If you would have told me 10 years ago that the year I turned closer to 40 than 30, I would almost exclusively buy and eat organic food, in large part to avoid GMOs, I would have pondered it but probably wouldn't have believed you and I NEVER would have believed that I would help gather signatures for a petition to label GMO ingredients in our food to assure it would make it to the ballot.
If you would have told me that I would love peppers and regularly eat a huge salad made of spinach and millions of toppings with NO dressing, I would have laughed my head off and would have kept laughing if you told me I would be addicted to a boot camp class.
If you would have told me that I would use dryer hedgehog balls in place of dryer sheets and would LOVE them, I definitely would not have believed you. I hate static more than ANYTHING but bless those little hedgehogs!
Now, if you would have told me that I would learn about and use essential oils for all our ailments, I would jump for joy and rejoice because I have always wanted to use essential oils and my dream would be coming true.
I have come so far.
Peppermint for fevers, lavender and peppermint for burns, melaluca for rashes and eczema, a mixture of oils for upset stomachs, eucalyptus for coughs, geranium to help heal a cut (note – the smell of geranium is not my favorite so it has now been moved to the category of for emergencies only), a mixture of oils for helping Owen focus on homework and school, a mixture of oils for helping Ivy with EXTREME anxiety and to take her from a complete mental breakdown to happy and content within minutes, lemon to get rid of a pending sore throat, oregano to stop a cold from coming on, wintergreen for shin splints, a mixture of oils to help with sore joints and muscles, frankincense for everything. I find the list goes on and on and adding to my oil collection is the highlight of the month.
We put them on our necks, rub them on what hurts, put them on our feet at night. I love seeing the kids lying in bed with their feet ready to go, especially Autumn. As I rub the oils on, I ask them if they have anything wrong with them for any oils. We have a daily routine and add to it the oil for the daily ailment, if any. I love being able to take care of the kids myself and help heal them without much use of medicine and doctors. There is a place for doctors and medicines and I have no problem taking them, but if an oil will work first, I am going to use it.
The closer to 40 than 30 me can’t believe my life and this is me.
My favorite part of this is the image of my kids growing up here. I can’t believe that my kids are those kids that smell funny and tell neighbors that they can’t eat things cause their mom wouldn’t like that. And even more unbelievable is that I am the mother of those kids! Unbelievable I tell you. The life I am living now is so far from the one I grew up in. We actually ate at McDonald’s sometimes twice in a day. We made ourselves TV dinners all the time. Emilee and I got the Salisbury Steak and Ben and Angie got the chicken nugget ones. Ben regularly ate Miracle Whip sandwiches, we cooked hamburgers in the microwave, and we ate Instant Breakfast everyday. There is a small part of me that feels bad my kids won’t be able to say those things, but you can’t undo what you know. (most of the time it goes unnoticed, but Owen did ask for his old ranch dressing and syrup for Christmas, that was sad and I almost bought it). They don’t eat this way all the time, we try for most of the time. I read a blog that tries to eat healthy, the mom says she has an 80/20 rule. 100% healthy – 80% of the time and the rest is left for snacks at school and classes, birthday parties, going out to dinner, eating at the neighbor’s houses, Super Bowl snacks, the ice cream run, the still existing and having fun in the world day. This works for me.
They may not be able to say that they ate McDonald’s twice in a day, but they will be able to say their crazy mom tried really hard to keep them healthy and although the house was always a mess with a lot of chaos, it smelled good.
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Little Sister has had Molluscum warts for a year now. When I took her to our pediatrician last spring I learned that this particular kind of wart is caused by a pox-type virus and that it is very common in kids under the age of six and that most kids have been exposed to it at some time by the age of five. While some kids seem to have a natural immunity to it, others do not. It is a harmless virus and the warts do go away eventually on their own without any treatment. Bad news, the virus can stick around for up to 18 months. Just before the holidays the warts seemed to go rampant and had covered both of Little Sister's legs. Sometimes they itched and they were unsightly. So I hopped online to do some research on homeopathic remedies. What did I find? Tea Tree Oil as treatment! I ran to Fred Meyer, picked some up and started apply it directly to her warts every other day and we saw huge improvement within days! They are now almost completely gone. I'd be interested in hearing more about your knowledge of essential oils.
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