2 under 5 and a big kid

     Like I said before it has been a long day.  How long?  4am long. tantrums, near constant nursing, grocery run, baking and no nap long.
    How did I do it?  I honestly don't know. One cup of coffe this morning is hardly enough to do it. I got up to feed the baby and let my husband in with the groceries, (he closed and then went shopping-it's how he works) then just stayed up to get the oldest off to school and make her lunch. It just happened really.

    I am a nursing mommy, with a 1 month old and an almost 20 month old.  It's been a very interesting 2 yrs. Especially since we moved spring of last year and had a 4 month old then, only to have another baby this year..why aren't I more exhausted? That's tiring sounding in just words.

    But we're happy. The toddler is a handful with a little one, but has adjusted pretty well. She gets played with and cuddled when I'm not nursing. Her only chore is to go to the mailbox with me. When I can get her outside I do, sometimes nursing gets in the way of that.  It's funny though, she doesn't like it but she tries to live with it, albeit there's a lot of fits. Comes with the territory. 
    The baking today was for lactation cookies. Also the grocery run was for the ingredients I didn't have. I hope it works. #3 will be the only baby to be successfully nursed if it does.  but I have to remember to hydrate constantly and take my vitamins and eat. Being tired does that. I'm sure being tired isn't helping either.
     The near constant nursing is because #3 cluster feeds. That's when he does a lot of eating then sleeps for while. What they expect to happen is they eat on each side then have a break of 2-3 hours in between. That's how we started. But that's not how we ended up. But I can count on #2 to be my light. #2 played at nursing a baby doll today but from a bellybutton.  It was funny. My husband didn't want to comment on it.

    It's hard being a stay at home mom with one much older than the others. There is that demand for one-on-one time that the older one needs and his harder to give. But it's worth it. Patience is a must, even when you're tired. and the chores are always there. If you are just starting out parenting or have a few already, it's never boring. IT's always exhausting, but never boring. And if you're like me, don't worry. That time to yourself you had become accustomed to will comeback. Don't waist the time with them while they are small, because that won't come back.
 

2 Under 5 and big kid

 In the last 3 years life has gotten really interesting.  We started homeschooling our oldest who is now in public school. you will understand that in just a minute, and we have 2 under 2yrs old. 

  So I am turning into a mommy blogger. I don't know how often this will happen but I want to try. I will have guest bloggers if I can. Other mommies of course, ne of whom has a child with peanut and egg allergies.

This first post is informative of that. The next I will do tonight after all the kids are in bed and I can talk about today because it is going to be interesting.

If I have any friends left following me I will try to link this with my facebook page and hopefully get some guests on here.

Love to my friends and family. :)

Exodus: Gods and Kings

Not Well Done

         So I watched Exodus Gods and Kings.  It's is not biblically accurate, however it did have all the plagues in it, and the burning bush. One review I read said it had neither.

         Alas, the plagues were glossed over, Moses was arrogant, his brother Aarons importance was left out and instead of casting the voice of God they cast a little boy to be God.

          The plagues were also done completely wrong. Moses was done wrong.

         Moses had his brother Aaron speak for him. It is thought that he may have had a stutter or a weak voice because he was not a good public speaker. I suspect he may have had stage fright and was thus unable to speak publicly.
         In the movie, crocodiles attack people a run the Nile red with blood., followed by the frogs, flies, boils, locust, death of cattle, hail (it was supposed to be burning hail) 3 days of darkness, death of the first born, gnats. I'm sure these aren't in order.
         In my ignatious press bible it doesn't say anything about pharaohs magician making some of the plagues go away and being unable to do anything about others. The KJ version I had did. I'm inclined to disregaurd KJ bibles. Too much compromise in it's creation.
         I was sorely disappointed with them leaving Aaron out as Moses' profit. Aaron was the one instructed to strike the waters of the nile to turn them to blood. Aaron was the one that did the public speaking. God told Moses, Moses told Aaron, Aaron told pharaoh.
         I read that Joshua was left mostly out of it. This is biblically correct. There isn't mention of Joshua (who becomes a leader among the Hebrews and takes over for Moses) until after the book of Exodus. He leads the people into the land when Moses cannot.
          As for the Red Sea parting..here is a grey area. We don't know what it looked like. Artistic liscence is taken everytime because of that. But there is archeological evidence that it happened.


      Not a bad movie. But it could have been better. The only one that has come close to Cecil B Demille is Prince of Egypt.

My Apologies

          A few years ago I wrote a blogpost on how wrong people were about vaccines causing autism.
I must withdraw those statements and present my most hearfelt apologies to anyone I misled with my misinformation about the dangers of vaccines.

Here are the links for a couple videos and some other links for your own information. The first video has the vaccine news about 40 minutes into the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKEN6mmTxWg&list=UUYv-5LsUyc_P8KMo7YGPFPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgWkhWkd_vo


articles: tip from the video- we don't need a mums vaccine

http://www.infowars.com/bombshell-cdc-whistleblower-goes-further-mercury-causes-autism/

http://www.prisonplanet.com/?s=pertussis+vaccine

http://www.prisonplanet.com/?s=vaccine


 

WTF?!!!


http://eagnews.org/with-nations-school-lunches-fundamentally-transformed-michelle-o-eyes-talking-shopping-carts/

       I thought I would take a look at the news this morning. To my surprise this was in the headlines.
Why is this news? Why would the government even consider this? I know the "nanny state" got out of head way back and now needs b#$%^ slapped into reality, but this is realy too far.

       Mrs. Obama you need a hobby that involves hand eye coordination and not meddling in the rest of the nations lives. If you are that bored go out, get a regular job and get off our backs. The only person I ever saw meddle more than you has ostrisized her  children and her husband. Not to mention running off the only friend she had had for years.

     We don't need color coded talking shopping carts. we don't need people on food stamps to have "government ambassadors" teaching them how to shop. If you want that to happen why not encourage (note encourage not run) girls to take an actual course on how to care for a home. From cleaning and time organization to budget and nutrition. That will cover everything you are trying to do as well as help even the boys who may take the class learn a thing or two about nutrition.

      The stores also don't need better lighting. We can see just fine. You are really out of line here I mean come on! Talking shopping carts? Really? Life is not a reality show run by sitcoms. And as far as farmers markets adopting these changes, they can't get any healthier. They already sell fruits and vegetables and local honey and healthy local produce.

       Oh yes. Letting us think we are making a descision on our own while making have no other option but to do something, we know that's not reallyl leaving the descision up to us.

 

What?


             So, The other day I was watching a documentary on you tube about the "bad girls" of the Bible. Well I couldn't sit through it. It was so completely gender feminist and twisted about how great they were that I just couldn't watch it.

             I will say this:


             Yes Delilah was a whore. Money changed hands for her to seduce Samson and find out his secret. That makes her, by definition, a whore.
            Bathsheba did manipulate her way into the kings bed, and into him killing her husband. Yes she could have bathed somewhere else. She is also a bad person.
           
              Since I didn't finish it I don't know who they picked for the rest, but I am sure I could tell them off for them as well. I mean.. Really? Just because they slept around and manipulated people and politics why are they so great? They were, essentially, evil.

             Why not do an equality feminist documentary about the strong women of the Bible? Not a dramatized movie, a real documentary. Judith, Esther, Hannah, Ruth, Mary (duh). There are so many more examples of women who are worth emulating. I would rather see a documentary about them.

Sunday Dinner

This was too good to put in the recipe box.

Erin's Sunday Dinner

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef
1 lb pork stew meat
2 medium-large carrots
2 medium ears sweet corn
2 large cloves garlic
1/2 tube of cracker of choice
1 egg, any size
2 generous Tbl (tablespoons) Za'atar seasoning
1 box veggie broth
1 box beef or chicken broth (with another box in reserve)
tomato paste
1 cup chopped cabbage (any variety you like)
salt and pepper to taste
ground sage to taste

         

           First cut the chunks of stew meat into smaller chunks, season if you like and set aside.

 
   Meatballs:

              Put the ground beef in a bowl with the crackers (crushed or pulverized in food processor), egg (scramble the egg first), Za'atar, Sage, 1/2 a clove of garlic (grated or chopped), half of 1 onion (chopped finely or grated). Mix it all together well and form into balls about nickel sized.

        Soup:

                In a large soup pot, over medium/high heat, sauté the rest of the chopped onion and grated or chopped garlic in butter while you chop the carrots and set them aside. put in the broth, except the reserved box, and the tomato paste. Stir together well and get it to steam before you gently drop the meatballs in one at a time. Stir gently and let heat a couple minutes then add the stew meat, gently so you don't break the meatballs.
               Cut the corn from the cob and add to soup, stir gently. Chop potatoes to no bigger than a quarter and add to soup. Add chopped cabbage and stir. 

           Bring to a boil then turn down to medium heat or just under medium heat and taste broth before you add salt and pepper.

           Simmer until the veggies and the meat are both done.

    
   I had a broth base from green beans and ham, then from cabbage rolls with the tomato put in, then added some veggie broth to have enough liquid to cook the soup. All the veggies were from our garden or from a friends garden.

    We had fresh home-made bread to eat with this soup.

 

Absurd, Scary and Sad

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4872- students sign petition for 4th trimester abortions


         This man is seriously scary. There is no such thing as a "fourth trimester". Tri means 3. Not only does it mean 3 but a pregnancy trimester is one part of 3 measured lengths of time in a pregnancy that each have 3 months in them. The fact that this man told these women (that's right- women) who signed it that it was an abortion in the fourth trimester and deliberately told one it wouldn't hurt the baby because it was an abortion is infuriating! What's worse is that these were college age women who didn't look at him and say that once a baby is born the woman is no longer pregnant so that his petition was for murder of a person. Not just murder of a person, INFANTICIDE!!!!!  This man is petitioning murder of your child!


This man needs brought up on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. That's what he was doing. Misleading women (sadly without a thought in there heads to call their own) to commit murder. A petition doesn't make what he did legal.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/07/24/Military-Censors-Christian-Chaplain-Atheists-Call-for-Punishment


        So...these atheists are spouting hate speech against a chaplain (military Christian minister) for doing what he's supposed to do, and they want him to be the one punished? They should be the ones punished for what they have done. Not only did they infringe on his rights they impeded his job in the military. You know, that thing he gets paid for. Maybe they should just disband this MRFF organization for hate speech since they clearly don't know what it actually is.
        Once again the person at the head of the organization is using big buzz words to hide his hatred of something in political rhetoric. Seriously getting tired of this BS. He sounds like a gender feminist ranting about "patriarchy in the home" and "womens oppression under the male hierarchy in family life".  (Jeez i'm tired of hearing that)   So whatever professor brain washed him needs slapped and he needs to spend some time in that foxhole getting shot before he decides that chaplain is wrong. If he does that, he may just decide those "fundamentalist monsters" in the "reign of theocratic terror aren't spouting "spiritual rape" and aren't "enemies of the constitution" and are not commiting an act of "sedition and treason".  Those last quotes are taken from the 10th paragraph of the article in the link above. Don't believe me? Read it yourself.


http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/chris-christie-rand-paul-2016-election-94789.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/25/christie-goes-after-libertarians-hard/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/26/rand-paul-chris-christie-you-need-talk-more-real-a/


        Oh! At a forum in Aspen! How much did that cost the taxpayers? Sad to day my own state governor was there. Guess we paid a pretty penny for him, too.
        Well, I knew our officials were out of touch, but Mr.Christie is really out there. We are not about to forget 9/11. It's my generations Pearl Harbor. So i'd just like to say this about his statements at that forum: Get you head out of your a##!!!!  If it weren't for officials like you over the last 20 years we wouldn't be in the whole we are in. The whole reason the Libertarians are being elected is because they are actual statesmen and patriots for this country and that's what we need. Seriously, the only thing dangerous about them is that one could end up with your job and you don't like that. If you are that worried about it, Do what you were elected to do and stop kissing butts in Washington.


           I'm sorry, I have no more patients for BS right now. Maybe it's hormones, or maybe i'm just fed up with it all. I just couldn't end up talking about the news again today with my husband with out getting some of this off my chest at some point.


           I am a woman after all. What do I know?  :)