Let me introduce myself a little bit. I am a wife to Craig, who travels for work all around the Pacific Northwest selling capital equipment to hospitals. I am a mom to Sydney, who rides & trains hunter/jumper show horses and teaches lessons in Tampa Florida and to Audrey, who is a sophomore in college equipping herself to work in the music industry. I also share my life & my heart with my two furry babies, Libby (a chihuahua) and Bear (a manx cat). Bear is a big momma's boy although he thinks he is a tough guy, and Libby is attached to my hip. She goes pretty much everywhere with me except restaurants and grocery stores. She has travelled with us all over the country too. She has great manners for staying quiet while out shopping and usually people don't even realize she is watching everything from the comfort of her bag on my shoulder.
Admittedly, I do tend to gush about all my kids - fair warning :)
I'd also like to let you know how I learned the benefits of a healthy diet. I'll try to give the abridged version because I could go on & on about my passion for what I've found - well, I guess I will actually because that's part of the purpose of having this blog! But for now I'll start at the beginning: from the time Audrey was a year old until after she turned 5 she suffered from horrific bouts of high fever, full body stiff muscle soreness, headaches, and all over pain. She would have "episodes" that would last 3-4 days with all of those symptoms that gained in frequency until they were at least once a month. And when I say high fevers, I mean 105-106! I have used every thermometer sold over the counter for let's just say everywhere they can be used, and she would top them all out! A couple days before she would be hit hard, I could see it coming in her eyes and she would insist that I not take her temperature because she knew it too and didn't want to stop playing. I actually played a game where I would kiss her forehead and then take her temp to see how close my guess was. My lips became so calibrated I was always within a half degree of correct. Needless to say, we saw a lot of doctors with a lot of different specialties
