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I've been asked this a lot in person too, not just on here. So I thought I would actually write about it. Maybe some of my experience can help someone else. If you don't need to lose weight, feel free to skip this post. First, I don't want to be accused of plagiarism, so I need to mention that much of what I have learned about weight loss I learned from the book "Optimal Health Revolution" by Dr Duke Johnson. If you are interested in life long health and reducing your risk for heart disease, cancer and diabetes, andnot just weight loss, I highly recommend that book. Ok...on with the topic at hand. Losing weight is simple really, if you understand how it all works. A calorie is a unit of energy. If you eat more "energy" then your body uses, your body stores the extra as fat and you gain weight. If you eat less "energy" then your body uses, then your body uses it's stored energy (fat) and you lose weight. So the only real trick to l...

Delayed Gratification is a concept that I think has been mostly lost in our industrialized society. We have everything at our finger tips at a moments notice, why wait for anything? You can order a pizza online and have it delivered to your door within 30 min, drive through coffee and fast food, etc. A couple years ago, Thad and I set some very specific goals for our lives over the next few years. We set a very strict budget and have been nazi's with it ever since. As part of this, we do not spend ANY money without consulting with each other first. Thad will call me from work to ask about getting a burger off the dollar menu if he didn't pack enough lunch to keep him full. If there is a sale on a favorite type of cereal, I will call and check with Thad before buying an extra box of it. As a result of being very goal oriented, we have been able to pay off a significant amount of debt in the last couple years (4 maxed out credit cards, the car, and about $6000 in medical b...

I had planned on waiting until after our trip to San Diego this summer to potty train Titus because I did not want to have a 2 year old in underwear needing stops every hour on the drive. It has now become apparent that he is not willing to wait that long to be done with his diapers. Titus looks up to Raquelle. He copies everything she does. At a church potluck a couple weeks ago, the kids were all running laps around the big room. Raquelle tripped and fell. She said "OWE!" and got up and kept running. When Titus got to the spot she fell, he sat down, said "OWE" got up and kept running. About 2 weeks ago, Titus noticed something. He noticed that Raquelle wears panties and he doesn't. He noticed that she goes potty on the toilet and he doesn't. And he started having fits about having to wear a diaper because he wanted "panties" like Raquelle. He started telling me over and over "Ty big boy! Ty Pannies!" So we went to the store...

Keziah is 3 months old now! Where has the time gone? She has slept through the night 2 times so far, and not in a row. She is starting to be very interested in her play mats and has enough core muscle to go in her exersaucer now! We are finally past the thrush. I changed her dr, and her new dr was willing to give us the medicine that the internet said was most likely to work. I had to stop nursing for 2 weeks while she was on it so she wouldn't get it back off of me. Luckly, she went right back to nursing when we were done and has had no problems and the thrush has stayed away! She is now 13 lbs and is gaining weight a bit slower then she did before, but thats fine, she is chunky enough as is. She is generally a very happy baby, with the occasional rough night if I accidently eat anything with onion in it. That gives her a BAD tummy ache! Anyway...that's the update on her. Here are some long overdue pictures. Here is Titus when everyone was sick. This was not taken...

Raquelle is all better! Yeah! Titus is mostly better. Thad and I still feel like we have head colds. Kezzy is getting worse. I called her dr again yesterday and they had me take her in to urgent care. At the Urgent care clinic, the dr basically said the same thing as her dr had earlier this week. As long as her color is good and she is eating and having wet diapers, just wait it out. This morning, she woke up with a fever of 102.8. No one else in the family has had a fever with this. She is also now refusing to eat. It is 2 in the afternoon and she hasn't had a wet diaper yet today and she has only eaten about 3 oz since midnight! Around lunch time, I used a medicine dropper to try to force some fluids into her. She has basically slept the enitre day, waking up only to cough and attempt to cry. So she is still very sick and could still use lots of prayers. I'm praying that tomorrow we will wake up to her being finally on the uphill side of this, but so far each da...

If you are reading this, please stop and say a prayer for my family. Everyone is sick. To recap... Titus had a clear runny nose last Friday all day. He was acting like he felt fine, played like normal...just a runny nose. Saturday afternoon, Titus started coughing (literally on the way to Mikayla's birthday party.) We left the birthday party early because I was concerned that he might spread his cold to other people there. If anyone reading this got sick from his cough, I'm really sorry! Sunday - Titus and Keziah stayed home from church with Thad. Raquelle and I went. Titus is now coughing Chronically and really hard. Monday - Called the dr and made an appointment. Raquelle starts coughing too. Titus is coughing multiple times per minute, even while on cough syrup. I sent Raquelle with Titus to the dr since she was starting to get it too. They did a nebulizer treatment at the office because he couldn't breath. He was prescribed an inhalor. We found out his ear ...

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