Works for me Wensday ~ Complete Mouth Care

I’ve talked about my mouth problems before here ~ Well I found something this past Saturday that I must share with you.

Complete Mouth Care System ~ It’s through a site called Zellies.

What you do is

1. Pre rinse with CloSYS ~ I bought it at Wal-Mart for under $10.
2. Brush your teeth ~ they recommend  using Crest Regular toothpaste (I was afraid to because of sensitivity issues so I’ve been using Aquafresh kids toothpaste)
3. Rinse with Listerine ~ I’m using Scope because it was on sale!
4. Do a final rinse with Act

It’s important to not rinse with water between steps.  The Zellies website also recommend eating at least 6.5 grams of Xylitol a day as well.  I haven’t gotten that far yet but I plan to.  Why?  Because in the few days I have done the above I’ve had no pain! None!

Dr. Ellie ~ owner of the Zellie website has a blog where she answers questions she’s received. On this entry she talks about “brown spots” ~ guess what? I have brown spots! Meaning the plaque is dying.

I’ve done some researches on Xylitol ~ it was used as table sugar over in the European countries during WWII because of sugar shortages.  I don’t plan on buying Xylitol from the Zellies website because there are other places that sell it cheaper but I love the Complete Mouth Care System!

Don’t forget to go to Rocks in my Dryer for more Works for me Wensday!

Winter blues and Changes

Ah, the lovely (not) winter blues have set in on the Spider household.  Mainly me and the Hubby.  I can’t wait until we can go outside without worry about frostbite, hypothermia and the like.  I dream of green grass, flowers blooming, digging my hands into soft earth planting a garden.  Hearing the kids run around laughing and screaming with joy.  Ah, such is the life!

I’m handling the W.B. pretty well once I decided to not let them get to me, but alas they are hitting Hubby
pretty hard right now.  The constant wind here in North Dakota isn’t helping much neither.  I do what I can for him ~ like this weekend we are going to load up on orange juice with vitamin D and possibly get some multi-vitamins for him as well.

I felt the need to change the layout a bit ~ haven’t finished yet but will hopefully soon!

I’ve also decided to change my routine a bit.  Usually after everyone else goes to bed I stay up to have some peace and quiet.  I don’t go to bed until usually midnight or later.  I’m now going to try and get up when Hubby does at 5:30 am and go to bed soon after he does.  Not at the same time because he actually falls asleep faster and easier when I’m not in the bed. LOL.   With me getting up when he does ~ and the kids not normally getting up until 7:30 or later, I’ll be able to get my “quiet” in the morning ~ hopefully blogging while I drink my tea and fully wake up!

Bud awhile ago got a hold of my camera ~ me not thinking much of it except telling him to get his own ~ and lost my memory card!! The bugger!  It was an Xd card so it’s not like I can swipe the memory card out of his camera either.  So picture taking has come to a halt.  If I want to take quality pictures with my camera I can only hold like 3 pictures at a time with the built in memory ~ I can’t handle that.  So once we have the money I’m buying a new memory card!

We’ve also bought Lil’ Miss a potty chair last weekend.  She’s only 16 months old so we’re not pushing the potty issue but she has expressed the want to use the potty.  She’s very cute.  To get her to sit longer on her chair she has a “potty book”.  It’s actually Bambi but she only gets to read it when she’s on the potty.  At first she didn’t like me taking it back once she got of the potty but now she hands it to me when she gets off.

Bud is also starting to wake up dry in the morning so soon we won’t have to buy nighttime pull-ups!  I’m so happy!

Well that’s what’s happening on my side of the woods ~ how’s everyone else?

Aphrodite

Aphrodite, known as Venus by the Romans.
The Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation.

Symbols of Aphrodite:
Golden apples, dolphin, swan, dove, sparrow, bees, goats

Rose, quince, myrtle, mint, grape (the fruit, leaves and vines), articokes, laurel, ash and poplar trees

Pearls, gold, aquamarine, rose quartz, jade, sapphire, silver, and copper

Red, pink, violet, silver, aqua, pale green (seafoam), any shade of light blue.

Aphrodite was not perfect.  In a lot of ways you could see her as petty and vain, but she was loved by all.  Is it any wonder roses are a symbol of love?

Ways to bring Aphrodite into your life:

• Slow down! Take your time, rushing can make it difficult to be sensual and caring.
• Let yourself feel beautiful, sensual and loving ~ without feeling guilty.  Make the time to do those things that delight and please you.
• Set aside some time each day to connect with someone  you really care about.  Even a few minutes to give them your full attention.
• Dress up, wear something sensual, even if it’s your bright red panties under your “dress for success” suit.
• Keep the work out of the bedroom!  Fluff up some fancy  pillows and put the scented candles all around.
• Surround yourself with Aphrodite’s symbols.  Dress in her colors, and think of her appreciatively as you put on pearl earrings and dab on the scent of roses.
• Turn your bathroom into a pleasure spa.  Bath oils, scented candles, bath salts ~ thickest towels you can afford and fill it with music.

Thinking of yourself as beautiful and *gasp* sexy is the key.  Forget about the stretch marks, love handles and extra weight ~ YOU are beautiful just the way you are.

Homemade bath salts:

In a large glass or metal bowl, stir together:

2 cups Epson salt or Dead Sea salt – or 1 cup of each
1-2 teaspoons of baking soda, if desired (makes skin soft.)
10-12 drops of essential oil

After you have stirred the salt really well ~ the more you stir the more the wonderful scent begins to come through ~ pour into pretty glass jars and attach lids.
“Add several tablespoons of bath salt to warm water for a relaxing bath.”

You are sexy.  You are beautiful.  Just keep repeating that!

Life

So what’s been going on my end of the world?  Lots!

• I made my neighbor a pair of fingerless gloves just before Christmas ~ she wore them all the time at her work (in an office) and all her co-workers loved them.  So I got the crazy idea that maybe I could make a little money selling them.  I say crazy idea because I have currently already sold 6 pairs and have orders for 5 more.  So to say the least my hands and wrists are a little sore from crocheting so much.
• It took hubby over 2 hours Tuesday night to drive 26 miles.  Why?  There was zero visibility because of the blizzard that blew in here.  It’s been a whole -6F all day!  Cold, cold, cold!
• Bud got a Vtech Write & Learn for Christmas, and he is actually spelling on it.  If you ask him while he’s not playing he won’t spell any of the words he just spelled so I don’t know if he’s actually “learning” or just getting a really, really good memory of what the game wants.
• Bud’s birthday is on the 21st of this month.  I can’t believe he’s going to be 4 years old!  Where did the time go?
• Did I mention it’s really cold?
• My mouth is starting to get really bad, but I can’t do a whole lot about it right now.  While I could go to the dentist, all they would really be able to do right now is just pull them out.  While I want that done, I don’t want to be toothless ~ without my falsies.  We have a wedding to go to in May, and then Hubby needs to go back to Phoenix to get his Camaro that we had to leave there when we left.  My teeth will get done, eventually.  I just got to find more better ways to kill the pain.  Any ideas?
• The other day I laid Lil’ Miss down for a nap ~ a nap that she told me (with points and tugs) she wanted to take.  About 5 minutes later, while I was sitting at the computer, here she comes walking and smiling at me.  The little stinker climbed out of her bed!  She sleeps in a port-a-crib right now so luckily she had no real  “fall” for me to worry about.  We’ll be getting a toddler bed come late spring from my neighbor.  She has an old one up at their cabin.  Lil’ Miss hasn’t climbed out since but I now know she can.

See, I’ve had a fun filled time! 

I’ve been thinking about doing a weekly section/topic about the many Goddess and how to bring them into your everyday life, would that interest you?
Also, all my blogging mommies that read this…How do you find time to blog regularly?  I need to be able to think when I blog and that only happens after the kids (both of them) are in bed.  I don’t wake up before them, so I can’t do it in the mornings (not that I’m functional before 9am.)  I don’t want to leave this blog hanging, I’m just finding a hard time balancing everything.  I’ll keep trying thou!

 

Theme for the Year

I have decided that this year will have a theme. Just a single word but with it, a direction. I made my resolutions, which I will do my best to fulfill. And that’s my theme ~ Fulfillment (does anyone else think there should be two “LL”s in full?).

I don’t plan on filling up my life with a bunch of stuff, I want to create within myself the sense of fulfillment with what I already have. My health, the health of my children and husband ~ a house that is becoming a home ~ food in the cupboards ~ good friends and neighbors ~ a good job.

There are days where I’m already “there” with that feeling. And yet there are still days where I feel like I’m failing ~ falling, trying to “keep up with the Jones’s” I will never have as clean a house as others ~ two little kids and a construction working husband defeat many efforts ~ but we want for NO need. There are of course “wants” we think we need, but we don’t really. Our wants will get bought or made in good time, there is no rush to get them, no need to worry about getting them ~ they will get to us when it is time.

Affirmation: I got these from my Mother, Lady Silverhorn.

I express the joy of living. I allow myself to enjoy every moment of every day totally. I love myself. I am safe and secure.

Have a Fulfilling day!

Sunday Sites

Good day!! Today is a little different Sunday Sites, I got a button for the blog!!!

How cool is that? If you want to put it on your blog here’s the code:

<**a href=”http://paganhomemaking.wordpress.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x157/whoelsetoo/7who.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”Photobucket** > (Just remove the ** for it to work)

If you put it on your blog/site let me know and I’ll put your button on mine. Don’t have one? Go to the wonderful lady that did mine!

Please go over to her blog and check her out!!! She even dyes yarn!!! How cool is that?

Saturday Ramblings

It’s a lovely cold day here.  The high today is suppose to be -2f.  That’s not including wind chill so we are staying inside the much warmer than outside house.

~ Bud’s 4th birthday is on the 21st this month so I’m trying to figure out what we’re going to get him and what we’re going to do.  Ideas so far include getting him a game for one of the game systems we have.  We have an XBOX 360, Game Cube and a PS2.  So if you know any good games for preschoolers (!) please let me know.

~Hubby still hasn’t taken the tree down yet.  I took all the decoration down yesterday so all he has to do is take the tree apart and put it in the box.  Though he did clean the basement so I can’t complain too much.

~ Lil’ Miss is teething.  She has two teeth coming in right now, with another two thinking about it.  It’s causing for late nites.

~ Speaking of which, Hubby and Bud watched Jason goes to Hell today. (!) 1. I hate, hate horror movies.   2. I told hubby he gets to get up with Bud in the middle of the night.

~ I’m making some fingerless gloves to send to work with my neighbor to sell.  I made my neighbor a pair for X-mas and all her co-workers love them so I figured I’d make a few and see if they sell.  If they do, Great!, if they don’t, oh well I tried.

~ I haven’t done dishes yet today and I really need to because Hubby wants enchiladas.  With green chilies.  That man and his spicy food.  When we decided to move up here, we would laugh thinking about the kids friends, when they get older, coming over for dinner.  I’d make some type of Mexican food and the friends would end up running around with fire coming out of their mouths and tears down their face from the heat.

Well I’m off to do dishes, crochet some more, and start dinner.  Hope you all have a good day!

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a good holiday, we did.  We stay home, the kids made out like bandits.  You gotta love family and great neighbors who love to spoil your kids.  The Hubby is getting home earlier because with the weather being very very chilly they are not working as much.  This weekend is going to be another 4-day weekend for him.  It has it’s ups and downs but the kids (for the most part) love having him home.

Now that I’ve updated you a bit, Welcome back those faithful readers of mine that keep checking back seeing if I’ve posted and Welcome new readers that found my blog during my break.  I’m going to be posting much more regular now.  I’ve even have blog ideas written down on my day planner.

With the New Year here, now is a good time to reflect on the previous year.  The ups and down both.  Here’s a simple list of my ups and downs, ups first!

1. Moving to North Dakota.  The biggest up ever.  We are so much happier here, we may be making less money here than we did in Arizona but we have much more lee-way that we did.
2. Meeting our new neighbors.  My neighbor Lisa is the absolute best.  Along with her family.
3. Learning to crochet.  I love being able to make things (other than babies!).  With it I’m able to explore new avenues for making money.
4. Starting this blog.  <– this kinda speaks for itself.

Downs:

1. Breaking our rent in Arizona.  By doing that we totally ruined our credit rating but if we had not, we may have ended up on the street because:
2. Hubby losing his job.  Well, he actually quit but he was doing the foreman job and was being toyed with about the raise he was suppose to receive.
3. My teeth getting worse.  I’m holding off until we can afford getting work done on them, but it’s a painful process.

There may not seem like I have a lot of ups but the biggest one, moving to North Dakota, has been best and ongoing one.  Seriously, I thank the deities weekly for the chance to move here.

Now onto the resolutions for 2009.  I don’t normally make resolutions but this year I am.  I’m even writing down how I’m going to succeed at them.  If I just write what I want to change without also deciding how to do the change, it will never happen!

1. Work out more. ~ We have a Playstation 2 that we have DDR with dance pads that is great exercise. I’m going to do it 3x’s a week.
2. Keep the house cleaner. ~ Kind of self-explaining but I hate cleaning house!  It just gets dirty again!  But this is how I plan on doing it (totally subject to change of course!)                   -Pick up toys everyday.  Kids will help.    -Do Dishes every morning and night.  -Clean my computer desk once a week.  -Sweep every other day.  -Vacuum once a week.
3. Do more of my crafts. ~ Every Saturday or Sunday spend at least 2 -3 hours in my craft room.
4. More loving with my husband. (I was going to use the “S” word but I don’t want those kind of hit on the blog) Every other day!!!!
5. Weekly baking. ~ I have yet to chose what day yet but I love having cookies, rolls and bread already home and baked.  Less temptation to buy “easy” food when grocery shopping.

I think the hardest one for me to do will be 1, 2, and 3.  I’m lazy and I admit it.  But I’m trying to change.  And this is a start!

The shape of a Mother

I’m still on break but I found this site today and must share it with you.

As women and mothers we are constantly bombarded with images and stats of societies idea of the “perfect” body.  The Shape of a Mother is a site where mothers post pictures of their POST-pregnancy bodies.  The site is to celebrate the beauty of a mother’s body.  It is a very lovely and moving site. Warning:  There are some nude pictures so the site is NSFW (not safe for work).

Holiday Break

I just want to let you all know, I’m still alive.  Everything is well here, albeit a little  falling apart (darn old houses!).  I will be taking a break for the month of December.  Just with everything going on, I haven’t had the motivation nor insight to blog.  I will be back come January.   I may even pop in here once in a while, but no promises!  Happy thoughts and warm wishes everyone!