Another Spring Park Day

 Super Sliders!

Super Monkey #1

Super Monkey #2

Wondering where the eldest are?  Cael knows.  

They're busy practicing for stunt parts in the sure-to-be-coming soon Dragon's Tooth movie.

Brain Cells to Toenails

Dr. Nicholas Gonzales, explaining how he’s used intensive nutritional therapy for the last 25 years to treat advanced cancer and other incurable diseases.  He says it’s almost impossible to over-emphasize the importance of food as an influence on our health. 

Everything in our body, every brain chemical, every enzyme, every molecule in our liver, our toenails, this stuff comes from one place.  From our food.  

HT: Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Boys and their Toys

Motherhood's Theme Verse

  “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much” (Luke 16:10).

As we all spend our days dealing with the little things, we need to see them as big things. Don’t make excuses or ignore your little sins. Don’t treat your little problems as though they are beneath your attention. Don’t be ungrateful for the mental and spiritual journey surrounding turning on the dishwasher at the right time. God tells us that the little things matter over and over. He tells us that He cares about them, that He watches over even the tiniest of sparrows. He wants us to see the little too. Not in some kind of weird, narrow focus that makes no sense. But with faith, and in faith, knowing that in the presence of faithfulness, the littlest things grow. ~~Rachel at Femina

The entire post from which I extracted this excerpt is well worth reading:  The Littleness of Motherhood

Easter 2012

all decked out for the day

plotting egg hunt strategy?

off and running

careful inspections

  pathetic! problem solved
 double trouble

Heart Sense

A recent article by Dr Lundell may sound shocking to many, especially coming from a respected heart surgeon of over 25 years’ experience.  “Inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease,” he declares. “Without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes...if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.”

And what does Dr Lundell consider the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? “The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine...the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.”

Palm Sunday Azaleas