Organic Bonding.....

Friday morning bright and early my health food fitness loving daughter calls me, at first her overly cheerful voice frightens me, because I know whats coming next, she wants to spend some quality Mother/Daughter time together.....The conversation starts out like this, " Wakey, Wakey, sunshine, how about a day together". I thought it sounded great, but I was curious...."We could go get a bikini wax OR we could go to our local Whole Foods/ Farmers Market and you could buy some organic fruits and veggies". Wow, she had me at organic.....Not......My daughter has been trying to get me to go to this place with her for months, now grocery shopping for me at any store is painful much less organic grocery shopping....So I picked the bikini wax....I will let you guess where we ended up at......At first I went kicking and screaming but she assured me that she would talk me through it.....Whatever, give me processed, I grew up on lard for goodness sake.......

We started in the fruits and veggies and I will have to admit that I didn't know there were that many different variety's of pairs and apples (If it ain't sold at Walmart or Kroger then I'm not sure I need it ).

Her first stop was all the free juice samples (and they were plenty) she went straight for the watermelon, pineapple, lemon mixture with a smile on her face, " Oh let's try this", all I could think of was the damage that the Master Cleanse Juice mixture did to my intestines, I just looked at her and said, "Seriously".... My little princess was in her element......

Half way through the store I started to turn, I started to see things that I wanted to try and a whole lota of things I had no clue what to do with in my sheltered hillbilly mind and I liked it....I was getting the fever until we came upon a large shelf of organic maple syrup, then had a few master cleanse flash backs (not good, as a matter of fact I just threw up a little bit thinking about that...sorry) We turned around another isle and I was in HEAVEN.....Cheese Heaven that is.... I have never meet a cheese I didn't like, I could eat the stuff all day long, and this place has plenty and every kind imaginable....I just stood there staring, my daughter stood proud....she done good, mama was buying cheese...organic or not.

Another small section was a beautiful bakery with lots of cakes and cupcakes, tarts and a lot of things that didn't go with the natural and organic order she was pushing for....It quickly became my favorite part of the store......Along with the mini tart I purchased.........

We topped off our organic and natural days of shopping with a quick lunch at Wendy's...besides, nothing says all natural to me like 100% pure beef ....... My daughter just rolled her eyes like she always does......I just love mother/daughter bonding days.

Back Home Flooding.....

The media rushes to central Appalachia when theirs a story on poverty, or drug addicted and alcoholic parents living on welfare in make shift houses. But when recent flash flooding devastated the area, they were no where to be found. The governor declared it a disaster area...As many of you know this is where I was born and raised....Almost every member of my family was effected by this flood, many loosing everything they had....A lot of people didn't have a much to begin with.... Flash floods are more and more common...Most say the flooding in this area is due to mountain top mining (When a coal company cuts down the top of the mountain and blast down around 1000 feet for coal) this leaves the mountain weak and when the heavy rains come there is no protection from flash floods. This video was taken from someone who lives in the same area as my family...

Beauty among the thorns....

Three years ago I planted a piece of a cactus about 4 inches by 5 inches

on the south side of my house along with some rose bushes. Today the cactus has turned into a monster....it stands at about 4 feet by 20 feet and is taking over my beautiful roses....I had planed to cut the cactus down today, but when I went outside prepared to "Let the monster have it" with an axe, it was covered with these.....Now, I will have to come up with another plan...Something this fierce with this much beauty deserves to live........

Dearest Anonymous.....

Last week I had an comment from someone signed anonymous, and I guess they were trying hard to put me in my place....More than likely a previous co-worker...I thought long and hard about how to reply to this, than I went to church and the message was called "Love let's it go" and the teachings of Paul...So I let it go....Then my friend struck again....So, to my anonymous reader, I have never pretended to be something I am not... If you read my profile on the sidebar it plainly tells that I am trying to get my Masters in Nursing before I retire, Nowhere does it say I have one now....I will not now or ever post a rude comment from someone like you...And if you are so offended by my blog... simply turn off your computer.......

What was I thinking........

I have tried so many stupid diets in my life, slim fast shakes....at least slim fast has milk in it.....The cabbage soup diet....Again, this diet is called soup for a reason, and as bland as it my be, it has some vegetables in it.The grapefruit diet and the ever popular 48 hour Miracle diet...As you can see, I am a moron..... I was talked into what could be the worst diet in the entire world.........By none other than my health food, fitness freak, perfectly fit, personal trainer daughter......And I ask you, what part of lemon....maple syrup....and cayenne pepper, sound like something you want to jump into for 10 days..........Did I mention you couldn't have anything but the above mentioned products mixed together in a glass served hot or cold.........It's called the Master Cleanse Diet, and it's the most painful diet I have ever tried (In more that one way)..........She thought it would be great if WE tried this diet together...It offered great benefits for people with a lot of stress in their life and joint pain (I suffer from degenerative arthritis) it would help me sleep, detox my body(she's into that, just give me cake) wash all the evil out of your body and rejuvenate you.....and I would lose up to twenty pounds in ten days......THAT'S THE ONLY PART I NEEDED TO HEAR......BRING ON THE CAYENNE PEPPER.........Along with her husband and a couple of their friends we all started together, she brings me some herbal laxative tea to drink before going to bed that tasted like tar....But it was natural she insisted.....still, it tasted like tar......her thought was ....I work nights and I don't eat much at work and this would be a piece of cake.........Guess again.......The first drink of the Master Cleanse lemonade mixture and I thought I was going to hurl across the room....I kept thinking is this what I am giving up caffeine for.....after about eight hours into the master cleanse it finally dawned on me exactly how this is going to detox my body....The cold chills I had every time I took a drink immediately followed by the waves of nausea had to be doing the trick...plus, I have reflux....Do you know what cayenne pepper does to someone with reflux.... By 3am I was snorting fire.........and what maple syrup does with lemons and cayenne pepper when added together alone should be used in chemical warfare.....The people in Vermont would be appalled.....My daughter would text me to see if I was OK and how the diet was going, but I stopped talking to her and didn't return her text....All I wanted was a large glass of sweet tea....I had daydreams of my car breaking down in front of Chick-fil-la while I was at work......Let me tell you, the noise coming from my guts was scary....No bathroom was safe...

On day four we all were begging each other to eat something....ANYTHING....My daughter and her husband were madly texting their friends back and forth and decided that whoever could stay out of the bathroom the longest, could get to the restaurant and reserve a table at the barbecue place....Me, I was headed straight for a sweet tea overdose.......


The only thing I lost on the Master Cleanse Diet was four foot of small intestine.....it was charred from the cayenne pepper....if any of you out there have any success stories from this diet...keep them to your self...Because right now, I am going to make an enormously large pan of peanut butter brownies, go set on my porch, and eat every last one of them..........



P.S.

I know where you can get some organic maple syrup REALLY cheap.....

For my Daughter.........

Psalms 144: 12 says.......
That our Daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude or the palace.........



It's very simple, I thank God for the gift of being your Mother.....I hope I have never let you down..........





Wishing All My Bloggie Friends....

A Happy Mothers Day

That favorite childhood pastime........

Talked to Nesie the other morning coming home, I knew she would be up getting the kids off to school and I was in desperate need of a Sam fix. Well, my boy Sam did not disappoint...It would seem he has been up to his old tricks ...running the neighborhood...Remember the games we played as children growing up, jump rope, hide and seek, and cowboy and Indians to name a few....Well it would seem that over at the Tributary, they play a new game when Sam's outside.....Apparently, Carrot Wars is the latest thing........Yep Carrot Wars....That art of taking the carrots that your mother just brought you (with ranch dip) and slinging them at on coming traffic (whoever gets a bulls eye(head) wins). Nesie said she was inside thinking her children were eating a healthy snack when Maddy came in to tell her about the traffic jam that had formed in front of the house.....A woman in a shiny car was ready to strangle Sam when Nesie walked outside to the sea of orange spread out before her, trying hard to explain to Sam how wrong this was and how people in the neighborhood must think that her children were brats...Sam looked up at her with those adorable dimples and said "Whats the big deal mom, it's just a dumb game of carrot wars". Remember Sam is four.....Nesie has a long way to go with those dimples....She said she went grocery shopping and is looking at produce in a different light....


Good Luck Nesie

Your gonna need it!!!