DISCLAIMER: Please keep in mind, I am not a medical professional. I am not making any claims regarding the effectiveness of these recipes, the ingredients, or the safety of the recipes. I am simply passing along the recipes that I’ve found useful for me and my family. Always do what’s best for your family, and
DISCLAIMER: Please keep in mind, I am not a medical professional. I am not making any claims regarding the effectiveness of these recipes, the ingredients, or the safety of the recipes. I am simply passing along the recipes that I’ve found useful for me and my family. Always do what’s best for your family, and
How I Got My family to Eat Vegetarian Meals for A Year & What I Learned
February 24, 2020 in Health, WELLNESSI switched my family of 4 to mostly meatless “vegetarian” meals ONE YEAR AGO. My husband and I are in our 40’s, and my boys are now 5 and 7. Honestly, there was no grand scheme. I wanted to try it for a week,...
Mindful Eating & Intermittent Fasting Help Moms Eat Healthier
January 23, 2020 in Health, WELLNESSI’m not a fan of diets, AT ALL. But, I’m certainly guilty of trying a few in times of weakness (i.e., the weeks leading up to summer). Yet, the result is always the same—they just aren’t sustainable. What IS sustainable for me is simply...
Natural Cold Remedies for Busy Moms (at Sprouts & Whole Foods)
November 19, 2019 in Health, WELLNESSUnless you’ve been living under a rock, you know (and probably love) Whole Foods Market. But, if you’re lucky enough to have a Sprouts Farmers Market close by, then you may be going there instead! Either way, there are some great natural cold &...
Food Allergy Testing (OIT) Could Save Your Kid’s Life
September 19, 2019 in Health, WELLNESSMy kids have multiple food allergies. We are no strangers to Food Allergy Testing. We have practiced AVOIDANCE, gone through food CHALLENGES, outgrown some, and now we’re knee deep in OIT (oral immunotherapy treatment) for our BIGGIE—peanut allergy. As stressed as the food allergy...
Are you coping with cancer differently than your husband?
September 4, 2019 in Health, WELLNESSWhat attracted me to my husband was not all the things that we had in common, but the strength of the pull despite the differences. We are TOTAL opposites. So, it’s no surprise that we’ve handled his cancer diagnosis in two wholly different ways....
Warning: Cancer Follow-Up Care is Traumatic
April 16, 2019 in Health, WELLNESSIf your husband has cancer, then you’re familiar with the onslaught of follow up care appointments that last for YEARS after your treatment is complete. There are times when these appointments don’t faze me. But, then there are other times when these really knock...
Epi Pen for Food Allergies? Like in Pulp Fiction?
April 12, 2019 in Health, WELLNESSWhen your kid has a food allergy, there’s a lot of anxiety that comes along with it. One of the first major hurdles is getting your head wrapped around the fact that you’ve got to carry epinephrine with you wherever you go from now...
Can Your Marriage Survive Cancer?
April 10, 2019 in Health, WELLNESSMost of us walk through life ignoring the fact that we could get hit by a bus, drop dead of an aneurism, or become martyred at the hands of a psychopath on any given day. But, bad shit happens. Every single day. Cancer happens...