This is for you Tonya and Justin!!!XXXXOOOO'S!!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Googolplex Sends Jonah to Cowtown
Googolplex is a local Math game show for students in 3rd-5th grades. It's on channel schoolhouse 20(cox), anyway ever since Jonah discovered it, he's been an addict. The last game of this year he won tickets to Cowtown, so his godfather, Bob took him today to enjoy his reward. Thanks Professor Einswine!!!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Snacks for Picky Eaters
My kids are the poster children for picky eaters, I found this list of healthy snacks for picky eaters from Tawra Kellam's "Living on a Dime" website. I just noticed cookies in the list, but if you make them at home and use whole wheat flour, wheatgerm, oatmeal or applesauce they actually can be healthy. Since summer started, all I hear all day long is "I'm hungry Mom!"
I thought this was a pretty good list.
Snack Ideas:
Have a snack sitting at the kitchen table for the kids when they come home from school. This way they won’t be grouchy in the afternoon from being hungry. This will also prevent them from digging though the kitchen cabinets looking for something themselves and messing up your neat, well-organized pantry. It is also the perfect time for you to sit and visit with them about their day at school.
To discourage bad snack habits, don’t buy unhealthy snacks or keep them in the house.
Present your snacks with a plate, place mat, napkin and maybe a flower from the garden. This way your snacks always look inviting.
Have jars sitting on the counter with sunflower seeds, raisins, granola, prunes or peanuts for the children. If they see healthy snacks they’re more likely to want them.
Try these snacks on your kids:
Fresh fruit*Hard-boiled eggs*Apples, cut into quarters, with core removed*Popcorn balls*Popcorn*Bagels*Muffins*Dried apples or bananas*Breadsticks*Oranges, peeled and quartered*Pumpkin bread*Banana bread*Zucchini bread*Bananas*Crackers and cheese*Frozen grapes*Veggies with ranch dressing*Celery sticks, spread with peanut butter*Cherry tomatoes*Cheese*Strawberry leather*Cookies*Puddings*Yogurt Popsicles*Homemade granola bars*Beef jerky*Pretzels*Tortillas with cream cheese*Peanut butter snacks*Yogurt with fruit or wheat germ added*Milk*Chocolate milk*Cocoa*Creamy Orange Shake*Milk shake*Fruit shakes*Apples, quartered and cored with 1 tsp. peanut butter on each quarter*Bananas sliced in half and spread with peanut butter*Bread or toast cut into quarters and spread with jelly, jam, peanut butter, spiced honey or honey butter*Crackers spread with peanut butter and jelly or jam*Place some peanut butter and honey on a pancake and roll up for a snack. This is great for leftover pancakes.
I thought this was a pretty good list.
Snack Ideas:
Have a snack sitting at the kitchen table for the kids when they come home from school. This way they won’t be grouchy in the afternoon from being hungry. This will also prevent them from digging though the kitchen cabinets looking for something themselves and messing up your neat, well-organized pantry. It is also the perfect time for you to sit and visit with them about their day at school.
To discourage bad snack habits, don’t buy unhealthy snacks or keep them in the house.
Present your snacks with a plate, place mat, napkin and maybe a flower from the garden. This way your snacks always look inviting.
Have jars sitting on the counter with sunflower seeds, raisins, granola, prunes or peanuts for the children. If they see healthy snacks they’re more likely to want them.
Try these snacks on your kids:
Fresh fruit*Hard-boiled eggs*Apples, cut into quarters, with core removed*Popcorn balls*Popcorn*Bagels*Muffins*Dried apples or bananas*Breadsticks*Oranges, peeled and quartered*Pumpkin bread*Banana bread*Zucchini bread*Bananas*Crackers and cheese*Frozen grapes*Veggies with ranch dressing*Celery sticks, spread with peanut butter*Cherry tomatoes*Cheese*Strawberry leather*Cookies*Puddings*Yogurt Popsicles*Homemade granola bars*Beef jerky*Pretzels*Tortillas with cream cheese*Peanut butter snacks*Yogurt with fruit or wheat germ added*Milk*Chocolate milk*Cocoa*Creamy Orange Shake*Milk shake*Fruit shakes*Apples, quartered and cored with 1 tsp. peanut butter on each quarter*Bananas sliced in half and spread with peanut butter*Bread or toast cut into quarters and spread with jelly, jam, peanut butter, spiced honey or honey butter*Crackers spread with peanut butter and jelly or jam*Place some peanut butter and honey on a pancake and roll up for a snack. This is great for leftover pancakes.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Vintage Paper Dolls to Print
http://fantasticfind.blogspot.com/2010/06/paper-dolls.html
Hannah's Favorite
Hannah's Favorite
This is just one example, there are dozens to choose from!!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Study Presented on Autism and Vaccines Using Cells From Babies From Abortion
Interesting read.....
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A controversial study into the possible link between the use of cells form babies victimized by abortions in vaccines and an increase in autism rates was presented late last month to the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia.
Dr. Theresa Deisher, the founder and lead scientist of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI), which conducted the study, presented the paper touching on the apparent link found in childhood immunizations with Autism and Austim Spectrum Disorder.
The study, which Deisher said was "met with both shock and gratitude," focused on "improper integration of the residual DNA as a possible contributor to autism, particularly in genetically susceptible infants."
"It is known from gene therapy studies that injected naked DNA can be transported to the brain, that improperly integrated therapeutic DNA has caused cancer in young children, and that shorter DNA fragments have a higher probability of entering the nucleus," Deisher said.
Deisher, along with physicist Marissa LaMadrid, PhD, authored the paper investigating whether improper insertion of DNA into the vaccine recipient cells can cause autism.
"Changepoint analysis of autism disorder demonstrates a temporal correlation with events associated with human DNA residuals in vaccines. The levels of residual DNA are well over FDA-recommended limits", stated Dr. Deisher.
While research has been conducted in the past on a possible link between thimerosal and autism, no one has ever looked at the contaminating DNA, something requested for years by Children of God for Life, a pro-life watchdog focused on the use of aborted fetal material in vaccines, medicines and other consumer products.
"Until the advent of AVM Biotechnology and their non-profit arm SCPI we had little hope that anyone would invest the time and money to do this study", stated Children of God for Life's founder, Debi Vinnedge.
A separate study published by the Environmental Protection Agency in February in the publication Environmental Science & Technology, confirms 1988 as a “change point” in the rise of Autism Disorder rate.
"Although the debate about the nature of increasing autism continues, the potential for this increase to be real and involve exogenous environmental stressors exists," the study says.
The 1988 date is significant because SCPI indicates that's when the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices added a second dose of the MMR vaccine, containing fetal cells from aborted babies, to its recommendations.
The study found two other change point dates: 1981, two years after MMRII was approved in the United States with fetal cells, and 1995, when SCPI says the chickenpox vaccine using aborted cells was approved.
Two pro-life advocates seized on that study and said it shows a correlation between the use of cells from babies in abortions in vaccines and an increase in autism rates.
But the study's author, Mike McDonald, and others, questioned that claim.
McDonald responded to an email from the Opposing Views web site, and said the claims "incorrectly represent, and far overreach, our study findings."
And Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Providence College, told LifeNews.com the study "suggests a link between exogenous environmental stressors and autism" but "does not say that this stressor was the vaccine."
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A controversial study into the possible link between the use of cells form babies victimized by abortions in vaccines and an increase in autism rates was presented late last month to the International Meeting for Autism Research in Philadelphia.
Dr. Theresa Deisher, the founder and lead scientist of the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute (SCPI), which conducted the study, presented the paper touching on the apparent link found in childhood immunizations with Autism and Austim Spectrum Disorder.
The study, which Deisher said was "met with both shock and gratitude," focused on "improper integration of the residual DNA as a possible contributor to autism, particularly in genetically susceptible infants."
"It is known from gene therapy studies that injected naked DNA can be transported to the brain, that improperly integrated therapeutic DNA has caused cancer in young children, and that shorter DNA fragments have a higher probability of entering the nucleus," Deisher said.
Deisher, along with physicist Marissa LaMadrid, PhD, authored the paper investigating whether improper insertion of DNA into the vaccine recipient cells can cause autism.
"Changepoint analysis of autism disorder demonstrates a temporal correlation with events associated with human DNA residuals in vaccines. The levels of residual DNA are well over FDA-recommended limits", stated Dr. Deisher.
While research has been conducted in the past on a possible link between thimerosal and autism, no one has ever looked at the contaminating DNA, something requested for years by Children of God for Life, a pro-life watchdog focused on the use of aborted fetal material in vaccines, medicines and other consumer products.
"Until the advent of AVM Biotechnology and their non-profit arm SCPI we had little hope that anyone would invest the time and money to do this study", stated Children of God for Life's founder, Debi Vinnedge.
A separate study published by the Environmental Protection Agency in February in the publication Environmental Science & Technology, confirms 1988 as a “change point” in the rise of Autism Disorder rate.
"Although the debate about the nature of increasing autism continues, the potential for this increase to be real and involve exogenous environmental stressors exists," the study says.
The 1988 date is significant because SCPI indicates that's when the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices added a second dose of the MMR vaccine, containing fetal cells from aborted babies, to its recommendations.
The study found two other change point dates: 1981, two years after MMRII was approved in the United States with fetal cells, and 1995, when SCPI says the chickenpox vaccine using aborted cells was approved.
Two pro-life advocates seized on that study and said it shows a correlation between the use of cells from babies in abortions in vaccines and an increase in autism rates.
But the study's author, Mike McDonald, and others, questioned that claim.
McDonald responded to an email from the Opposing Views web site, and said the claims "incorrectly represent, and far overreach, our study findings."
And Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, an Assistant Professor of Biology at Providence College, told LifeNews.com the study "suggests a link between exogenous environmental stressors and autism" but "does not say that this stressor was the vaccine."
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Sweet Spots
I asked the kids' what their favorite spot was at our new house. All the kids except Jonah(who remains uncommitted on a favorite)((I hope this isn't some strange foreshadowing of the future!!)) happily complied.
Noah likes the sofa in the family room...a great place to read!
Charlie's secret trashy hideaway.
Hannah's very own princess room.
Benny loves the window seat, a soft retreat.
Nellie loves to catch the drips from the hose.
Benny loves the window seat, a soft retreat.
Nellie loves to catch the drips from the hose.
Callie enjoys the cool concrete on the front porch.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Leaving SEAS...Invoking St. Joseph....Bittersweet
We participated in our "last Mass" this past Sunday and even though we will have some involvement still in the parish, it was still very sad . We were blessed to have 3 children baptized and 3 children receive their 1st Holy Communion at SEAS over the past 9 years, and those are memories that we will always hold dear. SEAS will always have a special place in our hearts. I have learned so much and have been so inspired by the wonderful friends we have made and will hopefully forever keep. Goodbye St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish, we will indeed miss you and all the beautiful people that we consider family! It is bittersweet because we will be rejoining our previous parish, St. Patrick's. I received almost all my sacraments there... 1st Reconciliation,1st Communion, Confirmation, and Matrimony. (Baptized in Michigan) 3 of our children were baptized there as well. So we are looking forward to coming home.....again. It's such a strange mixture of emotions...(sniff, sniff)
As of tonight, we officially signed with a Realtor to sell our home. We also have heard from many people that burying St. Joseph helped to sell their homes, so we buried St. Joseph tonight and prayed for his intercession in selling our home. St. Joseph, pray for us!!
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