Green is Sexy!

I have always been a bit of a tree hugger, alot due to the fact that I lived in Costa Rica while I was a teen, and they do everything pretty naturally there. This passion of mine has recently become inflamed (because it had been mildly dormant) because of all the things I have seen and heard around me, mostly dealing with health.

Well, about a week ago, My IUD was really bothering me; pinching, pulling, poking and I know this is TMI but I checked to see if it was in place and instead found a tiny hard mass on my cervix.

Now I was too tired to think about what it could mean so I went to bed and then freaked out about it the next day.

I called the Dr. to get it checked and miraculously got in to the Dr. that morning and a friend kindly watched my kids so I could go alone.

Well, Bruce knows this story and while he was kind, he decided that he wasn't going to stress about it, until he knew what was going on. But he promised me that we would do whatever it took to get healthy and stay healthy.

So at the Dr. he took out the IUD, and told me not to worry about the mass, wouldn't say anything beyond that. So while I was relieved, I am not convinced that it is ok because I know that any hardening or scarring of the cervix or uterus makes labor harder, if not impossible.

So I have decided to go as organic as possible for our big family and our tiny budget.

I will be making our own soaps, house cleaners and growing our own food. I am debating making the kids soaps because we have such a problem with waste in our family.

So, now I am committed to this ideal of no waste and self-suffiency and I hope you will all support me and possibly give me ideas. I will post recipes and pictures of the things I do make.

If you need any fabric scraps for anything, please call me and I'd be happy to give you whatever you need!

There are pictures of my stuff on the Yu-zen site at the top of the blog, on the right side.

I got a ton of fabric from a friend and have sewn 2 bags, 4 dresses and 4 aprons and 2 lingerie type aprons.

Personality?

You Are An ENFP

The Inspirer You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends. You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority and rules. Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives. You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're quite the storyteller! In love, you are quite the charmer. And you are definitely willing to risk your heart. You often don't follow through with your flirting or professed feelings. And you do break a lot of hearts. At work, you are driven but not a workaholic. You just always seem to enjoy what you do. You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist. How you see yourself: compassionate, unselfish, and understanding When other people don't get you, they see you as: gushy, emotional, and unfocused

What's" Your Personality Type?

I'm not sure about some of these things like the heartbreaking flirting. uh, no. But I can be unfocused! Do I tell good stories? I hope so!

Some fun things we have done the last couple of weeks

Went to a meat farm. Thinking about becoming a vegetarian.

Got caught an insane hailstorm. Sounded like a million bullets being shot at the car. Kids were screaming, I was praying and Bruce was singing.

We then waited it out at with a dinner at CiCi's. I keep forgetting that junk food/fast food makes me sick. I felt terrible all the next day. I've heard the older you get, if you eat it, the more it messes you up. Mental note.

This is a family celebration we had, all we needed was ballons and bubbles.

We also had a birthday party on Sat. but since I didn't stay up till 4 on Friday night cleaning, cooking and stressing, (I did) it was okay that only 2 people showed up. So for all you super busy people, please call Bruce on Tuesday for his birthday! Oh yeah, he is having a graduation ceremony in June, so you are forewarned!

Dad made an alien rocketship cake for Ethan!

This was Ethan's present from Dad; a baseball game with his favorite cousin Ryley!

Multiples!

These are all my amazing sister's Mackenzie, pictures. These are the kind of pictures I would frame, of my kids. I love pictures that show their personalities.

So much has happened in the last few weeks, (mostly just me sewing more than I probably should.) But April is both Bruce's and Ethan's birthday month and that always keeps me busy so mostly I will post pictures.

I know I wasn't tagged but.....

This looked really fun so do it if you are up for it!



Maybe I should clean my house
I love feeling good (healthy)
People would say that I am wierd and can lack tact
I don’t understand why I am so wierd about journaling
When I wake up in the morning I roll my eyes, groan, then snap at someone. Morning always comes too soon.
I lost my aunt to pancreatic cancer and still have a hard time dealing with it
Life is full of work
My past is full of lessons in humility, probably nessecary for my stubborn self
I get annoyed when I see or hear about injustice
Parties are better with music and good food
I wish I had more desire to clean
Dogs are stinky barkers
Cats are stinky
Tomorrow I'm going to sew again
I have low tolerance for lots of things, all of them deal with free agency
I’m totally terrified of losing someone to a preventable illness
I wonder why I don't really care about what others think of me
Never in my life have I made bread.
High school was I rocked in drama.
When I’m nervous or uncomfortable; I giggle uncontrollably
One time at a family gathering my mom ambushed my uncle with a pie to the face, I still remember the relish she took in doing that. I think he was teasing her.
Take my advice: contraception doesn't work for me.
Making my bed only happens before I go to sleep.
I'm almost always have to tell my brain to relax and go to sleep
I’m addicted to Malcolm in the Middle, seriously, I had to stop watching it.
I want someone to stand up and tell food processing/producers to quit poisoning us.

This would probably have been different if I had filled it out last week. that's just me!

Gas lease

We went yesterday to sign a gas lease. I still don't feel good about it.
I am telling you about it because.....
It might become an issue for you, if you live in North Texas.
There is a huge store of natural gas under 3 counties, in some rock found about 1-2 miles underneath our feet; it's called the Barnett Shale.
There are anywhere from 8-15 different companies trying to harvest this gas.
We are in the Barnett Shale, and as of a month ago, our neighborhood has been recieving $ offers for the right to run drills under our homes.
I again did some research and gas harvesting in urban areas is a relatively new practice.
So I AM A LITTLE WARY....
Anyway, I only wanted to sign the lease with one company and Bruce went and signed with the wrong one.
I kept my copy of the lease and we are thinking of moving because I don't want to be anywhere near where they are drilling.
Oh yeah, if you care and get a chance, write to the mayor and ask him to make sure the drill wastewater is Properly and safely recycled and disposed of.
The hired thugs (not really, they were just really ignorant) the drilling company had hired to help people, were trying to convince me that it is safe, that the wastewater from the drilling was not going to stay in the ground, that it was going to be vaccumed out and trucked off to some remote location.
Ok.
I told the lady that I wanted to put my own clause in the lease but she said I couldn't. I KNOW that Bruce has done it before.
She also told me that it was possible for the lease to be changed, after I had already signed it. What?!
So as you can tell, I'm not excited about this and while I have had my vaccine rant for the month, I wanted to post this in case you might be hearing about it or thinking about it.
Be careful!

Bored!

What is up with feeling bored and anxious?
Especially after such a wonderful conference?
Yesterday was so great, got to listen to conf.,
feel the spirit
Plant some of the garden (work?)
See and talk to some friends
Hang out with my family for a couple hours
Felt the spirit even more strongly for a few hours
Talk to Bruce about life- I love talking to Bruce!
So what happened?
Where has all the love gone?
Oh well, maybe I'll feel better if I clean my house.
Ugh.
I want to throw everything away and clean obsessively but I probably won't.
Any suggestions?