Essential Oils: Certain Foods Cause My Son To Break Out In Hives

Essential Oils: Certain Foods Cause My Son To Break Out In Hives

With these oils, it can be that simple.

Essential Oils: How To Keep Your Fingernails During Chemotherapy

Essential Oils: How To Keep Your Fingernails During Chemotherapy

Seemingly little, but important to know.

Essential Oils: Brown Recluse Spider Bite Looked Like A War Wound

Essential Oils: Brown Recluse Spider Bite Looked Like A War Wound

Like the woman said, this is not for everyone. It takes work and caution, but you CAN avoid an ER visit.

121129 Better

I'm better and less stressed. The situation has not changed, but my attitude has. Now, I'm vacillating about whether to speak up or not. If I just hang on for four years more, then Emily will graduate, and the 'problem' will go away.

121126 Major Rant

Tracking Devices

This article is a symptom, but not the cause: I'm going to rant. 

Since March of 2002, I have been actively homeschooling my children. The elder had just turned 8, and the younger was 3, almost 4. My children are well behaved, articulate, and educated. The elder graduated at 16, and at last report, had a 3.8 GPA in a STEM degree program while carrying a full load. She also works about 20 hours per week and has more friends than I can count. How has homeschooling failed her!? Yet, There are three people in my life who WILL NOT relent. They are after me continually to put the younger in public school, because surely, her mind is warped and damaged by homeschooling. She also has a keen mind, many friends, and does her best to control her impulses. (ADHD and LD complicate her life.) One of the naysayers is a relative, but the other two are in my fellowship. It is driving me to distraction! If I didn't love the Word so much, I would quit going to fellowship! It is THAT bad!

This is not the school she would have to attend, but the girls know people who go there or have already graduated from there. My elder did well. She is FINE. The younger is FINE. Why do people have to meddle?

121123 The Day After Thankfulness

Does any other country have a holiday like Thanksgiving? Maybe Sukkot? Sukkot, however, is celebrated by the scattered tribes, not just a single country. Other than those two, my limited knowledge doesn't call forth any other.

Thankfulness is an interesting position. When one is unthankful, nothing is right. There is no justice. Lack dominates. Greed takes hold of one's mind and bitterness invades. The scale may be large or small, but any amount of bitterness and greed can disrupt one's peace.

Allow the thankful heart to grow, and bitterness has to flee. It's amazing what a little change in attitude can do. It doesn't change circumstances, at least not right away, but it will change one's mental and physical responses to circumstance.

Proverbs 17:22  
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Thankfulness brings peace.

Philippians 4:6,7  
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Thankfulness is not the same as a Pollyanna attitude. Thankfulness acknowledges that something good does exist, and it leaves us in a better position to improve the not-so-good. Thankfulness reduces stress. Therefore, you can continue to work on improvements as needed, but be thankful for what you already have.

121122 Happy Thanksgiving

This holiday is one of my two favorite days. It started because a group of 'refugees' decided to be thankful instead of depressed. They had lost half their number to a mysterious disease or to exposure, but because some had survived for a year, they celebrated with thankfulness. Sounds like a good reason for a holiday!