I am stormy momma

You remember when you where a kid and you heard the thunder rumble outside your windows .. Where you afraid of it or did you love it?I was always the first one on the porch pointing at the night sky as lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.. I remember my grandmother telling me that it was the Angels bowling and the rain was them crying because someone was hurt etc.. Now that I am Older I see weather in a new way. I love the feeling of the rain and love the soft rumbles of thunder.. I am a storm spotter and I am so ready to take it farther.. So I started a new segment of my blog called stormy momma moments... Maybe it will help people learn about weather.. Maybe it will be the bragging point for me to show my respect for God's power.. I'll fill you in as soon as possible as well as do my other posts!!

Until it storms!!!

I am mom enough!!

Hi I am Katie a mother of three or otherwise known as short order chef, nurse, personal advisor, maid, taxi driver , event scheduler ... Need I go on

I have started a journey the last few years that I won't ever forget!! I also had the chance to show my support for breastfeeding mothers with the target nurse in.. I feel mom enough... I feel like my children have a bond with me that will never go away.

Now that I am part of the greatest debate ever.. I see that I have a lot of work to do! From nursing in public to supporting those around me! I see that this will take awhile.. Why ? Because close minded people live in this country and refuse to change..

Now will the media please come forward... Will they ask me the truth behind my feelings on this.. I plan to do my own version of the mom enough picture.. Maybe show support to all those moms who don't feel it!! It's a hard job.. It make for long hours and all nighters ..

I am mom enough!!!

5 years old and learning about the world!

I know that the weeks have ticked by and not one day is the same.. from learning about how the sky is big and the clouds are marsh mellows.. well that is according to my sweet 5 year old girl.. I am amazed on how much she knows.. I am amazed in a way i cant describe!! How can one little person enter this world and then grow and blow me away!! I haven't ever just talked about 1 of my kids in ages.. Can you imagine what i will learn with three!!

5 years ago, April 5th i welcomed my sweet baby girl into this world.. I was scared and worried , how am i going to teach you if i don't even know how to make it by myself, i am a kid too! I soon learned that even if i messed up that little face still showed love .. I admit i am not the worlds greatest mother, nor do i do trendy up to date things!!! I like to think that my daughter will forgive me if i am not the worlds coolest mother either..  I want her to know that if she needs something always ask and i will do my best to give.. well advice mostly.. I am way to broke for the 50 dollar barking puppy she wants.. wait... never mind we got her one of those except it does a lot more than barks. I love it how she tells me that meatballs taste like meatballs and that she has a magically pony named diamond and many other magical friends. I love how she tells me more about weather and tells me i am wrong!! I love it how she just smiles and tells me it will be OK even if i am not in the mood.. I know that is why God made kids the way he did.. maybe because we hadn't learned the greatest thing. Love.. yes that 4 letter word that people misuse and abuse .. Love the absence of hate and hurt... the one thing that until you have a child you wont truly know... I am still learning about the world.. I learn it through the laughs and smiles and conversations about the mailman and the snails ... i am 23 years old and i will tell you this.. if some of the people would sit and listen to children they would learn that with anything .. take it a day at a time and dig in the dirt just a little more!!

Pink Slime: OH it grosses me out!!

Lets take a little history ride shall we ..

Imagine it is 1901.. You live on a quaint little farm out in the country. You have chickens and cows and pigs. When it came time you would find the choice animal to kill and use it for meat. You would cut off the meat and then throw out the bits of bone and intestines because they are not favorable. Imagine the smell of the meat cooking and how good it was..

Ok lets fast forward to now ... 2012

Let us imagine a large set of land with thousand of cows on it, all of them are injected with antibiotics.Most are standing ankle deep in their own feces.. most of them are fed a grain,bone and vitamin mix. Now it is time to kill the cow which has been forced to become that large.. It goes into a processing house. In there the same thing happens . They cut up the cow and put aside the bits and bones that we normally would not eat.. They grind it and strain it and put fillers in it..

STOP!!!  WAIT!!!

FILLERS!!!!

 E Hows definition of fillers:

alot of the food we eat contains fillers and additives that are made from a variety of other meat and non-meat products. These are included to increase the bulk of the item, to extend shelf life, and to improve flavor and texture, among other reasons. Sometimes they simply allow the food industry to produce more food at a lower price; they can reduce the cost of food from 10 to 30 percent. Meat fillers are commonly used, especially in ground-up meats like hamburger and sausage.

ok now that we know what this is lets find out the kinds of fillers.. Again lets see what E How defines this

 

(non meat Filers

1. • Not all meat fillers are made from meat. A cereal binder is usually a combination of flour and oatmeal that is often used in hot dogs. Bread crumbs and other starchy food additives are used in many foods, as well as rusk, a biscuit-type of filler that is found in sausage. Vegetables, roots and legumes are also used as fillers. Most fillers are typically high in carbohydrates and low in nutrition.

   Meat fillers

   • Interestingly enough, meat is rarely used as a meat filler. At times, mechanically deboned meat such as turkey and chicken parts are used as fillers. Some low-grade, inexpensive meats, like those in a can, are sometimes made exclusively from mechanically deboned meat.
   • Meat Extenders
   • Meat extenders are added to meat to extend the shelf life of processed meat. They are a type of filler with more protein content. Extenders usually consist of a cereal mixture combined with meat, fat and blood and are common in meats such as hot dogs and breakfast sausages. Some other extenders used in meat are soy flour, soy concentrate and legumes.

   Other Additives

   • In addition to the fillers and extenders, other additives are combined for preservation and flavor. Salt is added for flavor and shelf-life; nitrates are added for color, flavor and shelf-life; phosphates are added for protein structuring and water binding; and monosodium glutamate, commonly known as MSG, is added for flavor. Processed meats contain the most fillers and additives)

WOW ... so lets get this straight. I am eaither eating  scrap meats,blood,bone, fat and some grains..

Right now i think of how much beef , chicken, and pork i have bought !! Can you imagine we have been eating this!!

I see that most of the goverment does not have a problem with this. In fact a bunch of goverment officals went to the factory where this is all done and said that they would love to eat this. Again where is it thier buisness to let these people make a desison to tell us what is good and bad for us.. Is this going to be one of those i rule over you and you have no choice. According to a lot of people that harvest their own meat, eggs and milk , there is a law and a problem with this.. you cannot trust what nature and God made natural!!!

I like most people got to a store and buy my food since i have not had a easy time making my own foods. I have to buy the foods i know are processed because i cannot buy these things without the fillers and etc becuase the assistance i get wil not allow me to go to a famers market or a organic grocery store.  How sad is this.. The goverment pays for all these sick, overweight and malnurished children to eat this trash , but does not look at why the rise in medical care may be linked..

so how do we stop this? Petition? make signs? Beg for another answer.. I agree we have let it go way to long and have been kept in secret what is in our foods.. So i say YES make them speak up and come foward about how this happened.. Let them be the ones that say to go back to a way of life where food isnt massed produced.. let it g back to the old days where a garden was a norm... Where buying a cow to have it killed for meat was ok..  OR lets have store's that we shop at ban these foods!! Most have started to !!

So now you must ask yourself are you ok with this!!! Are we ment to eat these things?!

I want to thank E HOW and ABC for their links.. I recived most of my information from there.. If you want to get slime free beef  please consider the links below .. I thank you for reading!!

http://www.ehow.com/info_10030879_meat-filler.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/where-to-get-pink-slime-free-beef/

And 7 months later....

Immmm back!!!!


I have taken a long break from writing and making a life here in the new city I moved to. Mind you it is nothing like Dallas by any sense! I have enjoyed looking at what possibilities I have now that I didn’t before. Out here the air is cleaner and I feel like my goal of getting rid of all the toxins in my house is going to happen, one change at a time. I feel like I am somewhere now where I can see how it is not to live by someone else’s standards other than my own. I think I have lost touch with the world I had before and look at my life now and smile… I made it!! I got past the hard spots that where holding me down and now with this new freedom I can sit and write and make what I wanted to create and maybe become the person that well, Can be herself


Ok enough of that. It is time for me to get things back to the fun … not so boring details!!!

KP:

I know I left you all off at the birth of my sweet baby boy!! He is now almost 7 months old!!! Can you believe it! I amazed by his growth and abilities, from his weight and height to his sitting up and scooting…  He is just this bubble of happiness and smiles! So far we have not had the terrible breakouts like I did with my 2 year old son. I am blessed to have had such a wonderful birth and now again breastfeeding.. This time more empowered as before!!  I live to see that little boy smile and laugh and when I have a chance I do just that. Make that wonderful smile come back!!

KW: I know we also left off on the progress that my son was making!! He is now 2 ½ years old!! Can you imagine the terrible twos have started again! I first started this blog when he was the cute squishy age of my other little one!! ANYWAYS!! His Eczema has somewhat cleared!!  I am sad that he is still struggling with this all!! I have also got him in speech therapy!! Again I  am going to keep you updated but hey!! Good news is the best news!!

KE:  I am so exited... Sad…  Etc to announce that she will be 5 in a week!!! Can you believe it when I started this blog she was 2!! Can you imagine how I must feel!! I am glad that we are going to enjoy it with the family!!

Me: I MOVED!  I moved to west Texas!! I am a little scared of this town.. I feel like I do not fit in! I am also doing Avon and trying to keep up with my SKYWARN!!  I have been so busy it isn’t even funny!!

New baby madness : i am in love!!

So here i sit in my black shirt.. wait a minute.. what used to be black shirt.. again typing out my thoughts.. It reminded me of when i made this blog!! I was doing the same thing.. It has been crazy with a new little life here.. Though i would say nugget is filling in his spot quite nicely.. So far in his short life he has been back and forth between Abilene and Dallas and then to the hospital with bubi and mommy and has not caught anything. ( thank God)  We have been working on getting the rest of the stuff packed amongst all the stopping and nursing and the constant diaper changes!!! But none the less i am in love!!! From the cute dimples in his cheeks to those bright blue/grey eyes i am in love!!!! I  know i am still warming back up from being gone so long but i think that this is a nice new start


Nugget is 5 weeks old today and well i cannot believe how much he has changed and i have to brag!!!! He is beautiful!! Sissy and bubi love him soooo much too!! I cant imagine him not feeling loved when both of the older siblings constantly kiss and try to pick him up!! Yes try!!!! Bug and lil man are too little still but they think they have super man strength which leaves me carrying poor nugget with me to the potty!! Leaving him alone with those two would result in being dropped or being someway tortured by there constant prodding of his belly or being pulled on... But alas he is a good baby and only protests when he is truly mad!! Again all my kids are my blessings and i love them dearly!!!! I miss writing and i am going to get better!!!

here he is everyone!!

Calling Motherhood has a vlog!!!

Hey ladies and Gents that read my page.. I am starting a vlog... This week will be the introduction and the start of the first topic!!! Hey i got to start somewhere!! I hope yall enjoy!!!