TWLOHA

To write love on her arms is an organization based on hope. Hope for people with addictions and that suffer from depression.
It started with one girls story, and as a way to raise money to pay for her recovery. Now it has helped people world round find hope and ways to get away from addictions. Their main focus is suicide and self injury prevention.
They are completely non-profit and just such a great organization. I can say for a fact that they have helped me in my struggles. Even just seeing one of their shirts on someone is a quick nice reminder I am not alone

A twisted picture

Life is just so intricate and delicate,

and can take turns we never saw coming

in an instant.

Prepare yourself, be surrounded by people you can trust, and people you love and that love you back. Have something to read that lifts you up, no matter what you believe. Have a place where you can cry. And hold on to who you truly are.

YES!

I learned to knit!
I just had to share this fact with you.
I really need to actually take pictures of what I make and post them so no one comes to the conclusion that I am lying. That would be terrible :(

drugs vs. herbs

I just have a short little rant.

I do not understand why doctors want to pack us with drugs when there is so much healthier stuff out there. Pretty much anything can be cured with herbs or essential oils from plants. They could make money off of that stuff too! It isn't cheap! Its not crazy expensive either. But will cause the doctors to have a lot less deaths on their plates from all kinds of later health issues from the side effects of all of these drugs.
Have you seen those comercials on t.v. advertising different medications?

"Take this and it will make your bowel movements more regular! Side effects are nasea vomiting, painful urinating, dizziness, tiredness, irregular heartbeat..." Need I go on?
That isn't an actual list from a commercial, but they are all just as bad as that.
Guess what people! Prunes are fantastic!
I really just have a problem when doctors tell me to take 2 different pain killers so that I am taking 24 a day, when Arnica Montana took care of the pain just fine.

Maybe I should just open an herb shop someday. I'll research more what they all can do, and give people advice so they aren't doom to the evil doctors.

Or what just happened to faith in prayer and in what God can do?
What I believe, is if you have faith in the pills then coarse they will work for you, power of the mind, but because of that they will also draw you in so you get hooked.
Herbal medicine, same thing! Much better, but still the same thing.
Why not get hooked on something that won't just take away your headache?
And I know that sometimes you need more than just a prayer, sometimes you need more than just an herbal tea. But so rarely. So why make it an all the time thing so that when that rare time comes the medicine wont work!


End of my rant for the moment.

mmm soup :)

I dug carrots today.
Thats correct
I dug carrots on December 14th in MAINE!
We had a warm spurt and remembered that our carrots weren't all dug. So that's what we did. It took us abotu half an hour and we got 55 pounds of carrots out! So glad this happened and it didn't all go to waste!
The soup thing was about the yummy soup I made out of these fresh carrots.
I actually did it yesterday, when I went and dug carrots for about 5 minutes before it started pouring.
The power was out so I had to come up with something that I could cook with no power.
So I got some rain water I'd collected, put it in a pot, and cranked up the wood stove.
Then I dug around for some left over veggies, I ended up with onion, and a some corn. and then I chopped up LOTS of my fresh carrots! I added a veggie bullion cube for some added yumminess to my broth.
Now, I am one of those crazy people that completely hate runny broth. It HAS to have something to it.
I was planning to add rice, but then discovered I didn't have any.
So my soup was about ready and I remembered this fact. I didn't feel like corn starch just to make it thicker. So, rolling with the corn theme, I decided on corm... MEAL!
I love corn meal!
It is in I think all of my favorite recipes except for these brownies I really really like :)
So I added some corn meal in, cooked it for a while, added some garlic and sea salt.
And it was SOOOO YUMMY!
I just really felt the urge to share.
Just in case I don't post again before Christmas
Merry Christmas!

Well MY body cares. Thats why.

I recently discovered that along with life lessons and making things, I have a lot I can do about my future right now.
One of my most recent ( I guess) things is switching to as much all natural as I can.
It started because a friend of mine and I were eating carrots we had picked from my garden. We got to talking about how we loved how you can actually taste the earth in fresh carrots vs. store bought. From the saying "Taste The Earth" We started a little "Clan" if you like, of a few of our friends.
We want to knock out as much store bought as we can, starting with stuff that will benefit our health first.
My first BIG knock out. Deoderant. I hate the stuff. I am allergic to Nickel and Aluminum, so that right there is a big enough reason to hate it. If I used it to often it would get quite uncomfortable. I also just hate the idea of what its doing.
So I started making my own. Simple ingredients: Corn Starch, Baking Soda, and Coconut Oil. You can add essential oils to make it smell however you like. But I really like coconut. So I am sticking to that for now.
After that we switched to homemade shampoo, conditioner, face wash, lip balm, hand lotion, And I feel like I am missing a few others. I will probably remember them 10 minutes after I post this and be frustrated with myself. But oh well.
You do get the picture.
I hope.
I had a booth at a craft fair yesterday. Hallee and I met some seriously fantastic people. One woman who makes her own soap, perfume, chapstick, lotion, all sorts of things! And invents her own scents from different combinations of essential oils too.
We also met an artist who was really kind! I ended up swapping a picture he made for a pair of gloves I am making him and mailing to him. Both people were very encouraging to meet. I think we will be going to more things like these in the future. A license would help I suppose.
OFF that rabbit trail. Back to
Taste The Earth
Pretty much we are a bunch of young women that want to NOT continue screwing up our bodies to the best of our abilities.
We want to learn to cook, make clothes for ourselves and others, grow our own food and herbs, learn to make everything we put on our bodies so we actually know it isn't junk, not just read it from a bottle.
I mean, who can REALLY trust all the mumbo jumbo in the ingredients lists. Maybe a genius that knows all the scientific names for everything. But I am not one of them. So I will stick to my baking soda and olive oil thank you :)
Well thats all I have for now. Hopefully I will get the hang of this blogging thing a little bit more and actually update a little more often!

Learning lessons

So, one part of this blog is me learning lessons on how to be a respectful wife to my husband.
Todays lesson came from pride.
My boyfriend and a male friend of mine disagree quite a bit on a lot of things. Normally things are ok because my boyfriends understands that I am still friends with this guy.
But today they had a disagreement over a band. My boyfriend LOVES them, and my friend doesn't. Honestly I can't stand the band either :P
So it was all on a status and my boyfriend asked me not to say "way to go!" to my friend. It seemed to not be that big of a deal. So I just liked one of the comments about it that I agreed with. But that made my boyfriend angry. At first I just did not get why he was so mad. But he called me and explained everything. We did argue about it a bit. And I admit I did cry.
But in the end I learned that guys are kind of stupid with pride. Us girls need to recognize that, and be careful what we say or do against then men we love. In some places it makes them feel downsized when it is in a puplic way that other people can see us disagreeing with them, especially when siding with someone else.
In some cases this would not matter.
But in this it did a little, not that much but it did. But it lead to a discussion about how as a wife I need to be more careful about things like that and I should be practicing now.
It may sound like a dumb thing to many of you. You would really have to know the circumstance to understand it a bit better. But hopefully you can apply it to something you need to learn to.