I grow my own money- Week 10

It's been over three weeks... Three weeks of hard work, tears and joy. I had to take time for myself and my family these weeks, I'm sure you understand. Last week of Feb my father died of an EVIL disease called cancer. Over the past 10 years I have lost 4 very special parental figures to cancer... prostate, lung and colon cancer.

It was only until I found out my father had cancer that I took my families eating habits and health into consideration. I watched my mother juice in attempt to give her sickened body what it needed but it was a little too late. Looking back they smoked, drank, ate all the processed foods, hardly exercised, and wanted to eat what they wanted. What if they had juiced regularly? ate a more plant based diet? ate whole grain? cut out at least 75% of the processed foods we see today on the shelves of supermarkets? Does genes have a major role in cancer? What about our surroundings? nucular plants, pest spraying, additives to almost everything, smog?

There are a lot of what ifs.

I came across this video a few weeks ago and it has stayed with me.

Obesity
Cancer
Global warming
Curable diseases
The list goes on and on.....

   If we are going to leave our children a place to call home we as a people must change the world, that change starts with you.

"Growing food is like growing your own money" -Ron Finley




Here are just a few things growing in the garden.

We harvested 4.9oz of lettuce! whoop whoop. 

We made this with it.

My husband finally got around to making me a potting table from the free pallets we got from someone on craigslist.

This is our bean hut.... yeah...... well we decided to just leave it up and next year build a tepee instead. We'll see how it looks this summer with all the different kind of beans.

In other garden news, we've decided that the bottom half of the left garden is unusable this year until we figure out this flooding issue. The hubster agreed to let me use the other side of the main garden (out of the fence) to grow the pumpkins and melons. I'm thinking EarthBoxes will be used for them all and DIY trellises.

This week in the garden world I'll be transplanting my pomegranate trees into the ground, building trellises and re potting the rest of my tomato plants then hardening them off.




What is going on in your garden?

Drinks and Quality time.

As many of you know, I'm a mother of 3 very energetic and crazy boys. Time for me is precious and very limited when it comes to things I want to do personally. After a crazy week Val and I NEEDED ( can you sense the urgency of that?) to get away from everything, unwind and have some girl talk. We hit up the local 'Red Lobster' and ate and drank till our hearts were satisfied.

most yummy food ever!

This is Val.

 I often feel like I don't do enough for my boys, that the time spent with them is not quality time. I have set it in my mind to take at least 30 minutes from my day to spend with each individual child and spend another hour with all 3 of them doing something fun and enjoyable.

It was play day in Aiden's room.

 So far I have noticed an improvement in their overall attitudes and I get more smiles now ( AWESOME!!) so maybe there is something to this quality time,huh? I just hope I remember to bring my camera out .

reading books are a fav in this family.

Week 1 of '24 days to Christmas'

I know I know I know, I'm a slacker. I've been trying to keep myself busy with projects, that I have over whelmed myself {insert eye rolling} and have not posted as much as I would like. Here are a few ....of my favorite things...no wait this is not a musical... here are a few things we've done this first week.

 This strapping young lad is Kayden*, he is part of our 'tattoo project'

 Oh how it wouldn't be Christmas with out COOKIES!!! these delicious ones are Ginger Crinkles.

 What can I say? In our family we have 'Tid-Bits', something blood is shed over for... Our family loves this every Christmas and although I am far from my family, I try to keep the tradition alive. One more thing, if you DARE call them trail mix, you will be hunted down and killed.....

I also mailed out the Christmas cards (I still have a few to mail out) and the Christmas packages

We've been working on our Advent list this whole week and unfortunately I have not taken many pictures this week {smacks hand} I will do better :-)

baby makes 3

Due Dec 19 2009