walk. (I was concerned about the penality for this as this wasn't on the schedule: ).

So keep in mind this was a terrific weekend, save your money, (lots of shopping) and join us at
Scrapbook Haven in May for Patti's 10 Anniversary and National Scrapbook Day, space is limited to 25 so make your decision soon.

Relationships and Love

What is love? Love is giving of yourself, even when the receiver doesn't deserve it.

It means learning how to receive from them even when their gift is not what you expected or even wanted.

It means learning how to comunicate, its not always them.

It means figuring out YOU and finding joy in the mudane.

It means knowing that maybe the reason you are no longer on the pedestal is because of you not them.

You teach someone how to treat you, expect more get mo

Let them fight it out?

Not anymore. Stop the fueding. Teach them to respect each other.

Let them watch the political ads, teach them to lie about each other to get the upper edge.

But never ever let them fight it out, siblings can no longer pick on each other, learn to compromise, fight it out.

BIG BROTHER is watching and your will loose your children.

Let the older child pick on the ,step in an intervene, let the younger child pick on the older, scream even when the older child is not in the room. Correct older child again. Let the younger run the show, they don't understand. Let the older control, they don't know. Don't let them work it out, don't make them have time out, don't teach them to respect each other.

Just saying we need to get the government out of our lives.

PSA

The Mice are invading.

Use every means you have to control.

We have killed several already.


Just saying, it makes me so sick.

Flu Shots

Did you get your flu shot?

You might want to reconsider for next year.

Read this!

New Proof that This Common Medical Treatment is Unnecessary and Ineffective

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/11/01/flu-vaccine-and-its-side-effects.aspx



So how do we tell which is telling us the truth? Do your own research. Don't rely on others. Find more than one study and consider the results. Also consider how the study was directed.
Make sure you are listening to Good Science.