Looks like a little too much trick or treat?

No, they are just really tired. Mason only would do it for 45 mins and that was with daddy really encouraging him the last 15 to keep going. My husband is a die hard trick or treater and the only one of children that would go the distance- or full time- with him was Madison but she doesn't go anymore. I'm fine with the kids not going and buying bags of candy for them at 50 or 75 percent off after Halloween. I don't like how dark Halloween has become. The kids don't even like to go in stores from the time they start putting the decorations out until they are all gone. And they start so darn early!

Mason on the Trolley

He's in the middle is the red jacket.

Manny Loves his Gift

Mason's First Cub Scouts Field Trip

Trolley Museum. He's in the middle. So cute!

First Snow of the Season

I wish you could see just how big these flakes are. At least the size of a quarter!

Happy 2nd Birthday Manny!

Your such a blessing!

Finally went to the family doctor

So today I finally went to the family doctor cause I'm giving up hope that this is just going to heal and get the MRI. The biggest reason I don't want to get the MRI is the cost. Our insurance stinks. We have a very high deductible. She feels that it is a disc problem as well. I'm just very sad about all this and I want it to be over so I can be the wife and mommy I'm used to being. I know it could be worse though and atleast I'm home with my family around me and not in a hospital. I'm also very thankful that we are home schooling and they are here at home to help me get through the day. Please continue to pray for healing, kindness, and patience for us all including my mom who is just a huge, huge help and blessing to me

Jodi

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Grammys Back!

Yeah, my moms back and she came to pick up the kids to play in her yard. They really needed that. She has such a nice yard. One of the things I'm finding to be the hardest for me with this back/leg pain is I can't go out and enjoy my favorite season. I have been looking forward to fall so much. Going to the park, raking leaves, taking a ride to the mountains and I can't do any of it! It's so frustrating!

Tears and Prayers

Well I just got my boys to sleep and my husband is working on getting the girls to bed so I finally have a moment alone to cry and pray. To ask God to heal me, to take away the pain and to help me manage until then. To help me stay strong for my family and to help provide financially for the blow are Christmas and savings are taking from this. I have faith and I don't see tears as a sign of weakness just a release of hormones and frustration. I try so much during the day to hold it together for the kids and I'm blessed with a pretty high tolerance for pain but when it's pretty constant it gets hard. And I don't like drugs and try really hard not to take anything other than Montrin. Just like anything in life this will only be for a time and I know I'll be better and forget all about the pain but I won't forget about how my girls, especially my oldest really stepped up into my role and has told me how now she really appreciates all that I do. For that I'm so thankful.

Jodi

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Mary Cassatt

Louise Nursing Her Child

Mary Cassatt

I want to start studying Mary Cassatt.  She was born here in Pittsburgh, then Allegheny City, Pa.  

She painted such beautiful images of mothers and their children. 

Jodi

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Still on the Couch

This is beginning to get really old and annoying. Apparently there is a problem with a disc in my lower back and it's not really getting better. I have been going to the chiropractor every day this week and am only getting minimal relief. My back doesnt really hurt, the pain shoots the whole way down my right side, to my toes! Driving is the worst, sitting in general isn't tolerable and standing and walking are painful. Laying is the only relief. I just want to be better and be myself again. The children have been very helpful, especially Madison. She's cooking, cleaning, even washing clothes. Thanks honey!

Homemade Sunflower Seed Butter

Well I've been feeling awful so I'm eating all raw -except for veggie soup- to try and clean out my system. One of the things I've read that is really good for my gallbladder is celery but I am not to fond of it plain so I made some raw sunflower seed butter so that choke it down. With the sunbutter it was pretty good- or I'm just that hungry!
Anywho, here's what I put in my food processor but as usual I didn't measure- I could barely stand and wanted to get it done as fast as I could
Raw organic sunflower seeds- I read if you roast them the butter will be creamy but I wanted them raw-processes a bit then add
Pinch of salt
A few drops of Flax oil
A few drops of pure maple syrup
A few drops of honey

My Girls are so Sweet

Marlee has hot tea and a cookie waiting for me this morning and Madison made us all toasted cheese and tomato soup for lunch. It was delicious!

Unbelievable - Vaccine info

 

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This truly frightens me....

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=b62698a50aececa2aded9f56b&id=37fdf5f946&e=f19e67d489  Today Governor Brown signed into law AB499 which will allow 12 year old children to be vaccinated with out parental knowledge or consent.  This currently applies to the Gardasil and Hepatitis B vaccines, but will expand to include ANY new STD vaccine that is brought to market in the future. This means that as of tomorrow, boys and girls as young as 12 will be alone in their doctors office, or pulled into the nurses office at school, be offered a vaccine and told that if they don't get it, they can get sick and die, the child will be given the shot and parents will never know.  This also means that parents no longer have access to their child's full medical records, but are only able to request PARTS of their child's heath records once they turn 12.   The package insert for the Gardasil vaccine is 30 pages long.  Take a look at it.  Gardasil Package Insert.  The state of California has decided that 6th graders are competent to read and properly digest this information, to fully understanding the risks and benefits of this vaccine, and to make an informed consent decision.  Absurd.   This is nothing more than a marketing ploy for Merck (who makes Gardasil) to get around parents who understand the risks of these specific vaccines, and the corrupt public officials in Merck's pocket who are handing innocent children over to them for power and profit.  The California legislator that introduced this bill, Toni Atkins, took money from Merck and then lied about it when confronted on her motives for this bill. And this morning on Fox, our friend and Canary Party member Rebecca Estepp, who is the communications director for the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy, debated former California state assembly woman Sally Lieber, who previously introduced a bill making the Gardasil vaccine mandatory for 11 year olds.  Lieber had to remove her name from the leadership on the bill when it was discovered that her family was heavily invested in Merck. As most of you know, when vaccine injuries occur, since no one involved in the vaccine program or vaccine administration is held responsible for deaths or vaccine injury, it is now merely denied by the medical establishment, no matter how much evidence comes to light that a vaccine was responsible for the damage.  Now Merck and the public officials that they have co-oped have made huge headway to insure that those vaccine injuries will never even be investigated, much less reported to the vaccine injury registry, as a 12 year old will merely fall ill (or die), parents will never know why, and will not be able to ensure that the child gets proper medical evaluation or treatment.  This for two of the vaccine that have the highest injury rate of them all.  Gardasil and Hepatitis B. Please send this to your friends, especially if they are in California.  The media has not carried this story and few Californians are aware that this is happening. (click the "View it in your browser" link at the top right of this email, and forward that link to your contacts, also share on twitter and facebook). The Canary Party's work is needed now more than ever and we urge you to get involved at your state level and on our project teams.  Please consider donating to our efforts. This is why we fight. Ginger Taylor, M.S. Executive Director VIC (Vaccine Information Coalition) Autism is 1 in 67 children today and it's impossible to have a genetic epidemic!  Please learn from our mistake and educate BEFORE you vaccinate! For more information visit www.vacinfo.orgor call 800-939-8227

Jodi

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Injury can really kill your budget!

Since I pulled my hamstring I have gone to the Chiropractor 3 times, to his daughter the message therapist 2, need some supplements, and easy food to feed a family of 7 so that has really hurt my budget. I really didn't need this with Mannys birthday and Christmas coming. Oh well, it will all work out somehow right? I sure hope so. Just a little frustrated right now, needed to vent a little ;)

Jodi

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.

Went to the zoo lastweek....

Not the best idea with how I've been feeling but Tommy already had the time off work and the weather was beautiful. Manny enjoyed the sea otters. They really put on a show. So did the penguins.

Recess

We went to the park today. It was fun. The ride up was awful for me with my pulled hamstring- sitting and driving is the worst since it's my right leg. But walking around is fine, actually feels pretty good. I love having nearly 2 year old Manny around but when the day comes that I can let them all just run and play and not have to worry about a little ones safety, well, that will be nice too!

He Needs to go, please!

'Darn Tooting!' Obama Brags About HHS Reg Catholic Bishops Call Attack on Liberty

By Terence P. Jeffrey

October 5, 2011

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President Barack Obama (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

(CNSNews.com) - Bantering with the audience at a fundraiser in St. Louis yesterday, President Barack Obama bragged about a new regulation, proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has denounced as an "unprecedented attack on religious liberty."

"Darn right!" an audience member at the fundraiser shouted as Obama described the regulation.

"Darn tooting!" Obama said back.

The proposed regulation, designed to implement part of Obamacare, will require all private health plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives--including those that cause abortions—without charging any fees or co-pay. These regulations were drawn to implement a provision in Obama's health-care law that calls for all health-care plans to cover "preventive services."

Combined with Obamacare's mandate that all individuals must buy health insurance, the "preventive services" regulation would require all American Catholics to buy health care plans that pay for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortions--all of which violate Catholic moral teaching.

A "religious exemption" in the regulation is so narrowly drawn that it does not include any lay Catholics, or any Catholic hospitals, charitable organizations, or colleges or universities. Thus, many major Catholic institutions in the United States would be forced to choose between dropping health insurance coverage for their employees and students or violating the moral teachings of their own church.

In comments on the regulation submitted to HHS last month, the Catholic bishops called for the regulation to be "rescinded in its entirety" and described the proposal as "government coercion of religious people."

"Indeed, such nationwide government coercion of religious people and groups to sell, broker, or purchase 'services' to which they have a moral or religious objection represents an unprecedented attack on religious liberty," the bishops said.

At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis last night, Obama touted the "preventive services" regulation to an appreciative audience.

"And, yes, we passed health care reform because no one in America should go bankrupt because somebody in their family gets sick," said Obama, according to the official White House transcript of his remarks.

"Insurance companies can't drop your coverage for no good reason," said Obama. "They won't be able to deny your coverage because of preexisting conditions.  Think about what that means for families all across America.  Think about what it means for women." 

At that point, an audience member shouted: "Birth control."

"Absolutely. You're stealing my line," said Obama.

"Breast cancer, cervical cancer, are no longer preexisting conditions," Obama continued. "No longer can insurance companies discriminate against women just because you guys are the ones who have to give birth."

At this point, a member of a laughing audience shouted out: "Darn right!"

"Darn tooting," Obama answered back—to laughter. "They have to cover things like mammograms and contraception as preventive care, no more out-of-pocket costs."

Last week, the Catholic bishops distributed an insert for placement in church bulletins all across the country. It called on Catholics to contact HHS to object to the regulation. On their websitethe bishops are now asking Catholic to write Congress to urge members to support legislation that would overturn the regulation.

Jodi

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner.