Good vs Bad

There are a lot of things that you just have to take the bad with the good and move forward!!
1. We lost a school bus driver last week , bummer and no school today.
2. We have 25 lambs on 16 ewes, great, but we lost a ewe and 3 lambs this weekend.
3. We are trying to eat healthy change behavior and have healthier kiddos, but you know they eat sugar and other crap at school and other places.
4. I have the day off of school, but I am going to take a kid to chiro, work on taxes and eat lunch at the school!
5. Every day is a new day and we will try harder or start every morning with a little more effort!!

Overall, the Bish's are pretty lucky! We have a wonderful family(extended and all). We are healthy enough to farm (or try). We both have descent jobs. We have two biological boys! The weather has been great this winter and we have a home to call ours!!!

Happy Tuesday!

Homeade Granola

Thank you Mrs. Beeler (check out blog the sensory smart mommy)! We have a new love for granola at our house and we eat it for breakfast, however the newest recipe I used peanut butter with it tonight! We will see what the bish boys think of it now! I officially have the books for the Feingold diet and we will be starting as soon as I understand part of it or think I do!!!

Homemade Granola Cereal

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Stir and heat together the following:

1 cup pure organic maple syrup

1 1/2 cup butter

1 tbsp. cinnamon

1/2 cup sugar free apple juice concentrate

1 tbsp. maple or vanilla flavoring

1 tsp. salt

In a large bowl mix dry ingredients:

12 cups old fashioned (rolled) oats

3 cups unsweetened coconut

1 cup ground flaxseed

3 cups chopped/ground pecans or almonds

Pour wet ingredients over the dry ingredients and mix well.

Bake on cookie sheets or a large pan for 20-30 minutes

stirring every 5 minutes to avoid burning edges.

Store in airtight container. Makes 24 cups.

You can substitute whatever you want to make up for the

19 cups dry matter. Try wheat germ, oat bran, sesame, sunflower or pumpkin seeds

or anything you think sounds good. Can also substitute peanut butter

for 1/2 of the butter for a delicious variation! After it is baked you can even throw in raisins or dates if that's your style!

I made the second recipe and substituted half the butter for natural peanut butter, took out the coconuts (neither Mike nor I care for them) and instead just used another 2 1/2 cups of oats. I also put my nuts in my hand chopper (from Wal-Mart) and chopped them finely so they blended in well. I love the way the recipe came out and am thinking in my mind how to make it into granola bars for snacks for the children (and me!). When shopping for this recipe I was very grateful for the bulk grocery stores we have in our area. They make shopping less expensive and more efficient and I was able to get the oats, flax, and almonds for much less than at Wal-Mart.

Update

Well I will update you on how the goals are going
1. Fruits and veggies are good + meat= good eaters and I am fortunate to have good eaters
2. Bedtime- for the most part we are doing well, they are both asleep in their beds now!!!!
3. I am only driving my co-worker/driving partner in crime crazy!! what else is new/???
4. Brandon still isn't smoking!! - only a few cigars- we will keep working on it
5. Budget is ok for now, a little hard to start mid month!!


February goals-
BE ON TIME TO WORK - Daily
Get up earlier
cut out all dyes and the 3 important ingredients. (my materials came... reading time!)
I hopefully will have lots of information by tomorrow at this time!!

Tayden and Tucker are doing okay!! They are tired, a little congested, and giggly tonight!! We will continue to work on being healthy people!!!

Happy Monday

It is on the way...

The Feingold program information is on the way!!!! Hopefully it is as great as I am expecting!!! I can't wait for it to get here so I can begin my learning and reading!!
1st book up is "Why Can't My Child Behave"!
We have 4 new lambs in the barn and it is COLD we are at a total of 16 lambs on 9 ewes. The newest ones are triplets and they are cute and black!!!
We are plugging along with our healthy eating. Budget is in full force as of bill paying time tonight and thank goodness tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!

Goals

So... As you know we are transforming into better eating, more exercise, and less poisonous food, dyes and other JUNK!! You are what you eat. So our goals for the month of January.
1. Eat fresh fruit, veggies, and lots of meat.
2. Limit the amount of processed food. Good bye cereal, boxed rice, and candy. (we sent the candy bag with dad in his work truck)
3. Bedtime 8:00- the children need to be in bed by 8 or 8:30 to give them adequate rest!
4. Remember our supplements
5. Continue to visit the chiropractor
6. Try not to drive everyone - CRAZY
7. The Bish's are setting budget - and this crazy mom isn't budging, nor will our family!!!!!!
8. Keep Brandon from smoking (he hasn't smoked since January 5th!!!! WHOOOO HOOOOO
9. Get taxes ready!
10. Count to 10 before I react to my personal children -- I am pretty patient at school!(i think)

Goals for February
1. Continue the eating habits
2. Eat more fish
3. I will keep thinking.- sure there are more!

What are your short term goals!!!???

Goals

Fruit

We are going to a Christmas this evening and taking finger foods and tacos for supper! Since we are trying to eat all fresh or mostly, I am taking a Fruit Rainbow!! It should be fun for the kids and was very easy to make! I hope it stays put in the 15 minute travel!!!
It could be a new adventure for us... I mean the only healthy!!!
If you are interested the website is feingold.org, it is amazing what might happen!