Happy New Year!

This is what New Year's Eve Day looks like at our house this year...  Jim and Sabrina hung out with us for most of the morning (Jim put the new toilet seat on and did a deep clean in the bathroom - he should come home more often!  LOL)  Sabrina and I did a mini-marathon or HoeDown Showdown.  She doubled her usuals and did FOUR sets.  I did a set of 10.  And am wearing my "I did it" HoeDown Showdown t-shirt I earned at Safety Harbor last year to celebrate.  

Rod went out and mowed the little pasture and now I think he's out mowing the front yard/pasture.

Pretty good pictures - taken with my iPad Touch.....  Not bad!

I'm researching alkalinity in the body.  

The fun just never ends around here!  I'm off to WalMart (with the rest of the hordes) to pick up the things I forgot last night so we can stay in and have some fun stuff to nibble on while watching some of the dvds Santa brought us.  Jim and Sabrina are going to a big party... Kyle might head over there too.  So it will probably just be us old people here...  LOL  That's ok, more fun stuff to munch on!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

My Little Patient

Tuesday morning I took Rod to the doctor to get a couple of skin cancers on his arm taken off.  Usually I stay out in the waiting room (cuz I'm a pansy, that's why!) but this time I got brave and came in.  (I brought my Kindle and my new iPod Touch just in case...) 

My brave boy did well.  Our doctor (he's a Nurse Practitioner) is such a great guy.  VERY personable and encouraging.  We've seen him now for about three years and have been very pleased.  He has taken several skin cancers and fatty tumors off Rod over the years and really cares about limiting the scarring etc. 

Anyhow - some before and afters.....  (no blood!)

Yes, after surgery I took my darling to Steak and Shake (and then to the mall to get a replacement part for his RC helicopter...) 

All pictures taken using my NEW iPOD TOUCH.  Thanks again Mom and Dad! 

There will be MORE blog posts in 2012 since I now have a way to take pictures and upload them right to my computer WAY easier than with my camera!  Woot!

Nearly Ready

We are nearly ready for Christmas!  Mostly we are just waiting for our elves to get here...

Tonight they are in Cincinnati, waiting to pick up a USPS load to bring south to Florida.  (several stops along the way...  you know, Santa never just comes straight somewhere... gotta stop and make lots of drops...)

Here's our tree!

Can't wait for our guys to get home!

Cookies!

It's so fun having a girl in the house!  The boys were never really into baking cookies and all the other little Christmas things....

When I got home from work today - this is what I found in the kitchen...

She was busy making sugar cookies and cutting them in cute Christmas shapes.

Then they decorated them!  (Kyle helped for a little with that one...  well, he decorated, and then he ate... LOL)

Aren't they cute???  

Evidence!  Flour!  She was working hard!

Oh, and here's the status of the Advent Calendar.......

Oh!  And we got a great little box full of Christmas presents today!  They are under the tree!

Thanks!!!  

(Sabrina was BEYOND excited to see one for her!!!  We have the BEST family!)

LET IT SNOW?

Maybe it was all the talk about snow and ice with Rod over the last few days.

Maybe it was the low grey clouds.

Maybe it was the Christmas music on the radio.  (Yea for 35 Days of Christmas!)

Maybe it was the fine mist of rain that looked for all the world like sleet.

I don't know.

But I DO know that driving home yesterday, those 12 lanes of grey highway, the fine mist on the windshield, the grey clouds, the Christmas music on the radio - all combined to make it possible for me to believe it was actually SNOWING!

If you ignored the palm trees and 80+ degrees out there in South Florida.

Day Two

SCORE!

1 T of "dirt" in my Calgary '88 Olympics glass.  Swirl with a mini wisk and slam it back.  AWESOME!  No dirt taste at all!  Yipppppeeeeeeee!

Update:

The guys are in Montana - just driving through Butte (according to Google Latitude) - but it's only 7:00 am. Rod is driving, but his headset broke, so we can't talk on the phone.  (Supposed to always use a hand-free device - makes sense!  My headset broke too - sent it in to the company for a free replacement - and I'm going NUTS without it!) 

They are FREEZING out there.  9 degrees.  Meanwhile, we here in Paradise (aka Florida) have gotten confused again.  Although the calendar says November, I opened the door to JULY this morning.  75 and humid.  (Yah, I was LOVING it!)  Kyle was asking to turn on the a/c last night.  LOL  (And the answer was NO!  It's November!)

EXPERIMENT

We are trying an experiment here at the Corey Connection.

I've been reading and learning about Diatomaceous Earth.  (One of these days I might even learn how to spell it!)  There are lots of websites that teach about it.  But I heard about it from the fascinating women from the T-Tapp forums.  In fact here's what Teresa said when she discovered we were talking about it...

FYI, I just discovered DE last month and I have to be honest, it has done wonders for my skin....especially for accelerated healing of an eczema outbreak on my hands due to stress. I learned about DE while in California from T-Tapp Trainer Jane Heinrich and I am forever grateful. Since she sells it, I told her she should call it "Diva Dirt" because it works so well and it sounds more enticing to take (ha)  ...I put one teaspoon in 4 oz of water, stir and swallow quick before it settles. I also soaked my hands in it during outbreak when skin was "oozing". Within a week there was a remarkable difference! Now I'm taking it twice a week for "maintenance".

Seems that it has some amazing properties and can sweep the heavy metals from your body - cleaning you of any parasites you might have in the meantime.  Lowering blood pressure.  Cleaning the toxins out of your body (and helping clear up skin and make it softer).  Strengthening nails and helping hair to grow stronger and faster.  Besides all the traditional uses - keeping ants, spiders and other creepy crawlies out of your house and gardens. 

So... 

I bought some.

It came yesterday, (thankfully) in 2 five pound bags.  (One for the house and one for the barn.) 

We gave it our first try this morning.  The dogs got some with their breakfast.  So did the horses.  And so did all the people!  Sabrina and I had some in our morning smoothie - Kyle doesn't do smoothies (and was still in bed) so he just had his in some water.

The animals seemed fine with it - everybody cleaned their bowl.

The people...  well, it was a little gritty.  Kyle said it was "gross".  But if it helps his joints - he's decided it's worth it to at least give it a couple of weeks. 

We are going to try it in a shot of orange juice tomorrow morning. 

Some of the ladies on the forum said they didn't find it gritty at all - maybe there are different "grinds"?  A couple of the other ladies bought the same brand I did and should be getting it today or tomorrow, so we'll compare notes and see what they think.  There is another brand I can buy that seems less sand-like.  (And it's really NOT like sand, just a little tiny bit gritty...) 

Anyhow - stay tuned.  I'm interested to see what this brings!  It would be great if it could help Jim's back pain.  (Lots of testimonials of people whose lower back pain improved greatly!)  And Sabrina's insomnia.  And Kyle's creaky joints and popping ankles.  And my... well, I'm already perfect - so I'm just hoping for gorgeous nails.  LOL  (Ok, not really!)