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Blessings, Gilly
Thursday, January 17, 2008
A Little More On Lavender Healing
Lavender is very popular around here and we keep finding more ways it can help.
Recently one son complained of his elbows and the surrounding area on his arms feeling sore. When I looked they were very red and irritated. We couldn't figure out what caused it but I handed him a tube of Lavender Cream and he said it felt better after one use. I told him to keep the tube and use it every day and see what happened. He reported back that it gradually faded away.
Another son had a bad cold; the kind where your nose just won't stop running and becomes so sore, tender, (and red) that you don't want to even touch it with a tissue anymore . I handed him a tube of Lavender Cream and he gratefully put it on and found quick relief. His nose looked normal when I saw him the next day.
There are several articles in the archives on Lavender.
Blessings, Gilly
Recently one son complained of his elbows and the surrounding area on his arms feeling sore. When I looked they were very red and irritated. We couldn't figure out what caused it but I handed him a tube of Lavender Cream and he said it felt better after one use. I told him to keep the tube and use it every day and see what happened. He reported back that it gradually faded away.
Another son had a bad cold; the kind where your nose just won't stop running and becomes so sore, tender, (and red) that you don't want to even touch it with a tissue anymore . I handed him a tube of Lavender Cream and he gratefully put it on and found quick relief. His nose looked normal when I saw him the next day.
There are several articles in the archives on Lavender.
Blessings, Gilly
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
A Couple of Funny Pregnancy Memories
This is not the usual sort of thing I write about but my friend Melissa, at http://patiencetherapy.com/ is soon to give birth and has asked for some funny stories about pregnancy for her Patience Therapy Carnival this week so here goes:
I was trying to think of something funny about my pregnancies but lets face it; there isn't too much humour in all those symptoms we endure for nine months. The only funny thing I remember happening during a pregnancy is with my first one when I was about four or five months pregnant.
I answered the door to be greeted by a salesman who asked me if my Mother was home. I was young enough to be upset at being taken for a "kid" when I was so obviously grown up. I always looked young for my age and was tired of the teasing, and constant incidents such as being asked to wear make up at work to make me look older. Being married, living in our own apartment and noticeably pregnant; I thought I finally qualified as a bona fide adult and had assumed I now looked it. Needless to say, he made no sale.
I didn't think it was at all funny, but my husband, who was unfortunately home at the time, had a very good laugh and never let me forget that incident.
I think this qualifies as an embarrassing memory more than a funny one, but maybe it will give you a laugh.
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OK, I guess I also have a funny ( I hope) story about my second pregnancy.
My husband and I had left our three year old son with his doting grandparents and having a rare day to ourselves. It was the sixteenth of December and although I had an appointment with my doctor for a check up ; we decided to go Christmas shopping for awhile first. Then, after the doctor we would go out to eat, (a rare treat at the time) and then more shopping.
My due date was not until the second of January and I felt fine so my doctor and I were both pretty surprised when the examination turned up a little fact I was unaware of. I was in labor! Advanced enough that my doctor insisted I was to go straight to the hospital!
Frankly I was really ticked off. It ruined my lovely dinner and shopping plans which would have been much more fun than giving birth. Don't get me wrong; I wanted the baby, was looking forward to having it, but not when I was in shopping mode for goodness sakes! Couldn't this kid get the dates right? Or at least wait until tomorrow after mommy had had some fun and finished Christmas shopping?
My doctor and husband weren't at all cooperative with my plans, so I soon found myself in the hospital , without my dinner, without Christmas presents, but also without any pain. Imagine that! I had a totally pain free labor and delivery! I never felt a thing. The doctor had no explanation for this but I understood. My baby was making it up to me for ruining my shopping trip. Or maybe he (it was a boy) just didn't want to take a chance on irritating me any further. After all; it's important to start such a close relationship off on good terms and he might have been afraid I would hold a grudge.
I was trying to think of something funny about my pregnancies but lets face it; there isn't too much humour in all those symptoms we endure for nine months. The only funny thing I remember happening during a pregnancy is with my first one when I was about four or five months pregnant.
I answered the door to be greeted by a salesman who asked me if my Mother was home. I was young enough to be upset at being taken for a "kid" when I was so obviously grown up. I always looked young for my age and was tired of the teasing, and constant incidents such as being asked to wear make up at work to make me look older. Being married, living in our own apartment and noticeably pregnant; I thought I finally qualified as a bona fide adult and had assumed I now looked it. Needless to say, he made no sale.
I didn't think it was at all funny, but my husband, who was unfortunately home at the time, had a very good laugh and never let me forget that incident.
I think this qualifies as an embarrassing memory more than a funny one, but maybe it will give you a laugh.
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OK, I guess I also have a funny ( I hope) story about my second pregnancy.
My husband and I had left our three year old son with his doting grandparents and having a rare day to ourselves. It was the sixteenth of December and although I had an appointment with my doctor for a check up ; we decided to go Christmas shopping for awhile first. Then, after the doctor we would go out to eat, (a rare treat at the time) and then more shopping.
My due date was not until the second of January and I felt fine so my doctor and I were both pretty surprised when the examination turned up a little fact I was unaware of. I was in labor! Advanced enough that my doctor insisted I was to go straight to the hospital!
Frankly I was really ticked off. It ruined my lovely dinner and shopping plans which would have been much more fun than giving birth. Don't get me wrong; I wanted the baby, was looking forward to having it, but not when I was in shopping mode for goodness sakes! Couldn't this kid get the dates right? Or at least wait until tomorrow after mommy had had some fun and finished Christmas shopping?
My doctor and husband weren't at all cooperative with my plans, so I soon found myself in the hospital , without my dinner, without Christmas presents, but also without any pain. Imagine that! I had a totally pain free labor and delivery! I never felt a thing. The doctor had no explanation for this but I understood. My baby was making it up to me for ruining my shopping trip. Or maybe he (it was a boy) just didn't want to take a chance on irritating me any further. After all; it's important to start such a close relationship off on good terms and he might have been afraid I would hold a grudge.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Discover How To Make Dry Cleaning A Bargain
Are you sick of expensive dry cleaning bills? You can now do your own dry cleaning at home much cheaper and very easily in your own dryer. Dryel offers a kit that can do 10 items for the price of one done professionally; and just think of not having to run around dropping things off, picking them up, and waiting days for them to be ready.
Just go to www.Dryel.com and get a coupon for $4.00 off your own dry cleaning kit.
Order on line and receive an instant coupon and free shipping or have them mail your coupon and buy your kit at Wal-Mart.
This nice company also sends a couple of other coupons, $1.50 for Dryel Starch and $2.00 for Ivory Snow - great for those delicate garments.
They know how to make us gals happy! Saving us money and time; two very important things.
Enjoy! Blessings, Gilly
Just go to www.Dryel.com and get a coupon for $4.00 off your own dry cleaning kit.
Order on line and receive an instant coupon and free shipping or have them mail your coupon and buy your kit at Wal-Mart.
This nice company also sends a couple of other coupons, $1.50 for Dryel Starch and $2.00 for Ivory Snow - great for those delicate garments.
They know how to make us gals happy! Saving us money and time; two very important things.
Enjoy! Blessings, Gilly
Friday, January 11, 2008
Discovering An Easier Way To Have Healthy Water
Water is my preferred drink. It's healthy and has no calories so what more could I want? Well, water that tastes good. Water in my area is now so heavily chlorinated that it tastes and smells like my pool. No one wants to drink it. So, I started buying the bottled water, quickly finding that the large bottles were not only annoying to deal with; I never seemed to have enough water no matter how many I bought. I decided to buy the individual bottles by the case. The largest case I could find.
The downside is that water is heavy. Lugging home those cases of 24 bottles every week is not fun. Even the young, healthy, checkout gals grunt a bit when they have to heave it across the counter. It also takes up too much room in the shopping cart, and too much precious storage room at home. All those empties are a nuisance too; my recycle bin runneth over, and I still was constantly running out of water.
Years ago we had one of those faucet things that filtered water; we weren't too pleased with it. You had to turn a little thing on the faucet when you wanted filtered water and it came out in an extremely slow trickle. Took forever to fill a glass and didn't taste good. Then we tried one of the pitchers to filter our water; that, too,was incredibly slow, and the water still tasted awful.
Determined to have clean, healthy, drinkable water I did some research and found that during the years I was lugging home all that bottled water wonderful things were happening with Brita.
The downside is that water is heavy. Lugging home those cases of 24 bottles every week is not fun. Even the young, healthy, checkout gals grunt a bit when they have to heave it across the counter. It also takes up too much room in the shopping cart, and too much precious storage room at home. All those empties are a nuisance too; my recycle bin runneth over, and I still was constantly running out of water.
Years ago we had one of those faucet things that filtered water; we weren't too pleased with it. You had to turn a little thing on the faucet when you wanted filtered water and it came out in an extremely slow trickle. Took forever to fill a glass and didn't taste good. Then we tried one of the pitchers to filter our water; that, too,was incredibly slow, and the water still tasted awful.
Determined to have clean, healthy, drinkable water I did some research and found that during the years I was lugging home all that bottled water wonderful things were happening with Brita.
They now have a water dispenser that fits neatly into the fridge and provides 18 glasses of great tasting, safe water (8 oz.) from it's own easy to use faucet, which quickly fills your glass.
I'm not only impressed with this product; I was impressed with the price. It was under $30 and the filters are only $15 for a package of 3. Considering they say you need to change the filter every 40 gallons or 2 months for the average family that breaks down to only $2.50 a month! This is much less expensive than buying bottled water at $20 to $25 a month!
My other issue was the ease of using bottles whenever I went outside or traveling around, but they have insulated cups with lids and sports bottles also insulated that will actually keep the water cold and are inexpensive.
So, this is my tip for simplifying life and saving money at the same time. Blessings, Gilly
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Life Today
I don't have the title for this but like it enough to post it anyway. I don't have any idea who originally wrote it but if you do I'd appreciate your letting me know.
I found this thought provoking piece at life and love and Joy has generously given her permission for me to use it.
"We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;we spend more, but have less;we buy more, but enjoy less.We have bigger houses and smaller families;more conveniences, but less time;we have more degrees, but less common sense;more knowledge, but less judgement;more experts, but more problems;more medicine, but less wellness.We spend too recklessly, laugh to little;drive too fast, get too angry too quickly;stay up too late, get up too tired;read too seldom, watch TV too much;and pray too seldom.We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values;we talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often;we've learned how to make a living, but not a life;we've added years to life, but not life to years;we've been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;we've done larger things, but not better things;we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;we've split the atom, but not our prejudice;we write more, but learn less;plan more, accomplish less.We've learned to rush, but not to wait;we have higher incomes, but lower morals;more food but less appeasement;more acquaintances, but fewer friends;more effort but less success.We build more computers to hold more information;produce more copies than ever, but have less communication;we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.These are the times of fast food and slow digestions;tall men and short character;steep profits and shallow relationships.These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;more leisure and less fun;more kinds of food, but less nutrition.These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce;of fancier houses, but broken homes.These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers;throw away morality, one night stands,overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.It is a time when there is much in the show window, and nothing in the stock room."By Anonymous.
I found this thought provoking piece at life and love and Joy has generously given her permission for me to use it.
"We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;we spend more, but have less;we buy more, but enjoy less.We have bigger houses and smaller families;more conveniences, but less time;we have more degrees, but less common sense;more knowledge, but less judgement;more experts, but more problems;more medicine, but less wellness.We spend too recklessly, laugh to little;drive too fast, get too angry too quickly;stay up too late, get up too tired;read too seldom, watch TV too much;and pray too seldom.We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values;we talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often;we've learned how to make a living, but not a life;we've added years to life, but not life to years;we've been all the way to the moon and back,but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;we've done larger things, but not better things;we've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;we've split the atom, but not our prejudice;we write more, but learn less;plan more, accomplish less.We've learned to rush, but not to wait;we have higher incomes, but lower morals;more food but less appeasement;more acquaintances, but fewer friends;more effort but less success.We build more computers to hold more information;produce more copies than ever, but have less communication;we've become long on quantity, but short on quality.These are the times of fast food and slow digestions;tall men and short character;steep profits and shallow relationships.These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;more leisure and less fun;more kinds of food, but less nutrition.These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce;of fancier houses, but broken homes.These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers;throw away morality, one night stands,overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.It is a time when there is much in the show window, and nothing in the stock room."By Anonymous.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Lavender Therapy For Frazzled Parents & Cranky Kids
I was a frazzled parent for many years. I kept giving birth to babies that for some reason just wouldn't sleep through the night. I don't mean just the first month or so, I mean years. Any mother knows that babies or toddlers that just won't stop crying and just won't sleep will equal one exhausted, stressed out mother. Sometimes rocking, singing, or walking the floor with them just doesn't work.
What does work is Lavender, a lovely smelling herb that is safe and calms and relaxes even the crankiest of little ones. There is a great product by Breck called Lavender Bedtime Baby Cream that promises to help soothe and calm baby right to sleep. It is also a wonderful moisturizer for their skin. (And yours.)
A gentle massage with this will likely help your little one forget the tears, calm down, and - finally - sleep. A little on the tummy might also be a good idea as a lot of the crying might be caused by a touch of indigestion. A bit more on the forehead would be a help - I swear all that crying must give babies a headache. I know it gave me quite a few.
Lavender can also help tired, stressed mommies to relax and get a good nights sleep. And those headaches? I use it for mine all the time.
Lavender has become an important staple in our home; the variety of ailments it can help with are incredible. It is a great thing to keep on hand as it works for everything from bee stings to burns.
This is posted in the Blog carnival at Having Patience » Blog Archive » Patience Therapy - A Carnival for Frazzled Parents
Blessings, Gilly
What does work is Lavender, a lovely smelling herb that is safe and calms and relaxes even the crankiest of little ones. There is a great product by Breck called Lavender Bedtime Baby Cream that promises to help soothe and calm baby right to sleep. It is also a wonderful moisturizer for their skin. (And yours.)
A gentle massage with this will likely help your little one forget the tears, calm down, and - finally - sleep. A little on the tummy might also be a good idea as a lot of the crying might be caused by a touch of indigestion. A bit more on the forehead would be a help - I swear all that crying must give babies a headache. I know it gave me quite a few.
Lavender can also help tired, stressed mommies to relax and get a good nights sleep. And those headaches? I use it for mine all the time.
Lavender has become an important staple in our home; the variety of ailments it can help with are incredible. It is a great thing to keep on hand as it works for everything from bee stings to burns.
This is posted in the Blog carnival at Having Patience » Blog Archive » Patience Therapy - A Carnival for Frazzled Parents
Blessings, Gilly
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