Part 2: ALCAT Phase 2 Begins Don’t forget to read Part 1 (ALCAT Testing) and Part 3 (ALCAT completion summary after 6 months) Yep. Today is the day. I have done it. I have made it to my three month mark – that is 91 LONG days of eating according to my ALCAT food sensitivities. This is a big milestone…
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2 years ago…Micro Lumbar Discectomy
It was two years ago yesterday that Steve had back surgery. He had a micro lumbar discectomy. I have written several times on my blog about the process and his recovery. You can look under my blog labels and looks under “Herniated Disc Surgery” to see them if you are interested. I thought that I would write about it now…
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Part 1: Food, Chemical and Herbal Sensitivities (ALCAT Testing)
Part 1: ALCAT Testing {Don’t forget to read Part 2 (ALCAT phase 2) and Part 3 (Completion report after 6 months)} My health has been consuming me for months now. Not by choice but by force. Unfortunately my Hashimoto’s symptoms have been getting a lot worse (at least that is what I finally narrowed it down to.) The doctors ruled…
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Garden Time!
It’s time for a garden update. This has been a long time coming. So long that our garden is even different than these pictures now. It is so exciting. I have learned through our first garden how much hard work it is. I grew almost everything from organic seeds and irrigated the garden with the help of my Dad. Thankfully…
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Cherry Season
One of the reasons I love living where I do is that any time a fruit is in season I can go and pick it fresh from an orchard that is growing it. Fresh and Local is what it is all about these days right? I love supporting our local farmers and orchards. Around this time of the year the…
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{DIY} Book shelf covers and schoolroom upgrade!
This post has been a long time coming. My original post about “creating” was in February of this year. You can find it here. I knew when I committed to “spruce up” the school room that it would take months to do just a little sewing. As much as I wanted to sit down for hours at a time and just get it done…
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Root Vue
I have to tell you about a really neat gift Corbin received for Christmas from my parents in 2011. It is called Root Vue. I am always partial to gifts that are educational as well as gifts that make you think (like wooden blocks and legos and such.) So many toys these days just go unused after one day because the…
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Spring Gardening
Gardening season has begun here. It has been so much fun. I have a lot to learn and love learning though! I love that beautiful fruits, veggies, plants and flowers come from such tiny little seeds and that they can actually sustain a life. The days here have been on and off rainy (which I love) and the sunny days are bright blue and breezy…
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One year Gluten Free!
** Even though I eat Grain Free, Gluten Free, Refined Sugar Free, Dairy Free and Legume free now, I am leaving this post here to let you see where I started. Eating Gluten Free was the initial change to my diet and my journey in that is written about here.** Today is my one year anniversary of being gluten free. …
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The Love Jar {a February Family Tradition}
I am trying a new idea this month. I got it off this site. Since Valentines day is in February I usually like to make the whole month focused on love. Not the kind of love that buys stuff and is full of commercialized things but the kind of love that comes from Christ. I have tried various ideas in the…
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Harvest Pumpkin
I was given this little pumpkin along with this instruction card years ago at a scrapbooking retreat. We made the activity a tradition every year here. It has been one of the funnest traditions we have during the fall season at our house. It is called the Harvest Pumpkin This little tiny pumpkin that fits in the palm of our hands…
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Thankful Leaves
I thought I would share a tradition that we do at our house each harvest season that my family really looks forward to. It is called “thankful leaves.” This year we made our leaves into a tree. Usually we decorate our school room with the leaves all over the walls. Either way works but we sure had fun growing our…
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More Harvest Festivities
This has been such a fun year for celebrating harvest. We don’t celebrate Halloween around here but we do have family traditions that get the whole family together and create lasting memories to commemorate the Fall season. I thought I would share what we have been up to in the midst of unpacking and getting settled in our new house….
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Apple Harvest
When Fall rolls around I always look forward to picking fresh apples and then turning them into tasty, sweet desserts. Since I was a little girl my family and I always had a tradition of going to the local mountain town to pick apples and enjoy the cool, crisp fall air. As I grew up there were less u-pick apple…
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Activity of the day: Psalm 119:11 Hide a Verse Puzzle
Today we did an activity that I found in my June Thriving Family magazine. I love this magazine. Focus on the family creates it and they are now offering subscriptions for FREE! If you don’t get it I highly recommend that you subscribe to it. During the summer TF Magazine usually has a couple pages that have a calendar on them and a summer…
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