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Faulty Moment: Water Burst
Posted on September 20, 2010 by admin in Challenge Yourself!Uh, I just had a not-so-great moment with my first grader. We have one of those awesome Shaklee Get Clean water pitchers that remove all the lead & mercury from our drinking water. It was empty and my daughter was going to fill it. She pulled the stool by the sink and was looking right [...]
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Success Check: Exercise Insights
Posted on September 19, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsEver feel like exercise is just a pain. It just doesn’t seem to fit in your day or maybe you’d just rather sit on the couch on this Sunday morning and feel the breeze. I don’t love exercise, but I do love the way it makes me feel and look when I’m done. I’m not [...]
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Mission: Ask Permission
Posted on August 1, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsJust got a phone call from the Mom down the street I love that families on the block have gotten to know us well enough that they ask permission before giving our kids “stuff”. Sure, maybe some of them think I’m overprotective, but if you’ve ever watched your child suffer from anything (an allergic reaction, [...]
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Mission: Choices on the Go
Posted on July 31, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsWe 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: Clean Water
Posted on July 16, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsLet’s just get to the point. We need clean water. Bottled water isn’t always clean and it the packaging is polluting the earth. So what’s a family to do? 1. Install household reverse osmosis….yes, it’s on our family’s list of things to do. 2. Filter your current water to the best quality possible. Thank goodness [...]
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Mission: Learn Easy Tips for Cleaner Living
Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsThere’s no way to know it all, especially when it comes to clean living. So whenever I run across easy (practical) tips for making our clean choices easy, I just have to share! Why these tips are important to us: We buy a lot of fruits and veggies. We hate chemicals/toxins. You do too, right? [...]
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Mission: Detox Your Home to Combat the 4 A’s
Posted on June 27, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsWatch 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 Wellness TipsWe 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: Create a Community Get Together for Families Like Us
Posted on June 14, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsOur family is mostly “mainstream”. We watch tv, we vacation in Disney, we work hard, our children go to public school…but the one thing that is different is our choices for food, health and home care. We don’t go shopping in the mainstream aisles of the grocery store, we don’t give over the counter drugs, [...]
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Mission: Find a Safe Sunscreen
Posted on June 9, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsFinding 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 Wellness TipsThe 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 Wellness TipsDo 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 Wellness TipsAwesome! 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 Wellness TipsYesterday 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: Change Your Child’s Breakfast
Posted on June 5, 2010 by admin in Wellness TipsThere have been days that I’ve wondered if I’ve given my daughters enough for breakfast before I send them out in the world. In fact, I know they should probably have a bit more protein at this morning meal, but they at least always have a fresh fruit and cereal/granola bar. When volunteering in Julianne’s [...]
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