tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77671283471640814312024-03-12T20:06:33.871-07:00My Grand Vegan AdventureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767128347164081431.post-60036700526101336272010-11-21T00:40:00.000-08:002010-11-21T00:40:15.676-08:00I've Moved!<div style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In case you're interested.. I've moved! I'm now posting <a href="http://makinglifeahappytime.wordpress.com/">here</a>, and will no longer be updating this site. </div><div style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Come visit me at my new home! :) </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767128347164081431.post-33152198423810304762010-10-31T16:53:00.000-07:002010-10-31T16:53:51.129-07:00Halloween Baby-Making!<div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy Halloween fellow bloggers!</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767128347164081431.post-24756850374450438502010-10-27T22:04:00.000-07:002010-10-27T22:04:29.054-07:00If We Learn Anything from Dogs....<div style="color: #a2c4c9;"></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><ul><li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Allow the experience of fresh air and wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Take Naps.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Stretch before rising. </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Run, romp and play daily!</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Thrive on attention. </span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Let people touch you.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Om warm days, lie on your back in the grass.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oh hot days, drink lots of water and lie in the shade.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When you're happy, dance around and wag our entire body!</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Never pretend to be something you're not.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If what you want is buried, dig until you find it.</span></i></li>
<li><i><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by and nuzzle them gently.</span></i></li>
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(And never pass up a chance to draw smileys on your fingers and put raspberry hats on them!<i> *wink*</i>) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I love this... and just wanted to post it to brighten your day!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767128347164081431.post-3899488324624730572010-10-25T21:02:00.000-07:002010-10-25T21:02:26.089-07:00Awesome Oats *gasp SO good* and Naughty Mommy<div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OMG, so I was reading this article on the benefits of coconut oil the other day and decided to make some small change in my diet. </div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE coconut oil, love it's wonderful many uses and benefits.. and have read a lot on the subject before. I use coconut religiously (and solely, I might add) as a facial moisturizer, makeup remover etc. and use it on all of the rest of me for a moisturizer too!</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I also cook with it, though not really that often - more for the fact that I can use EVOO or safflower to cook and can't use those on my face lol! So, because I literally can't afford to and AND wear coconut, I choose to wear it ;)</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">BUT. There are health benefits to consuming coconut oil that I really hadn't ever thought <i>too </i>much about or had considered applying. I have changed my mind. The first way I thought to have it was with my oats in the mornings. I almost 100% of the time have steel cut oats for breakfast, usually just thinning it down with a little water, and having cinnamon on... sometimes a ripe banana mashed in is really good - when I have bananas. I thought to myself, well, why not just 'mash' some coconut oil into the oats instead? Prolly won't affect the flavor <i>too much</i> and is an easy way to get in my oil. </div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Note: I've tried smoothie-ing my coconut oil and, uh, because it hardens at like, 70? degrees, it just solidified as soon as I threw it in the blender and then flew around my smoothie in chunks. Wasn't that great. lol)</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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SO, I added the oil - just a tsp to start, since I'd read if you don't consume c.oil regularly to start small. Had me some warmed up oats, with a bit of stevia and cinnamon... O.M.G. the best bowl of oats I EVER HAD. There actually <i>was </i>a faint coconut-y flavor AND it was a bit sweet too! I am in love with coconut oil-oats. I dont' ever want to eat them any other way! AND what a health benefit too! Check out the article by NaturalNews <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/027220_coconut_oil.html">here</a>! And there are a few other awesome articles too, on NN, as well as probabyl thousands on the web - look it up!<br />
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For reference, try these sites for some good (diverse!) info also!</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.coconut-connections.com/</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.organicfacts.net/organic-oils/organic-coconut-oil/health-benefits-of-coconut-oil.html</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.coconutdiet.com/</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/coconut_oil.html</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.all-about-virgin-coconut-oil.com/benefits.html</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/successstories.htm</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Just to list a few. Yes, I believe in coconut oil. ;)</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Y.U.M.M.Y!! If you've never used or tried coconut oil, oh you have got to get some!!! </div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OK, so for some cuteness..<br />
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</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cute #1 </div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OH and our cat, Thalia, made a surprise appearance today - hiding in the bed, under the covers! This is according to the Beebits, of course... He said she was there, a 'kitten' under the blanket.. I said "Your kitten?" He says "NO. Tha-ya kitten"...then he sticks his head under the blanket and calls "Tha-ya ... Are you...??" So dang cute! (P.s. Thalia's our cat, who - due to a no pet policy at our apt - lives with Meema and Beepa. Hm. I wonder if they know she's missing? Lol...)</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cute#2 </div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apparently I was naughty today? Lil man, grabbed an emery board (from where? lol), came and 'swatted' me with it... I said "Was Mommy naughty?" He walks away, turns around and says - with a <i>very</i> stern face - "Mommy naughty!" Then he comes and grabs me by the leg, and drags me to the cough saying "Two minutes, Mommy, two minutes..." That's for time-out (or 'quiet time' in our house). Well. I don't even know what I did! Lol.. I did ask him to sit <i>with me</i> though, and he did :)</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cute#3</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Later we sat on the kitchen floor banging awy on some metal bowls and tupperware with bamboo straws, listening to how the different bowls made different sound when we drum on them :) </div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Such a Happy Mommy, what a smart sweet cute lil man! And he's mine! Yay!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767128347164081431.post-77673244768443741292010-09-30T22:02:00.000-07:002010-09-30T22:04:17.398-07:00Junior-ism's: Funny things he says and does...<div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Short but sweet updates on my lil man, vegan-related or otherwise! You might laugh, be warned ;)</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">***********</div><div style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Him: "Fruit bar?"</span></div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Me: "We don't have any honey, mommy's sorry"</div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Him: "Fruit bar?"</span></div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Me: "No, sweetie, you can't have one, we don't have any, I'm sorry." </div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Him: "Buy some?"</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">-</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*<i>He gets a wooden spoon, pats me on the hip with it (swat) and grabs me by the leg, drags me toward the living room</i>*.</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">He says: "Two Minutes mommy."</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(D'oh! Two minutes is how long he has time-outs for LOL!)</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">-</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*<i>I hear a suspicious 'liquid noise" and turn to see what he's doing.</i>* </div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jr stands at his little kitchen, peeing into one of his little 'kitchen' pots. He's so proud of himself for not peeing on the floor (couldn't make it to the toilet? No idea.)</div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Then I notice it's not a 'pan' he's peeing into. It's a <i>colander</i>. Pee all over the floor anyway! (I had to tell him I was proud of him for being resourceful and to please use the toilet next time lol!)</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">-</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My little 'tech-baby':</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jr: "Meema?"</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Me: "You want to call grandma?"</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jr: "Yes."</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Me: "Okay, we'll call grandma..."</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Jr: "Bluetooth?"</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>Heheh</i></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>- </i></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">While having a conversation with lil man one morning, he suddenly stops me with a loud whisper <i>"SHhhhhhhh! People sleepin!" </i>D'oh! Each time I tried to ask about who these sleeping people were I got another <i>"SHHH!" </i>I'm sorry, apparently I was being loud enough to wake the neighbors? <i>Ack!</i></div><div style="color: #f6b26b;"><i>-</i></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i></i></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I saw him one day looking at (sort of at, anyway) a blank wall and dangling a little necklace he has toward<i> ..(nothing?) </i>and saying "Get it... get it kitty... kitty... get it get it..." I laughed and asked him if he had a kitty? He said "Yes." So I said, "What color is your kitty?" He says, "Orange." Well, don't tell the landlord, we're not supposed to have cats!</div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>-</i></div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">I am talking to him one day, as he sat at his tray table eating lunch.. I was in the kitchen.. and he suddenly stops, looks to his right an points and says "</span><i style="color: #d0e0e3;">Stop it."</i><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"> Then launched right back into his 'talk' with me... 'Someone/something' must have been bothering him? LOL! </span> </div><div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">AND... it was so yummy I had to share! Yah so the picture looks like every <i>other</i> green smoothie, lol, but the <i>ingredients</i> may be different? ;) I hope you try this cause it's amazing! Little man even had some and he loved it! (Of course, he loves all green smoothies so that in itself isn't necessarily a 'recommendation' lol)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My smoothie:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-yYUS6-BvNo/TGVwQRnU31I/AAAAAAAABFw/XWFhyJ72f-o/s1600/8.13.10+spinach_melon_banana+smoothie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-yYUS6-BvNo/TGVwQRnU31I/AAAAAAAABFw/XWFhyJ72f-o/s400/8.13.10+spinach_melon_banana+smoothie.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="color: #f3f3f3;">1 1/2c water</div></div><div style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">60 grams organic baby spinach</div><div style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">500 grams watermelon</div><div style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">200 grams cantaloupe (mine was in cubes, frozen)</div><div style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">96 grams frozen banana (shootin for around 100 grams)</div><div style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2 scoops stevia (maybe 1/8 tsp, it's a <i>tiny</i> lil scoop!)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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Put the water, spinach and stevia in the blender and blend until the spinach is liquified. <br />
(If you're new to green smoothie-ing, note: if you don't do the spinach first, it won't blend up entirely - or possibly at all! - and you'll have spinach bits,. which could be unappetizing in a smoothie....)</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">P.s. My smoothie was quite sweet, so if you prefer it less sweet, or more the natural fruit sweetness, you may consider using only 1 scoop of stevia or none at all. I didn't factor in how (<i>awesome</i>!) my watermelon was, and I think 1 scoop of stevia would have been <i>plenty</i> even for me, who likes the sweet!! Next time I'd definitely start with one and go from there. Also, if your fruit isn't frozen, I think it'd still be super, it'd just be different :) I don't know why, in my mind, 'smoothies' are cold, but obviously everyone may not agree lol<br />
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P.s.s. OH yeah, almost forgot, I have an every day run-of-the-mill blender... hence the ordered blending. If I don't do it that way, it doesn't work... but IF you have a BlendTec or VitaMix, you could just dump everything in and blend and have the same result. :) Oh, a girl can dream :) lol... </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hope to see you again soon!! I have to do some recipe updates and some lil man picture updates too!! I owe you guys, I know! ;) Have a fabulous day!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7767128347164081431.post-49970492870210702992010-05-15T16:13:00.000-07:002010-05-15T19:45:12.733-07:00And... Welcome back! Sort of ;)<div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Welcome to my adventure! Some of you may find that you recognize us, as I've blogged before... but this is a </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">brand new</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> effort - with a new blog, new title and new (I hope? lol) style too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Let me introduce myself - I'm a Christ-follower, single mommy & vegan. In pretty much that order too lol... My DS is almost 2, and a vegan also (for my part). I'm hopeful that his dad adheres to the wonderful animal free lifestyle with him too but that's beyond my control really isn't it? I just pray about it and think the best ;) SO, for all intents and purposes, lil man is a vegan too and that's how I introduce him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">To sum me up for informational purposes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I'm on a journey... to find more of God in this world and in my life, to seek Him out in everyday things, draw closer to Him and lean on Him for my (our) needs first. That's my #1 priority... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">My second journey is in motherhood. All I ever wanted to be in life was a mommy... I got my wish almost 2 years ago (almost 3 including prego-time!) and couldn't be happier with my lil man. I want at least 3 more kids and look forward to the day when that's a reality. On a dady-to-day basis though, mothering </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">is</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> an adventure... and as the "terrible two's" comes upon us, I am even more joyful for every little victory at home - every smile - every new thing learned and every happy memory! It's a </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">amazing</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> ride and I don't regret one minute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Lastly - because it's really the most recent - I'm on a journey as a vegan. I've been 'vegetarian' for a few years, but really went totally vegan in January 2010. So far it's been a pretty smooth transition... my biggest conflict (for lack of a better word) was actually just last week with a HOT pair of shoes that turned out to be leather... I walked around in them .. </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">loved</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> them and then put them back on the shelf. I found a not </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">as</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> cute but still very cute pair that were not leather and walked proudly out of the store feeling </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">awesome </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">about my steadfastnest. Lol... not to too t my own horn ya know, I'm just sharing some of the ups and downs ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I'm going to share this bit from another post I did in my old blog, because I want </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;">everyone</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> to be able to read/see it... it sums up my thoughts and new beliefs as a vegan perfectly. It's from an article called</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; font-style: italic;"> <a href="http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2008nl/dec/fat.htm" style="font-weight: bold;">The Fat Vegan</a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> by Dr. McDougall, and once I read it I was completely reaffirmed in my decision. I hope it speaks to you also!</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet ms; margin: 10px 5px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Vegans Are Ripe For Change</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet ms; margin: 10px 5px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being vegan says to me <b><i> this is a person with outstanding character</i></b>. Vegans are self-sacrificing and committed to making a difference. When everyone else is certain that it is our God-given right to mistreat and kill cows, pigs, chickens, and fishes in order to be properly nourished; a vegan would rather risk protein and calcium deficiency than to harm these beautiful creatures. Of course, this deep sacrifice ends with the discovery that plants provide all needed proteins, amino acids, essential fats, vitamins, and minerals (including calcium) without the inherent risks of flesh and dairy. Vegans are self-confident. They remain steadfast even when mom, dad, dietitian, and doctor are visibly angered by their religion of “veganism.” Vegans are industrious. To avoid eating animals in a world where beef, chicken, and cheese are mixed in with everything in the market and on the menu is a daily struggle. Reading labels, turning down invitations to dinner, and occasionally, going hungry, require more effort than the average person is willing to muster. </span></div><div style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Obviously vegans are exceptional people. With this one simple shift to a starch-based diet the word “vegan” will become synonymous with terms like healthy, trim, active, young, strong, and energetic, and finally the most important adjective, earth-changing. <br />
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I hope you'll come back again for another visit sometime - and if you have any ideas for a post or have questions, want to hear something in particular... just let me know! :) Thanks for visiting!<br />
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