Friday, December 19, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Meaningful Toys
6 Fun Toys You Can Make at Home
One night after the kids are in bed before Christmas, Rhett and I are going to go through all of our toys. Everything that takes a battery (or otherwise limits creativity) is going to be donated to Rhett's taxi drivers. We want to drastically reduce our toy load - and come away with a few simple, meaningful, and imaginative toys.
Here is a list of what the kids are getting for Christmas:
Seth - Waldorf-inspired doll. Handmade truck. Book (All The Places to Love). Handmade I-spy bag. Handmade crayon roll. Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade instrument.
Ella - Doll bed for her babies. Book (On The Night You Were Born). Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade wooden egg rattle. Handmade wooden ball and scoop. Handmade rainbow nesting blocks.
One night after the kids are in bed before Christmas, Rhett and I are going to go through all of our toys. Everything that takes a battery (or otherwise limits creativity) is going to be donated to Rhett's taxi drivers. We want to drastically reduce our toy load - and come away with a few simple, meaningful, and imaginative toys.
Here is a list of what the kids are getting for Christmas:
Seth - Waldorf-inspired doll. Handmade truck. Book (All The Places to Love). Handmade I-spy bag. Handmade crayon roll. Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade instrument.
Ella - Doll bed for her babies. Book (On The Night You Were Born). Handmade ribbon sticks. Handmade wooden egg rattle. Handmade wooden ball and scoop. Handmade rainbow nesting blocks.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Autism is Curable!
Isn't that amazing? It's true though, autism is curable! I've seen it happen before my eyes. At Church on Sunday, Seth's nursery leaders told Rhett that they couldn't believe the progress he's made. One of his leaders, who has worked with special needs children before, mentioned "recovered" to me. He's a completely different child than he was just 6 months ago. He's Seth. Finally.
Kelly the Kitchen Kop posted more great info about Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Campbell-McBride.. Find the post here. Definitely worth the click.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride said, "Fifteen or twenty years ago, the majority of doctors never saw an autistic child. It was a rare disorder that most people had never heard of, afflicting about one child in 10,000. Today, on average in this country, one child in 150 is diagnosed with autism. With a 40-fold increase in newly diagnosed cases of autism, we have an absolute epidemic.
Autism is a serious disorder, yet it is perfectly curable. The younger the child when treatment begins, the better results I see. If you can catch the autistic child under the age of three, there is about a 60-70 percent chance of full recovery."
It's possible, you've just got to find the right information!
Kelly the Kitchen Kop posted more great info about Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Campbell-McBride.. Find the post here. Definitely worth the click.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride said, "Fifteen or twenty years ago, the majority of doctors never saw an autistic child. It was a rare disorder that most people had never heard of, afflicting about one child in 10,000. Today, on average in this country, one child in 150 is diagnosed with autism. With a 40-fold increase in newly diagnosed cases of autism, we have an absolute epidemic.
Autism is a serious disorder, yet it is perfectly curable. The younger the child when treatment begins, the better results I see. If you can catch the autistic child under the age of three, there is about a 60-70 percent chance of full recovery."
It's possible, you've just got to find the right information!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Farm Dreamin'
While I've been reading Healing our Children, Rhett has been reading You Can Farm by our local meat provider, Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms. He's loving it. We've decided to turn our backyard into a huge garden. Rhett and Seth have started working on our compost and setting up plots for veggies. I've been researching online tonight about getting chickens - looks like it's illegal in our area. Ugh. We figure it's probably better to start small with the farming dream - see how self-sufficient we can be in our own backyard before we go any bigger.
The chores have been so good for Seth. He loves helping dad outside.
The chores have been so good for Seth. He loves helping dad outside.
Healing Our Children
I've been immersed in the book, Healing our Children by Ramiel Nagel. It's chock full of wonderful information - nutrition, parenting, childbirth, all of the good stuff. You can download an excerpt from the book and gets lots of other great info here.
Dr. Weston A. Price started feeding a group of orphans one meal a day, to help prevent tooth decay. This is also the diet he suggested for pregnant women. There is a copy of the diet in the book...here it is.
About four ounces of tomato juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. Then they received a bowl containing approximately a pint of a very rich vegetable and meat stew, made largely from bone marrow and fine cuts of tender meat: the meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice and then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup which always contained finely chopped vegetables and plenty of very yellow carrots; for the next course they had cooked fruit, with very little sweetening, and rolls made from freshly ground whole wheat, which were spread with the high-vitamin butter. The wheat for the rolls was ground fresh everyday in a motor driven coffee mill. Each child was also given two glasses of fresh whole milk. The menu was varied from day to day by substituting for the meat stew, fish chowder or organs of animals.
Dr. Weston A. Price started feeding a group of orphans one meal a day, to help prevent tooth decay. This is also the diet he suggested for pregnant women. There is a copy of the diet in the book...here it is.
About four ounces of tomato juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. Then they received a bowl containing approximately a pint of a very rich vegetable and meat stew, made largely from bone marrow and fine cuts of tender meat: the meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice and then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup which always contained finely chopped vegetables and plenty of very yellow carrots; for the next course they had cooked fruit, with very little sweetening, and rolls made from freshly ground whole wheat, which were spread with the high-vitamin butter. The wheat for the rolls was ground fresh everyday in a motor driven coffee mill. Each child was also given two glasses of fresh whole milk. The menu was varied from day to day by substituting for the meat stew, fish chowder or organs of animals.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Oh sad day
Our hard drive crashed. Sigh. Everything is gone. All the pictures, all the videos, all my research, everything. I had tons of wonderful Thanksgiving pictures and pictures from Ella's 1st birthday party to download. No dice. So, the blog is going to be pretty slow for a while. Sigh.
On a happy note, it's Ella's first birthday! One year since the most life-changing, amazing day! I'm so thankful for my sweet little Ella-belle. Happy birthday sweet girl.
On a happy note, it's Ella's first birthday! One year since the most life-changing, amazing day! I'm so thankful for my sweet little Ella-belle. Happy birthday sweet girl.
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