Lactation smoothie

I know a lot of moms have trouble with their milk supple and don't really know how to
bring it back up. If your a smoothie kind of girl instead of a cookie kind of girl then this is for you.

You will need.
1-3 whole bananas
2 tbsp Almond Butter  ( homemade or Store bought)
1 tbsp Brewer's Yeast ( I use THIS kind)
2 tbsp Ground Flax ( I use THIS)
1/3 Cup Rolled Oats.( Like This)
2-3 tbsp Cocoa Powder ( Like This)
Maple Syrup Or Honey ( Local is best) To Taste
Top with Almond Milk ( Homemade or Store Bought)
and several ice cubes.

Blend, blend , bled and get the benefits of a half
dozen lactation cookies.

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Herb Softening Hair Rinse

Lately I've been trying to go no poo. I've been doing it for around 4 months and I do like it.
I still wash my hair but with Dr.Bronner's once a week. Then I do my homemade hair rinse a few times a week. Sometime everyday. Just depends on if I went to work out or not.

Here is how I make my awesome hair rinse.


4 Cups. water
1/2 Cup. Rosemary (Dried or fresh)
1/2 Cup. Lavender ( Dried or fresh)
1/2 Cup Mint (Dried or fresh)
3 tsp. borax
3 Cups. apple cider vinegar

1.Bring the water to boil in a large pot.
2.Once you’ve reached a rolling boil. Add the Rosemary, Lavender, and Mint.
3.Put it on low for about 1 hr.
4. Turn the stove off and let it steep for 2-4hrs. .or longer,the longer, the stronger).
5. Take out the herbs and turn the stove back on low to heat the water.
6.Once the water is heated turn it off and add the borax. Then stir
7. Add the apple Cider Vinegar, Stir again.
8. put into a container and you're all done.

I let my rinse steep overnight before straining out the herbs. This makes for a VERY potent rinse

I put mine in a old gallon juice bottle. I double the recipe when I make it tho. Then I put it into a squirt bottle and keep the bottle in my shower.

To use: After shampooing and conditioning, or as your sole hair product, pour the rinse over your hair, making sure to soak it through completely. Finish off with a final
rinse of clean water, if desired (the liquid is a brownish “tea” color, so it may stain a light-colored towel if you don’t rinse with clean water).
Or, simply leave the rosemary rinse in your hair and dry and style as usual.

The smell of the vinegar goes away and you are left with the smell of the herbs. I have dark hair so I don't know if this would darken lighter hair or not.

You can change the herbs for other herbs that you like the smell of better or just use 1 herb. Make sure it = 1 1/2 Cups or more.

I have all of this in the yard so I normally use fresh and more then the 1 1/2 Cups posted.

If you try this let me know what you think :)




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Homemade Vapor Rub

Did you know the store bought Vapor rub isn't that great for you? It's made with Petrolatum, Eucalyptus oil, Mineral oil, Coconut Oil, Rosemary leaf oil, Peppermint oil,Lavender oil.. Petrolatum is not good for you I'm going to make a blog post later on explaining why I say that.
If you're looking for something you can do yourself here it is.

Homemade Vapor Rub.

Ingredients

5 TB Coconut oil
2 TB Cocoa Butter
1 1/2 TB Beeswax
30 drops eucalyptus essential oil (for children use Eucaylptus Radiata or Eucaplytus Citriodora)
12 drops each of essential oils: peppermint, lavender, and rosemary
5 drops tea tree essential oil

Instructions

1. In a saucepan, over low heat, add the coconut oil and cocoa butter. Melt.
2. Once melted, add the beeswax. Melt.
3. Remove the pan from the heat.
4. Allow the mixture to sit in the saucepan for 5 minutes. This will allow the mixture to cool so the oils aren't damaged.
5.After 5 minutes, add the eucalyptus, peppermint, lavender, rosemary, and tea tree oils to the coconut oil mixture. Combine with a spoon.
Pour the mixture into jars..

 This recipe will make one 4 oz. jar of vapor rub. As the mixture cools in the jar the liquid will solidify,
 making it a creamy, spreadable rub.


This recipe will keep for a year.

It's that easy to make your own. :) Hope you enjoy.

Note don't use on babies younger then 3 months.

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Remineralizing Toothpaste

I just use a teaspoon or tablespoon, depending on the size batch I want, so the recipe would read 5 TBSP calcium powder,2 TBSP Baking Soda,  and so on.

5 parts Calcium powder
2 parts Baking Soda
3 parts Xylitol Powder- .
3-5 parts coconut oil to get desired texture
Storage Jar * I use these Here*
Optional
Grinder for the Xylitol
Essential Oil's


How To Make Natural Remineralizing Toothpaste

1. Mix all powdered ingredients (calcium, Baking Soda, Xylitol) well in a bowl. If you are starting with calcium tablets,
powder them in a food processor. If you are starting with capsules, dump them out into the bowl. If you want it to be more like store bought tooth paste grind the Xylitol up.

2. Add Coconut Oil one part at a time until you get desired consistency.

3. Add any optional ingredients, including Essential Oils for flavor (my favorite is Peppermint, Spearmint)

4. Store in small container like These.

 To use, either dip clean toothbrush into it, or use Popsicle stick or spoon to put it on the toothbrush.


There you have it homemade tooth paste. Everyone who has tested this for me likes it better then store bought. I feel like this gets my teeth so much cleaner.

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refer your friends and family, you'll each get $10 off at Vitacost.com''. So by using the link posted above you'll get a $10 credit for the site enjoy!!!

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Home made play dough fun

We love play dough and I love making it homemade I have a post on how to make it here. On this post I'm just going to show some of the cool things we've made with it. SO keep checking back some updates.

My mom made this one.

Nita is so weird :) I love my sister

Nita

Nita

My mom

Again My crazy sister did this.

Mine :)

Nita

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Homemade Play dough

So this week we've made some home made play dough for the boys to play with. Much to my surprise everyone including my mom and sister ended up playing with. This was my first time making play dough and I was going to do a double patch to make more colors but I didn't have enough cream of tartar. After I go to the store tomorrow I will  make some more and update this post with the new colors. I will also take pics of each step as I do them and add them to the bottom of the post in order.

What you will need..

1 cup water
1 cup flour
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon cream of tartar
Food coloring

Directions

Combine water, flour , oil, salt, cream of tartar, and food coloring in a saucepan and heat until warm

Stir, then knead until smooth. The cream of tartar makes this dough last 6 months or longer, so resist the temptation to omit this ingredient if you don't have it on hand.

Store this dough in an airtight container or a Ziploc freezer bag.

Also Eli (14 months ) only tried to eat this once and after he tasted it he took it out of his month and said yucky so I don't have to worry about him trying to eat it again ( I hope )

After it was cooked I put it on a pizza  pan to cool

After it cooled I made the dough  into 1/4. After that I made them  into  little  balls  and  pushed  a hole into the middle.

Then I dropped the food coloring into the holes.

All closed up.

My mom couldn't wait to see what colors I did and started playing with it to spread the  food  coloring  around.

Neon Pink

Neon Purple 

Neon Green

Neon Blue ( it didn't want to spread evenly like the other but it's super blue )

playcreateexplore also made some scented kinds  Here

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Blueberry smoothie

For blue week I've also been trying to get blue things for the boy to eat so we made blueberry smoothies

What we used.

Frozen Blueberries ( You can use fresh )

Plain fat free yogurt ( You can also use vanilla )

2% milk 

ice

sugar ( We only used alittle bit)

Then you just blend it up

:) Healthy and super yummy

Okay so it's not really blue but you get the point.

You can see what else we've done for blue week here


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Pudding Paint

So I wanted something for my Eli (14month) to be able to do. I was looking for some fun easy ways for him to make stuff for us to send to his dada or just do around the house and one of the things I found was Pudding Paint. It's so easy to make and it's safe for him to eat . (He likes to put stuff in his mouth so whatever we do it has to be safe to eat

What you need is..
Pudding mix ( I got vanilla )
Milk
Food coloring ( you can use whatever color or make new colors)
Bowls ( How ever many colors you have you will need a bowl for each)
something to mix it with.
paper

SO start off by making the pudding mix in a large bowl.

Put into different bowls ( I think I did 1/4 in each bowl)

Add the food coloring. ( I didn't count the drops. Just put till you
get the color you want.

Set up the painting area ( I have a storage bin he  an fit into)

Now just let them paint :)

See everything must go into his mouth 

He was super sticky after he got done but nothing a quick shower couldn't fix. With using the storage bin for him it was a super fast and easy way to clean everything back up.... The colors did come out pretty pastel and had kind of a yellow tint but that was due to the pudding. If you have older kids or you want to change the flavor of the pudding you can also add extracts to it.

I really hope everyone gets a chance to try this with their little ones you can start this kind of painting at a pretty young age and like I said he had a blast.

If you would like to see the AWESOME website that I got this idea from here is the link http://www.playcreateexplore.com/2011/10/painting-with-puddiing.html

There's all kinds of ideas on there. If you get a chance to try pudding paint let me know what you used and how it turned out.

Have a wonderful and fun day everyone.

home made banana chips

So I made some homemade banana chips to send to my hubby in his carepackage.
1. peel the bananas
2. cut up into thin round pieces
3. put onto dehydrator rack
4. turn on dehydrator
5. wait about a hr and rotate the racks
6. after a couple hrs when the bananas are dry take them off and put them into a plastic bag.

There you go you know have a super healthy and cheap snack :) bananas are cheap and healthy and there sweet so there is no reason to add sugar or anything to them. I saved some to for myself and I added it to cereal and it was super yummy you can put these in oatmill also or eat them alone I'm sure there are other way to use them but my favorite is in cereal or alone

Juanita's Painting 9/29/2012

So this is a picture my sister painted with acrylic paint.
I don't know what size canvas she used.
She wanted to know what other people thought about it so please share.
This is not her first painting and she is still learning.