Miracles

    I can't believe that in one week I will be the mother
of three.  Motherhood is mind-blowing! Where do these
babies come from anyway? My body is making another
human being? How does that really happen? Of course I
know the science behind it but nobody really knows how
and when the soul of the baby enters it's body.  Does it
happen at conception or does the soul of the baby pop in
when we are giving birth? I think maybe the spirit of my
baby girl has been hanging around me for a while and
when I give birth she pops right into her body. I do
remember looking into both of my sons faces for the
first time and feeling like they really looked familiar.
Like we already knew each other.  Anxious to meet our
little Savanna.
   I feel blessed and privileged to get to experience motherhood.  We are all busy moms and dads  and I think we tend to forget that these babies have chosen us to take care of them and to lead them on their journey. They feel like ours for only a short while and then they are off.   That's why for me, it is so important we put good healthy food into their little bodies and teach them to fuel themselves in the
best possible way.
     A bunch of you asked me what other fruits and vegetables, besides strawberries, need to be organic. Here is my list. The fruits that should ALWAYS be bought organic are strawberries, apples, blueberries, grapes, peaches, pears, cherries,  and nectarines. Apples are chalk full of pesticides. Even if you peel them and cook them you will still be ingesting quite a bit of pesticides. That means you need to buy organic apple juice and applesauce for the kids!  I like to buy the "honest kids" juice packs for school lunches.  They are organic and watered down.
    As far as veggies go, the most contaminated are bell peppers, celery, spinach, kale and lettuce.  Its easy to find organic strawberries, apples, spinach and celery at the local grocery store. I don't have the time to drive to whole foods on a regular basis so I just don't buy cherries, pears, blueberries and grapes anymore unless I happen to be at whole foods.   There are plenty other fruits and veggies that don't need to be bought organically.  My kids love kiwi, pineapple, bananas, oranges, and mangoes.  Hope this helps with the confusion of organic vs non organic.  It doesn't have to be all or nothing.   Just try and steer clear of the fruit and vegetables with the most contamination!

BEWITCHED

     There are days when I wish I could just move my nose in a couple directions and "voila", my
drawers, cabinets, and closets could be in perfect order.  All the clutter in my house gone and
all the toys in the house perfectly organized. Don't get me wrong my house is clean but it's just not perfectly zen yet.   I have two weeks before baby number 3 is here and yes my hormones are a bit out of control. Some call it nesting, I call it being a triple virgo.   I lay in bed thinking about every drawer that needs cleaning, every item I need for the baby, last year's family movies that I have not yet put together and much more.
     More importantly,  did my kids eat well today?  HMMMMM not bad, they both ate fruit and veggies today although I allowed Julien to eat 5 fruit loops because he's almost five and Leo 2 because he's two.  The box got thrown out quickly afterwards.  Why are there fruit loops in my cabinets?   Good question, they were brought home by my loving husband, thinking it would please the kids and did it ever! Nothing like those bright glowing colors! First pet peeve when it comes to food and kids is definitely the conventional strawberries but my second one is FOOD COLORING! Did you know that food colorings are made from petroleum?  Studies have been done on groups of kids and their behavior after they eat sugar compared to kids who have had sugar along with food colorings and the kids who had the sugar with the food coloring went bonkers compared to the kids who just had the sugar.  I mean do we really think it's ok for our kids to drink neon yellow and blue gatorade or anything that is going to turn their tongues a neon color? This is a tough one because the truth is food coloring is in everything.  Everything that is processed that is. Even in the kids vitamins. If you are looking for an alternative to the kids vitamins that are not filled with colorings,  L'il Critters multivitamins are a good choice. They have natural food colorings, meaning the colors are made from beet juice and all sorts of natural colorings and you can find them at Target.  Anyways, if you don't believe me, observe your kids behavior this week-end after they have eaten the candy with the petroleum, I mean food coloring, and decide for yourself!  I'm just going to sit back and keep daydreaming about possessing Samantha's powers.

Strawberries

This is my first blog ever. I am a mom, a life coach and a personal trainer among other things.  My two boys are four and a half, two, and baby Savanna is due to arrive in two weeks!  I have high expectations of myself as a wife and a mom.  I also feel that it is my soul's duty to help others physically and emotionally, somehow making the world a better place one person at a time.  Like my friend Suzi Walton always says, "Peace begins in the home".  The future of our world is in our hands and the hands of our children, so as a mom we have big shoes to fill.  

Our planet is going to shit right now because we are uneducated and complacent as well as money hungry!  We will not be able to live on this planet much longer if we continue the way we have been going, nor can we continue to kill ourselves with the food we are eating.   We have never in history spent as a nation, so little $ on food and so much $ on health care.  Crazy! We are crazy!  I want to begin by talking about food!  Why not start with the absolute number one fruit and or vegetable with the MOST pesticides on them!  Strawberries!  I am a little fanatic when it comes to my kids eating organic strawberries.  I cringe when I see people, especially kids eating conventional strawberries.  I want to shout out you are eating POISON!  Why do you think so many people have allergic reactions to strawberries?  It's not the strawberries they are allergic to; it’s the 15 different kinds of pesticides that are on them!!!

My kids love strawberries!  My fridge almost always contains a carton of organic strawberries.  I put strawberries in my kids yogurt, cereal, smoothies, pancakes, oatmeal, salads and on anything I can think of.  If you are a smoker, (hopefully not) strawberries help clear the lungs.   Whenever my kids have a cough we load up!  They are full of vitamin C, manganese, iodine, potassium, folate, B5, B6, Omega 3, magnesium and copper.  Strawberries have also been shown to reduce liver cancer cells significantly due to ellagic acid!  Studies have also shown that eating strawberries can help combat the cancer cells of the breast, esophagus, skin, colon, prostrate, and pancreas! A pretty impressive fruit I'll say!  Whoops, Leo just woke up from his three hour nap...got to go!