Jason's Recovery from Surgery

Jason injured his foot while he was deployed back in Nov of 2009, and just now had the shattered bones removed from his foot. Last Monday the Dr. removed 4 small bones from his foot, and he is now on bed rest for 24 days, and the outcome of this surgery is still unknown...we don't know if he'll have any balancing or walking issues, therefore we don't know if he'll be able to complete his time in the Army, only time will tell.

 Here's Jason all drugged up after his surgery, lol.

 This is a cold therapy machine and it helps to keep the swelling down in his foot, which also helps it heal more quickly

 This is the wrap that circulates the cold water around his foot.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend spending time with family and friends. ~Peace!

Current Happenings

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been really busy with my family, Jason will FINALLY have foot surgery this coming Monday, and the boys have been busy testing all week at school, so they're mentally drained by the time they get home, but they've been playing outside enjoying the wonderful warm weather we've been blessed with this past week. I've been working on my business...I've been receiving many shipments of supplies and ingredients for my natural care products. I made a wonderful dried herbal bath containing rose petals, chamomile flowers, jasmine flowers, passion flowers, lemongrass, and orange peel.

Above are Calendula flower petals

These are called Soap nuts, they're actually dried berries from India that have been used for centuries as a laundry detergent. They do work, but since they do not have an enzyme they do not remove stains, therefore any stain on your clothing would need to be pre-treated. I've seen many tutorials and videos of people claiming their soap nuts completely removed all the stains and soil from their dirty laundry...they're big fibbers.

 And this is the liquid soap nut cleaner I made by just boiling 6 cups of water and about 10 soap nuts. Since I have a high efficiency washing machine I find the liquid works the best, but for my boys clothing I use both the liquid and throw a small cotton bag containing 3 soap nut in with their clothes. The clothes come out smelling clean and feeling soft. 

I'm getting stocked up on essential oils, and one of the bottles had leaked, it was Litsea Cubeba and Jason said it smells like Tooty Fruity cereal, lol! And packaging supplies...I'm going to start making natural deodorant to sell on my website, and I was lucky to come across these recyclable deodorant containers -most are not made from a #1 or #2 plastic. 

This was all that was in this huge box from one of my suppliers...it really irked me...they seriously couldn't find a smaller box??? And were the toxic packaging peanuts really necessary? I will be reusing these to ship products to customers instead of trowing these into the trash...it's the green thing to do.

I hope all is going well for everyone and I hope everyone was blessed with at least one day of beautiful weather this weekend! Take care, Peace!