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  1. Well, the new year is already flying by!  A belated Happy Valentines Day to you all!  My husband and I have a very important event coming up on Feb. 21st.  It's our 40th wedding anniversary!!  Wow - how did we get here so quickly?  We praise God for helping and blessing us so much.  Our family is expanding with five of our six children gone from home - four of them married with (or expecting) children.

  2. It's January again and many of us make those new year resolutions.  Sometimes, our goals are just too high - sometimes not high enough.  I would like to propose two simple ideas that will carry you throughout the whole year.  Life is made of choices - every day!  When faced with the many choices concerning us as consumers there are two important ideas that should influence our decision.

  3. The Christmas season can become way too busy and pressured producing too much stress.  Why do we let it happen?  Peer pressure….plain and simple.  We convince ourselves that we must do more and buy more, just as the world demands.

  4. I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!  May the Lord bless you as you travel and gather with loved ones.  I am so thankful for our country, our freedom, and all our military worldwide who protect those freedoms. May God help us to live each day for Him and His glory.  Bye for now.....ECB

  5. Halloween merchandise has been out for some time and soon Christmas items will take over the marketplace.  What happened to Thanksgiving?  Refreshingly, it's a holiday season that hard to commercialize.  As we gather to thank God for His blessings to our nation and our families, it's also an appropriate time to thank those who serve us on a daily basis.  Just think of all the people that regularly bless your life - grocery clerks, policemen, teachers, beauticians, pastors, delivery men, waiters, postmen, janitors, etc.
  6. While I love the natural lifestyle, there is one area I really struggle with: my gray hair!  My vanity encourages me to keep coloring it, but it is tiring and definitely not natural.  Every time I decide to let it go gray, I change my mind.  My husband would rather I keep it colored too. He told me I could quit when I turned 60 - coming in a couple of years!  Do any of you have some natural hair coloring products that work well?  Or I could just let nature take its course as my younger sister did who started turning gray in her late 20's!  She colored and colored for years but now just wears it short (modern cut) and natural gray.

  7. My memory was correct as to the concoction in the bottle at my Grandpa’s house.  It was cedar twigs, cedar berries, and kerosene that was used as a muscle rub and on cuts, scratches, etc.  My mother remembers her dad rubbing sore muscles with it, but not using it herself that much.

  8. As I thought about my memories in my last post, my mind drifted to some of the natural remedies we used when I was growing up.  Some were very simple, such as making a plaster of baking soda and water to put on a wasp sting or ant bite.  My husband’s family would cut an onion in half and apply it to the bite!  Both methods do work and we still use them today.

  9. Growing up in the country, I was introduced to a natural lifestyle from the beginning.  Outdoors, gardening, fishing, gathering eggs, swimming in the creek, and baking from scratch hold great memories for me.  My Dad even had milk goats for awhile, but I don't ever remember drinking any goatmilk!  I guess their kids got it all.  I never thought much (until my adult life) about chemicals in what we ate or used on our bodies.  Today I find myself reading labels on anything I don't make myself.
  10. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?  Although I have passed the half-century mark, I still don't consider myself "old".  However, "old dog" or not, I am learning new things all the time.  Take this blog for instance - I've never done it before!  My whole venture into internet marketing has been one learning experience after another, many times finding out what Not To Do!  I am not new to the Natural scene, though.

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