Preparing for rain...

We are getting ready to start a whole new school year, plant our fall garden and prepare our bodies for health. (Don't tell the kids!)

This year for school, we'll be using Considering God's Creation as our core curriculum. I cannot wait to get started and watch the children as they blossom. Since Legoboy has realized he can read, and that he actually enjoys it, life will be much more fun for him. (And me!) Our own Jane Austen (she has taken to writing constantly, even though she's 5) is writing, and writing and writing. Notes and such for any and everyone who passes by. Even some who we've not gotten to see in a while.

Our garden. Well, I really need to plan what we're planting, which way the rows will go, get the covering down (we suffer terrible weed issues) and get going! Legoboy really, really wants pumpkins by October again. I'm ready for the cooler weather veggies. My husband, my rock, took it upon himself earlier this month to bless me by clearing out all the old dead plants in our garden and prepare the soil for me. Just LOVE that man! So now it's up to me...

As for our bodies...you probably read my earlier post. I have more "fun" tests and a possible surgery coming up to help my body be better and healthier. The parts I have control over are what goes into my body and the rest of my families bodies. So, with that, comes learning all I can about real foods. I consider "real foods" to be what God made. Not man.
You know what I'm talking about. Ingredient lists that are almost as long as the label itself. Ingredients that are unpronounceable. I'll be going into more detail on those in later posts.
My new philosophy is, If my great-grandmother wouldn't know what it is, I'm not putting it in our bodies.
Sounds like a plan, eh? Slowly putting it into practice. Slowly. Don't want the natives to get too restless and revolt.

So, in a sense, my family (whether they realize it or not) is preparing for rain. What do I mean? Preparing for the blessings that we trust God will bestow upon us. So, we must first prepare our fields for the rain.

Are you prepared for rain?
Please stick around and learn along with me.

Not the greatest take off...

Well, I was starting this blog so I would have a place to talk about the great new things I would be learning about eating well. Wrong!

My first meeting with the good-cooking women is to be this coming friday, and what do I have to do instead?

Get a CT scan.

Yea me.

Further proof that I definitely need to be eating better, and even further proof that I need to feed my family better before the kids grow up and eat like I have.
So, what have I learned so far...

• No more cookies for breakfast
• I would probably be better off as a vegetarian again
• My family will not like it, so I'm going to have to get sneaky
• (OK, sneakier...)
• I have got to kick the sugar addiction....12-step program anyone?
• I need to have a bigger diet of prayer-this is probably the best thing I've learned so far

Looking forward to when I can really start posting about good food.