That's it

I am going to quit my Tues/Thursday Job. The M-Saturday job is enough to keep my days busy. So I will sacrifice the T and R job and give those hours to taking care of the kiddlets and the house. Of course my night job will still keep me busy every evening.

How to Fix the economy

Most people have the feeling the American Economy is going down hill. And who can blame them, the headlines have been leading with mass layoffs expected at manufactoring jobs every where we turn in America.

My Economic theroys probally don't agree with the vodoo economists in Washington, however I think they are worth a posting. (probably just for the reason they don't agree with the washingtonits)

First of all I am of the opnion that to fix the national economy we first got to fix our individual and local economy. What does that mean?

It means that we need to live financially sustainablly. Quite often the sustainablilty jives quite nicely with Ecological sustainability too. We can not live going deeper into debt. We need to look at where we are spending money and why. Are we spending lots of money at restuarnts because we have no time to cook? We do we have no time to cook? BEcause we spend hours in the car all day commuting?

Does tossing kids in daycare make parenthood sustainable? What is sucking our money?

What can we change in our lives to make it more sustanable? Can we live closer to work? HOw much time and gas will it save you? OR even work at home. We you cut back the hours you work and then save money by cooking or cleaning for ourselves? Gardening? Can we do sewing or cooking for others? Immagine a meal share program where we can cook for 2 familes every other night.

Can we think about home ecomonics as what we do at home for the economy? Like gardening rather then grocery shopping or sewing rather then clothes shopping? Not only can it give it a sense of accomplishment and pride in well crafted items, but it can also be used as a way not to need as much cash on hand.

Also there are the ideas of taking advantage of that which is free. A libary membership is usually free and is great place to get books and references. Parks are a great place to hang out- that way you don't need your own green spaces (as much). And using second hand items. Maby even getting to know and spend time with your neighbors and friends. Most of us allready own board games. It doesnt' cost much to get to gether and play.

If we structure our personal lives around economic sustainability we can help the others around us accomplish that too.

The same principles apply to national economies. We got to stop buying and start utilizing what is within us and around us.

bone health

"Vitiamin D Trumps Calcium for Bone Health

According to researchers in Iceland, consuming more then 800 mg of Calicium per day may be unnecessart for bone health if the body has enough vitamin D.

Using food consumption records from more than 900 adults, researchers at Landspitali-University Hostpitals in Reykjavik determined that sufficient vit D levels can ensure an ideal level of parathyroid hormone (PTH)- a measure of calcium metabolism- even when calcium intake is less than 800 mg/day. But they also found that consuming more than 1200 mg of calcium daily is not enough to ma intain ideal PTH if the vit D status is insufficeient.

In light of recent research, and predicting future health problems, some researchers have called for recommended intake of vit D to be raised but the adeguate amounts needed in the diet are still not known. And the new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last fall, underlines the need to do further work on the RDA for this vitamin."

OK- so we know that you needs lots of Vit D for good bones, but did you know that the only naturally occuring source of vit D is your skin's exposure to sunlight?

something broke

Something broke inside of me. I am not sure what it was. But now I am able to pet the dog, and scratch him all over. And I don't mind trying to clip his nails.


So I wonder why that is, when in the past the dog and I largly ignored each other. Maby its the fact that he has taken to lying at my feet, and he comes to me for protetcion from the kids.

Maby its because the cat we have don't spare him any love. (Gandolf and Sam were best friends and cuddle companions)

Maby its becasue we both end up cleaning up after the kids. I don't know he's a dog.

move over frued

I just had a dream;

Somehow Mom had roped me into playing a music concert with her. The concert was now, and I didn't even have my clarienet. But when she passed me the music is was for the trombone (which I have even less clue how to play), adn to top it off I didn't even have a trombone to play. and on the bottom of every piece of sheet music was the written instructions given to those who had met in practice sessions to prepare for the concert mostly included "practice daily", meaning that they have been practicing daily for a while.

i felt a little inadiquite for the task., and my part was to carry the melody.

gets cuter

Galen's tooth fairy story get cuter. Last night he came up to me at bed time and had me help him spell out his letter back to the tooth fairy. He even used the fancy curly letter style the tooth fairy used in her note. Then he stuck it under his pillow along with his tooth.

The tooth fairy was so charmed. She had to write a letter back and leave a whole dollar for his tooth. The tooth fairy invited Galen to become pen pals with her.

So he took his dollar to church with him today and heard a talk on how fast offerings feed the poor. So he grabbed a tithing envolope and put his whole dollar in there. I helped him fill out the form. He said he wanted his money to buy food for the the hungry. And then we gave it to the bishop.

What a sweetie, finally I am seeing some of what it means to become as little children.

Galen and the tooth fairy

Galen lost his first tooth yesterday. And he was so excited he said he was going to go to bed early so the tooth fairy could come. At 1am I finally tucked him in. At 2am I jumped out of bed and remembered I hadn't played tooth fairy.

So I ran downstairs and carefully stuck my hand under the kids' pillows. No tooth- actually no envolope that I gave Galen to put his tooth in.

So the tooth fairy wrote a note instead, telling Galen that she would come tonight and asking him to put the tooth in the envolpe and then under his pillow for her. THis time is listened. So if he goes to bed tonight the toothfairy will hopefully remember to come.