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Mission: Ask Permission

August 1st, 2010

Just 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, asthma, or seizures like our youngest) you know how I feel.  Even the school nurse thinks I’m a little nuts!

The school nurse and many parents have asked me if I’m serious when I want to know what my child has been given to eat…even better if they ask before it is given.  Really is one Chips Ahoy cookie, one popsicle brand popsicle, one bag of doritos going to hurt my children?  Maybe not.  Maybe so.  What I do know is that the accumulative effect of all the chemicals in those foods can’t be good and if I don’t know what’s going in then I can’t be sure what’s going on with my child if they don’t feel good.

I know for absolute sure that dyes drive my younger one CRAZY!  Too much junky carbs makes my older one CRANKY!

I also know that since eliminating most of these things, with the exception of an occasional birthday party or bbq, our children have not been sick.  Not at all.  Sure the sniffles for 24 hours, but not really sick.  Do you know many families that have children ages 6 and 7 that haven’t been to the dr in 3 years?  (Yes, we went to get the kids physicals for school and yes, they meet all criteria for “well” children.)

Our family loves to help other families experience this same joy of being well year round. Are you ready to work towards your child being the healthiest on the block?

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Mission: Learn Easy Tips for Cleaner Living

July 7th, 2010

There’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?  So enjoy your bananas longer, your peppers sweeter and your ants going away – naturally.

  • Take your bananas apart when you get home. They won’t ripen as fast.

  • Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter for eating, 4 bumps are better for cooking.

  • Put cayenne pepper in your garden to keep squirrels and rabbits away.

  • Get rid of ants with cornmeal, they take it home, but can’t digest it and therefore go to insect heaven.

Do you have a tip that works for you in the kitchen/home that might help us out?  Share! Share! Share!

What do we wash our vegetables with?  H2 from Shaklee…it also cleans our entire home for over a year for just $10!

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Mission: Detox Your Home to Combat the 4 A’s

June 27th, 2010


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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 receive over $3,400 worth of cleaning supplies for under $200.

Switching our home cleaners, laundry and dish soap to Shaklee was the first step we took in our home to help our daughter recover from Epilepsy!  We’re in full recovery!!!!

Cleaning our home for health also helped our whole family with allergies and because it’s safe to use, the kids can help me clean too!  Awesome.

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Mission: Create a Community Get Together for Families Like Us

June 14th, 2010

Our 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, and we don’t try out the latest scrubbing product from clorox.

This may not seem like a big deal, but to our family it really is a different lifestyle that can make us standout sometimes.

Our kids are constantly asking if they can eat certain things when we are at a party or pot-luck situation.  We feel the need to compromise some of our actions when we are out so the kids aren’t too different from the rest of the children turning their mouths blue.

This weekend I had a meeting with our Shaklee team. The dads met at the house and the moms/kids met at the park.  It was so relaxing to prepare for this meeting!  I didn’t even have to go shopping.  We used the fruit and veggies I had on hand.  Whipped up a quick organic muffin mix.  Grabbed some organic help granola bars and even brought the treat of Annie’s Organic Bunnies (gummy treats).

I talked with the other moms and we are going to plan one of these outings once a month.  (Only dads will be with us.)  We will be gathering in pot-luck style and bringing snacks to share that do not have dyes, HFCS, preservatives or any of that yucky stuff that throws our system “off”.  How relaxing it will be to get together and tell my kids yes, yes, yes when they want to snack with their friends.

Are you in the Shorewood, Plainfield, Naperville, Joliet area?  Want to come?  Be sure to sign up for the newsletter on this page – we’ll be sending updates of our events!

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