tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31705718478103676642024-03-12T22:20:31.311-05:00Our JourneyChristihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.comBlogger388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-43159867009400542312012-10-25T08:17:00.000-05:002012-10-25T08:17:00.731-05:00high-maintenanceI remember watching When Harry Met Sally and being horrified at one scene. Absolutely horrified.<br />
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No, not <i>that</i> scene. This one.<br />
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I decided that I was not going to be high-maintenance. Ever. <br />
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Or at least not on a regular basis.<br />
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But now I am! And I hate it.<br />
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This is the way I have to order at our favorite Mexican restaurant: "I would like the Juarez Combo but I want the chicken taco to be in a soft corn tortilla, I want the cheese enchilada to be a chicken enchilada with no sauce, I want the tostada to not have any meat sauce or cheese and the beans to have no cheese on them." <br />
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The only thing on my plate that is not changed is the rice.<br />
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Needless to say, we are pretty memorable to the waitstaff which is why we try to get our usual waiter (honestly, if our usual waiter isn't there, I get fajitas because the only thing to change then is the tortillas).<br />
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Lest you think I only inconvenience others, I have to confess that I also have had to go shampoo free.<br />
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No, I do wash my hair but it is with either castille soap or homemade shampoo (made with castille soap). I would much rather that my hair smell of vanilla or flowers but I get tea tree oil or peppermint. sigh.<br />
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For the past several years (10 or more) I have had to use dandruff shampoo in the winter because my scalp would get dry and itchy. In the summer I could use whichever one I liked without a problem, but each winter it was back to dandruff shampoos.<br />
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A little over a year ago, my scalp problems got much worse. Last winter I tried every medicated shampoo I could find and I still had raw spots on my scalp.<br />
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Raw spots from scratching.<br />
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I have colored my hair since I was 13 (only about 2 years total since that I have been my "natural" color). Coloring my hair was horribly painful but it did seem to help my scalp be less itchy.<br />
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Seriously, the horrible chemicals in hair color solution would improve my scalp.<br />
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Last January, I realized that part of it is gluten-related. I am not sure if going to Burger King and having a burger and onion rings would cause my scalp to break out - mostly because I don't want to deal with all the other side effects to just test it out. Each time I spend about a week eating out of kitchens that are not gluten-free, my scalp breaks out. It did seem to heal faster with the castille soap, so I kept using it.<br />
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Even though it stinks. <br />
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To add to the fun, I learned that with hard water, castille soap can cause a build up that makes the hair look oily.<br />
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The same day it is washed.<br />
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The treatment for that is simple, just a vinegar rinse.<br />
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So tea-tree oil castille soap (which stinks) followed by vinegar (which also stinks).<br />
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My wet hair does not smell lovely. Or floral. Or appealing.<br />
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While I do use apple cider vinegar, which does smell better than distilled white vinegar, <i>it still stinks</i>.<br />
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This week I decided to see if I could use normal shampoo (because I wanted to see if I might could do pretty smelling hair.<br />
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The first time went well, no problems. My hair felt wonderful.<br />
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So I tried it again. Everything seemed fine until about 3 hours after washing my hair when I realized my scalp felt somewhat painful. I couldn't figure out why but it just kept getting more and more painful as I thought about it. Then I remembered the shampoo. By the time I got to the shower, I couldn't wait for the water to get hot.<br />
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Luckily, washing off the remaining shampoo seemed to mostly do the job.<br />
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Mostly.<br />
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It is still a little tender. <br />
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So now I can make Sally Albright look low-maintenance.<br />
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Great.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-60416263415561053822012-10-21T18:09:00.000-05:002012-10-21T18:33:54.206-05:004-H Wildlife We had our first wildlife contest last Wednesday and so have been busy preparing for that. Junior didn't want to do the contest (and I don't blame him) but Daisy did. She scored well considering it was her first year (unless you count all that 3 years ago) and it is a <b>hard</b> contest.<br />
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So you can get an idea of what was involved, there are 4 parts of the contest: plant ID and preferences; habitat management; hunter safety; and techniques. In plant ID they have 59 or 60 plants to be able to recognize and tell if it is the prefered plant of waterfowl, deer, squirrel, dove, quail and turkey (some plants can have almost all of them and some have none of them). To give you an idea of how hard this is, here is the plant list:<br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_beautyberry">American Beautyberry</a>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower">Annual sunflower</a>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_tree">Ash</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahia_grass">Bahiagrass</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beech_tree">Beech</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_serotina">Blackcherry</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyssa_sylvatica">Black-gum</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackjack_oak">Blackjack oak</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_arboreum">Blueberry (Sparkleberry)</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomsedge">Broomsedge bluestem</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidoscolus_stimulosus">Bullnettle</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittimwood">Bumelia (chittimwood)</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa_nuttallii">Catclaw sensitive briar</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattail">Cattail</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus_sect._Aigeiros">Cottonwood</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croton_(plant)">Croton</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewberry">Dewberry (blackberry)</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogwood">Dogwood</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duckweed">Duckweed</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm">Elm</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis">Grapes</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilax">Greenbriar</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtis">Hackberry</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory">Hickory</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly">Holly</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeysuckle">Honeysuckle</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestrum">Jessamine</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnsongrass">Johnsongrass</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper">Juniper</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lespedeza">Lespedeza</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_oak">Live oak</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CHLA6">Longleaf uniola</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia">Magnolia</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe">Mistletoe</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry">Mulberry</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partridge_pea">Partridge pea</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecan">Pecan</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persimmon">Persimmon</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus">Plum</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_oak">Post oak</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum">Prickly ash (Hurcules club)</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickly_pear_cactus">Prickly pear</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_supplejack">Rattan (Alabama Supplejack)</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbud">Redbud</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_rubra">Red oak</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_maple">Red maple</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromus_catharticus">Rescuegrass</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Blackhaw">Rusty blackhaw</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryegrass">Ryegrass</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassafras">Sassafras</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartweed">Smartweed</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhus_copallina">Sumac – Flameleaf</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchgrass">Switchgrass</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paspalum_urvillei">Vaseygrass</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetch">Vetch</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_oak">Water oak</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Ragweed">Western ragweed</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_oak">White oak</a>
</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elymus_(genus)">Wildrye</a>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaupon">Yaupon</a></li>
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As if that wasn't enough, the hunter safety part is the general hunter safety that would be part of the hunter safety course but also any new thing in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Outdoor Annual.<br />
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In the Habitat Management portion they are shown an area and given a story with this area and asked if the area is capable of supporting turkey or deer etc. They are also asked what should be done to make that area capable of supporting the chosen animal. The difficulty with this part is the "experts" giving the contest don't always agree so you have to hope that you think about it the same way as the one judging your answers.<br />
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And the techniques are quite possibly the worst part. They can put any animal that has lived in the wild in Texas and ask a question about it such as what type of skull is this, is this animal native to Texas, is this bird wing from a mature or juvenile bird. They also have to be able to age a deer by its jawbone. <br />
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She has another contest over this in a couple weeks so we have more studying to do.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-56416413565172904882012-10-13T22:39:00.000-05:002012-10-14T00:41:00.768-05:00Autism Autism has been on my mind quite a bit lately. Did you know that the current statistics are 1 in 88 kids are on the autism spectrum? Boys are the hardest hit with it being 1 in 54 compared to 1 in 252 girls. This represents a 78% increase in autism over the previous 5 years and a 1000% increase over the last 40 years. And those are just the ones getting autism-related services.<br />
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A study in South Korea by Autism Speaks found as many as 2/3 of the kids who had autism were not diagnosed or receiving autism-related services which leads to the statistic of 1 in 38.<br />
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So with all that, you have a good chance of knowing someone on the autism spectrum if you know very many children at all.<br />
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And Rainman is not typical of most people with autism. In fact, of the 4 people with autism that I know have autism, none are very much like Rainman. As far as that goes, those 4 all have very different stories and symptoms. You would not group them together; one is female the other 3 are male; one is 30+, another is 15, and the other 2 are in elementary school or preschool; one was normal and then regressed, 2 others either had it at birth or before they were old enough to regress (I am not sure about the 4th).<br />
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By the way, none of them are "dumb" or "slow" or whatever derogatory term you think of. Their brains are wired differently and so they don't receive signals the way that we (neuro-typicals) do. We have satellite TV, and with a storm it can be very difficult to get a good enough signal to watch a show. The dialogue may not come through, the picture can be very pixelated and it can be impossible to understand what is going on in the show. I suspect that living with autism could be somewhat comparable, except not only is the input messed up but also being able to express thoughts or what ever is as difficult (or more difficult) than understanding the input.<br />
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Anyway,<br />
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The earlier the parent (or someone else) notices the signs the better because early treatment is a huge deal. The earlier the treatment, the better the outcome will be.<br />
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According to autismspeaks.org the red flags for a child needing evaluation are:<br />
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<ul>
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No big smiles or other warm, joyful expressions by six months or thereafter</li>
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No back-and-forth sharing of sounds, smiles or other facial expressions by nine months</li>
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No babbling by 12 months</li>
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No back-and-forth gestures such as pointing, showing, reaching or waving by 12 months</li>
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No words by 16 months</li>
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No meaningful, two-word phrases (not including imitating or repeating) by 24 months</li>
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Any loss of speech, babbling or social skills at any age</li>
</ul>
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Please, if you know a child who has these red flags go to <a href="http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/learn-signs" target="_blank">http://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism/learn-signs</a> to learn more. <br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Statistics come from <a href="http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/autism-prevalence-rises-1-88" target="_blank">http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/autism-prevalence-rises-1-88</a></span><br />
<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-80847446037585915592012-10-07T14:18:00.002-05:002012-10-07T14:19:43.150-05:00Friends<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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My mom always said that if you want to find out who your real friends are, either move or have twins. There aren't too many who will help you out through. I would add one to that, go gluten free.</div>
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Potlucks or even events where everyone signs up to bring something are hard on my kids. I usually try to sign up for a salad and a dessert so that my kids get a complete meal. They still only get to eat what mom brought while everyone else has their plate piled high with a variety of foods. It's hard. </div>
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It is much easier on me because if I see something I really want, I just plan on making it later that week or the next. I do feel a little awkward just because it looks like I am a food snob since I only eat what I brought. It probably builds character or something like that. Luckily I am not as self-conscious as I was in high school or junior high.</div>
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But back to my point.</div>
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We have some amazing friends who have gone out of their way
to be sure that my kids (and I) have had something safe to eat at several
events lately. I know that this hasn't been easy for them because they aren't gluten-free and it can be so difficult to know what is safe and what isn't. Especially since gluten hides in unexpected places. Like in Chili Cheese Fritos or all Blue Bell chocolate ice creams.<br />
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We are members of a homeschool co-op, a group of homeschool moms and kids where the moms all teach 1 or 2 subjects giving the kids a chance to learn something that we (individually) wouldn't be willing or able to teach. For instance one of my son's classes is music but not music appreciation like I thought. No, they are learning to play the recorder. There is absolutely no way I would teach that class, whether it was just my child or a group of kids.<br />
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But I digress.<br />
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We always start off the year with a party, this year with the theme of the Olympics. There was pizza, cake, nachos, fruit, hot dogs and other treats - the only naturally gluten-free thing on the menu was fruit. The nachos <i>could </i>have been made gluten-free but I kept forgetting to call the mom in charge of nachos. Plus, I hate putting others out and Junior is the only one who likes nachos and I can easily do those at home. With the menu in mind, I brought my kids their own gluten-free pizza and made cupcakes. The mom planning the event was going to make candy sushi (with rice krispies) and while I offered to make it for my kids, she also made some gluten-free candy sushi for my kids. They also had goody bags with candy and she double checked which ones were gluten-free and made sure my kids got goody bags with candy they could eat. I don't know if Betty realizes how much that meant to my kids and I.<br />
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Then at our September 4-H club meeting, two
friends made sure that all the snacks were gluten-free. Heather brought <a href="http://purplefrogdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/gluten-free-mini-cheesecakes.html" target="_blank">these mini cheesecakes</a> (and that is her blog) and Robin
brought <a href="http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/176599/frito-lay-bean-dip" target="_blank">an amazing bean dip</a> (and she doesn't have a blog so I can't
link to it). That was the first meeting in 2 years that they could eat the snacks like the other kids. Heather and Robin have since made snacks for other potluck like things
that were gluten-free so my kids would be included.<br />
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Heather also teaches an election class at our co-op and to make it fun for the kids, they are doing candy elections (complete with slogans and all that). They are getting to sample candy each class so they can be more informed of the options and Heather always makes sure that some of them are gluten-free for my daughter to sample. <br />
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Most recently, Robin's son had a birthday and she brought cupcakes for our wildlife group to
celebrate her son's birthday. My heart sank because I didn't know in advance and so couldn't make some for my kids. I should have known better than that because she also baked some special for my kids that were
gluten-free.<br />
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Friends like that bring tears to my eyes.</div>
Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-40689792951119196552012-10-05T22:42:00.000-05:002012-10-05T22:42:00.558-05:004-H Egg WorkshopThis year I agreed to be the leader of our club Food and Nutrition project with 4-H.<br />
While we are supposed to supply the kids with learning experiences, it has been a learning experience for me.<br />
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Our first meeting we went over unusual kitchen tools and gadgets because I know some of the moms didn't know what some of the more unusual and handy (or not) kitchen tools are. Like a potato ricer which I love when I use it, although often I just grab the potato masher. Or a mezzaluna which I thought would be wonderful and I really prefer using a knife. Or my ginger grater that I display and like to use.<br />
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Our second meeting I let my husband handle. S worked in a restaurant for several years, starting as a dishwasher and working his way up to assistant manager. It was a smaller chain but kind of like an IHOP. Kind of. So when S mentioned the possibility of doing an egg workshop to teach the kids how to make several kinds of eggs, I thought it was a great idea.<br />
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Before the meeting we prepped omelet toppings: ham, sausage, tomatoes, sauteed mushrooms, sauteed onions, sauteed bell pepper and some cheese. We got there early so the water could start boiling. And as the kids came in, they were each given a plastic freezer bag and a sharpie to write their name on the bag.<br />
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They each made a plastic (ziplock) bag omelet with their choice of add-ins. The adults were amazed at how well it worked and several loved the potential. All you do is write your name on a freezer ziplock type bag, put in your choice of omelet ingredients (onion, mushroom, cheese, etc) and then 2 or 3 well beaten eggs and drop the baggie in boiling water until it is done. He kept the water at a light boil and they took 5-10 minutes to cook. They aren't restaurant pretty omelets but for large groups, it is an excellent way to cook them.<br />
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He also taught them how to flip an egg in the pan. Well, the first step to learning how to do it. He had them flip toast in a pan because that way they could learn the motion needed to do it. He would coach them through it and some of them got pretty good at it. The benefit of doing it with toast is that toast is cheap and if it falls on the floor, it doesn't make much of a mess (some crumbs on the floor is all). When they get extremely good at it, they can try flipping eggs in the pan and start trying to toss dried beans in the pan. The dried beans will act like diced onions or sliced mushrooms but like the toast will be easy to clean up.<br />
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The workshop was a hit with the kids. After he had said what all he had to say, he became a short-order cook and made different types of eggs as people would ask for them. The mothers got beautiful omelets and the kids would request a type of eggs and he would cook it. One boy ate 14 eggs; another boy - who doesn't even like eggs - ate 3 omelets.<br />
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S cooked over 72 eggs! And after our club meeting he cooked eggs for he and I for supper. We had some beautiful omelet toppings left over.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-41146059048045689972012-10-04T23:12:00.000-05:002012-10-05T01:17:59.677-05:00OopsSince it has been almost a year since I last posted, I am pretty sure that it will surprise you when this pops up in your feed.<br />
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All I can really say is "oops." Honestly, I haven't felt like blogging because . . . I don't know exactly why. Part of it is that the stuff that was most on my mind wasn't mine to share. Partly that I still had stuff to work through. And then there is the guilt.<br />
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I felt guilty for not blogging <i>and then</i> there was the question of what to blog about. When it has been months and months, there is almost a feeling of "what I write should be important, major, significant etc." Since I don't really do significant, major, important etc, it is a little hard to live up to.<br />
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Since it has been so long, you get a bullet list to kind-of catch you up. (Lucky you!!!)<br />
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<li>Daisy turned 13 in July which I didn't quite need therapy for, although I thought about it. Luckily I am blessed with a wonderful 13 year old who does things like cook dinner when her mama has a headache.</li><br />
<li>Daisy decided to do 4-H Wildlife again after 2 years off. In case you are wondering, that is long enough to forget almost every thing we learned. <i>And</i> some of what we do remember is no longer on the contest. So far we are doing pretty good, I can ID about 40 of the 60 plants, trees, and grasses that they have to learn. Why do I have to know it? I'm not really sure other than so I can pop quiz them. I suspect Daisy knows more than she thinks she does because she was able to tell me some of the identifying characteristics (bark color and texture and some other things that I don't remember anymore) of a black cherry. The only way I could identify a black cherry would be if I were told "this is either a black cherry or a grass." I might could figure it out then. Maybe. </li><br />
<li>In a related note I have had chiggers for the first time since I was 15, and that was over 20 years ago. I also found a tick which would have had me calling a therapist but they typically don't accept new patients at midnight. Like a good homeschool mom/4-H mom, I googled it and found out that it was the Lone Star Tick and that they do not carry lyme disease. We now spray down with bug spray.</li><br />
<li>Junior got his black belt in Tae Quon Do which was a great reward for his perseverance. We were incredibly proud of him. I was also thrilled to have Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings free.</li>
<br /><li>I no longer have Tuesday and Thursday evenings free. </li><br />
<li>Tuesday is known by my family as "nightmare day." Daisy has piano at 3 and Junior has guitar at 3. About 1 mile away from each other. Both of their lessons end at 3:30. Also one mile apart. Then we swing through Sonic because it is Happy Hour and get to Wildlife at 4 which lasts until 6pm. At 6 we go to Robotics and are done with that at 8pm. If we are lucky, I managed to put something in the crockpot so that we can eat dinner when we get home.</li><br />
<li>We are still gluten-free so if I don't put dinner in the crockpot, there is only 2 fast food places to get food, Five Guys or Chic-Fil-A. </li><br />
<li>I love both Five Guys and Chic-Fil-A but I can get really tired of them quickly.</li><br />
<li>We learned what Junior's reaction to gluten ingestion can be. He gets irritable. For about a week. It is kind-of like PMS irritable where you don't realize that you are making everyone walk on egg shells because you think that you are being completely rational. It was a long week. I think he still doesn't realize how cranky he was.</li><br />
<li>I have some others but they are long enough to be posts on their own so . . . </li>
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The End Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-66771091932422085072011-11-09T22:56:00.000-06:002011-11-10T01:57:31.254-06:00Hello againWell I took an unintended hiatus for a bunch of little reasons, most really inconsequential but some of them worth a blogging break. I have written posts in my head that never quite made it past my fingers and I have been where I couldn't even think about doing any posts.<br />
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Part of it is that God and I have been dealing with some issues that I think are now mostly resolved. I think. <br />
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Then there was also gearing up for Food and Nutrition contest with both kids competing for real. (The posts on that are <a href="http://chaos-in-the-kitchen.blogspot.com/2011/11/sourdough-herb-boule.html">here</a> and <a href="http://chaos-in-the-kitchen.blogspot.com/2011/11/gluten-free-banana-struesel-muffins.html">here</a>).<br />
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I have been cooking more again and enjoying it. I did a wonderful roast chicken tonight that looked so good my husband asked where I got it. He was surprised that I roasted it so well the first time I tried it. <br />
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I am also trying to figure out what exactly to do with these blogs. Part of me says to combine them, since some things (like the contest posts) I would like to have here even though they seem to fit more with the cooking. The other part says to keep it separate because I don't know how many of you would be interested in gluten-free cooking or why I measure with a scale now or whatever. I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.<br />
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I think I should be posting more now that I have worked through some things with God (I may share more on that latter, just not ready to right now).Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-5555310469209103982011-11-01T11:23:00.002-05:002011-11-02T01:52:37.237-05:00book review - Lethal Remedy<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cESuxv-WNX8/TA3PbPpKjHI/AAAAAAAAEFE/e9Dq6nSnpCA/s1600/FIRSTWildCardTours2.jpg"></a><a href="http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480264388542368882" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cESuxv-WNX8/TA3PbPpKjHI/AAAAAAAAEFE/e9Dq6nSnpCA/s200/FIRSTWildCardTours2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 145px;" /></a>It is time for a <span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/">FIRST Wild Card Tour</a></b></span> book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Enjoy your free peek into the book!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>You never know when I might play a wild card on you!</i></span><br />
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<div align="center"><b>Today's Wild Card author is: </b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><a href="http://rmabry.com/">Richard L. Mabry, MD</a></span></b></div><br />
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<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1426735448">Lethal Remedy</a></span></b></div><div align="center">Abingdon Press (October 2011)</div>***Special thanks to Julie Dowd (Abingdon Press) for sending me a review copy.***<br />
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<div align="left"><b><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span> </span></b></div><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d4jbLQVuqMg/TqzTLnfrhAI/AAAAAAAAFvI/Xp4xX_DpCOg/s1600/Mabry.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669138227486491650" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-d4jbLQVuqMg/TqzTLnfrhAI/AAAAAAAAFvI/Xp4xX_DpCOg/s200/Mabry.jpeg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 181px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a>Richard L. Mabry, MD, is a retired physician and medical school professor who achieved worldwide recognition as a clinician, writer, and teacher before turning his talents to non-medical writing after his retirement. He is the author of The Prescription for Trouble Series, one non-fiction book, and his inspirational piesces have appeared in numerous periodicals. He and his wife, Kay, live in North Texas.<br />
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<div align="left"><b><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION:</span> </span></b></div><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VeO5bhBpyGU/TqzTLgxFIOI/AAAAAAAAFvQ/-rdPWQe90HI/s1600/LethalRemedy.cover.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5669138225680425186" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VeO5bhBpyGU/TqzTLgxFIOI/AAAAAAAAFvQ/-rdPWQe90HI/s200/LethalRemedy.cover.jpeg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 132px;" /></a>An epidemic of a highly resistant bacteria, Staphylococcus luciferus, has ignited, and Dr. Sara Miles' patient is on the threshold of death. Only an experimental antibiotic developed and administered by Sara's ex-husband, Dr. Jack Ingersoll can save the girl's life. <br />
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Dr. John Ramsey is seeking to put his life together after the death of his wife by joining the medical school faculty. But his decision could prove to be costly, even fatal.<br />
Potentially lethal late effects from the experimental drug send Sara and her colleague, Dr. Rip Pearson, on a hunt for hidden critical data that will let them reverse the changes before it’s too late. What is the missing puzzle piece? And who is hiding it?<br />
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Product Details:<br />
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List Price: $13.99<br />
Paperback: 288 pages<br />
Publisher: Abingdon Press (October 2011)<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 1426735448<br />
ISBN-13: 978-1426735448<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: 180%;">AND NOW...THE FIRST CHAPTER:</span> </b></span><br />
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<div style="height: 307px; overflow: auto;">No one knew the man’s name. White male, probably in his late seventies, found unresponsive in an alley about two o’clock in the morning and brought to the emergency room. Just another homeless derelict, another John Doe.<br />
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“Pneumonia, late stages,” the intern said. He yawned. “Happens all the time. Drank himself into a stupor, vomited, aspirated. Probably been lying in that alley for more than a day. Doesn’t look like he’ll make it.”<br />
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“Labs cooking? Got a sputum culture going?”<br />
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“Yeah, but it’ll take a day or two to get the results of the culture. The smear looks like Staph. Guess I’ll give him—”<br />
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“Wait. I’ve got access to an experimental drug that might help. Let me start him on that.”<br />
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The intern shrugged. It was two in the morning. He’d been on duty for more than twenty-four hours straight—why’d Johnson’s wife have to go into labor today?—and he was bushed. The bum probably didn’t have a snowball’s chance of surviving anyway. Why not? “You’ll be responsible?”<br />
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“I’ll take it from here. Even do the paperwork.”<br />
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“Deal,” the intern said, and ambled off to see the next patient.<br />
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Three hours later, John Doe lay on a gurney in a corner of the ER. An IV ran into one arm, a blood pressure cuff encircled the other. Spittle dripped from his open mouth and dotted his unshaven chin. His eyes were open and staring.<br />
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“Acute anaphylaxis, death within minutes. Interesting.” He scratched his chin. “Guess I need to make some adjustments in the compound.” He picked up the almost-blank chart. “I’ll say I gave him ampicillin and sulbactam. That should cover it.”<br />
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The woman’s look pierced Dr. Sara Miles’ heart. “Do you know what’s wrong with Chelsea?”<br />
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Chelsea Ferguson lay still and pale as a mannequin in the hospital bed. An IV carried precious fluids and medications into a vein in her arm. A plastic tube delivered a constant supply of oxygen to her nostrils. Above the girl’s head, monitors beeped and flashed. And over it all wafted the faint antiseptic smell of the ICU.<br />
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Chelsea’s mother sat quietly at the bedside, but her hands were never still: arranging and rearranging her daughter’s cover, twisting the hem of her plain brown skirt, shredding a tissue. Sara decided that the gray strands in Mrs. Ferguson’s long brunette hair were a recent addition, along with the lines etched in her face.<br />
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Sara put her hand on the teenager’s head and smoothed the matted brown curls. The girl’s hot flesh underscored the urgency of the situation. Since Chelsea’s admission to University Hospital three days ago, her fever hadn’t responded to any of the treatments Sara ordered. If anything, the girl was worse.<br />
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“Let’s slip out into the hall,” Sara said. She tiptoed from the bedside and waited outside the room while Mrs. Ferguson kissed her sleeping daughter and shuffled through the door.<br />
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Sara pointed. “Let’s go into the family room for a minute.”<br />
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“Will she be—?”<br />
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“The nurses will check on her, and they’ll call me if anything changes.” Sara led the way into the room and eased the door closed. This family room resembled so many others Sara had been in over the years: small, dim, and quiet. Six wooden chairs with lightly upholstered seats and backs were arranged along three of the walls. Illumination came from a lamp in the corner. A Bible, several devotional magazines, and a box of tissues stood within reach on a coffee table.<br />
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This was a room where families received bad news: the biopsy was positive, the treatment hadn’t worked, the doctors weren’t able to save their loved one. The cloying scent of flowers in a vase on an end table reminded Sara of a funeral home, and she shivered as memories came unbidden. She shoved her emotions aside and gestured Mrs. Ferguson to a seat. “Would you like something? Water? Coffee? A soft drink?”<br />
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The woman shook her head. “No. Just tell me what’s going on with my daughter. Do you know what’s wrong with her? Can you save her?” Her sob turned into a soft hiccup. “Is she going to die?”<br />
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Sara swallowed hard. “Chelsea has what we call sepsis. You might have heard it referred to as blood poisoning. It happens when bacteria get into the body and enter the bloodstream. In Chelsea’s case, this probably began when she had her wisdom teeth extracted.”<br />
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I can’t believe the dentist didn’t put her on a prophylactic antibiotic before the procedure. Sara brushed those thoughts aside. That wasn’t important now. The important thing was saving the girl’s life. Sara marshaled her thoughts. “We took samples of Chelsea’s blood at the time of her admission, and while we waited for the results of the blood cultures I started treatment with a potent mixture of antibiotics. As you can see, that hasn’t helped.”<br />
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“Why?”<br />
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Sara wished the woman wouldn’t be so reasonable, so placid. She wished Mrs. Ferguson would scream and cry. If the roles were reversed, she’d do just that. “While we wait for the results of blood cultures, we make a guess at the best antibiotics to use. Most of the time, our initial guess is right. This time, it was wrong—badly wrong.”<br />
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“But now you know what’s causing the infection?” It was a question, not a statement.<br />
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“Yes, we know.” And it’s not good news.<br />
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Hope tinged Mrs. Ferguson’s voice. “You can fix this, can’t you?”<br />
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I wish I could. “The bacteria causing Chelsea’s sepsis is one that . . .” Sara paused and started again. “Have you heard of Mersa?”<br />
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“Mersa? No. What’s that?”<br />
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“It’s actually MRSA, but doctors usually pronounce it that way. That’s sort of a medical shorthand for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that’s resistant to most of our common antibiotics.”<br />
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Mrs. Ferguson frowned. “You said most. Do you have something that will work?”<br />
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“Yes, we do. Matter of fact, when Chelsea was admitted I started her on two strong antibiotics, a combination that’s generally effective against MRSA. But she hasn’t responded, because this isn’t MRSA. It’s worse than MRSA.” She started to add “Much worse,” but the words died in her throat.<br />
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Sara paused and waited for Mrs. Ferguson to ask the next question. Instead, the woman crumpled the tissue she held and dabbed at the corner of her eyes, eyes in which hope seemed to die as Sara watched.<br />
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“This is what we call a ‘super-bug,’” Sara continued. “It used to be rare, but we’re seeing more and more infections with it. Right now, none of the commercially available antibiotics are effective. These bacteria are resistant to everything we can throw at them.”<br />
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Mrs. Ferguson’s voice was so quiet Sara almost missed the words. “What do you call it?”<br />
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“It’s a long name, and it’s not important that you know it.” Matter of fact, we don’t use the proper name most of the time. We just call it “The Killer.”<br />
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“So that’s it?”<br />
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“No, there’s a doctor at our medical center doing trials on an experimental drug that might work for Chelsea.” No need to mention that Jack is . . . No, let it go.<br />
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“Can you get some of this? Give it to Chelsea?”<br />
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“I can’t, but the man who can is an infectious disease specialist on the faculty here at the medical center. Actually, he helped develop it. Notice I said ‘experimental,’ which means there may be side effects. But if you want me—”<br />
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“Do it!” For the first time in days, Sara saw a spark of life in Mrs. Ferguson’s eyes, heard hope in her voice. “Call him! Now! Please!”<br />
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“You realize that this drug isn’t fully tested yet. It may not work. Or the drug may cause problems.” There, she’d said it twice in different words. She’d done her duty.<br />
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“I don’t care. My little girl is dying. I’ll sign the releases. Anything you need. If this is our only chance, please, let’s take it.”<br />
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Lord, I hope I haven’t made a mistake. “I’ll make the call.”<br />
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“I’m going back to be with my baby,” Mrs. Ferguson said. She stood and squared her shoulders. “While you call, I’ll pray.”<br />
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“Mr. Wolfe, you can come in now.” The secretary opened the doors to Dr. Patel’s office as though she were St. Peter ushering a supplicant through the Pearly Gates.<br />
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Bob Wolfe bit back the retort he wanted to utter. It’s Doctor Wolfe. Doctor of Pharmacology. I worked six years to earn that Pharm D, not to mention two years of research fellowship. How about some respect? But this wasn’t the time to fight that battle.<br />
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He straightened his tie, checked that there were no stains on his fresh white lab coat, and walked into the office of the head of Jandra Pharmaceuticals as though he had been summoned to receive a medal. Never let them see you sweat.<br />
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Dr. David Patel rose from behind his desk and beamed, gesturing toward the visitor’s chair opposite. “Bob, come in. Sit down. I appreciate your coming.”<br />
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Not much choice, was there? Wolfe studied his boss across the expanse of uncluttered mahogany that separated them. Pharmaceutical companies seemed to be made up of two groups: the geeks and the glad-handers. Patel typified the former group. PhD from Cal Tech, brilliant research mind, but the social skills of a tortoise. Patel had been snatched from the relative obscurity of a research lab at Berkeley by the Board of Directors of Jandra Pharmaceuticals, given the title of President and CEO, and charged with breathing life into the struggling company. How Patel planned to do that remained a mystery to Wolfe and his co-workers.<br />
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Patel leaned forward and punched a button on a console that looked like it could launch a space probe. “Cindy, please ask Mr. Lindberg to join us.”<br />
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Steve Lindberg ran the sales team from an office across the hall. Lindberg could memorize salient scientific material and regurgitate it with the best of them, but Wolfe would bet the man’s understanding of most of Jandra’s products and those of its major competitors was a mile wide and an inch deep. On the other hand, Lindberg had his own area of expertise: remembering names, paying for food and drinks, arranging golf games at exclusive clubs. No doubt about it, Lindberg was a classic glad-hander, which was why he had ascended to his current position, heading the marketing team at Jandra.<br />
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Wolfe hid a smile. Interesting. The President of the company and the Director of Marketing. This could be big. The door behind Wolfe opened. He deliberately kept his eyes front. Be cool. Let this play out.<br />
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“Hey, Bob. It’s good to see you.” Wolfe turned just in time to avoid the full force of a hand landing on his shoulder. Even the glancing blow made him wince. Lindberg dragged a chair to the side of Patel’s desk, positioning himself halfway between the two men. Clever. Not taking sides, but clearly separating himself from the underling.<br />
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Wolfe studied the two men and, not for the first time, marveled at the contrast in their appearance. Patel was swarthy, slim, and sleek, with jet-black hair and coal-black eyes. His blue shirt had a white collar on which was centered the unfashionably large knot of an unfashionably wide gold-and-black tie. Wolfe wondered whether the man was five years behind or one ahead of fashion trends. He spoke with a trace of a British accent, and Wolfe seemed to recall that Patel had received part of his education at Oxford. Maybe he wore an “old school” tie, without regard to current fashion. If so, it would be typical of Patel.<br />
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Lindberg was middle-aged but already running to fat—or, more accurately, flab. His florid complexion gave testimony to too many helpings of rare roast beef accompanied by glasses of single malt Scotch, undoubtedly shared with top-drawer doctors and paid for on the Janus expense account. Lindberg’s eyes were the color of burnished steel, and showed a glimmer of naked ambition that the smile pasted on his face couldn’t disguise. His thinning blond hair was combed carefully to cover early male pattern baldness. The sleeves of his white dress shirt were rolled halfway to his elbows. His tie was at half-mast and slightly askew.<br />
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Patel, the geek. Lindberg, the glad-hander. Different in so many ways. But both men shared one characteristic. Wolfe knew from experience that each man would sell his mother if it might benefit the company, or more specifically, their position in it. The two of them together could mean something very good or very bad for Bob Wolfe. He eased forward in his chair and kicked his senses into high gear.<br />
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Patel leaned back and tented his fingers. “Bob, I’m sure you’re wondering what this is about. Well, I wanted to congratulate you on the success of EpAm848. I’ve been looking over the preliminary information, especially the reports from Dr. Ingersoll at Southwestern Medical Center. Very impressive.”<br />
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“Well, it’s sort of Ingersoll’s baby. He stumbled onto it when he was doing some research here during his infectious disease fellowship at UC Berkeley. I think he wants it to succeed as much as we do.”<br />
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“I doubt that.” Patel leaned forward with both hands on the desk. “Jandra is on the verge of bankruptcy. I want that drug on the market ASAP!”<br />
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“But we’re not ready. We need more data,” Wolfe said.<br />
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“Here’s the good news,” Patel said. “The FDA is worried about The Killer bacteria outbreak. I’ve pulled a few strings, called in a bunch of favors, and I can assure you we can get this application fast-tracked.”<br />
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“How?” Wolfe said. “We’re still doing Phase II trials. What about Phase III? Assuming everything goes well, it’s going to be another year, maybe two, before we can do a rollout of EpAm848.”<br />
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“Not to worry,” Patel said. “Our inside man at the FDA assures me he can help us massage the data. We can get by with the Phase II trials we’ve already completed. And he’ll arrange things so we can use those plus some of our European studies to fulfill the Phase III requirements.”<br />
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Lindberg winked at Wolfe. “We may have to be creative in the way we handle our data. You and I need to get our heads together and see how many corners we can cut before the application is ready.”<br />
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Wolfe shook his head. “You say this drug will save us from bankruptcy. I don’t see that. I mean, yes, it looks like we may be in for a full-blown epidemic of Staph luciferus, but we won’t sell enough—“<br />
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Lindberg silenced him with an upraised hand. “Exposure, Bob. Exposure. If we get this drug on the market, if we’re the first with a cure, our name recognition will skyrocket. Doctors and patients will pay attention to our other drugs: blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes. Our market share will go through the roof in all of them.”<br />
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Wolfe could see the salesman in Lindberg take over as he leaned closer, as though to drive home his point by proximity. “We’re preparing a direct-to-consumer push on all those drugs, ready to launch at the same time we release Jandramycin.”<br />
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The name didn’t click with Wolfe for a moment. “I . . . Well, I’ll certainly do what I can.”<br />
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“Do more than that,” Lindberg said. “Jandra Pharmaceuticals is hurting. We’re staking everything on Jandramycin.”<br />
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That was the second time Wolfe had heard the term. “What—“<br />
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“Stop referring to the drug by its generic name,” Patel added. “From now on, the compound is Jandramycin. When people hear the name Jandra Pharmaceuticals, we want them to think of us as the people who developed the antibiotic that saved the world from the worst epidemic since the black plague.”<br />
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Lindberg eased from his chair and gave Wolfe another slap on the shoulder. “This is your project now. It’s on your shoulders. The company’s got a lot riding on this.”<br />
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And so do I. “But what if a problem turns up?”<br />
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Patel rose and drew himself up to his full five feet eight inches. His obsidian eyes seemed to burn right through Wolfe. “We’re depending on you to make sure that doesn’t happen. Are we clear on that?”<br />
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Sara leaned over the sink and splashed water on her face. The paper towels in the women’s rest room of the clinic were rough, but maybe that would put some color in the face that stared back at her from the mirror. Her brown eyes were red-rimmed from another sleepless night. Raven hair was pulled into a ponytail because she could never find time or energy for a haircut or a perm. Get it together, Sara. She took a deep breath and headed for the doctor’s dictation room, where she slumped into a chair.<br />
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“Something wrong, Dr. Miles?”<br />
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Sara turned to see Gloria, the clinic’s head nurse. “No, just taking a few deep breaths before I have to make a call I’m dreading.”<br />
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Gloria slid into the chair next to Sara. The controlled chaos of the internal medicine clinic hummed around them. The buzz of conversations and ringing of phones served as effectively as white noise to mask her next words. “Is it one of your hospital patients? Got some bad news to deliver?”<br />
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“Sort of. It’s Chelsea Ferguson.”<br />
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“The teenage girl? Is she worse?”<br />
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“Yes. The cultures grew Staph luciferus.”<br />
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Gloria whistled silently. “The Killer. That’s bad.”<br />
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“The only thing that seems to be working in these cases is that new drug of Jack Ingersoll’s.”<br />
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“Oh, I get it. That’s the call you don’t want to make.” Gloria touched Sara lightly on the shoulder. “When will you stop letting what Ingersoll did ruin the rest of your life? I can introduce you to a couple of nice men who go to our church. They’ve both gone through tough divorces—neither was their fault—and they want to move on. It would be good for you—”<br />
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Sara shook her head. “Thanks, but I’m not ready to date. I’m not sure if I can ever trust a man again.”<br />
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Gloria opened her mouth, but Sara silenced her with an upraised hand. No sense putting this off. She pulled the phone toward her and stabbed in a number.<br />
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Dr. John Ramsey found a spot in the Visitor’s Parking Lot. He exited his car and looked across the driveway at the main campus of Southwestern Medical Center. When he’d graduated, there were two buildings on the campus. Now those two had been swallowed up, incorporated into a complex that totaled about forty buildings on three separate campuses. Right now he only needed to find one: the tall white building directly across the driveway at the end of a flagstone plaza. The imposing glass façade of the medical library reflected sunlight into his eyes as he wove past benches where students sat chatting on cell phones or burrowing into book bags. He paused at the glass front doors of the complex, took a deep breath, and pushed forward.<br />
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There was a directory inside for anyone trying to negotiate the warren of inter-connected buildings, but John didn’t need it. He found the elevator he wanted, entered, and punched five. In a moment, he was in the office of the Chairman of Internal Medicine.<br />
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“Dr. Schaeffer will be with you in a moment.” The receptionist motioned him toward a seat opposite the magnificent rosewood desk that was the centerpiece of the spacious office, then glided out, closing the door softly behind her.<br />
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John eased into the visitor’s chair and looked around him. He’d spent forty years on the volunteer clinical faculty of Southwestern Medical Center’s Department of Internal Medicine. For forty years he’d instructed and mentored medical students and residents, for forty years he’d covered the teaching clinic once a month, and today was the first time he’d been in the department chairman’s office. He swallowed the resentment he felt bubbling up. No, John. You never wanted to be here. You were happy in your own world.<br />
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John couldn’t help comparing this room with the cubbyhole he’d called his private office. Now he didn’t even have that. The practice was closed, the equipment and furnishings sold to a young doctor just getting started. John’s files and patient records were in a locked storage facility, rent paid for a year.<br />
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He wondered how many of his patients had contacted his nurse to have their records transferred. No matter, she’d handle it. He’d paid her six months’ salary to take care of such things. What would happen after that? He didn’t have the energy to care. Things were different now.<br />
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For almost half a century he’d awakened to the aroma of coffee and a kiss from the most wonderful woman in the world. Now getting out of bed in the morning was an effort, shaving and getting dressed were more than he could manage some days. Since Beth died . . . He shook his head, trying to clear the cobwebs that clogged his brain. The knowledge that he’d never again know the happiness of having a woman he loved by his side made him wish he’d died with her. What was the use of going on?<br />
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But something happened this morning. He’d awakened with a small spark of determination to do something, anything, to move on. He tried to fight it, to roll over and seek the sleep that eluded him. Instead, he heard the echo of Beth’s words: “You’re too good a physician to retire. People need you.” He remembered that conversation as though it were yesterday. She’d urged, he’d insisted. Let’s retire. I want to get out of the rat race and enjoy time with you. Retirement meant the travel they’d put off, the time to do things together. Only, now there was no more together.<br />
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This morning, he’d rolled out of bed determined that today would be different. It would be the start of his rebirth. As he shrugged into a robe, as he’d done each day since her death he looked at the picture on their dresser of him and Beth. She’d been radiant that spring day so many years ago, and he wondered yet again how he’d managed to snag her.<br />
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He’d shaved—for the first time in days—with special care, and his image in the mirror made him wonder. When did that slim young man in the picture develop a paunch and acquire an AARP card? When had the thick brown hair been replaced by gray strands that required careful combing to hide a retreating hairline? The eyes were still bright, although they hid behind wire-rimmed trifocals. “You’re too old for this, John,” he muttered. And as though she were in the room, he heard Beth’s words once more. “You’re too good a physician to retire. People need you.”<br />
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Fortified with coffee, the sole component of his breakfast nowadays, he’d forced himself to make the call. He asked his question and was gratified and a bit frightened by the positive response. John dressed carefully, choosing his best suit, spending a great deal of time selecting a tie. He’d noticed a gradual shift in doctors’ attire over the past few years. Now many wore jeans and golf shirts under their white coats. But for John Ramsey, putting on a tie before going to the office was tantamount to donning a uniform, one he’d worn proudly for years. And he—<br />
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“John, I was surprised when I got your call. To what do I owe the pleasure?” Dr. Donald Schaeffer breezed into the office, the starched tails of his white coat billowing behind him. He offered his hand, then settled in behind his desk.<br />
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“Donald, I appreciate your taking the time to see me. I was wondering—”<br />
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“Before we start, I want you to know how sorry we all are for your loss. Is there anything I can do?”<br />
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Perfect lead-in. See if you can get the words out. “As you know, I closed my office four months ago. Beth and I were going to enjoy retirement. Then . . .”<br />
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Schaeffer nodded and tented his fingers under his chin. At least he had the grace not to offer more platitudes. Ramsey had had enough of those.<br />
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“I was wondering if you could use me in the department.” There. Not the words he’d rehearsed, but at least he’d tossed the ball into Schaeffer’s court.<br />
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“John, are you talking about coming onto the faculty?”<br />
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“Maybe something half-time. I could staff resident clinics, teach medical students.”<br />
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Schaeffer was shaking his head before John finished. “That’s what the volunteer clinical faculty does. It’s what you did for . . . how many years? Thirty? Thirty-five?”<br />
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“Forty, actually. Well, I’m still a clinical professor in the department, so I guess I have privileges at Parkland Hospital. Can you use me there?”<br />
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Schaeffer pulled a yellow legal pad toward him and wrote a couple of words before he pushed it aside. “I’m not sure what I can do for you, if anything. It’s not that easy. You have no idea of the administrative hoops I have to jump through to run this department. Even if I could offer you a job today—and I can’t— I’d have to juggle the budget to support it, post the position for open applications, get half a dozen approvals before finalizing the appointment.” He spread his hands in a gesture of futility.<br />
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“So, is that a ‘no’?”<br />
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“”That’s an ‘I’ll see what I can do.’ Afraid that’s the best I have to offer.” Schaeffer looked at his watch, shoved his chair back and eased to his feet. “Coming to Grand Rounds?”<br />
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Why not? John’s house was an empty museum of bitter memories. His office belonged to someone else. Why not sit in the company of colleagues? “Sure. I’ll walk over with you.”<br />
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As the two men moved through the halls of the medical center, John prayed silently that Schaeffer would find a job for him. With all his prayers for Beth during her final illness, prayers that had gone unanswered, he figured that surely God owed him this one.</div><br />
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My Thoughts: I really enjoy Dr Mabry's books and this was was like the others in that it kept me on the edge of my seat. He does an excellent job of having some medicine, in the book but not enough to make a non-medical person get confused. I also enjoy the character development and honestly it is just good storytelling.<br />
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I would highly recommned all of Dr. Mabry's books and I am eagerly looking forward to the next one.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-53933960264575159602011-09-06T22:26:00.000-05:002011-09-07T02:34:52.297-05:00Book Review - Bonhoeffer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during some of the most fascinating and horrifying times of its history. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxes tells his story and is an excellent book on many different levels.
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In case you didn't know, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in 1906, the youngest son of a very intellectual German family. Dietrich decided at a fairly young age to study theology and then later became a pastor and trained pastors. As the Hilter came into power and started to corrupt the German church, Bonhoeffer tried to enable the church to resist and ended up helping form the Confessing Church. Later he would take part in the German resistance and was in on the plot to assassinate Hitler. For his part in the resistance movement he was arrested and then executed for knowing of the assassination plot 2 weeks before US military reached the concentration camp where he was being held.
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I understand Hitler's Germany so much more. The German resistance movement is not mentioned in many school history books beyond the sentence or two mentioning the attempt that was foiled by a heavy table. I learned more of the horror that surrounded Hitler's rule although I am sure much more was left out than was actually included. It was sad though to keep reading of friends and family of Bonhoeffer that would die in WWII - nevermind that most of them wouldn't be alive now.
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What I read of Bonhoeffer's theology has me wanting to read more, not just Bonhoeffer but also Karl Barth. In my opinion, it is a good book that makes you want to learn more instead of one that leaves you satisfied with limited knowledge.
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All in all, I enjoyed this book. It is long (542 pages not including the notes or index) but it is very inspiring and thought provoking. Let me put it this way, my husband was shocked to see me use a highlighter in the book because I don't write in books. I rarely find enough to underline to make it worth defacing the book. I underlined a lot in this book.
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One of my favorite quotes is:
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First of all I will confess quite simply -- I believe that the Bible alone is the answer to all our questions, and that we only need to ask repeatedly and a little humbly, in order to receive this answer. One cannot simply <i>read</i> the Bible, like other books. One must be prepared really to enquire of it. Only thus will it reveal itself. Only if we expect from it the ultimate answer, shall we receive it. This is because in the Bible God speaks to us. And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strenght, one has to enquire of him. Only if we seek him, will he answer us. Of course it is also possible to read the Bible like any other book, that to say from the point of view of textual criticism. etc; there is nothing to be said against that. Only that that is not the method which will reveal to us the heart of the Bible, but only the surface, just as we do not grasp the words of someone we love by taking them to bits, but simply by receiving them, so that for days they go on lingering in our minds, simply because they are the words of someone we love, and just as these words reveal more and more of the person who said them as we go on, like Mary "pondering them in our heart," so will it be with the words of the Bible.Only if we venture to enter into the words of the Bible, as though in them this God were speaking to us who loves us and does not will to leave us along with our questions, only so shall we learn to rejoice in the Bible. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This book was provided for purpose of review by Thomas Nelson but any opinions are mine</span>. Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-81055188617991865752011-08-27T12:36:00.001-05:002011-08-28T01:18:30.936-05:00book review - Butterfly Effect & The Boy Who Changed the World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tg12wh9K3AI/TlnVxYRxopI/AAAAAAAAAWs/cLzp6C9avdk/s1600/boy+who+changed+the+world.cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" 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/><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tg12wh9K3AI/TlnVxYRxopI/AAAAAAAAAWs/cLzp6C9avdk/s1600/boy+who+changed+the+world.cover.jpg" /></a></div>I have to confess that I received these two books long ago but this has been a very hard review to write.<br />
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I love the premise of these books, that everything you do matters, that even the smallest insignificant things can have a profound effect.<br />
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I loved the first story in The Butterfly Effect about how a action done almost 150 years ago effects us still today.<br />
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I love Andy Andrews' writing that is engaging and fun to read.<br />
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Honestly though, the story about the wheat and corn turned my stomach. A book making the persons responsible for GMO wheat and corn out to be heroes is just something that I can't support. I try not to get political here but since the 1940s when they first started with the GMO wheat and corn the rates of celiac have multiplied, the rates of autism have soared, allergies are sky-rocketing, among other things. We are tweaking our environment too much and a book that celebrates this is just too much.<br />
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I wanted to love these books, and honestly if I could tear out a section of Butterfly effect, I would still love it. If it wasn't a book to inspire and to change lives the politics wouldn't matter. If it wasn't a children's book, the politics wouldn't matter as much. But I can't recommend this book at all because of the GMO issue.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-3465792520367000752011-08-08T23:17:00.000-05:002011-08-08T23:17:19.335-05:00book review - Captain Jack's TreasureWhen I saw this book come up and saw that it was for reluctant readers, I knew that it was something that I needed to get for my kids. Unfortunately they haven't had a chance to read it yet so I can give you their opinion. I can give you mine though. This is part of a series and it may be better to start with book one, especially for reluctant readers. Captain Jack's Treasure refered to the previous book several times, enough that I think that book one Lost Island Smugglers first.<br />
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That said, it was well written and one that I think all kids would enjoy. <br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cESuxv-WNX8/TA3PbPpKjHI/AAAAAAAAEFE/e9Dq6nSnpCA/s1600/FIRSTWildCardTours2.jpg"></a><a href="http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480264388542368882" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cESuxv-WNX8/TA3PbPpKjHI/AAAAAAAAEFE/e9Dq6nSnpCA/s200/FIRSTWildCardTours2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 145px;" /></a>It is time for a <span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/">FIRST Wild Card Tour</a></b></span> book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Enjoy your free peek into the book!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>You never know when I might play a wild card on you!</i></span><br />
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<div align="center"><b>Today's Wild Card author is: </b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><a href="http://booksandboys.blogspot.com/">Max Elliot Anderson</a></span></b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 100%;">and the book:</span> </span></b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1935600141">Captain Jack's Treasure</a></span></b></div><div align="center">Port Yonder Press (August 15, 2011)</div>***Special thanks to Chila Woychik of Port Yonder Press for sending me a review copy.***<br />
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<div align="left"><b><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span> </span></b></div><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vPtqnm7XGmg/TjyiQGc4tVI/AAAAAAAAFbE/F5872ZCA5uc/s1600/Publicity_picture_2007_MAX.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637559231054394706" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vPtqnm7XGmg/TjyiQGc4tVI/AAAAAAAAFbE/F5872ZCA5uc/s200/Publicity_picture_2007_MAX.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 148px;" /></a>Max Elliot Anderson grew up as a reluctant reader. After surveying the market, he sensed the need for action-adventures and mysteries for readers 8 and up, especially boys.<br />
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Mr. Anderson was a producer of the nationally televised PBS special, Gospel at the Symphony that was nominated for an Emmy, and won a Grammy for the double album soundtrack. He won a best cinematographer award for the film, Pilgrim’s Progress, which was the first feature film in which Liam Neeson had a staring role.<br />
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He has produced, directed, or shot over 500 national television commercials for True Value Hardware Stores. Mr. Anderson owns The Market Place, a client-based video production company for medical and industrial clients. His productions have taken him all over the world including India, New Guinea, Europe, Canada, and across the United States.<br />
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Using his extensive experience in the production of motion pictures, videos, and television commercials, Mr. Anderson brings the same visual excitement and heart-pounding action to his stories.<br />
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Each book has completely different characters, setting, and plot. Young readers have reported that reading one of Mr. Anderson’s books is like being in an exciting or scary movie.<br />
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Visit the author's <a href="http://booksandboys.blogspot.com/">website</a>.<br />
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<div align="left"><b><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION:</span> </span></b></div><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIi8pfFJVJo/TjyiP6Z37BI/AAAAAAAAFa8/47zyAWJV7P0/s1600/captain%2BJack2-1%2B%25282%2529.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637559227820534802" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rIi8pfFJVJo/TjyiP6Z37BI/AAAAAAAAFa8/47zyAWJV7P0/s200/captain%2BJack2-1%2B%25282%2529.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 133px;" /></a>Sam Cooper lives right near the ocean, on the Treasure Coast of Florida. All he’s ever heard about since he moved here were the fabulous treasures that have been found, and those still waiting to be discovered.<br />
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For his birthday, he received the gift of his dreams. It’s the latest, top-of-the-line, metal detector. Along with his friends, Tony, and Tyler, all are convinced that they will be the ones to dig up the next great find.<br />
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They meet a crusty sea captain named Jack. He’s fixing up an impossible looking old tub. The boys believe it’s going to be used to search for treasure at sea. They get permission from their parents to help with the restoration job in the hopes that Captain Jack will share his wealth.<br />
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When Sam’s father nearly dies, from a heart attack, the true values of life take on new importance and meaning.<br />
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What is Captain Jack’s mysterious secret? And what is he really planning to do with that boat?<br />
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Readers will gain a new appreciation for family, they will learn about the dangers of greed, and oh the stories Captain Jack can tell.<br />
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Product Details:<br />
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List Price: $9.95<br />
Reading level: Ages 9-12<br />
Paperback: 178 pages<br />
Publisher: Port Yonder Press (August 15, 2011)<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 1935600141<br />
ISBN-13: 978-1935600145<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: 180%;">AND NOW...THE FIRST CHAPTER:</span> </b></span><br />
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<div style="height: 307px; overflow: auto;">Catching the smugglers out on Lost Island was all that people around Harper’s Inlet could talk about for weeks. Everyone wanted to know which three brave boys had been involved. Sam, Tony, and Tyler weren’t allowed to tell anyone about the mystery. The FBI told them to keep it to themselves for their safety. They had become heroes, yet no one knew their names.<br />
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After going scuba diving, getting caught up in a terrible storm, and being stranded on Lost Island, it might seem that Sam Cooper and his friends, Tony and Tyler, would have had all the adventure any three boys could want for a summer, a year, or an entire lifetime. Only that’s not how it worked out. But then, that’s the way it is with boys. Boys are made for danger, adventure, excitement, and conquering things. And that’s exactly what these guys looked for all the time. <br />
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Chapter 1 <br />
Captain Jack’s Hopeless Boat <br />
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The storm Sam and his friends had survived wasn’t something any one of them could soon forget. Maybe they never would. So you might want to excuse Sam for what he thought one night, a couple of weeks later.<br />
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Lightning knifed across the night sky and thunder roared so loudly that Sam was sure his windows would shatter into a million pieces any second. It didn’t help much that his bedroom faced directly toward the ocean. And those silly stories about lightning coming from angels taking flash pictures, or thunder from them moving their furniture around up in heaven didn’t do him any good either. When he pulled the covers over his head his dark comforter still couldn’t keep out the bright flashes of light.<br />
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Sure glad I’m not out there on the ocean again tonight, Sam thought. Man, that’d be terrible.<br />
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Suddenly, as if he’d pushed the start button on a DVD player in his head, violent images of the storm he, Tony, and Tyler had survived, came crashing in. With each flash of light, he remembered how the mast had broken like a twig and the boat split in half while he and his friends held on to what was left.<br />
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Sam grabbed the extra pillow on his bed and held onto it for a few minutes with his eyes shut tight.<br />
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A little later, when he couldn’t sleep, Sam slipped out from the safety of his covers to get a better look at the angry storm. A huge surf crashed against the beach. He watched white caps on the pounding waves with each giant lightning bolt. The weather forecast this summer called for heavy storms in and around where he lived. The big one he and his friends had been caught out in was the first of the season.<br />
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Great, he thought. Another storm. Now we’ll have to forget our plans to go fishing in the morning.<br />
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Sam lived in Harper’s Inlet, Florida, not far from an area people call the “Treasure Coast.” “Treasure” should have been Sam’s middle name.<br />
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He and his friends had often seen people line the pier with their fishing poles dangling over the water below. Most of their time had been spent in the scuba course. Then, after the accident, their parents made them stay home. Part of the reason was to keep them away from each other, and because they’d done something so dangerous.<br />
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Sam and his friends had talked many times about how much fun it would be to go down to the pier, sit around, and do nothing all day. During all the time that Sam had to stay at home, just the idea of going outside again seemed like getting out of prison. Well, today was supposed to be their day. They had permission, Tony’s father bought the fishing licenses, and everything was set. Except now, the storm would probably change their plans. Sam climbed into bed again and somehow, even with all that racket, fell back to sleep.<br />
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“Sam, Sam, your friends are here!” his mother called from down the hall.<br />
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He sort of heard it, but the sound seemed to be coming from another world. And from the wild dreams he often had, he couldn’t be too sure. The next thing Sam knew, he became the jelly in a jam-pile sandwich on his bed. From out of nowhere Tony and Tyler jumped on top of him. Everybody knew, if Tony pounced on you, a guy wouldn’t forget it. They rolled Sam up in his covers and pushed him onto the floor.<br />
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Tyler was small for his age, but he still did his best to keep up with Sam and Tony. Tony could stand to skip a meal or two and he was never at a loss for something to say.<br />
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“Hey, you guys, cut it out!” Sam said.<br />
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“You cut it out!” Tony shouted. “We had to wake up early, get our stuff, and come over here, only to find you, king of the sleeping slugs, still in bed. Now get up.”<br />
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“But the storm.”<br />
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“What storm? Haven’t you looked outside? The sun is shining, there’s a nice breeze, and we already saw people fishing off the pier on our way over here.”<br />
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“Yeah,” Tyler said, “and they’re catching our fish.”<br />
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“So get moving before we drag you down there in your P J’s,” Tony threatened.<br />
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“You wouldn’t dare!”<br />
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“Oh wouldn’t we?”<br />
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With that, Sam broke away, ran to the bathroom, and locked the door so he could get ready. “Go on to the kitchen. My Mom will give you something to eat. I’ll be out in a minute,” he yelled from inside the room. Tony and Tyler did as he said—and before long he joined them.<br />
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Sam’s mother had packed a delicious lunch for each of them the night before. It included peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, fruit punch, potato chips, chocolate cake, and a few surprises. Soon Sam and his friends were on their way, walking toward the pier, for a long lazy day.<br />
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Sam took a deep breath. “Sure is great to get out again.”<br />
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“I know,” Tony said. “I thought my dad would never get over us losing that catamaran.”<br />
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“Us?” Sam asked.<br />
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Tony just looked back at him.<br />
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“What are we going to use for bait?” Tyler asked.<br />
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“Nothin’, ” Sam said.<br />
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“What do you mean, nothin’?” Tony asked. “You just gonna whistle, and call ‘Here fishy, fishy, fishy’?”<br />
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“We’ll use lures that my dad gave me. They’ll look just like little fish to the big fish we’re after. I have a bunch in my tackle box. You guys can use any of them you want.”<br />
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Sam’s tackle box clanked and rattled as he walked toward the pier. Its green paint had plenty of scratches and rust from years of use. His grandfather had used the old thing first. Then he’d given it to Sam’s father. But his job as a research biologist didn’t leave much time for fishing. So he’d given the tackle box, and three rods and reels, to Sam.<br />
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The box had a black, metal handle on top, and a nearly scratched off sticker with a largemouth bass jumping out of the water on the end of a fishing line. Sam’s tackle box held extra reels, fishing line, several different lures, red and white plastic bobbers, lead weights—everything he’d need for fishing.<br />
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“Whatcha got in that box?” Tony asked.<br />
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Sam winked and said, “All I can tell you is, when it comes to fishing, if I don’t have it, we don’t need it.”<br />
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“Did I ever tell you about the last time I went fishing with my dad,” Tyler asked, “before we got divorced?”<br />
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“No, but I’m sure you’re about to,” Tony said.<br />
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“It was the funniest thing you ever saw. Well, I thought it was funny.” He blinked and jerked his head. “Anyway, we went out in this big boat with a bunch of other people. I hadn’t ever been fishing before.”<br />
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“So how’d you do?” Sam asked.<br />
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“That’s the funny part. I caught my dad...three times.”<br />
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“Ha! You must have thrown him back then ’cause I just saw him when we got rescued from Lost Island,” Tony said.<br />
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“It gets worse. I didn’t just catch him three times, but, call it beginners luck if you want to, I caught the most fish on the whole boat too!”<br />
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“How in the world did you do that?” Sam asked.<br />
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“I don’t know. All I did was drop my line in the water and bam, a fish hit my hook. I finally had to quit because I was getting so tired from pulling in all those fish.”<br />
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“You’re lyin’,” Tony said.<br />
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“Am not.”<br />
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Sam put his pole up on one shoulder. “I’ll bet that made the rest of the people feel better, you leaving a few more fish for them.”<br />
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He shook his head. “Not really. They still didn’t catch very many.”<br />
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“I can’t think of anything worse than catching your dad and the most fish,” Sam said.<br />
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“Well, it gets worse.”<br />
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“Not possible.”<br />
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“Yeah, because I got sick and threw up all over the deck.”<br />
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“Boy, I hate it when that happens,” Tony said.<br />
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“My dad hated it too. He kept on apologizing to all the people and the captain.”<br />
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“So what happened?” Sam asked.<br />
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“What happened is my dad has never invited me to go fishing again. I used to think that was one of the reasons he left us. Today is my first time fishing since that all happened.”<br />
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Sam smiled. “Promise me you aren’t going to catch any of us today, Tyler.”<br />
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“And no throwing up on the pier either,” Tony warned.<br />
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“I’ll try not to.”<br />
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By this time they were walking along the beach. They noticed several people searching in the sand with metal detectors.<br />
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“There’s a bunch of them out today. Wonder why?” Tyler asked.<br />
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“I read that it’s best to search for stuff right after a big storm like we had last night,” Sam said.<br />
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“How come?”<br />
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“Because all that wind and the waves tear up the sand and move it around so it’s easier to find things.”<br />
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“That must be right because I don’t remember seeing this many people most days.”<br />
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Sam let out a deep sigh. “Yeah, I really wish I had a metal detector.”<br />
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Tony added, “Think of all the money we could make with one of those babies.”<br />
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“We?” Sam asked.<br />
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“Well, you’d let us in on it, right?”<br />
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“I might.”<br />
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“You’d better.”<br />
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“Your dad could buy each of us one if he wanted to,” Tyler told Tony.<br />
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“Not after we lost his boat and all that scuba gear.”<br />
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Sam looked at him again. “We?”<br />
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Tony reached the pier and stepped onto its worn boards. Sam thought their footsteps sounded like the hollow booms of big base drums.<br />
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“I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people fishing before either,” Sam said. “Wonder if the storm stirs up the fish, too?”<br />
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“Hey, Tyler,” Tony said. “Watch out for all these people. You wouldn’t want any of them to catch you.”<br />
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Sam and his friends had to walk way out near the end of the pier until they found an open spot where all three could set up. They began the long, lazy day of fishing they’d dreamed about for so long. space The hours crept by, the shadows grew longer, and each boy caught at least one fish.<br />
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“We didn’t do so well today,” Tyler complained. “Nothing like my last time.”<br />
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“It’s okay. That’s why they call it fishin’ and not catchin’,” Sam said.<br />
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It had been a fun day, but now it was time to pack up and head for home. Living by the ocean, Sam loved the water. He knew that Tony and Tyler loved it, too. The smells from the sea, the pelicans swooping down to gobble up a fish in their big scoop-of-a-mouth, the gentle breezes, all helped Sam and his friends to relax. They saw dolphins jumping far out in the water.<br />
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They came to the end of the pier, walked along the beach for a stretch, and turned toward Dodds’ Marina. Tony pointed to an old boat near the marina that they hadn’t really thought much about before.<br />
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“Hey, you guys,” Tony said. “Have you seen that sorry excuse for a boat? Man, he’s got to be kidding. You put that thing out in the water and it’d sink for sure.”<br />
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“I saw it when we came back from Lost Island,” Sam said.<br />
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They walked over to the dock for a closer look. The boat was in bad shape and needed more than a simple coat of paint. Some of the windows were broken, and the railings were either rusted or missing. Just then, a short, heavy-set man climbed up from below. He looked almost as worn out as the deck he stood on. His tired eyes searched around as he stretched, rubbed his back, and then saw something on the dock near where the Sam and his friends stood.<br />
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In a loud voice the man called out, “Ahoy, you boys. Could one of you toss me that rope by your feet?”<br />
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Sam looked down to see a large coil of rope. “You want the whole thing or just one end?”<br />
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“The end will do.”<br />
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Sam grabbed it and walked toward the side of the boat. He handed the rope up to the man and as he did, Sam stared at his dry, cracked hands. Some of the cracks were bleeding a little.<br />
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He didn’t know what to say, so he asked, “This your boat?”<br />
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“Naw, I found it bobbing around out there in the ocean, pulled her in, and claimed her for my own.”<br />
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“Really, you did that? Whose was it?”<br />
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“Probably belonged to pirates or smugglers, I expect.”<br />
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“How could that be? I mean, it’s in pretty bad shape,” Sam said.<br />
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“I’m just kidding you, matey. I bought her off a guy that was about to sell her for scrap. I’m fixin’ her up. She’s all mine.”<br />
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“Mister,” Tyler asked, “why isn’t your boat in the water?”<br />
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“They got me in this thing called a dry dock. That’s because she needs a lot of work on the topside, and the bottom.”<br />
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“I’ll say,” Tony whispered.<br />
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“Looks like you’re all by yourself. Isn’t anyone helping you?” Sam asked.<br />
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The old man shook his head. “Nope, just me, that’s all. You wouldn’t be looking for a job, now would ya?”<br />
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“A job? What kind of a job?”<br />
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“Helping me fix up this old tub. I could use the lot of ya.”<br />
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“I don’t know,” Sam answered. “I’d have to ask my dad.”<br />
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“That’s a good idea. Why don’t you do that? If your parents say it’s okay, come on back and I’ll put you to work. I’ll pay you for your trouble too.”<br />
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“We’ll tell you tomorrow if we get permission.”<br />
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“Sounds good to me. I’ll be right here. This pile of boards isn’t going any place unless a hurricane comes along. Right now that’s about the only thing that could move her from this spot,” he said, letting out a loud, long laugh. The boys could still hear it as they walked away.<br />
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“I think it’d be a great idea to work on that old boat. We could make some money, too,” Tyler said. “I wonder what he’s fixing it up for?”<br />
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“Probably to search for treasure. One look at him and anybody knows he could use the money,” Tony said.<br />
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“Is there any treasure around here?” Sam asked. “I read about the Treasure Coast before we moved.”<br />
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Tony laughed. “I can tell you aren’t from around here. The Treasure Coast is farther north.”<br />
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Sam stopped walking. “Oh, and I suppose boats can’t go up and down the coast?”<br />
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“Sure they do,” Tyler said.<br />
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“A treasure hunting boat. Yeah, I’ll bet that’s it,” Sam whispered.<br />
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“I think we should help him,” Tyler said. “Then he’ll feel like he has to invite us to go out and search for treasure with him. I mean, he’d have to share it with us like partners.”<br />
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Sam thought for a moment, “A treasure hunting ship. Wouldn’t that be something? Just think of all the gold and stuff we could find with a boat like that.”</div><br />
Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-91881730659268899172011-07-23T23:31:00.005-05:002011-07-24T02:05:49.779-05:00Technologically challengedI am fairly comfortable with technology; I am on Facebook, Twitter and now Google+. I have had a cell phone since the bag phone days & 5 different smart phones. I can do html, css and I know what POP3 is.<br />
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Somehow though I am cursed. <br />
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Or something.<br />
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I am adept at installing our printer because the laptop keeps losing it. It will say that the printer is turned off when it isn't and the only way for the laptop to "see" the printer is to go back in with the ports and reinstall it there. Now the printer is named "stupid printer2" after it lost "stupid printer" and I expect before long it will be "stupid printer3."<br />
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Those 5 smart phones? I have only had a smart phone for a year and a half. I keep breaking them.<br />
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Before I had a smart phone, I would still have random problems that no one had ever heard of. <br />
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My Motorola Razr phone would drop contacts. I would have my grandmother on my contact list and then she would be gone next time I wanted to call her. Since it was still within the 30 days, I swapped it out for the same one, and it wouldn't turn off the bluetooth light. The bluetooth was off but the light wouldn't turn off. Tech support told me to do a factory restore, after the 3rd factory restore I just ignored the light.<br />
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My newest phone I loved except 1 tiny thing, I kept getting error messages. For the most part, I couldn't figure out where the error messages were coming from as in I wouldn't see anything wrong with the phone but they were annoying. And sometimes the phone would lock up and I don't know if it was because of too many error messages or what. And I talked to tech support and they suggested a factory reset.<br />
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Now on a smart phone a factory reset is a bit of a pain because you loose all your settings, but I thought it wouldn't be too bad. Just time consuming.<br />
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So this afternoon, I did the reset.<br />
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then went through the inital settings. Yahoo mail was being snarky but I thought I would deal with it later. Not a big deal.<br />
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Then I started to reinstall the apps, or try to re install. Every app would download a minute and then the phone would say download failed.<br />
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And I tried again. And again. And again.<br />
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And then I did a factory restore again.<br />
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And then I called tech support and while they couldn't have been nicer they had never heard of my problem before. It just isn't normal for a phone to go through a factory restore and not be like it was at the factory. <br />
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So they couldn't tell me how to fix it.<br />
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Tomorrow a higher level of tech support is supposed to call and hopefully they can help me. <br />
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Maybe.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-62732784669808635552011-06-20T09:05:00.000-05:002011-06-21T11:25:52.242-05:00The past couple of weeksWell Daisy had a wonderful time at church camp and Junior and I survived her being gone.<br />
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Then the week after that was VBS. In a moment of insanity, I walked up to the director of childrens ministry and offered to help.<br />
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Um yep. <br />
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I ended up helping in the preschool arts and crafts.<br />
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Yep.<br />
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However it went really well, maybe because I know longer have preschoolers. The kids were so funny. One of the lessons was about the man lowered through the roof so Jesus could heal him. I asked the kids how they would feel if someone was lowered through their roof.<br />
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I am so glad those kids are not Jesus.<br />
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They described vividly the stomping, punching and kicking with shoes that would happen.<br />
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While talking with some other kids about Tacky Tuesday, a little boy said he "always wears tacky clothes to church." I don't know if that means that he doesn't like his church clothes or what.<br />
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Anyway, it was a fairly fun week.<br />
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But I am glad it is over.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-48077826081324282042011-06-07T13:41:00.000-05:002011-06-07T13:41:00.674-05:00First review - Juice Lady's Living Food Revolution<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cESuxv-WNX8/TA3PbPpKjHI/AAAAAAAAEFE/e9Dq6nSnpCA/s1600/FIRSTWildCardTours2.jpg"></a><a href="http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5480264388542368882" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cESuxv-WNX8/TA3PbPpKjHI/AAAAAAAAEFE/e9Dq6nSnpCA/s200/FIRSTWildCardTours2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 145px;" /></a>It is time for a <span style="color: #990000;"><b><a href="http://firstwildcardtours.blogspot.com/">FIRST Wild Card Tour</a></b></span> book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Enjoy your free peek into the book!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>You never know when I might play a wild card on you!</i></span><br />
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<div align="center"><b>Today's Wild Card author is: </b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><a href="http://www.cheriecalbom.com/">Cherie Calbom</a></span></b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 100%;">and the book:</span> </span></b></div><br />
<div align="center"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 180%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1616383631">The Juice Lady's Living Foods Revolution: Eat your way to health, detoxification, and weight loss with delicious juices and raw foods</a></span></b></div><div align="center">Siloam (June 7, 2011)</div>***Special thanks to Anna Coelho Silva | Publicity Coordinator, Charisma House | Charisma Media for sending me a review copy.***<br />
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<div align="left"><b><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span> </span></b></div><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJfVdWBWmOw/TesCn1ta88I/AAAAAAAAFLs/sh8VE2MmWeA/s1600/Calbom_back%2Bcover%2Bphoto.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614584243903198146" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vJfVdWBWmOw/TesCn1ta88I/AAAAAAAAFLs/sh8VE2MmWeA/s200/Calbom_back%2Bcover%2Bphoto.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 160px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a>Cherie Calbom, MS, is the author of The Juice Lady’s Turbo Diet and Juicing for Life, which has nearly two million books in print in the United States. Known as “The Juice Lady” for her work with juicing and health, her juice therapy and cleansing programs have been popular for more than a decade. Cherie has worked as a clinical nutritionist and has a master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University.<br />
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Visit the author's <a href="http://www.cheriecalbom.com/">website</a>.<br />
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<div align="left"><b><span style="color: #333399; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SHORT BOOK DESCRIPTION:</span> </span></b></div><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CGEM0R1ml_Y/TesCnSXi61I/AAAAAAAAFLk/wsUhql18t9Q/s1600/Calbom%252C%2BTJL%2BLiving%2BFoods%2BRevolution%2B010511.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5614584234416204626" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CGEM0R1ml_Y/TesCnSXi61I/AAAAAAAAFLk/wsUhql18t9Q/s200/Calbom%252C%2BTJL%2BLiving%2BFoods%2BRevolution%2B010511.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 122px;" /></a>Welcome to the Living Foods Revolution!<br />
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Research shows that live foods contain biophotons, which carry light energy into our bodies and help our cells communicate with each other. Cooking food kills these and leaves the body craving the energy and nutrients it needs to function at a healthy, vibrant level. <br />
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In The Juice Lady’s Living Foods Revolution, nutrition expert Cherie Calbom shows you how to enjoy the benefit of these essential nutrients simply by adding more raw foods to your diet. With 130 four-color recipes, shopping lists, menu plans, and other practical advice, Calbom presents a living foods lifestyle plan that will help you:<br />
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· Detoxify and lose weight <br />
· Slow the aging process <br />
· Conquer adrenal fatigue <br />
· Bust candida and yeast infections<br />
· Boost your immune system· Balance your thyroid function<br />
· Become healthier and happier for life!<br />
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Product Details:<br />
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List Price: $17.99<br />
Paperback: 256 pages<br />
Publisher: Siloam (June 7, 2011)<br />
Language: English<br />
ISBN-10: 1616383631<br />
ISBN-13: 978-1616383633<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: 180%;">AND NOW...THE FIRST CHAPTER:</span> </b></span><br />
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<div style="height: 307px; overflow: auto;">The Living Foods Revolution <br />
Eat food you love that loves you back… and you will find the love of your life! <br />
—Raw Chef avi Dalene <br />
Living foods. They’re foods that are alive—raw (not cooked) and filled with life. They’re also called raw foods or live foods. You can plant them, pick them, sprout them, or simply eat them. In each case—you get life! That’s because life comes from life. These foods are your “true north,” your path home to health in a jungle of dietary havoc, contaminated food, and abounding confusion about what and how to eat. <br />
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What constitutes human nourishment that blesses us with abundant health? Is it the antibiotic-laden, growth-hormone-laced flesh of stressed-out factory-farm animals? How about pasteurized milk products with their denatured protein and damaged fats? Is it cooked or processed vegetables saturated with pesticides and preservatives? Maybe it’s designer foods with “good health promises.” Perhaps it’s the long line of prescription pills coming out of the thunderous jaws of manufacturing plants. <br />
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My dear friends, we’ve been duped—completely led astray—by marketing campaigns. Good health is the result of consuming whole, unprocessed, clean food with a large percentage of that being raw and alive. These foods are chock-full of nutrients, water, and fiber that flush away toxins, waste, and “sludge” from our cells and intercellular fluids.<br />
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They help us prevent disease. They alkalize our body and help us restore our pH balance. And they give our cells vital light rays of energy to help them communicate more effectively. <br />
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How did we lose our way—from pure, whole food to processed, packaged, chemically sprayed industrialized fare—in such a short period of time, considering that for millions of years we ate whole and mostly living foods? <br />
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A stroll down memory lane reveals that ramped-up marketing campaigns, clever slogans, and interesting commercials hooked a nation more than half a century ago on money-making products that changed America’s thinking about food—forever. <br />
The vegetable oil industry went into full swing during World War II when tropical oils, which were among the healthiest oils on Earth for cooking because they didn’t oxidize easily, couldn’t make it across the oceans. Well-crafted advertising campaigns touted the benefits of vegetable oil. Wesson cooking oil was recommended “for your heart’s sake.” They also ran an ad in a prominent medical journal describing it as “cholesterol depressant.” Mazola ads said, “Science finds corn oil important to your health.” And Dr. Frederick Stare, head of Harvard University’s Nutrition Department, encouraged Americans to consume corn oil—up to one cup a day—in his syndicated column.1 <br />
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When the war ended, tropical oils were vilified so that the vegetable oil companies could retain their market share. Was this refined oil our answer to curing the increase in heart disease that followed the war? Research since then has exposed quite the opposite: consumption of those oils is one of the culprits behind heart disease. We now know that oils made from polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), such as corn, soy, safflower, and sunflower oil, actually contribute to heart disease because they oxidize easily and can cause plaque buildup in the arteries. It is insightful to note that the Wynn Institute for Metabolic Research in London studied people who died from heart disease and found that the fats responsible for clogging the arteries of these people were 26 percent saturated fat and 74 percent PUFAs. Rather than implicate saturated fats, they more accurately pointed to PUFAs—the fats found in polyunsaturated vegetable oils—as the primary suppliers to aortic plaque formation. This research group suggested that people avoid these oils completely. <br />
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A New Generation of Food and Beverage Products <br />
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Cooking oils weren’t the only thing to change during this time. Carbonated beverages were also first marketed to the American public shortly after World War II, and by the early 1960s dozens of companies like Coca-Cola were competing for shelf space for their diet and sugar-filled sodas. Marketers promoted their way into our homes with jingles such as, “Zing! Coca-Cola gives you that refreshing new feeling!” Their message? To be part of the hip new generation of young people, you must drink Coke. Chemical sugars such as calcium cyclamate, saccharin, and aspartame replaced white sugar in diet soda with the promise of weight loss. Diet sodas were promoted to diabetics as sugar-free options to popular sugar-packed sodas. <br />
But wait. Do diet sodas really help us prevent weight gain or diabetes? Their promises fall short. The San Antonio Heart Study—a twenty-five-year community-based study carried out at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio—found the exact opposite to be true. Their research showed that the more diet sodas a person drinks, the greater their chance of becoming overweight or obese. Added weight is a strong risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes. Sharon Fowler, a faculty associate for the San Antonio Heart Study, put it this way: “On average, for each diet soft drink participants drank per day, they were 65 percent more likely to become overweight during the next seven to eight years, and 41 percent more likely to become obese.”3 On top of creating the opposite effect for weight loss and diabetes, these drinks are full of unhealthy chemicals so potent that they can rust nails. <br />
The 1950s also saw the emergence of another new phenomenon in American eating habits: fast food. In 1955 Ray Kroc opened his first McDonald’s franchise in suburban Chicago. His advertising slogan—“The All American Meal.” It was a fifteen-cent hamburger (four cents extra for cheese), ten-cent fries, and a twenty-cent milk shake. This cheap, kid-friendly combo was served to families as a speedy, twenty-five-second meal-to-go. But was it the “all American” answer for something quick to eat? <br />
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What Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 film Super Size Me revealed was that these fast meals are anything but a healthy all-American choice or a meal to make you happy. For the month of February 2003 Spurlock ate only McDonald’s food for three meals a day. He also got no exercise. In the film he documents the dire effects this diet had on his physical and psychological well-being. Within five days Spurlock gained 10 pounds and experienced depression, headaches, and lethargy. By the time the monthlong binge was over, the thirty-two-year-old Spurlock had gained 24 pounds. His doctors warned him that he had done irreversible damage to his heart. It took him almost fifteen months to lose the weight he gained.4 <br />
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Since the release of Spurlock’s film, McDonald’s has stopped super-sizing meals and has added some healthier fare to their menus. But some of the old favorites remain. A close look at the ingredients in their popular Chicken McNuggets—the only “chicken” some kids ever eat— reveals that not everything has been given a nutritional makeover. Here’s a complete list of the ingredients in a Chicken McNugget, as posted on the McDonald’s website: <br />
White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning [yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid], sodium phosphate, natural flavor (botanical source). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dextrose, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. <br />
There’s obviously a lot more in a McNugget than breaded fried chicken. As this list of ingredients reveals, it also includes a mix of corn-derived fillers (most corn is genetically modified, which is abbreviated as GMO), natural flavorings (often a code word for MSG), leavening agents, dextrose (sugar), and chemicals such as TBHQ and dimethylpolysiloxane. Dimethylpolysiloxane is an anti-foaming agent, which is a type of silicone that is used in cosmetics and other goods like Silly Putty. And tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is a synthetic antioxidant preservative that is a common ingredient in processed foods and chewing gum (one of the highest). It is also found in varnishes, lacquers, pesticides, cosmetics, and perfumes to reduce the evaporation rate and improve stability.6 <br />
A third change in the way Americans eat also came about during the postwar era: prepackaged breakfast cereals. Tony the Tiger made his debut in the 1950s and became an instant hit as the face and voice of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. In 1957 a popular breakfast cereal ad read, “Wheaties may help you live longer.” And Cap’n Crunch and his crew generated mega-sales for Quaker Oats’ popular cereals. <br />
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Billions of boxes of dry cereal have been sold since such ads danced, sang, and talked their way into our lives. Children as well as adults— even many who are health conscious—eat boxed cereals thinking that they are healthy choices. But let’s consider some facts. These cereals are manufactured by means of a process called extrusion. First, a liquid mixture called a slurry is created with the grains. Then it’s put in an extruder—a machine that forces the slurry out of a little hole at high pressure and temperature. The shape of the hole turns the mixture into the various cereal shapes we’re all familiar with: little o’s, flakes, animals, shreds, or puffs. <br />
Paul Stitt delves into the extrusion process in his book Fighting the Food Giants, explaining that this process destroys most of the nutrients in the grains, such as the fatty acids and even the synthetic vitamins added at the end. However, according to Stitt, the worst part is that extrusion turns the amino acids into toxic matter. The amino acid lysine is especially denatured during extrusion. Stitt also points out that this is how all boxed cereals are manufactured, even the ones sold in health food stores. One of the most alarming aspects of extrusion that Stitt warns about is that whole-grain extruded cereals are probably more dangerous than cereals that are not made from whole grains. Why? Because whole grains are higher in protein, and it is the proteins in these cereals that are the most compromised by this process. <br />
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You may remember this line: “Wonder bread helps build strong bodies eight ways.” (Later it became twelve ways.) In my opinion, the ad should have read, “Wonder Bread helps tear down bodies eight ways.” Wonder Bread and other smooth white breads get their soft texture from refined wheat flour. Refined wheat flour has had the natural fiber removed from it because whole grains go rancid rather quickly due to the high oil content in the bran. Refining makes bread that has an extended shelf life, but it no longer gives us much nutrition. And the breads have gotten fluffier and fluffier through the years with hybrid grains that have more and more gluten, created specifically for this purpose. (This is one reason so many people are gluten intolerant today.) These high-starch grains that are made into fluffy breads along with other refined flour products like pasta and pizza crust are targeted as one of the primary contributors, along with sugar, to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. <br />
Unfortunately, there’s more from the 1950s to add to our list of unhealthy eating habits. It was 1954 when Swanson introduced the first TV dinner in an aluminum tray—turkey, cornbread stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, and peas. The American family moved from the dinner table to trays in front of the television and started watching TV families interact rather than talking with their own family members while they ate. <br />
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It permanently changed the way Americans ate. American families lost the treasure of eating, laughing, sharing the day’s events, and praying with the family. We also lost real, whole food made with human hands. <br />
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The TV dinner marketing slogans were all about convenience and ease. American women were encouraged to buy the dinners so they could: “Have dinner ready. Prepare yourself. Touch up your makeup. Put a ribbon in your hair.”9 More than 10 million TV dinners were sold in the first year. <br />
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Is the ease and convenience of frozen and packaged meals worth it? Many people now consider such meals very unhealthy—too much sodium, monosodium glutamate (MSG), additives, unhealthy fats, not enough vegetables, and no live food, along with aluminum that contributed to heavy metal toxicity (today it’s plastic toxicity). If it hadn’t been for Julia Child, we may have ended up in worse shape than we are today. Julia persuaded American women to go back to the kitchen and prepare real food. <br />
The Green Revolution and Designer Foods <br />
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In 1960 we saw the introduction of “miracle seeds”—improved varieties of wheat, corn, and rice, which dramatically increased the crop yields of American farmers. Through the use of pesticides, irrigation, and genetic engineering, these miracle seeds doubled or tripled harvests on the same size plots as previous harvests. The seeds and growing practices quickly spread to farmers in other countries with the hope that they would help end world hunger. <br />
This dramatic increase in crop production was called the “Green Revolution.” It was a revolution without a doubt, but far from green— which has come to mean buying organic, purchasing foods locally, and promoting sustainable farming and animal husbandry (compassionate care for domestic animals). The hybrid seeds and genetically engineered crops gave us wheat with more gluten so manufacturers could make fluffier bread as I just mentioned, which caused allergies and gastrointestinal problems like Crohn’s disease, colitis, and irritable bowl syndrome. Pesticides killed bugs, but it also killed songbirds; it’s wiping out our bee population, and it’s contributing to cancer and other diseases in humans. In the end, it has killed many of us. (Studies show there is an increased incidence of cancer among farmers, indicating the impact that pesticides have on the human body.11) And we must ask ourselves why birds and fish are mysteriously dying by the thousands. Are they the “canaries in the coal mine”? Are we next? <br />
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Then along came “designer foods” concocted by food scientists, promising specific health benefits, belched out by big factories, but most often devoid of life-promoting ingredients. They led us astray with their “good health promises” that didn’t deliver what they said. As a whole, people are sicker than ever before in history. <br />
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Well, this ends our stroll down memory lane. As you can see, we can’t trust the jingles, commercials, and marketing ads. They gave us slogans like “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet!” And, “More doctors smoke Camels.” Here’s the truth: we’ve been the human guinea pigs for decades. We continue to learn, often too late, that many popular products have made us sick, caused deaths, and took our money to boot! <br />
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Do you want these people guiding your food choices? <br />
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There’s a little voice inside calling you home—away from the clamor and spin of the big companies with clever marketing slogans and foods designed to hook you to crave more unhealthy stuff—to the simple goodness of the earth, free of chemicals, genetic tampering, and the fluff that’s killing you. The voice is calling you to compassionate eating, sustainability, and supporting local organic farmers. It’s time to rethink your perception of food and to discover that you are not too busy to make the time to prepare whole, living foods. You’re too busy not to. It’s time for a revolution in the way you eat and the way you think about food. If you return to nature’s living bounty, you can heal your body and mind along with the earth. <br />
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Donna Experienced Positive Results in Four Days! <br />
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I experienced immediate results physically and mentally in just four days with Cherie’s diet. The first day I replaced my morning cup of coffee with white tea and a glass of The Morning Energizer juice. The flavors are amazing. I noticed my normal raging hunger and nausea from coffee on an empty stomach disappeared. I felt a little hungry later, but it was a much different and a very mild feeling. After the first day, I no longer had to take antacids daily and my stomach stopped bloating. I slept more peacefully than I have in a long time. I’m feeling more energy and am calmer than I can remember. When I went grocery shopping, I viewed rows of processed foods, coffees, creamers, cheeses, cookies, cakes, ice creams, and chips. The normal diet choices looked empty and terrible to me. I am simply thrilled with the new me, and I will never return to the diet that was quietly creating illness in me. Thank you with all my heart. <br />
—Donna <br />
I Had a Dream <br />
Dreams have often been my teacher. A few months ago I had an insightful sequence of images while sleeping. In the dream, I was in a room with a number of birds that had the freedom to fly and perch where they wished. I noticed they were all getting sick. So the first thing I checked was their food and water bowls. There was the culprit. The water was not clean, and their food bowls were full of only hulls—the life-giving nourishment had been removed from the seeds. I then saw a large bird make its way to a food bowl. It was weak and sick, and most of its feathers were gone. As soon as it started eating, a big bird flew in and began pecking on its back, drilling a hole in its flesh. I was horrified and tried to beat off the bird of prey with some papers in my hand. It was to no avail. I woke up— deeply disturbed. I knew this dream was significant; it portrayed the state of affairs for many people in our nation. <br />
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Americans eat food with little or no nourishment—burgers, fries, hot dogs, sodas, doughnuts, milk shakes, pizza, pasta, packaged foods, fluffy bread sandwiches, low-fat products, and frozen dinners. This food is less nourishing than the birds’ hulls in my dream. Then we get sick. We go to the doctor and complain about our ailments. Rarely does anyone ask us what we are eating and drinking. And would it matter? Many of the doctors and nurses seeing us are eating the same things. We go for early-detection tests for various diseases and call that prevention. (What about learning about the lifestyle that helps us to not get sick in the first place? That is true prevention.) When we complain about an ailment, rather than getting to the root cause, we’re given prescription drugs that often cause different symptoms, for which we’re given additional prescription drugs. <br />
Eventually we get so weak and sick that we, like the sick bird in my dream, have holes drilled in our flesh through surgeries and procedures. To top if off, some of our prescription drugs are found to cause serious problems and even death. Lawyers file lawsuits against the drug companies that manufactured those drugs and win big settlements; most of the money goes to the attorneys. Those drugs are taken off the market and new ones replace them. <br />
I looked with interest at the dream scene where I was trying to beat off the bird of prey with papers. I believe the papers represent my books. I keep writing to expose lies and herald truth. For those who never read my books, my message is to no avail, and the “birds of prey” in our society continue to victimize the weak and sick people and make them weaker, sicker, and more dependent on prescription drugs. <br />
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But you’re different. You bought this book and are learning truth. For those who have listened and acted in the past, their lives have been changed. I get e-mails and calls continually telling me wonderful stories of healing and hope regarding weight loss and health improvements—this represents thousands of people. <br />
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Weight Loss With Health Rewards <br />
I want to share with you the great news! I have lost 11 pounds since starting the coconut-juicing plan three weeks ago. I am off the coffee and sugar addiction cycle and making new discoveries. I feel so good and healthy. My body and skin agree with the recipes. My mental focus is improving, and the dark circles under my eyes are disappearing! I have a good balance of natural energy and cannot believe the blessings in life that I am experiencing each day. I am beyond happy with my new habits and look forward to many more articles, books, classes, and your next adventures. Thank you so much for sharing. <br />
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—Chaley <br />
What the Living Foods Revolution Can Do for You <br />
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The Juice Lady’s Living Foods Revolution is a book based on a lifestyle program I created that involves juicing every day and eating a large percentage of your food while it is still “living,” which means uncooked and unprocessed plant foods. These living foods “love you back” by giving you a plethora of life-giving nutrients. That equates to higher energy levels, weight loss, detoxification, mental clarity, increased vitality, and inner peace. But unlike most raw food programs, the Juice Lady’s living foods lifestyle program doesn’t toss out all cooked food. You can even include a few organic, pastured animal products if you wish. This lifestyle is about choosing pure, whole foods with an abundance of that fare being live—raw, juiced, blended, gently warmed, and dehydrated. <br />
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Raw green vegetables are emphasized because they have served as the basis of nearly all life on this planet. They’re key to our life. I’ve known this for a long time, but I couldn’t get enough of them into my diet to really make a big difference—until I started juicing about a quart a day that included lots of greens. I rotated a wide variety of greens such as Swiss chard, collards, curly kale, black dino kale, kohlrabi leaves, dandelion greens, romaine lettuce, parsley, and spinach, combined with cucumber, celery, lemon, and a carrot or two. <br />
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Juicing this wide variety of produce gives us a powerhouse of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytonutrients, and biophotons. These foods help to lower estrogen in a woman’s body and decrease the chance of contracting breast cancer—something I’ve always been concerned about since my mother died of breast cancer when I was six years old. Raw foods, which are rich in antioxidants, also help the body remove toxins, thus helping to keep us from getting ill. <br />
Since the beginning of human life, mankind has eaten mostly raw, living foods in season. It is only in recent decades that we have begun eating highly cooked and processed stuff. When we look at other cultures whose people have continued eating their traditional diets, we do not see any significant incidence of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and morbid obesity that have become pervasive in Western society. <br />
Transformation of Avi <br />
While riding my bicycle to work on July 2, 2001, I was hit by a car. And even though I was wearing a helmet, I sustained a traumatic brain injury. I went through extensive therapies of various kinds, and while they all worked together to make me into the person I am now, [I believe] it is the organic, raw vegan cuisine and transformational super foods that have created and maintained the most healing I have experienced thus far. I have been raw a bit over four years now. Recently, alone at the beach by a fire pit with a box full of papers and memorabilia, I had the funeral for the old me. I left the beach with an empty container and a clean slate to create the life that is calling me. <br />
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—Raw Chef avi Dalene <br />
In our super-sized society where cooked and processed food is served in abundance, living food is a wise choice because it’s hard to overeat raw foods. Fresh vegetable juice is amazing in that it offers us many nutrients that are so satisfying that most people lose their cravings. <br />
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There are some great benefits of a living foods lifestyle if you’re trying to drop a few pounds. Many people say they don’t get hungry for quite a while after they drink freshly made vegetable juices. A living foods diet may help you lose weight more quickly, and it can help stabilize your weight once you arrive at your desired goal so that you don’t end up gaining it all back. So, even if you consume the average three thousand plus calories per day, chances are you’ll just naturally consume fewer calories when you juice because you won’t be as hungry. And you can lose weight more quickly and keep those unwanted pounds off with the living foods lifestyle. But the best part is that many people report that weight loss is just secondary to all the other incredible health benefits they experience. <br />
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Living foods provide your body with high-energy fuel, so you don’t become fatigued throughout the day. Even if you eat a hearty-sized meal of living foods, you won’t feel like you need a nap afterward. Further, many people have found that having a glass of fresh veggie juice midmorning or midafternoon is an excellent pick-me-up to keep them mentally alert and energized for hours. <br />
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A diet that is made up of 60 to 80 percent raw foods is a live foods diet, because the majority of the foods are eaten in their natural state. Living foods are high in enzymes, which are important to the body because they help in converting vitamins and minerals to energy. Indeed, enzymes are needed for every chemical reaction that takes place in the body. No mineral, vitamin, or hormone can do its work without enzymes. Plant food enzymes work in the digestive system where they predigest foods and thus spare the pancreas and other digestive organs from having to work so hard to produce excess enzymes. Eating living foods, especially vegetables, sprouts, wild greens, fruits, nuts, and seeds, is the healthiest for the human body. Truly they can transform you from the inside out. <br />
A Wonderful Journey of Restoring Health! <br />
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Your book is helping me start a wonderful journey of restoring health and stability. I am becoming more familiar with what is beneficial for my body and important foods that are high in alkalinity. <br />
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—Linda (not Real name) <br />
What if certain diet modifications could increase your chance of living a healthy, youthful life—free from drugs and surgery—well into your eighties, nineties, and possibly beyond? Would it be worth trying? <br />
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By switching to a living foods diet, many people have helped their bodies heal from life-threatening diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. And many people have reversed the aging process and become trim and fit. Consuming plenty of raw foods re-creates your body inside out. It transforms even your face. Do you want a natural facelift? Eat lots of living foods (and take vitamin C). These are the keys to rejuvenated skin, supporting collagen, and your passport to vibrant health and high-level wellness! They assist your body right down to the DNA with the raw materials that fuel your cells. Lively cells construct a lively body. Healthy cells create vibrant health. They’ll help you live your life to your full potential. <br />
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The Abundant Lifestyle <br />
Most Americans live a suboptimal existence—mediocre health, low energy, depression, lack of joy, poor memory, poor sleep, and a variety of aches, pains, and ailments. Good health and joyous living are your birthright. You can move toward this quality of life every day if you choose the right lifestyle. <br />
Starting today, you can transition to the living foods lifestyle so you can live the abundant life. As I mentioned before, aim for 60 to 80 percent of your food raw, but even if you just make half of your diet raw, you’ve made a great improvement. Most live food programs are all or nothing. I’ve talked with many people who say, “I can’t go ‘all raw’ with my lifestyle.” So they forget the whole thing. But when you know that you can have some leeway, it’s encouraging to take steps, even baby steps, toward a healthy living foods lifestyle. <br />
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Here’s how a “living foods day” might look: Drink two 12- to 16-ounce glasses of raw vegetable juice, or make one glass of juice and have a green smoothie, preferably one in the morning to get you energized and one in the afternoon to keep you going. Eat one or two large salads or servings of raw veggies or a raw energy soup. You could choose a piece of low-sugar raw fruit or some raw veggies for a snack. To that you can add about a quarter of your food cooked. If you have an illness or disease, then it is recommended that a larger percentage of your food should be raw (juiced or blended if you have significant digestive issues) and that you occasionally spend a day or two just drinking fresh vegetable juice (juice fasting) to help detoxify your system. <br />
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Have you noticed that when you have a day where you eat mostly cooked foods, with very little live food, you want to eat more and more? I experienced that recently. I was served mostly cooked foods at two different events in one day—all whole foods, but about 90 percent of it cooked. At the end of the day I was still hungry. It was 9:00 p.m., and I wanted something else to eat. My body was craving live foods. A little glass of juice did the trick—the urge inside was gone. This is where fresh vegetable juice is so amazing. It’s very satisfying. When you feast on raw juices, you can experience the single most effective short-term antidote to cravings, fatigue, and stress available. <br />
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Many people call or e-mail to say they feel so much better since they have started on the Juice Lady’s living foods lifestyle. I recently received a call from a woman who said those exact words. She has noticed a tremendous amount of energy since starting the living foods and juice program a week before. Prior to that, there were times when she didn’t even want to leave the house for days because she was so fatigued. Now she feels like getting out and doing things all the time. <br />
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So what’s going on? <br />
Raw juices and living foods are packed with a cornucopia of nutrients, including biophotons—those light rays of energy the plants get from the sun. When we cook food, those beautiful rays of energy are destroyed or shrink way down. Professor Fritz-Albert Popp and Dr. H. Niggli are two researchers who have found that the light energy in biophotons is an important aspect of food. The more light a food is able to store, the more beneficial the food. Naturally grown fruits and vegetables that are ripened in the sun are strong sources of light energy. Numerous minute particles of light—biophotons, the smallest units of light—make their way into our cells when we eat these foods. They provide our bodies with important information and control complex processes such as ordering and regulating our cells.12 <br />
When you drink a tall glass of fresh veggie juice and your day is focused on more live foods than cooked or processed fare, your whole internal environment changes. As you consume more living foods, you require fewer calories because biophotons help rev up the mitochondria of your cells—the little energy furnaces that pump out ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the energy that is used by cells). They also feed your DNA, which stores about 90 percent of the biophotons found in your cells. Because biophotons carry biological information of the plant into your body, it’s kind of like getting a software download or having a computer technician take over your computer remotely to fix things you can’t begin to correct. Just as the computer tech fixes errors on your computer, the biophotons help to fix errors that have taken place within the body.13 <br />
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Voilà! You start feeling better, lighter, and more energized as time goes on. Your sleep improves, and you may need less of it. Your mind becomes more alert and creative. No longer will you find yourself in a disorganized fog because biophotons help your mind and body to come alive. You will experience more mental energy, and your creativity improves as well because of the electrical stimulation of the biophotons. (Could this be the boot for dementia or early Alzheimer’s disease?) Your metabolism also ramps up, and you burn more calories helping you get fit with greater ease. And in the process, your overall health improves. Symptoms of poor health, ailments, and chronic diseases begin to heal. Your whole life changes! <br />
Juicing Helped When Nothing Else Worked <br />
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My husband is a medical doctor. I was an artist. We are very active in our faith and for years participated in foreign missions. We have been everywhere—from the slums of Mexico to the war-torn Congo. Being physically fit and active was and is necessary for such trips. I would carry about 30 pounds on my back and walk five hours into Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest to deliver school supplies to remote villages. I had to be able to handle the weight, heat, and terrain. <br />
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While in the Congo, even after taking all the precautions and shots, I was bitten by a bug, and my health was never the same. At first my husband thought I had malaria. Then I lost the use of my hands. Being a sculptor, that was devastating. I saw many doctors and spent thousands of dollars on tests. My symptoms escalated. I was tested for multiple sclerosis, Lyme disease, and many, many other things. During this time I lived either on the sofa or in my bed. Actually, I was not living. I was simply existing. Just the simple act of walking was extremely painful. My internist deducted that I had toxic levels of mercury (from old tooth fillings) and lead (from sculpting clay), chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, food allergies, and a liver that wasn’t functioning efficiently. I took twenty-five pills per day. <br />
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I endured IV chelation, colonics, and all sorts of painful and debilitating treatments without lasting improvement. I started seeking specialists in other states. One specialist said I had Candida albicans and multiple allergies. He recommended shots twice a week. Monthly I drove eight hours to see him. After that year, I could see no improvement but was suffering from adverse reactions to the medications. In talking with him about it, he told me I had to endure the reactions to gain the benefits. But I didn’t see any benefits, so I stopped the shots. <br />
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That drove me from the medical field to homeopathic medicine. I was told that I had parasites, so I did the parasitic cleanses that were recommended. That helped a little, but<br />
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I still wanted my life back. I started driving twelve hours one way to see a specialist who reported that my body still was not absorbing nutrients. I did the Master Cleanse and all sorts of other cleanses. I started eating organically. I was able to function and my pain subsided somewhat, but I remained hungry all the time. <br />
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Recently, a friend heard Cherie speak, and she recommended her juice book [The Juice Lady’s Turbo Diet]. Since getting her book, I’ve been juicing about two weeks, and it has already made a tremendous difference in my health. My pain has decreased. My brain is not as foggy. I don’t need as much sleep. And my skin has improved. Juicing has helped me more than anything I’ve tried. Thank you for helping me to live again! <br />
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What Living Foods Offer You <br />
• Alkalinity. Most Americans are slightly acidic because most of the American diet (animal products, grains, sugar and sweets of all kinds, coffee, black tea, sodas, sports drinks, and junk food) is acidic or turns acidic when it’s digested. This causes a host of problems from weight gain to joint pain. The body tends to store acid in fat cells to protect delicate organs and tissues. It will hold on to fat cells, even make more fat cells, to protect you. But a living foods diet, which is dominated with fresh vegetables, vegetable juices, sprouts, seeds, and nuts, provides an abundance of alkalinity. This neutralizes the acids, and the body can let go of fat cells. Many people report that their body also got rid of pain—all sorts of pain throughout the body—when they began eating a living foods diet. <br />
• Hydration. One of the things lost when you cook food is the water content. Our bodies are about 70 percent water. Live foods contain lots of water. Approximately 85 percent of many fruits and vegetables is water, so eating raw fresh produce is a wonderful way to obtain water. Plenty of water in our system equates to enzymes being able carry out their metabolic work, and the easier it is for vitamins and minerals to be assimilated into our cells. The more live energy the water holds in the form of biophotons, the better the individual cells function and the higher the quality of your health.<br />
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• Superior protein. Though not a complete protein, raw plants offer quality amino acids. Cooking denatures the proteins in our food—they coagulate, making them difficult to assimilate. The heat disorganizes their structure, leading to deficiencies of some of the essential amino acids, whereas eating live foods offers amino acids in their best state. <br />
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• Abundant vitamins. Many vitamins are destroyed when food is cooked or processed. <br />
• Biophotons. Plants release biophotons, which can only be measured by special equipment developed by German researchers.14 These light rays of energy that plants take in from the sun energize our bodies and help our cells communicate more efficiently. Heat and processing destroy them. <br />
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• Greater strength, energy, and stamina. Dr. Karl Elmer experimented with a raw food diet for top athletes in Germany. He saw improvement in their performance when they changed to an entirely raw food diet.15 After eating raw food, rather than feeling fatigued or sleepy, most people feel energized. Also, most people eating a high raw food diet experience a more restful sleep and require less of it. <br />
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• Better mental performance. Your memory and concentration should be clearer. You should be more alert, more creative, and think more logically.<br />
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• More enzymes—improved digestion. Enzymes are important because they are the catalysts of nearly every chemical reaction in our bodies. Vitamins and hormones need enzymes to do optimal work. Live foods contain a good mix of enzymes, called food enzymes. But when food is heated above 105 degrees, enzymes are destroyed, which forces our digestive system to work harder than it should. This can result in partially digested fats, proteins, and starches. <br />
• Reduced risk of disease. A diet rich in raw vegetables and fruit has been shown to lower your risk of cancer and other diseases. Also, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal, eating fresh produce on a daily basis has been shown to reduce your chance of death from heart attacks and related problems by as much as 24 percent. <br />
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Increase the Micro-Electric Potential of Your Cells <br />
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When we eat live foods, our entire bio-terrain operates in peak performance. Biological terrain is the system of a cell plus the surrounding environment. It’s comprised of fluids, vitamins, minerals, trace elements, enzymes, waste, and microorganisms. When our internal environment becomes overloaded with toxins, waste, and pathogens like fungi, molds, viruses, or bacteria, when it is deficient in essential nutrients or is too acidic or too alkaline, our cells’ vitality is diminished and our immune system is overworked. Then we become susceptible to fatigue, ailments, and diseases. <br />
Raw foods and juices cleanse the body of stored wastes and toxins, which interfere with the proper functioning of the cells and organs. They provide an abundance of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytonutrients, biophotons, and antioxidants that increase the micro-electric potential of each cell. This improves the body’s use of oxygen so the muscles and brain are energized. A healthy, vibrant bio-terrain is fundamental to optimal health. This allows our cells, organs, and systems the best chance to do the jobs they were designed to do. A living foods lifestyle can help you achieve this vibrant interior. With a healthy biochemistry, our bodies can deal with stress and challenges far more effectively. It is only when we put congesting, nutrient-depleted, toxic food into our bodies that we tear them down and promote disease. A living foods diet leads to healing and vibrant health. <br />
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Live to Your Full Potential <br />
Secretariat, also known as Big Red, was one of America’s heroes and a racing legend—winner of the Triple Crown. He set new race records in two of the three events in the series—the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. They still stand today. He ran for the shear pleasure of running. But he lost the Wood Memorial. No one had noticed the abscess in Big Red’s mouth, which may have kept him from running to his full potential and from his stunning future. <br />
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What about you? Is there a physical condition that’s keeping you from being your best or living your full potential? There was for me. Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia had me sidelined—as you know if you read the introduction. Had I not found the juicing program that changed my life, I would not be writing my eighteenth book, presenting numerous classes and workshops, appearing on scores of television and radio shows, and accepting speaking engagements around the country for numerous groups and organizations. <br />
Do you ever feel like you’re just going through the motions of life, existing rather than living out your dreams and purpose? That can change. You can be so supercharged with health that you live a life of joy and have clarity of mind, and peace of soul. When you care for your body well with the kind of diet recommended in my The Juice Lady’s Living Foods Revolution, you will have emotional stability and a stronger immune system. You’ll be able to deal with stress better than ever before because your nerves won’t be on edge with caffeine and sugar. And your willpower will strengthen—a weak body often equates to a weak will. <br />
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It may seem too simplistic—that what you eat could have such a profound impact on your health. Owners of thoroughbred racehorses know the importance of a superior diet—good hay and quality grains including oats, mineral salts, and vitamins. You wouldn’t catch a racehorse owner giving a horse even one little “treat” of bad food, if they’re smart. We’re not that different from racehorses. If we want to win the races of our lives, we need a great diet—one that provides quality and energy, one that will take us to the end of our course. <br />
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My friend Steve Cesari, former CEO of the $100 million company Trillium that created the Juiceman juicer, and the company where I became the Juice Lady, just released his book Clarity. He’s passionate about health and juicing. He juices every day. In Clarity he shares the story of a friend<br />
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that offers a great illustration for us about eating right. His friend was in a hurry to get to a soccer game. He needed gas on the way and had to stop quickly to fill the tank. But on his way home, the car broke down. As it turned out, he was in such a hurry that he didn’t even realize he’d put diesel fuel in his new Audi. This caused $6,000 worth of damage, and he had to replace the catalytic converter and a number of other parts.18 <br />
Unknowingly, many Americans put the “wrong fuel” in their bodies over and over again. It’s amazing that they can keep going as long as they do. It would be a blessing if it only cost people who “break down” $6,000 to repair the damages. <br />
Remember, every journey begins with the first step. It takes more than a couple of weeks to see a profound difference, although many people report significant improvements in just a few days. Give the living foods lifestyle six months at least and then evaluate. If you haven’t noticed profound changes, then you’re the first one I’ve encountered to say that. You should be feeling so much better that you’ll never want to go back to your old lifestyle. And you can be on your way to living your potential to the fullest. </div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Thoughts:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">I just got this book yesterday so I will post a review soon</span> </span>but I will say that I am excited about this book because I loved her Juice Lady Turbo Diet.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-72192049079955366992011-06-06T08:24:00.000-05:002011-06-06T08:24:00.332-05:00my baby girl is gone far far away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsDg72QqraY/Tex0e4yO8RI/AAAAAAAAAWA/7aMnk_PhOb0/s1600/favNdisk%2B520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsDg72QqraY/Tex0e4yO8RI/AAAAAAAAAWA/7aMnk_PhOb0/s200/favNdisk%2B520.jpg" width="162" /></a></div>My baby girl is somewhere between 533 - 800 miles away from me. In another state.<br />
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Somehow she managed to grow up enough to go with our church's youth group off to camp. So she is either on the road or at camp. 800 miles away. Which is roughly 1300 kilometers (because sometimes metric just <i>sounds</i> so much worse.)<br />
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Hubby pointed out that she is with people we trust and God is watching over her. I would still much rather it not be 800 miles away. Or 1287 kilometers.<br />
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The other side of it is that I have been to that camp, it was my first youth camp. It was only 400 miles from my home in west Texas and so as far as I know, that church still goes to the same camp every year. <br />
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Hubby has only been in New Mexico twice and that is the north east corner to drive through yet he is not being as big of a worrywart as I am. Or maybe he is hiding it better.<br />
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I am also wishing I was along. I lived in Midland (which is almost spitting distance into New Mexico )until I was a teen. My grandparents lived in New Mexico and I still cousins and an aunt out there.<br />
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So it is like she is getting to go to my old home without me.<br />
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I said it was my first youth camp, but it was also my first camp of any kind (other than day camps). I didn't want to go. My mother didn't really want me to go. My dad insisted. I <s>was</s> am painfully shy but I actually made friends with some of the people in my youth group. The second year I was eager to go.<br />
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It wasn't just friendships though, it was how the camp discipled me. I was a christian in that I had prayed the prayer, gotten baptised, etc <i>but</i> I hadn't really started developing that personal relationship with Christ until that point. I may have heard about it before but that is about all.<br />
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If she is as oblivious as I was, I hope she has an awakening. Either way, I know she will learn so much.<br />
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But still - my baby girl is 800 miles away (or on her way to being 800 miles away).Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-9098061532319700292011-04-25T08:22:00.001-05:002011-04-25T08:22:00.232-05:00my favorite appDo you have a smart phone? i have a BlackBerry Torch which I loved until about 2 months ago and am now drooling over the Android phones. Not that it matters. Blackberry was my first smartphone and I thought I would love it forever but then I started hearing about some of the droid capabilities and . . . . I guess I am fickle.<br />
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But my favorite app works on a BlackBerry and Droid (as well as that other phone producer. You know which one I am talking about).<br />
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<a href="http://www.youversion.com/">YouVersion.com</a> is a website that has the Bible online for free. And not just one or two translations - 41 translations in 22 languages. They also have reading plans, for example 18 different plans for reading through the whole Bible. Most of those are reading through the Bible in a year, some you read the new testament more than once, some chronological, some in the order they were written, one for reading the Bible in 90 days.<br />
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The nice thing is that it keeps track for you. There is no need to find the list that tells you which verses are today's reading, it knows that you missed last Wednesdays reading so you can catch up on Saturday.<br />
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There is also the ability to bookmark verses and make notes as you are reading. Not to mention a pretty awesome search function.<br />
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And all of this is available on the phone app and more things that I haven't explored.<br />
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And now there is the ability to have the phone app read the Bible to you. Now this is not available in all translations (or probably all languages) but I think that it is a cool function. <br />
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What they haven't been able to do is reproduce the feel of a Bible in your hands. <br />
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I still love the weight of my study Bible. I love turning the onion skin pages. I get so much out of the notes I have written in the margin, the verses I have highlighted over the years.<br />
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But I can't carry that Bible in my pocket. It isn't convenient to pull it out while waiting in line at the grocery store. For that I love <a href="http://www.youversion.com/">YouVersion</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I have not been asked by YouVersion to give this review. I have received the app for free because it is free for everyone. I am not getting any special benefit or kickback or anything. I just love the app.</span>Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-90829647176331478932011-04-19T22:52:00.001-05:002011-04-20T00:14:49.624-05:00Happy CampersWhen I was in elementary school, my dad and I were involved in a group called Indian Princesses through the YMCA. The main thing I remember about it is getting to go camping with my Dad.<br />
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Then sometime around 11 my family got a camper trailer and we did a lot of family camping in that. There were several trips to Big Bend and Fort Davis that we enjoyed and quite a few other places as well. <br />
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I loved camping.<br />
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Then there was a "camping" trip with my first husband that was horrible (it was cold and we slept in the car and we where with his friends. It was the end of our marriage.)<br />
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I hated camping.<br />
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Then my daughter got involved in girl scouts and we went camping. Since more that 10 years had gone by, I was willing to give camping another chance. One of the girls was so homesick that she cried until she threw-up AND it was so cold that the girls got their polar bear patch (I hate being cold).<br />
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I still hated camping.<br />
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After much pleading from my kids and husband, I agreed to try it again. This time in we would try in April when it wouldn't be cold. Except it was. A cold front had the lows dropping below 40 degrees.<br />
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BUT I had fun. We had tents and cooked over a fire and went fishing and had a wonderful time. It was a ton of work getting prepared to go, planning the menus with all the sides and extras, trying to get everything packed so that we could access it easily. I forgot to get blankets (hubby and I slept on inflatable mattresses with sheets) but luckily they were remembered before we got more then 6 miles from the house. Its been a ton of work getting stuff washed and put away since we got back - but it was worth it.<br />
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The kids only complaint was that we didn't spend enough time camping, they wanted to be there for longer. They left their electronics at home and were very irritated with me when they saw I had brought the laptop. Honestly though, the laptop was only so that we could look at the stars and know what we were looking at. I downloaded <a href="http://stelarium.com/">Stelarium or Stellarium</a> which is an amazing program, even if they can't figure out how to spell it (their website spells it both ways). You can have it show you what constellations are over your head at that moment and since I can find at least 15 big dippers and little dippers, it is a huge help to me. Although, since the moon was so bright, we couldn't see the stars so the laptop stayed in the car.<br />
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All in all, we were happy campers.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-68467298983021852872011-04-04T01:07:00.000-05:002011-04-04T01:07:45.378-05:00Bible in 90 daysLast year I tried to do the Bible in 90 days challenge but I didn't finish. <br />
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I didn't get very far at all.<br />
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This year I was determined to do better.<br />
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And I did!<br />
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I finished in 88 days.<br />
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<i>Considering how many days I had to read 2 or 3 days worth, I probably could have read it in 60 days but we won't even go there.</i><br />
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I loved doing Bible in 90 days because it gave me a broad overview of the whole Bible. I think a good comparison would be if you had a painting by a master (Renoir, Van Gough, Matisse) and only looked at it with a magnifying glass. You might know exactly how he painted that ear or eye or flower but never know the painting was of a girl, a man or a field of flowers. Sometimes you have to step back to see the whole picture.<br />
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I still think Bible Study is incredibly important but I think you can get a lot from an overview. It's true you can't read in depth when you are reading so much at a time but there is still value in reading through all the events, not just the ones that are easy to read. <br />
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Would I do it again? Yes, definately! I am planning on participating again in July when it happens again. <br />
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In the meantime, I plan on <a href="http://www.momstoolbox.com/blog/2011/03/29/blogging-through-the-gospels-with-momstoolbox/">studying more about the Gospels</a> also with Amy at <a href="http://www.momstoolbox.com">Mom's Toolbox</a>.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-4297772240034715932011-03-21T12:31:00.000-05:002011-03-21T12:31:11.877-05:00Menu Plan Monday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3U6CCtuK4FI/TYeK25-5PAI/AAAAAAAAATg/MwAOQwh_PXA/s1600/mealplanmonday_v1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="100" width="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3U6CCtuK4FI/TYeK25-5PAI/AAAAAAAAATg/MwAOQwh_PXA/s200/mealplanmonday_v1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
This is my first time to do Menu Plan Monday by orgjunkie but I am hoping it will be a regular thing.<br />
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One thing, my family is gluten free and I am again cooking completely dairy free so some of these ideas are not fully fleshed out. Last night I intended to make a chicken, rice and broccoli thing for dinner but when I got in the kitchen it turned into Thai peanut coconut chicken and rice with broccoli for a side. And it was YUMMY!<br />
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Monday: Potato Hash (grated potatoes and ground beef and then whatever else I feel like throwing in)<br />
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Tuesday: Pork chops and <a href="http://threeboysandglutenfree.blogspot.com/2010/09/cook-book-review.html">mac and cheeze</a> <i>(shhh don't tell the kids what is in the cheese sauce)</i> with broccoli that my 8 year old son <b>requested</b>.<br />
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Wednesday: roast chicken and vegetable quinoa salad.<br />
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Thursday: homemade tacos and bean burritos - I want to try out a new tortilla recipe<br />
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Friday: split pea soup and shepherds pie<br />
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Saturday: Burgers and coleslaw with pina colada ice cream for dessert.<br />
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Check in <a href="http://orgjunkie.com/2011/03/menu-plan-monday-march-21st-giveaway.html">here</a> to see other meal plans!Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-26365600158313380222011-03-01T22:48:00.001-06:002011-03-02T01:26:36.290-06:003in30 February closing thoughtsFebruary is officially over and now it is March. So how did I do on my February goals?<br />
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Not so great but not horrible. sort of.<br />
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On reading the Bible every day, I am way behind. Like a week behind. I should be able to get caught up this week. I think. I am over half-way through though.<br />
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As for doing meal plans, I did do this and I mostly followed them. However, I didn't always get them done at the beginning of the week. One week it was Wednesday before I had the plan done and I was supposed to do it Monday. I don't know about you but Mondays are crazy for me so I am thinking do menus on Sunday (which is going to be one of my goals in March so pretend you didn't hear this).<br />
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And exercising didn't happen. I can give a long list of excuses but I am not going to do that.<br />
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So February didn't go as planned but that is ok. I am just ready to get on with March.<br />
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My March goals are going to sound somewhat familiar because some of them are carry-overs or refinements.<br />
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So without further ado:<br />
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<ul><li>Bible Reading: You had to know that this was going on here. When I do my Bible reading, I just feel better.</li>
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<li>menu plans & grocery list on Sunday: To me Sundays are sit around after church, flipping through the paper, maybe catch a football game. I can just as easily flip though cookbooks looking for recipes. I am working on getting a menu plan that includes some cooking some freezer meals, first I have to find out what is gluten-free that freezes well. And we like.</li>
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<li>declutter: Oh how I need to declutter. I thought about putting it down for all three this month but I decided that that was a <i>bit</i> much.</li>
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I also want to focus on getting earlier to bed and getting up earlier but still getting more sleep (I just might be perpetually sleep deprived.) And I hope that will make my days flow better. <br />
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While I am getting up earlier, I should also eat breakfast. It is not my favorite meal of the day.<br />
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And I need to . . . .<br />
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That is the difficulty with 3in30, there are so many things I want to put down and I don't think I should try that many at once. I would really like to get all 3 goals mostly accomplished one month.<br />
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To look at more 3in30 goals you can look <a href="http://www.thetuckerstaketennessee.com/2011/02/3-in-30-closing-comments-looking-ahead/">here</a> At the Tuckers Take Tennessee.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-35811575288476448772011-02-28T23:01:00.001-06:002011-03-01T00:22:35.870-06:00I don't know what to sayI don't think I need to say that I miss you. I dreamt about you and you were alive and it was normal again. When I woke up I was so very angry that it was normal and I didn't take the time in my dream to get a few more hugs, even just dream hugs.<br />
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I think about all the things I want to tell you or ask you, but you're not there. <br />
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It has been a year, and I still miss you Daddy.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-52751149826194769562011-02-26T23:02:00.000-06:002011-02-27T00:06:30.214-06:00a confessionThere has been a double standard in my life for years. I made my kids do something I refused to do.<br />
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It is shameful, isn't it?!?<br />
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My kids <i>are</i> allowed to politely say they don't really like a certain dish or ingredient but they also have to eat a few bites of it if it is part of the meal. For instance, if onion soup is part of the meal, they have to eat a few bites of it but then can just eat the other meal items. I don't make several different meals each time we eat but I do make sure that if we are having something they hate (onion soup) there is something with it that is also part of the meal but something they like (or tolerate).<br />
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But they still have to eat a few bites of the unliked dish.<br />
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I tease Hubby because he won't eat beets which is one of my favorite vegetables. He has tried them occasionally in the past few years but still says they taste like dirt. Actually, I kind-of prefer not having to share.<br />
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Then yesterday it occurred to me that I first tried coleslaw 30+ years ago when I was 4 and . . . <br />
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Well . . . <br />
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Let's just say it didn't like me. My mother insists that I already had a stomach bug but I have always had my doubts about that. And I wouldn't try it again. <br />
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Since I generally wasn't a picky eater and was willing to eat almost everything else, my mom let it slide. She would occasionally ask me to try it but didn't try to force me a second time.<br />
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So over 30 years passed with me refusing to try coleslaw. I also wouldn't have it on my plate. I would have it served in a separate container so I could put it as far away from me as possible if the waitresses wouldn't substitute. I didn't even want to look at it. Or smell it (shudder).<br />
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Coleslaw was the only dish that could turn me back into a 4 year old.<br />
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I wasn't <i>fond</i> of guacamole but I would taste it periodically to see if I still didn't like it. A year ago when we first started gluten-free and were also doing dairy-free, I tried some avocado and it tasted buttery (in the best of all possible ways).<br />
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Coleslaw was still avoided.<br />
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And this was my facebook status yesterday <br />
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It says "I just googled "coleslaw" on my phone and autocorrect suggested "vile" - I agree with google." <br />
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But what I didn't say was that I realized it was a double standard and was googling it to find recipes.<br />
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I realized I needed to try coleslaw again <i>but</i> I also knew that homemade would taste better. I found a recipe and all of the ingredients were ones that I didn't mind eating either by itself (carrots & cabbage) or mixed with something else (apple cider vinegar). I did cut the cabbage too thick so it didn't look like coleslaw and then I was able to call it salad so my kids would try it with a more open mind than mine.<br />
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They won't request it but both said it wasn't bad. They were somewhat surprised when I told them what it was and possibly even more when I apologized for the double standard. Hubby loved it. He has long liked coleslaw and was happy at the idea of homemade coleslaw (possibly also happy about all the probable leftovers.)<br />
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Did I like it?<br />
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Well . . . <br />
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to be completely honest . . .<br />
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Yes, I did. I don't think it is my favorite salad (I love green salads with fruit) but I would be more than willing to eat it again. I also want to try out some other recipes that I avoided because they were "slaws."<br />
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Do you have a favorite slaw recipe?Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-60897026776228201742011-02-23T00:08:00.000-06:002011-02-23T00:08:27.005-06:00You know you have been wearing your hair up too muchwhen two inches have been cut off and no one notices. Not even your husband. (Ok, to be completely fair, he <i>thought maybe</i> it was shorter. But he wasn't sure.)<br />
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Although I suppose it is equally possible that everyone hates it.<br />
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Or the color is off putting.<br />
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I am thinking of going back to the natural color for awhile but what I have right now is <i>not</i> it. It looks like I tried to copy Ree (Pioneer Woman) and that color just doesn't fit right on me.<br />
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What am I naturally? Probably a dirty blond or light brown.<br />
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Umm, yep, it hasn't been the natural color very many months since I turned 13.Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-77883000237008913092011-02-11T23:17:00.000-06:002011-02-11T23:17:15.538-06:003 in 30 February Check-upThis month I am doing better than I did last month. For the most part.<br />
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But that isn't saying much.<br />
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My first goal is reading the Bible every day and I am doing pretty good on that one. I am not behind on the Bible in 90 Days (today is day 40!) but if I am honest, some days I don't read at all and then I have to catch up the next day.<br />
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The next goal is doing meal plans. You wouldn't think it would be this hard but it is. I spent 2 hours on it on Monday. Well, I got the meal plan written down, then cleaned out the freezer and found stuff that had been forgotten and so changed the plan. That is why it took 2 hours. But it has been great. I looked at the weather so I could plan cold day meals on the coldest days and it was wonderful. I want to do some bulk cooking but we are still trying to find new recipes (or variations that we can eat) but that will make the whole thing even better.<br />
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My other goal was to exercise for 15 minutes a day. Did you know that Texas has been experiencing a freakish couple of cold spells? Really, really cold spells. No, not as cold as it gets where you live (probably) but cold enough to make Southerners miserable. And I have been miserable. We do have a fully functioning heating system but I am a wimp and I was the only one freezing. I just look out the window and feel cold. The idea of jumping around and moving when I really just wanted to hibernate was more than I could <s>bear</s> handle. Next week will be one of those crazy/busy weeks so I am thinking not then either.<br />
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So to sum up: I am doing well on 2 out of 3. The other goal is being ignored.<br />
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How are your goals?Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3170571847810367664.post-56782368468925388442011-01-31T09:38:00.000-06:002011-01-31T09:38:39.063-06:003 in 30 FebruaryTomorrow is the first day of February and time for a new set of goals. While I could just redo my goals from January, (especially those that didn't go so well) I decided not to do that.<br />
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Well, not completely.<br />
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Without further ado here are my goals for February:<br />
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<ul><li><b>Reading the Bible every day</b>: I did do fairly well with this one, I am not behind on Bible in 90 days. I did get behind a couple of times but was able to catch up, but its only day 28 so I still have more to go before I have read all the way through. I am almost 1/3 of the way through!</li>
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<li><b>Plan meals for each week</b>: I don't mind planning out the meals but I have not successfully followed a plan for a week. If I plan some easy meals and more difficult meals but don't set the day of the week, I cook the easy ones first and then skip the harder ones. If I plan set days to do each meal, then I get aggravated because the warmest day of the week is the one I put down for chili - since this is Texas we could be having chili on the day it is 80F out and the next day have a low of 20F. So not only do I have to keep our schedule in mind, I also have to look at the weather. I am hoping that if I stick to the meal planning thing for a month, I will figure out how to do it so that it works for me.</li>
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<li><b>do some form of exercise for at least 15 minutes:</b> yes, I know 15 minutes isn't very much. Some days though, that may be all I can manage. Plus my hope is that if I do it for 15 minutes, I will add on some extra and make it 20 or 30 minutes worth of exercise for that day. Also, <s>if</s> when the 15 minutes becomes habit, I can up that habit to 20 or 30 minutes. I think.</li></ul><br />
So now you know what my goals are for February. What are yours? If you haven't set any goals yet, you might want to join <a href="http://www.thetuckerstaketennessee.com/2011013-in-30-closing-comments-february-goals-giveaway.html">3in30</a>.<br />
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Oh, how did I do in January? I did well with reading the Bible but not so good on cooking real meals which is why I am trying to plan meals to cook. The food diary was done I think one day out of the month. Again, meal planning should help with that one. So all in all, January wasn't great with meeting my goals. February will be better though. Right? Hello?Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095540983427609774noreply@blogger.com4