Help For A Colicky Baby

Emma Rose had pretty bad colic.  She would also have this projectile vomiting at least once a week and spit up frequently.   One day I remember that Dr. Marshall said that giving the mother at least one teaspoon of air dried sea salt every day would help the baby's colic, if the mother was nursing her baby. 

Good air-dried sea salt creates good stomach acid which helps digest food.  I recommended to Erin that she should try it.  So that morning we put a teaspoon of sea salt into some juice and she drank it down.  It was pretty nasty! 

Alyssa recommended she mix it in with an avocado.  She liked that much better, but you can just start heavily salting your food {NOT with the junk salt they sell in the normal supermarket!}. 

It has worked amazingly well.  Emma hasn't vomited or spit up at all since then and her colic is so much better.  Even her skin looks so much better. It is so fun to find something so simple that works so well. 

I get my pink salt from Dr. Marshall but I am sure you can get some good air-dried sea salt at health food stores. Just make sure it is air dried and not processed in any way.  Dr. Marshall likes Mediterranean sea salt the best. It is also good for every body's gut health, not just babies.

Owe No Man Anything

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. {Romans 13:8}  The Bible has a lot of good, practical advice.  All of the commands God gives us are for our good. 

 When my children were growing up, we always tried to have Scripture to back up any rules we gave them so when they left home, they knew they were rebelling against God and not us if they were disobedient.  We let them know that His rules are for our protection and good. 

The King James Version says to owe no man anything.  I think that is a very good principle to live by.  It also says that the borrower is a a slave to the lender.  This is why our country is in so much trouble...We are slaves to others with the horrendous debt we owe.  I prefer to owe nobody anything, except to love them.  It feels better that way.  Debt is a burden.  Pay it off as soon as you can.

Laine was one of the first woman who taught me about being a wife and mother many years ago.  Her husband is a welder, has never made over $29,000 in a year, but they have paid off their home in Southern California.  She loves Jesus passionately.  I am linking a great post of hers that explains how they paid off their home.  It may help any of you who are struggling financially and give you hope.  God is BIG and He is our provider.  Trust in Him!

50 Ways I Paid Off Our Home

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path. 

Proverbs 3:5,6

Delicious Apple Crisp

This was the dessert my dad requested for his 80th birthday party and it was great!  I found the recipe on the food network but I changed several of the ingredients, like white flour and sugar, to make it healthy and added a few of my own.

Filling~

5 Fuji apples, peeled, cored, and chopped small

1/4 cup finely chopped pecans

3 Tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour

1/2 cup organic sugar

2 Tablespoons maple syrup

1 Tablespoon lemon juice

Mix all the ingredients together and place into an 8 X 8 pan.

Topping~

3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour

1/2 cup organic oats

1/3 cup organic sugar

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

6 Tablespoons chilled butter, cut into small pieces

1/2 cup coarsely chopped pecans

Mix the flour, oats, sugar, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl.  Blend the butter into the mixture until it forms pea size lumps.  Stir in pecans and sprinkle over filling.  Sprinkle a little bit of organic sugar over the whole thing.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes.  Cool 10 minutes before serving.

Men Have Opted Out of Marriage

If men don't have a defined role, they opt out. 

{Dennis Prager} 

Since feminism entered the picture, men don't have a defined role anymore anywhere except maybe football.  It is one sport women can't play.  Feminism has brought into society the idea that roles are equal in marriage and that anything a man can do, a woman can do. 

Men and women are different, contrary to popular opinion.  Women are more invested in children while men are more invested in the outside world of conquering and success.  Even most wives would agree that the husband should be the primary bread winner. 

Mr. Prager said that if he said any of these thoughts in the modern day college, it would be taken as if he were advocating returning to horse back riding instead of traveling in a car.  That is how foreign the concept of male and female roles have become.

This makes me think that is the reason why so many men don't want to get married anymore.  They have no defined role so they have opted out.  In the past, the husbands and wives knew their roles and society was pretty good, not perfect but a lot better than it is now. 

It is basically a mess. We are turning men into boys and it is causing havoc.  Hopefully,  the church will get back to modeling to society what a family looks like and how it runs.  We need to be a bright light in this decaying society.

Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. 

I Corinthians 11:3

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. 

Ephesians 5:24,25