Sprouted Grain?

The "book" I'm reading about sugar(see previous post) is big on meat so that's good! Also, frowns on the sweeter fruits and breads that feed the sugar cravings. She linked this site https://www.foodforlife.com and talks about sprouted grain to replace flour. Has anyone tried it? The location finder shows it's available at several places around the Boonies...including my usual HFS. Thanks to B for those encouraging words of a two week success story and grainy bread.Rofl! I DO need to just get it over with! I definitely don't want my kids dealing with this down the road. I know I will hear from many people that I'm crazy or they will just tell me to just cut back, but I've realized I'm so sensitive to it, I have to just quit. It's like telling a smoker who's trying to quit to just have half a cigarette a day and don't even think of finishing that other half. Been there too! Only it is much easier quiting smoking, for me anyways. I've only been on high doses processed sugar for 24 yrs!

Anyways,I might have to learn how to be a better cook or we all might just starve.

Clothes,Clothes, & More Clothes

Today is going to be such a busy busy day! Besides all the normal daily things like dishes, laundry,pick up house, cooking,dishes, laundry, pickup house, cook....(do you see a pattern?)lol I have to go through the girls clothes and find winter clothes and put away summer clothes. Blah! I'm glad I don't have 5 kids to do ;) Not yet anyways :-S I'm hoping they have more winter clothes than I think, I don't want to fork out that much money for a season of clothes.lol Frugal? NO! Phil and I need a little update on our closet too. I was asking Phil the other day what he wanted me to pack for him for our trip to osky....he mentioned he wanted his new pair of jeans and some shirt.
What NEW pair of jeans? Then he said you know the ones you just got me. HUH? Well the ones I "just" got him were from LAST Christmas(gift). hahaha! I was laughing so hard, we are pathetic. We don't even realize how long we've had our clothes until moments like that.

So anyways I have that fun stuff to do. Then on top of it, I'm suppose to keep the girls busy during the day so they are sooo worn out by evening they will want to go to bed at 8pm, so I'm told. The shouldn't be full of energy at 6:30 or some nights 8:30 when their Daddy comes home. They just need to eat supper,baths, and go to bed. Then I could play my golf games all night long uninterrupted. Yes!
It's not as easy as one would think..ya know. They usually wake up 7:30-8:45 (9today) and L naps once or twice a day, but that's it. Any ideas to burn some energy off??? (note: I don't have a car to go anywhere so anything involving travel won't work.) We go to the park about everyday for about 45min to an hour. Maybe if I had some craft supplies I could keep them busy. I will just have them run laps around the house. lol! It would be interesting to see "someone" else do this and keep up with the house work. Okay vent over.

I think Jaz is missing her cousins...she keeps talking about them. Poor girl! :(
I feel bad for her.
Hope everyone has a good day!!!!

NoT ToDaY!

I was going to not have sugar today, but I failed and made no-bake cookies this afternoon. I think I'm just going to have to wait until AFTER the holidays to go completely gluten free diet. I think for now I will just try to extremely limit and then completely cut out my sweets. It's going to take a lot of work finding completely gluten free recipes, so I'll just slowly cut back maybe it will make it less work and dramatic detox. *sigh* I wish sugar didn't make me so sensitive and too bad I didn't know this back in school, I might have been a better student. Oh well can't change then ...only now. Hopefully I can find inexpensive gluten free recipes that stay in our low grocery budget!
Okay well off to make supper!

SO BIG!

I can't believe how fast the girls have grown this summer! Not exactly clothes wise, but learning too. Although, Londyn is already into 12-18month pants and 12-24month shirts (depends on item) and Jaz was always a size behind her "age size".
We've been trying to do child-led learning this summer. Well that brought us to umm... the universe.Yep...stars, planets, moon, sun, blah, blah,blah. I guess I had to learn along the way with that boring stuff.LOL! A few weeks ago we bought a cheap "planet" thing at wal mart and it hangs from the ceiling and glows in the dark. Jazmyn thinks it's the coolest thing since mc hammer...okay maybe not that cool. So, she has half of her planet names down and can point them out from the alignment of the "sun"(room light). I have a feeling I will learn more than I ever imagined homeschooling.Yikes!
Londyn is talking up a storm these days, but you have to be "mom" to really catch it, you know how it goes. The other day the girls were taking a bath and Jazmyn and I were practicing phonics...I said "the A says ?" And Londyn goes "AH". Hah! I was speechless. Few days later Phil was changing her diaper and sneezed and he said "bless me" and she followed "bless you". I know it all sounds made up but it's not! She pointed out Jazmyn on the computer, she saw the picture of her and jaz with aunt h's guitars and said "that's jazmyn". Today "Word World" came on and she yelled "Word World" not to mention she has a tendency to hum the tune to any song you play. It's so cute and amazing she can do that! Her favorite saying she has been using for a few months "what's that?!" and points to whatever. lol
Okay so I'll quit talking now, I just had to share how sad it is that the kids are growing up so fast! Where is my video camera???( Dad's of course!) I must pick it up before it's too late!
Okay everyone have a good weekend! See some of you soon!

Ron Paul says it best...

Dear Friends:

The financial meltdown the economists of the Austrian School predicted has arrived.

We are in this crisis because of an excess of artificially created credit at the hands of the Federal Reserve System. The solution being proposed? More artificial credit by the Federal Reserve. No liquidation of bad debt and malinvestment is to be allowed. By doing more of the same, we will only continue and intensify the distortions in our economy - all the capital misallocation, all the malinvestment - and prevent the market's attempt to re-establish rational pricing of houses and other assets.

Last night the president addressed the nation about the financial crisis. There is no point in going through his remarks line by line, since I'd only be repeating what I've been saying over and over - not just for the past several days, but for years and even decades.

Still, at least a few observations are necessary.

The president assures us that his administration "is working with Congress to address the root cause behind much of the instability in our markets." Care to take a guess at whether the Federal Reserve and its money creation spree were even mentioned?

We are told that "low interest rates" led to excessive borrowing, but we are not told how these low interest rates came about. They were a deliberate policy of the Federal Reserve. As always, artificially low interest rates distort the market. Entrepreneurs engage in malinvestments - investments that do not make sense in light of current resource availability, that occur in more temporally remote stages of the capital structure than the pattern of consumer demand can support, and that would not have been made at all if the interest rate had been permitted to tell the truth instead of being toyed with by the Fed.

Not a word about any of that, of course, because Americans might then discover how the great wise men in Washington caused this great debacle. Better to keep scapegoating the mortgage industry or "wildcat capitalism" (as if we actually have a pure free market!).

Speaking about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said: "Because these companies were chartered by Congress, many believed they were guaranteed by the federal government. This allowed them to borrow enormous sums of money, fuel the market for questionable investments, and put our financial system at risk."

Doesn't that prove the foolishness of chartering Fannie and Freddie in the first place? Doesn't that suggest that maybe, just maybe, government may have contributed to this mess? And of course, by bailing out Fannie and Freddie, hasn't the federal government shown that the "many" who "believed they were guaranteed by the federal government" were in fact correct?

Then come the scare tactics. If we don't give dictatorial powers to the Treasury Secretary "the stock market would drop even more, which would reduce the value of your retirement account. The value of your home could plummet." Left unsaid, naturally, is that with the bailout and all the money and credit that must be produced out of thin air to fund it, the value of your retirement account will drop anyway, because the value of the dollar will suffer a precipitous decline. As for home prices, they are obviously much too high, and supply and demand cannot equilibrate if government insists on propping them up.

It's the same destructive strategy that government tried during the Great Depression: prop up prices at all costs. The Depression went on for over a decade. On the other hand, when liquidation was allowed to occur in the equally devastating downturn of 1921, the economy recovered within less than a year.

The president also tells us that Senators McCain and Obama will join him at the White House today in order to figure out how to get the bipartisan bailout passed. The two senators would do their country much more good if they stayed on the campaign trail debating who the bigger celebrity is, or whatever it is that occupies their attention these days.

F.A. Hayek won the Nobel Prize for showing how central banks' manipulation of interest rates creates the boom-bust cycle with which we are sadly familiar. In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, he described the foolish policies being pursued in his day - and which are being proposed, just as destructively, in our own:

Instead of furthering the inevitable liquidation of the maladjustments brought about by the boom during the last three years, all conceivable means have been used to prevent that readjustment from taking place; and one of these means, which has been repeatedly tried though without success, from the earliest to the most recent stages of depression, has been this deliberate policy of credit expansion.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection - a procedure that can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end... It is probably to this experiment, together with the attempts to prevent liquidation once the crisis had come, that we owe the exceptional severity and duration of the depression.

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history.

The very people who have spent the past several years assuring us that the economy is fundamentally sound, and who themselves foolishly cheered the extension of all these novel kinds of mortgages, are the ones who now claim to be the experts who will restore prosperity! Just how spectacularly wrong, how utterly without a clue, does someone have to be before his expert status is called into question?

Oh, and did you notice that the bailout is now being called a "rescue plan"? I guess "bailout" wasn't sitting too well with the American people.

The very people who with somber faces tell us of their deep concern for the spread of democracy around the world are the ones most insistent on forcing a bill through Congress that the American people overwhelmingly oppose. The very fact that some of you seem to think you're supposed to have a voice in all this actually seems to annoy them.

I continue to urge you to contact your representatives and give them a piece of your mind. I myself am doing everything I can to promote the correct point of view on the crisis. Be sure also to educate yourselves on these subjects - the Campaign for Liberty blog is an excellent place to start. Read the posts, ask questions in the comment section, and learn.

H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

In liberty,

Ron Paul

Guess What!!

I actually went on a run last night and I am NOT sore. BUT, wow did I look pretty ridiculous running! I'm glad it was dark out! We just ran on the sidewalk around the ballpark and playground area. Phil led the way and the girls and I followed. LOL The jogger runs very well, so I'm glad it was an investment and not a waste of $$.

new finding...

I found this website yesterday. I haven't decided whether I like it or not. I've decided to read her "sugar addiction" book (it's free), I NEED to stop eating sugar, completely would be nice. I'm sure it would help in more ways than I already know. I DID read the first few paragraphs and she wanted her book's usefulness to be compared to "What To Expect, When Expecting" only about sugar addiction of course.....I think I threw up a little bit in my mouth, when I read that! She considers that book ADVICE?? Grrreeeeat.
That has dwindled my hope for this book, but only time will tell(100pages to be exact).
Here goes nothing!