Gears Goin' but Not Much Happenin'

My life feels like the title a lot lately.  It's not the truth of the situation, but it sure does feel like it more often than not.  Such is the case when a new Mama has a new nursling.  And no matter whether it's #1 baby or #8, Mama is new every time!

One thing i've re-realized anew is how much i must die to myself with each new arrival.  It's AMAZING how much i get used to having an older "baby" who is really independent and then to have a newborn who is completely dependent... it's a HUGE change.  I'm so grateful for the opportunity to learn the new ways i've become selfish and have to relinquish them and die to self all over again.

Jessie has taken the girls to a nearby Farm Swap a couple times.  We have been able to sell some livestock, but not nearly as much as i'd like... so that's another way it feels like the gears are turning and nothing is transpiring.  NO!  It's not nothing.  It's just not as much as i'd like.

I'm working to purge lots of things from our store of "stuff" and that is going very slowly indeed.  It's nearly impossible to do while holding baby girl who is only seven weeks as of today... so i have to try to sneak away when she's sleeping and that doesn't last long at all.  So, it's a tiny bit of work and a LOT of trying to work things out in my head so that i can work REALLY efficeintly when i get to do what i need to do!

I'm walking every morning except Sunday again.  Today began my third week back to it.  It's WONDERFUL to be back.  I was really nervous because i started walked before i should've and went out 3 times and felt BLAH about it.  I was worried that i wouldn't love it like i did when i was preggie.  I've been SO glad to realize i only felt that blah way because i was still run down and my body was not ready for that kind of exertion.  Praise the Lord for that!!!

I've begun working as a Distributor of Tower Gardens and Young Living Essential Oils.  More people tend to be familiar with Young Living than Tower Gardens, which is really interesting to me.  When I started learning about essential oils no one i knew really knew about them.  Now it's become quite common for people to be at least a little familiar with the term: essential oils... even if they don't actively use them for themselves.

Tower Gardens are awesome!  They are aeroponic and very modern looking!  The footprint is a total of about 3 feet by 3 feet and it can be short or a bit tall (a bit more than 6 feet tall) depending on whether you get the basic or an addition.  It's as good or better than organic food and can be as little as $45 a month for a year to pay for the Tower itself.  My Tower is brand new with little seedlings, but i've been watching a member of my upline with her Towers for at least the last 2 years and she has harvested SO much better-than-organic produce off her Tower.  I'm sure she has spent far less on food than i do relatively speaking.  So, i hope to begin saving money on our food bill in the next month!  I hope you'll check it out: http://gollihugh.towergarden.com/  IF you order from me on or before July 31, you will get a coupon code for FREE SEEDLINGS (that includes shipping)!  You can order right through my website and i'll be in touch with you.  Oh... if you'd like to Distribute, you'll need to contact me first so we can get you signed up, pay $50, then you buy the Tower from yourself ($49 Retail Commission), so that you'll end up paying only $1 to be able to Distribute Towers, too!  How great is THAT!!??  It's what i did and i'm just tickled about it!!!

If you'd like to order Young Living oils from me, let me know in a comment and i'll get in touch with you to share my member number so you can either set up an account through which you can order any time or you can become a distributor and buy wholesale whenever you want!

My Tower with FREE seedlings installed.



What's Been Up

Well, lots of stuff i'm not going to share... just to get that out.

What i will share of what's on my mind and in my doings:

Gardening!  This is swiftly becoming a passion.  While I was away, numerous of my plants died.  So many heirloom seeds who only got a barely there taste of life and then went the way of all the earth.  The pain is over their loss of life as well as my unrealized monetary investment.  *sigh* 

A few plants were looking pretty sad and near-death upon my return.  It has been tremendously gladdening... uplifting... heartening... joy-filling to see my lovlies perk up under my care.  I honestly cannot convey to you the pleasure and joy that i feel about my plants... especially as they have flourished and improved since i've been back.  I'm so grateful God put a friend into my life to tell me that it was in opposition to my nature to be good at gardening.  Don't tell me something like that... especially if it's something my family needs to get along better than we otherwise could... it's a challenge to me and i rarely fail permanently when i take up a challenge.  :)  Fall flat on my face lots of times... definitely.  But i also happen to be pretty tenacious when i have a goal in mind.  ^_^

Maybe you'll think this is crazy, but i really feel a sweet connection to my plants... like i can almost feel them calling for me when they need some water or transplanting or something of the kind that they cannot do for themselves.  I DEFINITELY felt my sunflowers reach out to me in a real and extremely tender way after the miscarriage last year.  If anyone had told me such a thing was possible before i experienced it myself, i would've considered it with loads of scepticism... but i know it's real now!

Thankfully, death did not fall upon as many of our animal-types as upon my plants, while we were away.  Only 1 rabbit died while we were gone.

FOOD!  While I was away I spent some time learning.  Much of the learning was by way of documentaries.  Documentaries such as: Food Inc.; Sick, Fat, and Nearly Dead; The Gerson Miracle; and quite a few others.  As i was learning in this temporal manner, i also heard much from Father.  I was able to fully comprehend some things i'd been hearing for some time... it actually made sense. My determination to use Hippocrates statement more fully firmed up in my mind and heart.  He said, thousands of years before Christ: Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine thy food.  I felt led to move juicing into our consumption - which required obtaining a juicer.  It has been aquired and juice has been consumed daily since.  I'm very pleased with the experience and feel the results well-worth thte time investment.

I'm making a lot more from scratch... and i really feel like i was doing quite well in that area before.  I'm not buying bread currently (sure do miss it, though!) and buy much less meat than we were consuming.

I'm also dehydrating.  It's been really gratifying to see how much Jmy likes almost everything i make!  He's been the most accepting of the juices and RAW crackers.  The crackers he refuses are banana based, which is VERY odd if you know anything about this little guy.  He's loved the curry and tomato based "BBQ" chips (two different types).

I made pizza with eggplant as the "crust" today and even my most finicky (Ria) loved it!

Food preparation is also a paying gig for me now.  I'm making food for someone with whom i've bartered.  As a result, i'm saving/earning my family between two thousand and twenty five hundred dollars within three months.  It's not really good pay, per se, but it's definitely worth it to me.  It's been really great (motivating) to prepare vegan foods for this other person... encouraging my forays into more food prep with veggies for my own family.  We're not going vegan, by any means... just working to align more fully with the Word of Wisdom and the diet described in the Bible (particularly Daniel), though not focusing at all on Kosher.

Home maintainance and improving organization therein.  The house was a wreck when we returned.  Seriously.  I whipped it into shape (semblance of improved shape, anyway) inside of 30 hours and have been working to improve it more since then.  That first day of work really did me physical harm, though... my hip has been giving me some huge problems since... so frustrating.  ahwell... at least the house looks better, for the most part (even still).

Oddly enough, though, i still have not fully finished unpacking my suitcase.  A few clean clothes (most have been put away properly) and lots of books and random other things.  Most things have been unpacked, but it's difficult to find places for what is left - thus it's still in the suitcase waiting for me to figure it out.  :)

It took me almost two weeks to straighten the van back up the way i work to keep it (very orderly, which is MUCH easier to maintain in the van than the house because we do not live in the van!).  So, all i have to do in it now is maintainance sweeping once or twice a week depending on how dirty feet are when we pile in.

The play room, the laundry room, and the computer room need some concentrated attention to more fully organize them.  Hopefully i'll get to the easiest (? laundry room?) of those very soon.  We'll see.


That's pretty much it.  Probably sounds like little to do, if anything, but these few activities can (and do) take up a lot of time.  Numerous days i've stayed up much later than i planned or physically should have to plant seeds because i'm working to do that on good and best days based on lunar cycles.  It REALLY does make a difference!  Thankfully i've been able to get the most important things done... but little time to "play," thus no blog updates until yesterday.  We'll see how much i can get in from now on.  ^_^

What Is Going On?

Agenda 21 in combination with numerous other UN Conventions (UNCRC, CEDAW, UNCRPD) and treaties is what, I tell you.  I'm not even going to go into what the aforementioned terms are.  I'm simply going to provide you with a few links within words of this posting.  This is not limited to the USA.  These are world-wide issues... conventions that will directly impact the lives of all freedom loving peoples.

http://www.robodoon.com/global_un_agenda_21.htm
http://www.parentalrights.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={EFFB5B62-5D8F-4F60-959A-F5D42FCB863F}&DE=
http://www.savemothersday.com/noratify.shtml
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/2012/201205250.asp
http://voices.yahoo.com/un-treaty-voids-parental-rights-special-needs-children-11566904.html

How Private Property is Being Abolished http://www.discerningtoday.org/ALF/TLmenu.html

Don't believe me.  Do your own research.  Determine what you believe.

Wake up.