Tag Archives: kids
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Children Need Our Help
Posted on December 6, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsMy mind is simply spinning and I’m sure over the next few weeks I’m going to continue to write about my experience this weekend. It was, well….a call to action. The generation of our children are not healthy. Maybe your kids are healthy or maybe you try and make healthy choices everyday, but the generation [...]
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Permission for School Snacks
Posted on November 5, 2010 by admin in Healthy (Edible) Recipes, Latest News, Tip & Hints TuesdayWe have one line written on our children’s medical form that makes all the difference to us. “No food to be given without parent permission.” Most days this statement doesn’t mean a thing, but yesterday the nurse called to o.k. a birthday treat that was being sent into school. The treat was a mini candy [...]
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Holidays Knock 25 Years Off Life?
Posted on October 11, 2010 by admin in Tip & Hints TuesdayWritten by Dr. Ben Lerner of Maximized Living Even though Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years make up a total of 3 days, most people just call November, December, and the first part of January “The Holidays.” Since it is “The Holidays,” you can be irresponsible and careless. You eat can mass quantities, put all sorts [...]
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Mission: Choices on the Go
Posted on July 31, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsWe traveled this past week as a family, in a car, across the country. Believe it or not we still love each other, had NO fighting, minimal whining and lots of laughing. Even the dog came with us! I firmly believe that one of the reasons we all stayed so cheerful is that we didn’t [...]
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Mission: Detox Your Home to Combat the 4 A’s
Posted on June 27, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsWatch CBS News Videos Online The simplest way to detox your home is the Get Clean Starter Kit from Shaklee. It’s the only solution for your home that offers convenience, safety and performance! 100% guaranteed FREE of Heavy Metals, Carcinogens, Pesticides and 100′s of other harmful stuff. Because of the way Shaklee is concentrated you [...]
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Mission Accomplished: No Asking for Garbage Food
Posted on June 14, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsWe just got home from the launch of the public library’s summer reading program. On the upside, both girls are signed up for the program and I even signed up for the adult program. FUN! On the downside, most of the prizes are food based and I’ll have to come up with something to substitute [...]
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Mission: Find a Safe Sunscreen
Posted on June 9, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsFinding a safe sunscreen is more than making sure you don’t get burned. Did you know that the EWG only endorses 39 sunscreens out of the 500 on the market and that using anything over a 50 spf is pointless? Our family is fair skinned. We’ve been to Disney, a cruise, in the neighbors pool [...]
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Mission: Celebrate the Ocean at Home
Posted on June 8, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsThe kids are home with me for the ENTIRE summer. We’ll be taking a few vacations, but these first 7 weeks it’s all about me and kids. I thought we could make it fun by focusing on a topic every week. Julianne picked our first week’s focus: The Ocean! No need to overplan (um, the [...]
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Mission: Celebrate My Birthday w/Out the Crankies!
Posted on June 7, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsDo you ever notice that by the end of a birthday party the kids are running around crazy and you’re are so glad they are going home! You know they are going to crash from the sugar in their system and you’re happy you won’t be around to see the melt downs. It’s just something [...]
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Mission: Fuel Up for Fun!
Posted on June 6, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsAwesome! Today I ran my first 5k and Julianne & Johanna ran in the kids dash. The event benefited Hope Children’s Hospital and the Ronald McDonald house in Oak Lawn, IL. I’m not a big fan of McDonald’s, but I love their charity of the Ronald McDonald houses. We used their hospitality quite a bit [...]
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Mission: Celebrate Donut Day!
Posted on June 5, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsYesterday was National Donut Day! I didn’t even know about this celebration until we were home for the night, but we celebrated by chance when we had stopped by Starbucks earlier that day. Starbucks is changing a lot of their options in the bakery case. As they put it “they are using simpler recipes”. No [...]
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Mission: Know Little Changes Add Up to Big Results
Posted on June 4, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsI’m sitting in here watching Johanna (6yrs old) sleep and not just because she is beautiful. For the first time in over 3 years she did not get seizure meds at bedtime. We’ve slowly been able to reduce her dosage to what the doctor called a “homeopathic” dose in her system. So in other words, [...]
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Mission: Change your diet again, again and again
Posted on May 27, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsI love it when I come across something that inspires me to write….right now! So here’s the statement that was an “AHA moment”, as Oprah would call it. The way of eating that works for you today may not work for you six months or six years down the road. It’s important to change your [...]
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Mission: See Your Future – What are you Talking About?
Posted on May 7, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsSo I’m sitting at a Panera right now and a quote from one of our team members jumped into my head. It goes something like: “If you don’t take time for wellness now you will have to take time for illness later” This rings true right now as I can over hear (ok I’m a [...]
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Mission: Volunteer at Lunch Time
Posted on May 4, 2010 by admin in Latest NewsSo my 7 year old, Julianne asked me to volunteer at lunch/recess today at her school. I got clearance from the principal and off I went. Now if you’ve been reading this blog, you know my thoughts on food and the choices we make in our home. I try and keep judgment to myself, but [...]
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