Smoothy Pleas

Ever wonder how to keep your family in tip top shape with out forcing veggies in them all day long. This is the genius of the smoothly. A usually pleasing kid friendly food that is easy to hid really nutrient packed foods in.

My recipe
One hand full of frozen spinach, kale, or other dark green
1 can of pineapple chunks, with juice
1 cup frozen blue berries
1 to 1 and half cups of frozen strawberries

Blend in a blender (we have vita mix, that is way worth the money)
This makes 4 servings

I know you are thinking Yuck! Spinach or Kale... But the Blue berries completely hid it.

Try it.. Your kids will love it, and they are eating there veggies..
To your Health..

Lets Plant

New Year new Seed Cataloges

It is the New Year, 2010... And we need to change how we say that to twenty ten..

Well with the year comes the birth of January and lots of seed catalogue in the mail. Yes as you sit snuggled inside with a hot cup of tea, it is time to plan the garden.. Oh so much fun!!

I am so excited to pick out the new verity of seeds and plant to try this year. I am also begin after 5 years if gardening, (4 in Twin Falls) to understand how we eat, and thus what to grow.

This year for instances I will be growing a hybrid Roman tomato. Something I am usually aposed to. As a rule you should always uses open-pollinated organic seeds. Heirlooms if you can find them.

It is key to seed saying that you have open-pollinating plants, if not the seed you collect will not grow or the plant will not produce seeds at all. If you mix open-pollinated plants with non than you risk having your plants cross pollinate loss the seed from them also. So if you who would like to have seed from your best plants, that are hardy and grew well in the little micro-climate of your garden, that is the way to go.

And where do I get the seeds you ask? (Who am I kidding, I only have 2 readers..I will wright, maybe they will come) These are my top four... Of course in order of favourite..

#1 Territorial Seed Company (this catalogue is so helpful, it has the most info. on each plant veritay of any I have found. Keep it you will references it all the time.)


#2 Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (largest collection of heirloom seed on the plant)


#3 Seed Savers Exchange (all organic)


#4 Irish Eyes ( a younger farm from the North West, lots of cool potatoes!)


I hope this is helpful to all of you.. And Happy Planing to plant!!

Oh.. get your seeds order soon, as supplies will start to run out the 1st of Feb.

Little update..

Well Elijah's arm has fully healed, and the cast is off. I am glad, and so is he. Thow he has kept the cast. and it has found its way back on a culpa of times..
Wyatt is now 17lb.. Pretty good for a completely breastfed baby at 5 1/2 months. I expect he he will slow down in a month, and become an average sized SC...

We are preparing for Christmas, we have the little tree up and the nativity out with Buddha looking on. It makes for a very zin mantelpiece. All is well in the SC experience.. We will see How I feel next week.. Kids will be home... ;0

Elijah broke his arm.

Elijah broke his arm this past week. He is sporting a red half cast on his right arm. He is doing really well, and so are the rest of us when he does not hit us with it.

For Halloween Elijah was a seclton, so his costume also had a broken arm. Alissa was a witch and Wyatt was a baby dino. We had a great time this year, doing all kinds of actives. We went trick or treating at CSI, an retirement home, and around the neighborhood. We also attended a party at Marel Arts and Lissy's school carnavil. It all added up to a very fun weekend.

Now on to November and planing and working on crafts for gifts.
Much love and peace to you.

H1N1

The flue came and went throw our home, and we are fine. I found that the extra vitamin D, yarrow, and C really helped us stay afloat.
Also I make a tea for colds and flue that works well..

I a quart jar
Wash and slice in rounds one lemon
2 tbsp Raw Honey
1/4" piece of ginger minced
2 cloves of garlic Minces
1/3 cup Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar
1/4 tsp Cayenne

Fill the jar with boiling water and let step for 15 mints. Drink and make more..

One thing that lost of people do not think about when you are sick is that Sugar shuts down you bodies immune system when it is processing, so you body is not fighting the infection. So it is a good deal to not eat any sugar and processed crabs when fighting illness.
Drink lost of water, and if you feel you need an sports drink to replenish electrolytes uses the tea above.

Snow

It snowed to day for the frist time of the seasion. Much fun to descover that Elijah loves the snow, and his very tight to small snow sute. He also is excited to go sking, Alissa convenced him it is wicked.

The two of them spent all afternoon wrighting a book about an elafant, bunny and a bath tub. And on every page of the book was a fly strip to chech files. It is a wonderfill story with a suprise mean hineena as the protaganest.

It brings me the greatest joy to see them as such good frinds. And that was the frist day of snow in our little Idaho town. At least in our experinces.