Yeah, you could say I'm outspoken....

Just because I share my research & experience based opinions with you doesn't mean I expect you to follow through with what I'd do in your situation . . . but I do hope that more folks out there would start making informed decisions about their birth and the caring of their children. I mean, really, how many moms out there can tell you what their kids are even vaccinated against? much less, what's in those vaccines?

I hear so many people saying things like.... "well my doctor said....." - I cringe over how much trust people put in their doctors to give them all the information needed to make a decision or to even make the decision for them . . . like . . . inducing at 39 weeks. Or... .how about the scare tactics of . . . going past your due date puts your baby at risk?! At risk of what? Proper brain & lung development?

So I'm a lil heated tonight.... after congregating with some of my fellow Doulas in the area, boy do we have fun; Between sharing birth stories about moms worrying themselves sick over the possibilty of pooping themselves in front of someone during labor and then when it really happens not giving a hoot who saw it... or how about..practically moaning our client's baby out ourselves - We are a riot. THANK YOU M.H. for sharing such awesome birth stories! Laughing with friends is sooooooo wonderful!

Now, if only I hadn't had to come home to an empty house . . . It's just me and my Brooke Lou til Satuday. Reese travelled back to the hometown with her Daddy to catch up on some corn planting after getting rained out two weekends in a row. Brooke and I are venturing over Saturday to pitch in (if you consider bringing ice cold Mtn. Dews down to the field for the boys "pitching in".). We'd head over tomorrow if I didn't have 3 weeks worth of recycling spilling out of the bins in the kitchen, but... its all saved... oh... 3 bags of trash from going in the landfill?! Getting crunchier by the day . . .

Adding another book to my wish list.... I've heard nothing but good things so far from friends . . . I don't think we quite need it, but it couldn't hurt, right? Or maybe I need the Toddler version? Yeah, that could be it.... I really do think Brooke sleeps better than Reese. Of course, last night we ended up with both of em in bed with us... crammed between us in our queen size...

I'm really looking forward to getting some sewing done tomorrow.... I really need to get things going again on the shop, I seem to go in spurts there, too. Things just come up, get me off schedule, and it's really difficult to get back on with 2 lil ones and all our travelling. I also need to get some reading and charts and things done for some clients..... There's always plenty of questions that can be asked and lots to learn when trying to answer them.

Well, it's been a bit since I last posted.... I'm struggling to maintain this blog thing, I go in spurts...and I'm pretty randon, still haven't decided what direction I wanna go in with this. much like I do in the rest of my life.... I can clean half the house top to bottom in one day and then another day, barely feel like walking through half of it... bah-humbug.....I've gotta get my exercise on.... 30 day shred, I want you back! lol. 30 extra pounds, I want you gone!

I have some terrible eating habits... love soda, chocolate, vanilla iced zingers, pop-tarts, sugary cereals, etc... but I'm trying to slowly better them, I know if I go too hard to fast at trying to change my eating habits, I'll fail and fall right back to all of them. I want to give up pop... but... before I even cut back, I've switched to caffeine free.... once I get thru my week without caffeinated soda... I will cut back to one a day..... one every other day..... etc... hopefully my plan will work, pop isn't cheap ya know. I think I spend 10% of our grocery budget on it. Sick.

I'm not just trying to eat healthier in the sense of low fat, etc., but in the sense of natural and organic. I want to avoid processed foods, etc. I bought some bread last week, whole grain - the heaviest bread on the shelf, and really enjoyed it, much better than that fake white bread. Of course, when I went to the store yesterday to buy more, I couldn't remember what brand I had bought before.... after reading ingredient labels, I realized what I bought last week had high fructose corn syrup in it!? holy crap. and oats, which Reese is allergic to. So... this week I bought Pepperidge (sp?) Farms Wheat Whole Grain bread, still just as tasty, but without the oats and without the high fructose corn syrup.

Crap. Just realized I forgot to get stuff to make salsa at the store. :( I'm craving it soooooo bad.

Anyhoo.... our a/c has been working on and off, we're assuming it's low on refrigerant.... so a guy is suppose to come check it out this afternoon.... My goals for the day now...... clean the living room enough that he has a clean path from the front door to the thermostat. LOL.  AND TAKE A NAP!

I am exhausted. The girls and I appear to be walking boogers. Peak allergy season for us. :(