Oh nuts!

This morning Gunnar was taking his bath before church and he called "mom hurry quick" I hurried over to him he was sitting on the step of the tub examining is private parts, I said "what's wrong are you hurt?" he replied "yes, my nuts are all wrinkled!"

New vocabulary word for the day "comped"

Tonight Aly came to me and stated that she was missing $50 and mysteriously Gunnar had new found riches of coincidentally $50....so I started to question Gunnar, "Gunnar did you steal Aly's money(dumb question)?" He replied "no I comped it." I said "what does comped it mean?" His answer was "comped it means not stealing." Uh huh....

So this morning the Fast Sunday after Halloween as I came out of my bedroom I saw my adorable 6yr old Gunnar with a chocolate smile, a pack of whoppers in each hand and the craze of a sugar rush in his blue/green eyes. I said "Gunnar you can't down all that sugar on an empty stomach you need to eat some breakfast first" his reply "Mom I can't eat breakfast it's fast Sunday!" It's all relative...

Re-evaluating nutrition, yet again......

So I spent 3 days last week glued to my computer watching a webcast of a raw food seminar in northern California. I ate it up and the girls were also very attentive. I loved all the info and feel very persuaded by the whole raw food movement, I do have some reservations and thoughts of my own that will keep me from going down that strictly raw road though. Such as the whole dehydrating idea wow 12 hours for a batch of cookies that so does not work for me, and I feel raw fooders in mean some raw fooders eat way too many nuts and seeds and frankly even a few presenters were a little on the chubby side which tells me that more cashews are being consumed than kale! Now I love cashews but some of these chefs were make "nut loafs" we are talking mega calorie and major fat! Not good, I mean moderation in all things. I really connected with Dr Doug Graham who wrote the 80-10-10 diet, I should get my amazon delivery tomorrow! He focused on eating food in it's original form I liked his ideas and he is an athlete he really looked the part. For me it's really hard to get inspired to follow someone's philosophy's when they don't look the way you want to look. Maybe that is very shallow but it's true. All in all I have learned so much about food the last year, I thank my Dad for introducing me to the book "The China Study" T. Colin Campbell, last year it has changed my life and taken all the fear about cancer out of my life I love the freedom in my mind knowing that I know what causes cancer and it's easily avoidable. What a huge relief since all the women in my life seem to die from cancer. Knowledge is POWER! So here I am still floating along as far as my ideas about food go I'm not locked on to any plan or theory I'm just letting the spirit guide me and try each day to nourish my family and make their body healthy and resiliant.

I'm not sure how this happened...

Everybody says it but it doesn't make it less true- it happens in the blink of an eye, and I mean it! She'll be an official teenager in a matter of days and I'm kinda freaked out by it. I wasn't a really young mother, well against mormon standards that is. Ok so, yea 23 does sound young now that I say that way and really what was I thinking having children at 23 years old anyway? Shouldn't I have been wrapping up my PHD or something like that? Oh I'm projecting now, darn! Well if she decides to have children at 23 I guess I'll support her I mean after all I don't think I've done such a bad job.