Thinking of Christmas

The other night I showed you a couple of ideas for Christmas shirts with the hot fix rhinestones. I also told you I would be adding more styles to choose from.....here they are from the traditional to the whimsical, and a few in-between. Shirts are $25 and sweatshirts are $30. I can ship anywhere, but the buyer is responsible for all shipping and handling. 

If there is something different that you are wanting, just let me know and I can usually get it....if not I am able to freehand most anything if you give me a good description. Keep in my mind that if I free hand your item, it will cost a little more.

If you see something you want, leave me a message in the comments with a way to contact you......

Back from the Doctor...update on Beth

Today we had a follow up appt. with the retina specialist for Beth. We came away with not so great news. It seems that the chemo has not helped any of the inflammation in her eyes and now the floaters have started making their own blood supply. The glaucoma is also not any better. So now she is at risk for retina detachment. He said we need to start a more aggressive medicine along with the chemo drug . So we are waiting on a call from her rheumatologist, bc everything has to go thru him medicine wise.....then after the new meds are started, we will give those a couple of months and if they don't work, we will be looking at surgery for her. Of course the surgery imposes risks as well....retina detachment and cataract formation......

On a positive note, she is excited bc her car arrives this afternoon......

In the meantime keep us all in your prayers

Resting Your Chicken

So today I am fixing roasted chicken and root veggies....in my recipe it says to "rest the chicken"....who knew this??? I had never heard this before, so I googled it. You rest the chicken bc it continues cooking after you remove it from the heat source. Also, lots of juices build up while cooking and if you cut into the chicken right away, you lose those juices, and the meat becomes dry. If you rest it, then the juices are reabsorbed into the meat, making it more moist when eating it. So we tried that tonight after removing the chicken from the oven....it worked, the pieces were moist and the whole dish was Delicious!!

So speaking of food....I went to doctor about a week ago. He wants to see if I can come off my blood pressure meds. I am good with that. But, in order to do that I need to lose some weight. I am already in a teakwondo class two times a week. He tells me that now I need to start eating "Unprocessed Food Plan"....I wasn't real sure what that meant, so again I turned to Google. All this simply means is that you eat food as close to their natural state as possible. So far this is not a hard thing to do and we are learning lots of new ways and dishes to cook. I have even lost a few pounds in the process.....but I have only been on the plan for a week and a half. I keep reminding myself of the scripture that says "with God, ALL things are possible"....I guess that could mean learning to eat a different way.

Its not too early to start thinking about Christmas gifts.....I have bling art t-shirts and I ship anywhere! Look for some styles to chose from to post this week!

I haven't posted as much on my blog lately as I would have liked. It seems we had a hard start to the year in our family,  but hopefully we are getting out feet back under us so to speak and continuing the journey.

Be Blessed