Vacation

We're headed to the beach (Emerald Isle, NC) for the week!

Here's our menu plan:

B: Omelets w/cheese and veggies
L: Sandwiches
D: Rice spaghetti w/spinach and beef sauce

B: Breakfast Quiche
L: Homemade soup and pasta salad
D: Taco Salad

B: Quiche leftovers
L: Soup, Pasta Salad, Leftovers
D: Chicken and Rice Casserole with salad

B: Oatmeal
L: Soup, Pasta Salad, Leftovers
D: Down Home Goulash

B: Eggs
L: Taquitos w/guac
D: Leftovers

B: Eggs, Bacon, Fruit
L/D: Homemade chili

B: Oatmeal
L: Chili leftovers
D: Polyface burgers and sweet potato fries

See you when we get back!

The Girls

Instead of a toxic flu shot

How about you try this tea instead?

Garlic, Honey, and Lemon Tea

8-12 cloves of crushed and peeled garlic, simmered in two cups of water for 10 minutes.
Strain. Add into the strained water
The juice from one fresh lemon
and honey to taste.

For even more immune boosting power, add 1-3 tablespoons of coconut oil at the end, and let it dissolve into the tea, before drinking.

Sip slowly throughout the day, or drink a half cup every hour

Gut and Psychology Syndrome aka Autism, ADHD, Allergies, Asthma, Learning Disabilities, Constipation, etc etc.

This blogger did an amazing job at simplifying the sometimes confusing world of GAPS. This is Seth in a nutshell, and what we're doing to try and recover him (ourselves too, for that matter). There isn't anything I can add to this. So, here's the link. Do yourself a favor and click around her website. It's full of wonderful info.

GAPS

Farm Goodness

We had our first pick-up from a new co-op we're part of yesterday. We got chicken livers, ground beef, hot dogs, stew meat, raw honey, fermented ketchup, rye sourdough bread, goats milk soap, an awesome cookbook, raw goat milk butter, beautiful eggs, and two gallons of raw goat milk. I felt like a little girl on Christmas Eve opening up our package yesterday!

Jenny McCarthy on Oprah

Watch Oprah today! Jenny is another mom who has treated and recovered her son from autism through biomedical intervention. Her new book, Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds, just came out. Can't wait to get my hands on that!

Pumpkin Pie Custard

I LOVE pumpkin pie. I was kind of disappointed thinking about pumpkin pie this year, being that we're sugar-free, gluten-free, soy-free and dairy-free. I started searching around for a Buer-approved recipe and I found this. Haven't tried it yet, but I sure will be soon enough!


1 can pumpkin puree (or 2 c. fresh puree)
1 can coconut milk (NOT the low-fat kind)
4 eggs (or 5 egg yolks for kids under one)
1/4 t. cinnamon
1/4 t. nutmeg
1/4 t. cardamon
1/4 t. allspice
2 T. molasses
maple syrup or honey to taste (0, 1/4 or 1/2 c.)

Combine all ingredients, mix well with a whisk. Cook in a pie pan or souffle dish at 350 degrees until set (about 50 minutes.)

My issues with Sarah Palin

Alright, I'm feeling pretty fired up today...and I needed somewhere to vent. So, here it goes. I think John McCain made a smart move by picking a woman for a running mate. He's definitely picked back up some of the republican voters who were planning on voting democratic this year. Sarah Palin was not a good pick though. Mother to mother, I've got major issues with her being the VP or possibly the President of the United States. She has a FOUR month old baby with SPECIAL NEEDS. Not to mention a pregnant teenage daughter. I'm sorry, call me old fashion, but she needs to be at home with her children. She has a darling little baby who needs his mother. Does she realize what it's going to be like taking care of a child with Down Syndrome? Does she know how important this first year is for him? She will have to make so many important decisions for him. This child needs his mother at home. Who is taking care of him while she's out campaigning? Is he being formula feed because she's too busy for him? Who is helping her daughter through this hard time in her life? What are mothers for? How are these children going to grow up without their mother there for them like she should be? Marriage and family....isn't that what republicans are fighting for? Keeping the traditional family together? Where has the sacredness of motherhood gone?

All of that aside, how can we expect a mother to young children be completely devoted to her position as VP? Not saying that I support Hillary, but at least she didn't have any young children at home. She could devote all of her time to building/defending this country. Sarah can't. No matter how hard she tries, she just won't be able to there for her country like a VP should be. And if she is, then it's at the expense of her children.

I'm not endorsing one candidate or the other, just voicing some of my concerns. What are your thoughts?

For your viewing pleasure....I just couldn't help myself.

What we ate this weekend

Saturday - Roast from Polyface cooked in the crockpot and these amazing potatoes and salad w/veggies.

Sunday - Breakfast was bacon, eggs and leftover potatoes cooked in the bacon grease. Dinner was Lemon Chicken Quinoa soup with homemade bread with ghee. This soup was wonderful. I started it this morning by making chicken stock. I strained out the bones and added all of the other ingredients. It had a great simple, homemade flavor. I commented to Rhett during dinner that it tasted like we were eating something his mom would make. Yum!

Food!

Seth doesn't eat. When I say doesn't eat, I mean doesn't eat. This is wayyyy beyond picky eating. He has so many texture issues that it's hard for him to chew. He still hasn't learned how to chew properly. So, he will suck on things and spit it out or swallow it whole - which completely limits him. Despite every attempt we've made, he just won't eat anything! We've bribed, we've hidden food, we've made it fun, we've had him help us cook, we've sent him to bed hungry (just about every night), we've had him play with his food, we've had his toys eat his food. We're out of options.

This is what Seth eats right now:

sweet potato baby food (can't hide anything in with this)
pancakes (he's starting to refuse these too)
applesauce
ketchup
bananas
Enjoy Life choc chip cookies
juice
his hemp milk/rice milk/goat milk kefir combo
rice and beans from Chipotle
rice noodles with spaghetti sauce (pureed with ground beef and spinach) - he sucks the sauce off and spits out the noodle

That's it. This is what he eats day in and day out. Heck, I'd be autistic if that's all I ate. It's driving me (and him I'm sure) absolutely nuts. I don't know what else to do though. Please share any suggestions that you have!

Seth's DAN! appointment

Seth went and saw his DAN! doctor on Friday. His gut is starting to heal! She said he's only having issues with part of his large intestines now....rather than the whole thing! She didn't mention the chemicals bothering him either - so I guess we've cleaned that up. She said that a virus is bothering him now. His body was screaming out for this virus patch. She tested him for an autism patch, a digestive patch, tons of different patches; but he wanted the virus patch. She showed us a picture that she took of him on his first appointment. He looks completely different. She mentioned how angry he looked in that first picture. Poor guy.

Here is what Seth's on for these 6 weeks:

Adrenal Support - 5 drops/2x day
Stress Relief - 5 drops/2x day
Pleo Oku (for parasites) - 2 drops/day
Pleo Fort (for tummy pain) - 2 drops/day
Probiotics - 1/2 tsp/day
Cod Liver Oil
Corpus Collosum - 5 pills/1x week
Homeopathic MMR - 1 pill/1x month
Protocol Pak which includes a support system for organs/system, heavy metals, viruses, and chemicals - everyday
Multivitamin - 1/day
Digestive Enzymes - with every meal
Aura Virus patch - wear every day

Polyface

Coconut Oil

This is a wonderful article about the many benefits of coconut oil. Well worth the click.

Coconut Oil: It's Health Benefits and Why It's In My Diet

Cuties

Dinner was amazing!

So, next time you're visiting us you must go to the Mount Vernon Inn Restaurant. It was so wonderful! It was like eating dinner in an old colonial house. It was cozy and warm and lit by candlelight. Everything was very true to the time period. Even the staff were dressed in colonial outfits (not in a cheesy way though!). The menu was all traditional food - cooked to George Washington's liking. Rhett couldn't have picked a better spot. I had Hoe Cakes for an appetizer, which was corn cakes topped with bacon, crabmeat and some dressing. For dinner I had the salmon, which came with very simply steamed veggies and potatoes. Despite how wonderful the dinner was, the company of my husband was the best. Thanks you. ;)

Birthday Dinner

Guess where I'm going to dinner tonight.....

Mount Vernon Inn Restaurant

Our last date was my birthday last year, so this is pretty exciting. =)

A fall day....finally!

It's cooled off around here (in honor of my birthday, of course!). It's so nice to wake up to 70 degree weather, instead of 90 degree weather. This time of year is so magical to me. I think it's the anticipation of cozy sweaters, warm bowls of soup, and snow days. During the fall I get that cozy Sunday afternoon feeling everyday. I just love fall!

The love affair must end

Enough is enough. I've been talking the talk for so long now, but I'm not 100% walking the walk. We eat healthy, traditional, whole food meals. But then I always end up sneaking some type of sugary junk. It makes me feel DISGUSTING, but it's just so hard to stop. Sugar is so addictive. Within 15 minutes of eating sugar my vision goes blurry, I get dizzy, I feel shaky and weak, I get tired, I start feeling depressed, short-tempered, hopeless, and panicky. Why do I do this to myself? A little chocolate for all of those horrible side effects? It's not worth it. I would never ever feed my kids that junk, why should I treat myself any differently? Sugar is my love affair. I use it to reward myself. As soon as the kids are both down for naps I run to the kitchen to my secret stash. If Rhett has to go back into work at night, I run to the kitchen. If I've had a hard day, I run to the kitchen. I always seem to justify just one more indulgence. It's always the last time, right?

I guess I feel like if I publicly admitted to my nutritional short-comings then I might take more responsibility. It's time to take that last step into my dietary changes and STOP with the sugar. Of course, being that tomorrow is my birthday, I won't start until Wednesday (justification, I know). But, it's over. I'm breaking up with sugar. Goodbye sugar. You haven't been good to me.

What Ella's eating

Her favorite food is runny egg yolk (Polyface, of course). She's been eating lots of vegetable concoctions. Soups that I make w/ fresh chicken broth. Everything is always spiked with probiotics and cod liver oil. We will be getting our first gallons of raw goat milk on Wednesday, so I'm hoping that she likes that too. She usually takes a few sips of my green smoothies everyday (see above!). She's such a good little eater.

Last "new words" update

Seth is saying anything and everything. I can't keep track anymore. This day has come so much sooner than I ever expected. I'm so blessed to be able to watch this miracle unfold, one new word at a time.

Football Season '08

What's better than being in your PJs and watching college football with these cuties?

The daily walk

Seth likes to take Ella for a walk in the stroller every morning after breakfast. Down the driveway and up the stairs, down the driveway and up the stairs, over and over. It's so cute.

My gimp

Rhett had a pretty bad bike crash last Monday. He was on his way to work and slipped on a wet bridge. He cracked his helmet, completely tore up his elbow/leg/shoulder/hands, and ripped up his biking outfit. He's been very sore, but didn't feel any concern over a broken bone, etc. Granted, he is a very calm person and never makes a big deal over anything. I've been thinking that he needed to go get an x-ray of his arm all week. His elbow still has a very big lump on it. The first thing he said this morning when he woke up was that he needed to go get his arm checked out. When he feels concern, I know he means business. 1 urgent care office and 4 hours later, the doctor couldn't tell him anything. They told him that they couldn't read his x-ray. Uhhh, ok. They pacified him with a corny sling and a percocet Rx. Oye.

Seth can read!

Yep, that's right! He can recognize the words "mama" "dada" "Ella" "Seth" and "bike". Man, who is this kid?

WAP Video

Homemade Toys

We're trying to go all homemade (or donations to charity) this Christmas. I've been searching around for some homemade toys for the kiddies. I've found some really great ideas!

Tot Books

Discovery Bottles

Toddler Activity Bags (This would be great for church)

Texture Boards

Dollhouse

Felt fruit and veggies

Felt breakfast foods There are so many other great felt food items on Etsy. Just search for "felt food". Cute desserts, crack-able eggs, etc.

Playsilks and playsilks organizer

Stuffed Felt Letters aka the cutest thing I've ever seen

Beanbags

Felted Sky Streamer

Alphabet Crayons

Now if I only had the time...

76 Ways Sugar Ruins Your Health

Contributed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D
Author of the book Lick The Sugar Habit

In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications.

Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.

Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.

Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.

Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.

Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.

Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach.

Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.

Sugar can weaken eyesight.

Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.

Sugar can cause premature aging.

Sugar can lead to alcoholism.

Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.

Sugar contributes to obesity.

Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.

Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)

Sugar can cause gallstones.

Sugar can cause appendicitis.

Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.

Sugar can cause varicose veins.

Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.

Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.

Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.

Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.

Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.

Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.

High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body).

Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.

Sugar causes food allergies.

Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.

Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.

Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.

Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.

Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.

Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.

Sugar can cause emphysema.

High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.

Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.

Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.

Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.

Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.

Sugar can damage your pancreas.

Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.

Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.

Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.

Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.

Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.

Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.

Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.

Sugar can cause depression.

Sugar can increase your risk of gout.

Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.

Sugar can lead to dizziness.

Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.

High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.

High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration and is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.

Sugar is an addictive substance.

Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.

Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.

Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.

Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.

The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.

Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.

Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.

Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.

I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.

Sugar increases your risk of polio.

High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.

Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.

In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.

Sugar may induce cell death.

In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.

Sugar dehydrates newborns.

Sugar can cause gum disease.

Source


Sugar is truly an addictive drug. I went without a gram of sugar for 2 weeks and then had a small dessert one night after dinner. Within 15 minutes I had a headache, my vision was blurred, I was dizzy, my stomach hurt, and I started feeling panicky and hopeless. If you do nothing else, just try to take one less bite of sugar today then you would have. Any little step makes a difference.

Pretend Play

We took Seth's play kitchen downstairs to be in our "classroom". I bought some new toy pots and pans and a whole set of kiddie silverware. It's so cute.

Pots and Pans

Silverware

Anyways, I've been trying to encourage him to use his imagination and do some pretend play. We had gotten him to pretend to take a drink a while back, but that was about it. Today I was helping him cook "soup" and he started feeding the soup to Ella!! It made my heart so happy!

Epsom Salts for Sensory Integration Disorder

Seth's DAN! doctor told us to start giving Seth baths in Epsom Salts 3 times a week. I wasn't totally sure how they would help until I found this blog post by another mom. What great insight. Dr. Gennaro told me that I had major mineral deficiencies also....probably explains some of the anxiety issues. I guess I didn't pass on any magnesium to Seth while I was pregnant. It just amazes me how crucial our food choices are.

Good Calories, Bad Calories: What's Really Making Us Fat?

Great article in Mother Earth News right now. I'm not 100% on board with everything he says - I don't think that carbs are the evil of all evils in the world. I think that fruit, vegetables (yes, including potatoes!) and properly prepared yeast-free bread is healthy. Balance in everything, right? Still, it's a wonderful article with great research.

Good Calories, Bad Calories

10 Reason to Become TV-Free

1. People who watch 3 hours of TV per day are twice as likely to be obese than people who watch less than 1 hour per day.

2. Average US parent spends only 38 min/week in meaningful conversation with children vs. 31½ hours/week watching TV.

3. TV viewing in children at ages one and three is associated with ADHD symptoms at age seven.

4. Viewing TV violence is the single strongest predictor of aggression later in life, according to long-term study.

5. Children witness 16,000 TV murders by age 18.5

6. Viewers watch an average 40,000 commercials per year.

7. Commercials aimed at kids influence in an estimated $300 billion/year in sales via the “Nag Factor”.

8. Students who watched an hour of TV per day or less scored the best on achievement tests.

9. TV is addictive.

10. The average American watches 4 hours 35 minutes of TV per day. There is simply so much else to do in life.

I think the most appalling stat is number 2. 38 minutes a week in meaningful conversation? Kids are spending almost a 40 hour work week watching TV? Are you kidding me? I found this great website www.insteadoftv.com. They have lots of creative ideas for things to do instead of watching TV. I have really come to hate our TV. Yeah, its fun sometimes, but mostly it just takes away from quality time we could be spending together. I've decided to cancel our cable subscription after football season ends (sorry, we just love our college football!). We will keep the actual TV for movies and things, but our cable channels will be cancelled. We didn't have cable for a long time after we were married. I remember calling up our phone company and they kept pressuring me to add on some TV channels. The guy just couldn't understand why we wouldn't want it. He was blown away. How sad.

How to make kefir

I'm always inspired by Ann Marie at Cheeseslave. She posted a tutorial on how to make kefir. It makes a seemingly daunting task look very very easy. I've been buying goat milk kefir for Seth, but now I can start making it myself!

How to Make Kefir

Megan's favorite things

Ella's soft little hands in the middle of the night

Seth before bed

Rhett when he gets home from work on his bike. All sweaty and adorable.

Hearing Ella say "mama" when I leave the room

Seth saying "bye bye house" when we leave the garage ("house" pronounced "huss")

Planning and cooking great meals for people I love

Watching Seth and Ella laugh hysterically at each other

Hanging out with Rhett at night after the kids are in bed

My books

The smell of chicken broth cooking on the stove

Watching Seth take Ella for walks in the stroller

Football season

All the magical memories of Ella's homebirth


Beat that Oprah

How cute are they?

How we get through a grocery trip in one piece

The grocery store has always been incredibly hard for Seth. He has gotten better, but for a while he would clench onto my shirt for dear life the whole time we would be in the store. He would cover his eyes, his ears, anything he could do to get away from the situation. He would either scream because he wanted to leave or because he wanted to get down and obsess over the wheels on the cart. Our trips usually ended with him screaming and me frustrated because I'd only gotten half the things on my list. Not a pretty sight. Anyways, ever since he had that "awakening" in July he's been doing a lot better at the store. I've been trying to get him involved with the whole process. My grandma made Seth a little library bag last Christmas and I bring it with me. I give it to him as his grocery bag and we fill it up with his special foods. I don't know why I didn't think to do it before. He loves having his own bag. It keeps him engaged during the entire trip. Thanks grandma!

Couple more words

eraser
car
bus
hat
wagon
square
plane

He has started recognizing colors and he can tell the difference between big and small. Yay!

Green Festival

Washington DC Green Festival

Who wants to go with me?

Why I'm not a vegetarian anymore

Not too long ago I was a die-hard-never-going-back vegetarian. I am always researching health issues and, at the time, it seemed like the healthiest thing I could do for myself and for the environment. I was never a big meat eater anyways, so it wasn't a hard switch. My husband sweetly smiled at every new vegetarian concoction I made for dinner. I hadn't eaten meat for probably a year before I got pregnant with Ella. Then, before I knew I was pregnant, I had this crazy craving for ham. I NEEDED some ham. Never in my life had I ever craved meat. Now I know it was my body calling out for quality protein and fat. I indulged in the ham and went about as if nothing had happened. All the while filling my body with fake soy products, low fat cheeses, egg whites, the whole nine-yards. Then my body had finally had enough. When I was about 8 months pregnant I started having massive panic attacks. These attacks were so bad that Rhett couldn't go to work for almost a week. I was going absolutely nuts. I was in such a dark place. My mind was gone. I was so disassociated with my world and it was terribly scary. Then I remembered (inspiration?) some research I had come across not too long ago. Some guy named Weston A. Price and all that meat, fat, etc. diet. I decided I would mention something about it to my midwife to see what she thought. Turns out she was a hard-core veggie for years before she found out about the traditional foods diet. I also remembered that my friend Heather was getting meat from a farm in Swoope, VA named Polyface. It was supposed to be the best meat money could buy. I did more research and felt inspired that I needed to change my diet. It didn't take too long for my body to start feeling nourished and whole again. I remember when I first started eating meat again that I craved bacon so badly. My body was so starved for fat and protein. My brother also had the same problems I was having. He went vegetarian not long after I did and, guess what, started having panic attacks. He was so sick his entire freshman year of college. I think our brains were starving.

Now I'm not saying that I'm this mega meat eater. You don't need tons of meat. You just need high quality meat. Grass fed, local, organic, kindly treated, free roaming, happy animal meat. Just thinking about the meat you would pick up from a generic grocery store makes my stomach turn. I wouldn't touch wal-mart quality ground beef with a 10 foot pole anymore. That is the meat that destroys your health and the environment.

Inspiration

I have been totally inspired by this LDS mom today...

Green Smoothie Girl

More on this later....kiddies are calling

New Words

cup
all done
hanger
stop
sit
red
pink
rice and beans (we can thank good ol' Chipotle for this one)

Proof of Progress

Seth's occupational therapist did an "annual review" of Seth last week. I'm amazed at the progress he's making. In March he measured at a 9-15 month old level for language. Here are his results from last week...

Cognitive: 29-30 months

Language: Receptive - 30 months
Expressive - 20 months
Scattered - 18-34 months

Amazing, huh? He's a completely different kid today than he was just a couple months ago.

Weekend Meals

Saturday - Turkey burgers, corn on the cob, baked potato salad

Sunday - Oatmeal pancakes w/peach compote for breakfast. A version of this salad for lunch. Creamy chicken apple chili for dinner.

I'm going to make these cupcakes (minus the frosting) for Seth as a snack. Hopefully he will try them!

Little Ella belle absolutely loves soft boiled egg yolk with cod liver oil. She's also been drinking some fresh chicken broth. She had a little runny nose and the broth clears it right up. She's been eating little bits of the fruits and vegetables that we eat. I think that she's been getting hungry lately, so I might try to give her some homemade raw goat milk formula. Sally Fallon has a recipe for one in Nourishing Traditions. A friend of mine told me about another recipe in The Makers Diet. I still haven't decided what will be best for her, so I'll be thinking about it this weekend.

Cool Websites

These two websites were listed on my Mercola.com newsletter.

Love Food Hate Waste - This website helps you use the food you have. You can type in leftover ingredients you have and they will give you recipes to use it up.

How To Clean Stuff - This website tells you how to clean anything and everything. I should be using this more than I am!