A Chicago Landmark: The Bean in Millenium Park
Oct 31, 2007 Wordless Wednesday
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Another Meme: Well Sorta
Oct 28, 2007 Unplugged Authentcity
Last Sunday I put a cute quiz and called that day “Cute Quiz Sunday”. Well I did not like that name. So today we are starting that “Savvy Sunday”.
You know we all know something about something. So Savvy Sunday is a day where I will discuss a topic that I know about or want to know more about. I will start the topic and it is my hope that you share what you know or want to know on the subject.
Today’s topic is Natural Living.
My family and I practice a natural way of living. Natural Living is basically sustainable living. For each family that may be different but there are also many similarities.
My family have a very organic healthy diet and we are vegans. Other families eat in the same way but they are meat eaters. We clean with only all natural products; so do most other natural living families. My husband wanted me to use cloth diapers for Brehane. I could not see it so we went with Huggies. Bad I know! Now I found out about another alternative, gdiapers, and if I decide to have another baby I will use those.
There are so many ways to live naturally and so many benefits. To name a few…
- Healthier
- Eco Friendly
- Educational
- Humbling
That is only a few.
I visit many of my natural mom friends online and so can you.
Natural Family Living Blog -Tiffany has a very interesting post on going raw.
Be sure to visit these blogs where you will learn more about natural living.
Hopefully I can share more on natural living with you and do it to God’s glory and not that of man’s. I
.So what’s your knowledge on the subject?
A New Meme: Fun Freebie Friday
Oct 26, 2007 Unplugged Authentcity
Well I am a “freebieholic”. I find legitimate free stuff, order it, and send it to mom as well because she does not have a computer. When I became a stay-at-home mom I had to find something to do with myself and so finding free stuff was one of my past times.
Now I do not have the time that I used to, but I wanted to revive my fetish for the free for this blog.
Hopefully you can use my Freebie Suggestion!
In honor of Breast Cancer Month, I found a freebie every woman needs. I saw a breast self-exam shower card on my sister’s shower at home. I had to admit that I seldom do self-exams but I know I need to. So I found this cool free card from the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
If you are a woman you need to do these exams on a monthly basis. Even as early as 20 women are getting breast cancer and it is spreading rapidly because so many women ignore giving themselves the exam that can save their life.
Won’t you join me in getting your card so that you can take better care of you:
Cute Quiz Sunday and Other Memes
Oct 21, 2007 Whatever
Ok so I am going to try and do some different memes. I have designated Sunday as “Cute Quiz Sunday”.
This week I did a “What American Accent Do You Have” quiz. I was shocked at my quiz but at the same time I have always been told that I have a great television and radio voice. So it was sorta confirmation.
| What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Midland
“You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio. |
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| The South |
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| The West |
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| The Inland North |
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| North Central |
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| Philadelphia |
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| Boston |
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| What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz |
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Your Soul Says “What About Me”
Oct 17, 2007 Unplugged Authentcity
I am watching an episode of Oprah. Yeah I know, but the girl has some good shows. She is just confused like a lot of other saved folk.
Anyway she had a special show for women over 35 and I am there plus 4 years.
Over the past couple of years I have been suffering from insomnia, panic attacks, triple irritability, circulation issues, hot flashes, horrible headaches, anger and oh…who know what else.
No doctor I went to would check my hormone levels and every other test came back negative. When I said that I thought I was perimenopausal, they looked at me strange.
So I left that one alone and consulted the books, my herbalist, and my a few naturopaths that I work with. They all agreed that my hormones are way off balance.
What I began to realize was that I was not taking care of myself. So I went on a trek to find out what I needed to do.
I soon found out that I needed to pay attention what my mind, body, and spirit were saying to me. They needed me and I was so busy being there for everyone else.
I was gently reminded that if I don’t take care of me then really no one else will. It was time for me to put myself somewhere in the equation.
So I made some changes
- switched my diet drastically
- read more books
- prayed more
- read my Bible more
- rid my life of all things negative (even some people)
- took longer baths and dared anyone to come in while I spent some time soaking and relaxing
I made some other changes that included taking care of me.
In my life I believe that God has a time for my death but I can shorten it by neglecting myself. To me that is a sin. To shorten my life before my purpose is served. What a shame and a slap in my Creator’s face.
My soul was saying “What About Me?”
My value of self was low, very low. Again I slapped God right in His face.
When we don’t take care of ourselves spiritually, physically, and emotionally our bodies become depleted. One you reach that perimenopause stage your body give out faster and it may not recuperate.
I could no longer live that way.
Watching that show with Christina Northrup, MD only confirmed what I have already been convicted of. I ordered her book, The Wisdom of Menopause
Now I live everyday in a different way. Yes, there are some days when it is harder than others, but for the most part life is what you make it and I say make lemonade and make it really sweet.
What is your soul saying to you?
Today I Was So Frustrated
Oct 17, 2007 Unplugged Authentcity
Ok so this morning me and my man had an argument. Well really I did the arguing. He is always so darn calm.He makes me so mad when he doesn’t argue back. I mean doesn’t everyone enjoy a good fight?
Well not my man and it has been that way for 5 years. Me yelling and crying and him calm and quiet.
It used to be worse, but we don’t argue much anymore. We talk more and that is a good thing. I needed his even tempered personality in my firecracker life. Because I can rumble with the best of ‘em.
That’s another story.
But you know God knew what He was doing when He put us together. If would have been with someone like me, I would probably me in jail or divorced. Isn’t that just like God?
God always know what we need and sometimes we just get all up in His way. I am glad I got out of His way when Rupert came into my life.
The issue is still there and will be until I calm down, think it through, go eat my humble pie and sit down to speak with Rupert about the issue.
Life as a married woman can be so complicated.
Why I am a Mom Unplugged
Oct 16, 2007 Unplugged Moments
Ok, I won’t start this blog with a typical introduction to me. You will learn plenty about me as you read the words in the posts I write.
Instead let me tell you why I am a mom unplugged.
Sometime ago I was in a depression that not many would have survived. I was truly lost in the sauce. But God was right there waiting for me to reach up and grab a hold of His hand.
When I did, I learned a valuable lesson.
That lesson…JUST BE YOU!
I learned that in order to get over the hump of life, it is important to just be you. For me that meant removing that Super Woman cape that so many of us moms wear. It was driving this girl mad.
It started when I had my oldest son, Alexander and was a single mom with no help or contact from his biological father. I felt like I had to do it all in order for AJ to have a good upbringing. It continued when I got married and right through the birth of my youngest son, Brehane.
I was in such a Super Woman mode that I drove myself into an unhealthy existence of living. I was overweight (obese to be exact), was diagnosed with anxiety disorder, dealing with hormonal imbalance, poor circulation, and always putting way too much on my plate. There were days when I couldn’t even think straight and my mind was so foggy that I just laid down and slept away the day.
So one day I told God here and not further. It was time to change and it started with taking off the cape that was suffocating the life out of me.
So that is why I am a Mom Unplugged.
God is showing me how to be the authentic me He created me to be.
Of course I have not arrive, but where I am today is AWESOME. I wouldn’t trade where I am for the world.
So I will be sharing my journey as an unplugged mom! From marriage to parenting. From my life as a WAHM to my life as God vessel for proactive change. There will be a time for everything under the sun here on the Mom Unplugged blog.
Are you ready to take off your cape, Superwoman? Or have you already removed the stifled piece of cloth that was slowly ringing the life out of you?
