tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14002427183321248492024-09-22T15:54:41.507-07:00Random thoughts from a mom who tries to do too much at once!Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-58464095391866047972014-01-07T22:34:00.003-08:002014-01-07T22:34:41.453-08:00

After making the hard decision to stop into, I reached out to some of my vegan and similar friends who work in health--primarily using food to heal the body. I am somewhat in information overload. My kids were truly starving trying to manage on intro. While I realize healing will take time, sticking with such a restrictive diet just seemed like torture. Part of the issue is that we are also

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-58143839985410753992014-01-05T12:45:00.002-08:002014-01-05T12:45:54.726-08:00

If you were betting for or against us making through intro...the results are in! We are done. Not because we are done healing either. We are just flat out starving. GAPS die hards can call it die off and detox all they want. The way I felt last night was a step away from death. My kids are eating straight intro and I am supplementing full GAPs foods when they aren't looking. Yet, I was shaking,

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-48060010561915316772014-01-03T14:39:00.002-08:002014-01-03T14:39:44.414-08:00

Pretty much the same ole thing around here. Add hungry grumpy children. DD5 still has her dark eye circles...but now I am reading how this is also a side effect of detox. She did develop tiny blood spots on top of the eye circles 3 nights ago. This was also said to be detox. We are all peeing a ton- and it is an urgent type of pee. This has been said to be detox too. Is it? I have no clue. I'm

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-87089674497908081842013-12-31T19:38:00.001-08:002013-12-31T19:38:34.290-08:00

We ate basically the same today as yesterday except DD5 asked for a glass of kraut juice instead of a spoonful. DH got the opportunity to help feed them. He was quite annoyed. The minute the kitchen was done with the meal the children wanted more. They ate a full pound of ground beef between the two of them. It was boiled in broth. DD5 is mostly eating squash fries. Broth isn't going any better

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-39598021275498430912013-12-30T19:33:00.000-08:002013-12-30T19:33:34.376-08:00

While handling vomiting kids the other night I read a blog post that called GAPS a kitty that bites....and I would say that is pretty true and funny. However, I don't think anyone NOT on GAPS Intro would find it funny enough to laugh for a solid minute. Delirious? Quite possibly. Something else no one not on GAPS Intro will not find funny- I have coined my latest meal "Soup Suicides". Remember

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-24674989959586774472013-12-30T12:03:00.001-08:002013-12-30T12:03:19.251-08:00

So I went to bed feeling like Day 1 went...fairly well. I was awakened by the sounnd of liquid hitting the hardwood floor from the top of DD5's loft bed. I instantly knew it was vomit. Thankfully it was just clear liquid with no odor- a type of vomit I have yet to ever encounter. After cleaning her up and putting her in DD3's bed (because DD3 had already woken a few times and come to my bed)I

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-81306363386815005492013-12-28T18:09:00.001-08:002013-12-28T18:09:18.368-08:00

Ahhh it is mid afternoon and I'm hiding in my office. Anyone who knows me would agree that I am not one to use TV as a distractor for my kids. I'd rather pull my own hair out for hours than actually give in and turn on a film. I know...it is kinda ridiculous but that's just the way I am. My kids turn into mush heads after even 15 minutes...but anyway. DD3 is watching The Sound of Music. DD5 is

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-36057915423444627652013-12-27T21:33:00.000-08:002013-12-27T21:33:02.276-08:00

Today was supposed to be Day 1 on Intro for us. I opted to push it out a day due to having a midwife appointment that I had to take both children to... hungry kids in a small room for an hour would have been a disaster! Because I am absolutely anxious to get started...we began with dinner. The recipe: Shredded chicken from whole chicken used to make broth 2-4 cups of bone broth 2 delicata

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-59914636506789340602013-12-23T13:55:00.002-08:002013-12-27T21:12:37.835-08:00

So far I have read the book once and am working on it again. I purchased this 30 day guide which, to be honest, makes the first few weeks seem totally feasible. Now the length of each phase in this 30 day guide is short- like 5 days. So that may not work for everyone but my plan is to have the food for the 30 days prepared or at least on my grocery list for the future so we are ready to move

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I'm not a popular blogger and have no aspirations of being one. I'm simply cataloging our journey in case it might be helpful to another family...and to keep a "journal" of sorts. The short answer to "Why are you doing GAPS?" is: because I want to heal my child's gut so she can choose all or most all of the foods on earth and eat them without having negative consequences. She recently had a

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-13367820666325306742013-08-20T15:23:00.002-07:002013-08-20T15:23:43.926-07:00

After a few months of CrossFit at Tacoma Strength I decided to get back in touch with my stylist, Emily at Tog+Porter. I really enjoyed my monthly boxes but our cross country travels left us without a solid address up until recently...and we are moving yet again! Oy! If you have no idea what I am talking about- you can read my original write-up on Tog+Porter here. Anyway- CrossFit has

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-44905195580952644462013-06-08T23:31:00.000-07:002013-06-08T23:31:25.225-07:00

Why did I continue trying different meal planning services after falling in love with TheFresh20? Just to see if something better exists...and because I was intrigued by a few friends who "swear" by the Weston A. Price based "traditional" style of eating. Trying to figure out that "diet" was extremely overwhelming. I'm not really one to do things half-way. I did buy the book Nourishing Traditions

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-65603612096658331252013-06-07T21:50:00.002-07:002013-06-07T21:50:44.359-07:00

How did I ever survive without a meal planning service before? It has been over 3 years now that I have been trying various meal planning services across the web. Even the ones that have room for improvement make my life easier than "winging it" or making up my own meal plan. For the sake of brevity I will break the reviews up into multiple posts (yep, I have tried *that* many plans!).  My

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-64671037051894465612013-03-14T21:58:00.000-07:002013-03-14T22:00:10.476-07:00

Holy ravioli- living in a hotel has made me crazy...and both my children too! Last night I started labeling the polka dots on the ugly couch as things we have done since leaving our house Jan 30...technically we started sleeping in a strange bed on Jan 25. Here's my list: Jan 25-Jan 29 we slept at a friend's house while emptying out our house and attempting to maintain our normal routine of

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-23265633471813430012013-02-15T15:47:00.003-08:002013-02-15T15:47:49.878-08:00

We have been at Squaw Valley, Lake Tahoe since Feb 13- so 3 days so far. We check out tomorrow and start our short 10 hour drive to Portland. I really do mean short because by comparison- 10 hours to get to Portland is short! Ainsley's teething madness hit its peak once we got here. She's thrown herself down face first into just about every hard surface around--ice, snow, mud, sand, pavers,

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-33822708073020104452013-02-10T21:15:00.000-08:002013-02-10T21:15:09.067-08:00

OK I have no idea how many miles we did each day or any of that because we never had solid internet service or an evening free since we left Champaign, IL. From Carroll, IA we went to Prescott, IA down through Kansas to Keota/Stigler/Blocker, Oklahoma. We stayed two nights and three days there. It was a lot of fun for all of us...especially Avery! She and her oldest cousin A. had a blast. They

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-86641812366665077632013-02-06T06:35:00.000-08:002013-02-06T06:35:19.539-08:00

We spent 3 nights in Des Moines and missed seeing so many of our friends. We had a nice 24 hour visit with grandma and grandpa. The grls didn't take any time to warm up with them. They were chatting away right from the start. We headed from Carroll, IA to Prescott, IA to see our family friend Nancy. This put our current total at 1609 miles 34 hours 28 minutes. We got on the road at 8 this

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We had originally planned to stay another night in Champaign but Ainsley wasn't doing so well with the wind and staying in a small room. We checked out and drove to Iowa. We arrived a bit after 11pm. Driving that late was rough because we were already so tired. The wind was crazy and we saw so many semis and such in the ditch from a snow storm a few days prior. We spent Saturday and Sunday doing

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-6352468951856684192013-01-31T17:58:00.001-08:002013-01-31T17:58:33.949-08:00

Thankfully today was a short day! We got up and out of Gallipolis, OH fairly early--7ish but I had been up since 5:15am hoping to get out of town really early. Stephen is kind of slow to get ready. :) We drove through some really erratic weather--one moment it was snowing like mad and the next it was just windy and sunny. The worst snow was in Indianapolis as we were leaving. We made a quick 4 &

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-25137958285075077492013-01-30T19:42:00.003-08:002013-01-30T19:42:56.508-08:00

The Route: We didn't get a very early start on our road trip...leaving at 10am. We did arrive at our planned destination- Gallipolis, OH around 7:45pm. On this leg of the trip we traveled through North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and are just barely into Ohio at our hotel. It took only an hour of me driving the girls by myself before books and music were no longer entertaining. Thus, the

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-40799786923302390882013-01-26T19:56:00.001-08:002013-01-26T20:00:31.838-08:00

We just wrapped up the packing and loading part of our moving adventure. I have yet to decide if we will ever use a moving company again. Our move out here was absolutely terrible as far as our marital head-butting goes. We were downright evil to each other leading up to packing and loading and through the unloading. On top of that, we had so much work to do while managing a 2.5 month-old and a 2

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-63388111590434811722013-01-23T20:23:00.002-08:002013-01-23T20:25:57.409-08:00

Boy do I have plans for 2013! It will be the year that makes up for 2012, 2011 and at least half of 2010. There were plenty of good things that happened in those years. Well, maybe not plenty...but a few...like the birth of Ainsley and making new friends...but the rest was kinda crappy for the whole family. We are oh so close to getting on the road to our major cross country road trip. I'm sure

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-77977152383302748572012-11-04T14:44:00.002-08:002012-11-04T14:44:52.897-08:00

I've lost track of how many boxes I have received...I think this one is number five! This box came the morning before our double birthday party for the girls. It was really hard not to open it and check it out so I peeked. This is what I saw. I didn't have time to try anything on at the moment. I did smell an absolutely crazy plastic smell coming from the box. A few hours later a friend was

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-33301410452302850692012-09-19T20:47:00.001-07:002012-09-19T20:47:21.190-07:00

I hate moving. I know everyone probably does, but I have serious issues with it. We moved far too many times when I was a kid and it really stunk. I was always the new girl and we always moved just as I was finding friends and feeling normal. Looking back, I can hardly remember where we lived and when...I have to list it going from current day backwards. I do remember crying myself to sleep the

Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18429115324332810336noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400242718332124849.post-23631026372354066202012-09-09T19:03:00.000-07:002012-09-09T19:23:52.864-07:00

Can I tell you a secret? When I get my Tog+Porter box I let nothing get in the way of opening it. Seriously- I burned oatmeal rummaging through this box...who burns oatmeal? Sadly, I had to wait almost 24 hours to actually try anything on! We almost didn't have time to take photos this weekend so I apologize for looking like I just woke up--but I had just woken up and showered...it is pretty

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