Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I’ve got mad fever!

No, I am not talking scarlet fever or hay fever… It’s SPRING fever around here! Thankfully we’ve kicked our cold (I should say E and I kicked it, N might be coming down with it now). So things are more productive here especially since the weekend was warmer than usual, basically it was NOT jacket weather [...]

I’ve got mad fever!
Sunday, February 14, 2010

The day of red

18 months ago, thanks to my Fertility Awareness Method charting I knew I was pregnant, before I’d even missed my period. Now, over a year later I am back in the world of fertile women and am reminded of how bad it sucks to have “that time of the month” again… Oh and we have to [...]

The day of red
Monday, January 25, 2010

Road trip adventures Everly enjoyed.

Whew! After a week on the road we needed a day to decompress after getting back to Evansville. Yesterday we sat around in our PJ’s, did many loads of laundry, scrubbed cat vomit from the carpets, cleaned cat boxes… You know all the chores and stuff that go undone while you are away. Everly was a [...]

Road trip adventures Everly enjoyed.

What is it with shower situations in New Mexico? We are spending the night in Tucumcari, NM this time around. We got a cheap hotel to spend the night in and unfortunately it only has a shower. You see it’s a cheap hotel, tiny, clean and shower-less with a super loud heater… You get what you [...]

The last time I showered in New Mexico…

We are on the road in our newly fixed car! After flying here and hanging out with family and friends it’s now time to make the trip back home, in our car. We spent much time this morning debating weather or not it was a good idea to make the trek up north to I-40 [...]

Forging ahead – Bringing our car home from Arizona
Friday, January 8, 2010

Live Blogging: Cat Swallows Needle

Here are my tweets as they played out during the night and early hours of the morning. I didn’t realized it would reach so many people. At first I was just tweeting so my husband would know what was going on, then I kept tweeting to be sure I didn’t leave anyone in the dark. [...]

Live Blogging: Cat Swallows Needle

It’s true. N and I got the holiday ham that keeps on giving. It seems we have food poisoning or something… It’s been an ongoing thing for over a week now. We just tossed several pounds of ham leftovers after we figured it was the culprit, also tossed the spinach salad just for good measure. [...]

Dazed, anxiety ridden and plagued with ham disease.
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas 2009 as parents.

I never thought I would be such a gingerbread cookie fiend! Last week we made up a ton of cookies to get in the holiday spirit and also so N would have cookies to take in to work for everyone. We’d been trying different gingerbread cookie recipes each year, nothing was particularly impressive and I thought [...]

Christmas 2009 as parents.
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Someone is excited about the holiday!

She’s not even walking yet and she’s already being a stinker about opening gifts early. After her gift snagging earlier in the week we moved all the gift bags and stuff with ribbon away from her reach. We thought the paper and curly ribbon was attracting her attention. Looks like she’s smarter about this gift [...]

Someone is excited about the holiday!

I have a confession. I am fairly certain twitter is killing my creativity! I’ve been having issues with blog content since Everly’s birth. Sure I am a busy mom who is working part time in addition to caring for a new baby. Yeah, computer time is limited these days… The thing is it’s not the time that [...]

A twitter addiction? Confessions and talk of loss.
Friday, December 4, 2009

Baby leg warmers crochet fun

I’ve been working on making E a pair of baby legwarmers since October. I just finished them today which is kind of a big deal. You see I tend to start and never finish my knit and crochet projects… Today will probably be the only day she’ll wear them since it took me two months to [...]

Baby leg warmers crochet fun

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Sunday Stealing: The Dating Profiles Meme

All the trees are naked and it is very close to freezing at night now. Thanksgiving is just right around the corner and we aren’t really sure where the year has gone. Life is blowing by so fast and it just feels like we are standing here in a blur while it all swirls around us [...]

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans…
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Today we are proud home owners!

Well, we’ve done it! Several years of planning and thousands of dollars later… We are now the proud owners of our own home! N was bummed that we had no “sold” sign to pose with out on the front lawn though… We may just have to stage it anyway, kind of like this: We went in [...]

Today we are proud home owners!

This will be the first weekend in probably a month or so that we’ll have to relax and get caught up on things. Marching season has come and gone, my 9th marching season is now over. Sure winterguard plans and ideas are in the works but it wont be until January when the performance madness picks [...]

Sigh… Rest and recuperation are in order.
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We are buying a hog (okay maybe not a full one)

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Over the weekend we watched Food Inc. It was another documentary N put on our Netflix movie list that I hadn’t really heard of. It was a movie I am glad we saw though!

The movie opened my eyes to a number of other points and It made me super glad we are spending a little extra on a free-range, organic turkey this Thanksgiving! I am really not okay with mass “farming” as it’s pretty inhumane.

Animals live on top of each other in pins that aren’t big enough. The confined spaces are dirty, uncomfortable, heck some chickens never see the light of day! I also cringed at the pig catching and crushing contraption shown in the film.

Inhumane practices aside, industrialized food is also pretty unhealthy. So many farmers are doing anything they can to fatten up the animals or ramp up production so they can make more money. They aren’t thinking of the repercussions of these choices they’ve made.

Cows eating stuff like corn, other animal by-products and being kept in tiny pins in mountains of their own feces isn’t okay. Besides how healthy can that meat be after the poor cow lived so unhealthily?

I don’t want my food washed with ammonia or bleach, I don’t want my milk filled with hormones and I want the animals I eat to live in a healthy environment (the way nature intended them to).

Also, the movie opened my eyes to the fact that many of our foods are now the result of cloning!

In January 2008, the FDA approved the sale of meat and milk from cloned livestock, despite the fact that Congress voted twice in 2007 to delay FDA’s decision on cloned animals until additional safety and economic studies could be completed. Source

Stem cell research and designer babies are hot moral issues right? So why don’t more people know that they could be eating a clone and how can we say this is okay when we have done no studies on it?

The facts left me outraged and we are now slowly making the move away from industrialized, unhealthy and inhumane food. Our thanksgiving bird is the first step in what is going to be a slow process but it’s something we all NEED to be doing.

We already buy organic free range eggs and organic yogurt. We thought we were drinking hormone free milk but it turns out the Dean’s milk available here isn’t hormone free.

We’ve found a local farmer (Stonewall Farms) who sells organic, free range meats to consumers similar to how people obtained meat back in the day. You can buy a whole animal or just shares of it, when it is slaughter time you go to the processing plant to pick up your processed bulk meat and then you have what you need for months if not a year.

We will probably start out with a hog or just a half of a hog because we want to start out small. We’ll pay our deposit and save our money while we wait for the animal to grow and mature. When the times comes for slaughter we’ll have our large chunk of change to pay for the meat and we’ll walk away with 6 months to a years worth of free range, organic meat.

We just can’t stomach eating the slop that is available in the grocery store anymore!

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