I have been interested in making a change and doing something different in our home. I have been feeling completely out of control and even a little more crazy then normal. A thought came to me. I have friends who have been telling me about Parenting with Love and Logic. I just thought is was a bunch of crap and didn't do anything about it. Well It was time for me to find a way to work with Kaleb or else he would die a very slow and painful death. I like him to much to let that happen. I headed to the Sandy Library and checked out the book. Wow the difference it has made in the way I treat and act around my kids is wonderful.

So I am setting some goals for myself this year and so far I am doing pretty good. I have been wanting to eat better and save some money at the same time. Russ and I are really bad at money and I didn't want to cook dinner for my kids or Russell. It is hard when they wont eat anything. I hate the fight that comes with dinner every night. So to let you know how bad we had been we would eat out at least 5 times a week and maybe more. It got worse after we sold the house and freed up even more money. I still don't know how much I actually spent a month but I do know that with 5 of us eating just at Wendy's we would spend about $25.00 every time. But most of the time we would eat at like Applebee's. So I was putting a lot of money into our failing economy.

Russ and I did a class like 3 years ago called Financial Peace University. We have never done anything with the information that we got from this class. Until this year we figured it was time to do something different. We started looking over the information again and have been doing what he tells us to do. It is the most in control of our money we have ever been. It has been a very good change of pace for us. I like being able to do most of our stuff with cash and not on our card. I now know where every penny is going.

With the year of changes and wanting to do better with money and eating better I have found some fun food blogs. I really like this one http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/. I am working on getting my family off of gluten everything she makes is gluten free. But it doesn't have to be. I have also had my family on Soy milk for years now because cow's milk is the cause of so many problems. I know I am on the kind of weird side of things. I also came across this South Beach Diet site and I have made some really fun and interesting items Kalyn's Kitchen. Now that I have some fun ideas for food I need to get off my bum. I am looking for some good ideas for working out and maybe even someone to do it with.

It has been a while. I have been having some big downs the last month or so. I think my body was telling me that I needed to stop and smell my very soft pillows. With all the crazy stuff going on with selling the house and Kaleb's broken elbow. I also did some Charity work with The Great Life Foundation called Living Christmas. It is like a sub for Santa. I got to purchase gifts for 7 different families (36 people). I then staffed a Part 1 training at The Great Life one of my favorite places to be but it takes up a lot of time to staff 4 full days. My point is I was very busy and so my body shut down and I ended up with walking pneumonia. So I have done nothing for the last month just letting my body recover. I have some fun pictures that some day I will add.