Can I Get Some of That Via IV?

I'm sitting here drinking hot Green Tea Triple Echinacea. I don't know if echinacea really does boost the immune system (I hope that the power of wishful thinking makes it work). If it does, I need to be hooked up to an IV with a constant flow. I am a mother. I cannot be sick. There is no one to replace me next week when daddy is away. I have to be alive and well for my children.

Last week, Lila came down with her first stomach bug. Let me tell you, picking pineapple chunks out of a child's hair when it didn't get there because she was just goofing off, is never ever fun.

I'm all about baby-wearing. The Ergo Baby Carrier has saved me from going insane more than once. However, I'm not all about wearing a sick child on my back when I don't know what could, at any minute, come out of rear or mouth of child.

On Friday night, just a few hours after I brought Lila to the doctors, she stopped crying and was done with it. I was so hoping that it skipped the rest of us. It appears that that particular nastiness may have. However, my dear Olivia woke up with a headache this morning. Four-year-olds do not get headaches. Thinking it was a ruse to avoid school, I gave her Tylenol and sent her on her way. Stupid, mean mommy. When I picked her up a couple of hours later, she was crying and complaining that her legs and head hurt and that she was cold.

Fever, body aches = flu???

Lila just picked her nose and ate it.

I'll be sitting in the corner, drinking echinacea tea. I will think happy, positive thoughts:

"The rest of us will not get sick, we will not get sick, we will not get sick...."

Banana Bread Recipe

Here's a yummy, low-fat, sugar free (honey instead of sugar) banana bread recipe I made today:

3 ripe bananas
2 eggs, beaten lightly
1 c. whole wheat pastry flour
1 c. unbleached all-purpose flour
3/4 c. honey
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda

Mash bananas, add eggs, add everything else & stir. Bake 1 hour (watch, depends on your stove) at 350 in loaf pan.

Variations: You can use two cups of whatever flour you have on hand. You can also add chopped nuts, pinch of cinnamon, etc.

How Did You Purge HFCS?

For all of you who have asked me how I got rid of HFCS , I'm just going to link you to Cathy over at A Life Less Sweet. Her whole blog is about avoiding the stuff. Her journey began with this post and reading through her blog, I noticed that she and her family embarked on the purge quite like we did. She also has her Ph.D in chemical engineering...

I especially liked today's post titled, So you're ready to giveup HFCS....

As you read through the posts, read comments and click on her links. She even has a post comparing/reviewing HFCS-free ketchup (yup, it's in there too).