food, crochet, merriment
This is me walking right up to the hospital to have pre-surgery lab work done. I am so, so brave. Nobody is even with me to drag…ummm… I mean, to walk me in there.
I’m practicing my adult skills–that I must admit, don’t come out to play very often.
Breathe deep.
Breathe deep.
“This won’t hurt a bit. Just a little pinch.”
Fibber.
I have to lose 25 more pounds–says my new doctor–before we can do my knee surgery. Now, as you may know, I’m not a huge fan of taking the total medical approach over a much more natural one. But I haven’t been able to work in the yard of my new house, since I moved in–and I can’t have that. I realized that I’ll do whatever I need to do to be mobile again.
SO, I officially started Weight Watchers over the weekend–and get this–it’s actually fun! I didn’t expect that, at all
Anyone want to do it with me? Fruits, vegetables, eggs, chicken, beans and fish are ZERO points. That means that you don’t even need to count them!! Yeah, I’m having a blast.
And down 4 pounds from last week.
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Because the doTERRA Dream Convention is coming up THIS WEEK, it got me thinking back to the doTERRA Alive Convention that we attended a few years back.
It was wonderful to meet up with our sweet friends…
and sit for together for THREE whole days…
just soaking up all the incredible new oil information…
and the science behind it all.
We filled whole tablets taking notes, without missing a beat. WAAAAY too much info to just trust that we wouldn’t forget.
But this, this was easy to remember…
and all this happiness, it was easy too.
My mom had this little comic pinned to the kitchen bulletin board for most of my life. I think she used it to defend her love for that “new” product… Hamburger Helper.
I swear, we didn’t know it was a nuclear toxin.
It was just, you know, faster.
Yikes.
100 Happy Days #54
Ahhh…here we are again, at that lovely time of year. My absolute favorite, to be exact. Leaves changing and falling everywhere. The holidays approaching. That nippy cool snap in the air. But with all this loveliness also comes the musty furnace coming on at night and the cool air coming on in the day. It’s a balance from hour to hour to not roast or freeze. At our house, sometimes all these changes brings an occasional bout of scratchy throats for the big and little folks.
Must be time to whip up a batch of Honey Spice Throat Drops! Yummo.
Now, I need to tell you–if you venture out and make your own throat drops using this recipe, please, PLEASE understand how to test for the Hard Crack Stage.
This is the test:
The hard crack stage in candy making is the point at which heated sugar syrup reaches a temperature of 300 to 310 degrees F, leaving it with a sugar concentration of about 99% as almost all the water has boiled away. At this temperature, the molten sugar acts like liquid glass; when dropped into cold water, it immediately forms hard, brittle threads that snaps cleanly and break with a sharp crack rather than bending.
Because the weather can change the moisture in the air, from place to place–it’s important to do the test faithfully. It’s pretty aggravating to follow the directions and have the same temperature I use actually not set up, or worse, burn in your area. Do the test and your drops will work.
Mine were a tad more sticky this time because it was raining outside while I was making them. I should have cooked them a minute or two longer. But they still tasted great and did the job.
Yee haw. I love these things!
