Archive for March, 2008
Twist and Shout on Etsy!
2 comments March 28, 2008
Easter!
What a wonderful and beautiful day. The kids were amazing, considering they were going, going, going for the entire day. Our day began with a Brunch @ Church, then Church, then an Easter Egg Hunt at the Ingomar Club, then a quick drive to pass some time, then an afternoon meal at the Ingomar Club, then to the cemetery to lay flowers on Grandpa Caroll’s, Grandma Oma’s and Ricky’s (Nick best friend who died @ age 15) graves, then back to Nick’s parents to open Easter presents from Grandma Lende to the kids. Oh and in there while the adults and the babies were still at the Ingomar, Aunt Nonie (Nick’s aunt) took the bigger kids on yet another Easter Egg hunt. And we continued the festivities tonight with a big family dinner, ANOTHER Easter Egg hunt and opening of Easter presents from Nick’s parents to the kids.
Sunday morning was beautiful, sunny and bright, just as I imagine it was on that first Easter Sunday. I am so thankful for our Lord, Jesus Christ for coming and dying and rising again so that we may LIVE.
I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full. John 10:10b
Atleast they are all sitting on the same couch, right?!
The sun was bright!
Just the 10 of us! (Easter 2008)
7 comments March 24, 2008
Amazing Finds
Today Yesterday I made a quick stop at St. Vinny’s for a few things. I was looking for some small bowls for the kids, we use to have a bunch, I think they eat them 
, a travel coffee mug for Nick, he loses them frequently and a hair dryer, mine is on the outs!
So I didn’t find any bowls or a hair dryer, but I did find a travel coffee mug for Nick, a brand new Starbucks Travel Mug for 89cents! And then the Lord truly blessed me. I found a milk crate full of cigarette-lighter adapters, like for to charge your cell phone in your car or plug in your Travel DVD player. We have been without a plug-in for awhile now, even our last trip to Santa Rosa (4 hours away) we went with no DVD player, because we are Compacting and we couldn’t buy one new. So I ran out to the car got my DVD player, brought it into the Thrift Store and started trying different ones, after about 12 tries I found one that fit for $1.99. (And yes it works, DVD’s now play in the car again.) Then I was walking to the register because I had overdone my “just 5 minutes” by like 15 (Nick was in the car with the 4) and I saw a handheld shower head. I needed it. It was 99cents and made me so excited. See our shower is not really a shower it is a bath with a handheld shower head taking water from the bath faucet and bringing it up to shower height. Ours was broken, not so broken that we couldn’t shower, but broken enough that water sprayed EVERYWHERE!
So for $4.15 Nick has a brand new travel coffee mug, the kids can watch DVD’s on long drives (I will be sane-ish-er on our next out of town trip) and we have a amazing new shower head. Thank you all you Eureka-ians for your donations to the thrift store.
5 comments March 18, 2008
It is March….
and we are still on THE COMPACT. I haven’t been to Target in over a month and the last time I went it literally made me feel sick, all that stuff, it was just too overwhelming. We have made some amazing purchases at Lots for Tots PLUS The Clothing Closet, here in Eureka. Cool thing is you take clothing and toys and stuff there, they go through it, tell you what they want or don’t want, then you get credit to their store, wooohooo! Also, for Dillon’s Birthday, he got a $20 Gift Certificate to Lots For Tots, thank you friends who are support out Compacting.
We are what 13 ish weeks in (out of 52) and already our mindset is changing. Something so cool happened just the other day; Aidan and I were having a conversation about him not wearing diapers to bed anymore (yes, he is 5 1/2, we have wetting the bed issues in this family, I was a bedwetter, Nick was a bedwetter, our children are DOOMED!), I asked him what he thought he would deserve if he didn’t pee in his bed one night, two nights, forever, he replied “how about a toy at the $ store (for one night), no wait I want a toy from that place I found the Knight toy.” That place he found the Knight toy is the St. Vincents Thrift Store. So with two nights of not wetting the bed we are off to St. Vinny’s today for Aidan to rummage through the 25cent donated toys, YES! The things that make a Compacting mom’s heart melt.
I am so darn excited (an nervous, yes definitely nervous), the MOPS group of Eureka, has asked me to speak about The Compact, about my journey and about how others can benefit and join in. So I have been researching how The Compact has affected others that have participated and I found an awesome article by Environment Reporter, Catherine Porter, about compacting and consumption, a great read, Catherine also has a blog, The Green Life. She writes about a one week Compacting Challenge in this blog, check it out.
4 comments March 15, 2008
The Ultimate Blog Party
Welcome to Twist and Shout! Come join in all the fun! Head over to 5 Minutes for Mom and find out all of the great prizes you can win over the next week!
I am Stephanie, mom of Aidan (5 1/2), Coda (almost 4), Téadora (2) and Dillon (1), wife of Nick and child of God. I am SAHM who loves to be crafty in my free time (what’s that?)! I love tie dyeing, hair bow making and digital scrapbooking. I spend my days cloth diapering, making homemade laundry soap, babywearing, sneaking healthy foods into my children, blogging and reading pretty much anything pertaining to babies, birth, breastfeeding, homeschooling and parenting. We are a family that loves to recycle, spend time out doors and eat green smoothies. In January we embarked on a year long journey of COMPACTING!
I am giving away a Custom Tie Dyed Layette Set, here is an example. It is #27 on The Ultimate Blog Party 2008 Prize Page.
If you want to see more of my Twist and Shout Tie Dyed Creations, check this out, to see what I currently have available for purchase look here and to see what I have available to custom tie dye look here.
Thanks for stopping by!
There are so many amazing prizes being given away, I would love any of them. But I have a few favorites.
1. Noah’s ABC Stacking Blocks (#85)
2. A Blog Makeover (#67)
3. 3 Tier DiaperCake (not for me, for my BF Kristy) (#6)
Really, though, I just like winning, so any prize will do, hehe!
15 comments March 7, 2008
4 in 1!
A little while back I wrote this post about having three children in one bedroom. Well after thinking about it quite a bit, I decided to move #4 in there also. He doesn’t sleep in his crib all the time, mostly naps and for the first few hours at night. But his crib was taking up precious space in our bedroom, so I moved it. So now we have bunk beds and two cribs in one bedroom. So far, so good. And yes, they all fall asleep in there just fine.
4 comments March 6, 2008
Home Remedies.
Some are skeptical of my constant use of homeopathic or herbal or homemade remedies. I have a few friends and relatives that I have brought into the world of little to no antibiotics, no Nyquil or Sudafed or Tylenol Cold or whatever they call it these days. Don’t get me wrong we use these things sometimes, we use Tylenol and Advil, and cough syrup and antibiotics (always used with probiotics!) occasionally. It is just we don’t run to the “medicine cabinet” the second we feel a little sick and cover up the symptoms. We drink a lot of Emergen-C and Airborne, we quickly run to the cabinet for UMCKA when we feel a cold coming on or have a cold. I have other remedies for sleepless nights, and upset tummy, stress and anxiety. Feel free to ask me about any of the remedies we us.
But then there is the doozy. The doozy of a cold that has since turned into an ear infection or sinus infection or bronchitis. You just aren’t getting better and you want to try something else before you resort to antibiotics. I got a call yesterday from my friend Eric, remember the one in the band. He left a message saying he had a ‘mom’ question, he was sick, had a sinus infection and need a remedy, did I have one? Yes I do. But just as your cold is a doozy, so is this remedy, it is not for the weak.
Mix in a blender or food processor until the consistincy of salsa, then eat with chips or just drink it, whichever you feel is less evil
-Garlic
-Horseradish
-Habanero Pepper
-White Onion
-Ginger
-Apple Cider Vinegar
You will be on fire, but so will any infection in you. You might spike a fever and then it will break, making you sweat more than ever before. You might cry or scream. The pain will be over soon and you will feel much better, much much better.
So Eric used this remedy last night and he called. I missed the call, I was putting kids to bed. But I wish oh so bad you all could hear the message he left. His last words were ‘call me, I might be dead.’ Funny, but not funny. I am happy to report that when I called him back about 20 minutes later he was not dead and he felt much better.
It sounds bad I know, but 15 or 20 minutes of pain is much better than the toll that antibiotics take on our body. Plus, this is completely natural, finding everything (minus the Vinegar) in the produce department at the grocery store. Next time you are in need, give it a try.
4 comments March 5, 2008
Day 3, 4, 5, 6
The past few days have been made up of lots of smoothies or “SUPER FOOD” as my boys like to call them. Any of you who have thought that maybe I am lying and these smoothies really taste like dirt, I have major proof that they really do taste good.
Day 3, 4 and 5 was Orange, Banana, Spinach Smoothie. And today was a Orange, Banana, Raspberry, Spinach Smoothie. Both are yummy!
Oh and I have a new trick. If there is left over smoothie, I pour it into an ice cube tray, freeze it and add it to the next days smoothie.
2 comments March 1, 2008
