Well this past week has been nothing but wowser stress.  Ive had a sick little girl on my hands for a few days, and Thursday took a turn for the worse.  Willow was exceptionally lethargic and she was vomitting and confused.  This was horrible.  My husband came home from work early and we left for the emergency room.  After a nice 5 hour wait in the waiting room we were finally shown an exam room where we waited another hour and a half for the Dr to show up.  A quick exam and she was ordered tests.....the results were a severe Urinary Tract Infection and mild dehydration.  I told the Dr I am so on the ball about her getting clear fluids like water all the time, he informed me that the UTI dehydrated her regardless and that with the amount if fluids I give her probably saved her from severe dehydration and I did a good thing *phew* so a message to parents!  Give your child lots of WATER!!!  I know how many children love sodas, and fruit punch and so forth, my daughter does too.  But this is something you need to consider.  Our bodies are made up of 55 - 78% water, not juice, not soda.  Water comes out of our taps, not Cola.  While these drinks are fun they also deplete us of our body's water and cause us to be dehydrated.  If I had not been so on the ball about Willows water intake the Dr himself said it could have been way worse.  I was already beside myself watching her lay in a hospital bed sick, seeing her worse would have killed me.  Kids don't nessecarily like water I get this.  I was raised a water drinker because my Mother could not afford fizzy sodas all the time.  My daughter somehow became a natural born water drinker, if you ask her what she wants to drink she will say either Apple Juice or water.  Look into some inventive ways to naturally make water taste more appealing to kids if you can.  Dehydration is not fun for anyone.  Us adults dehydrate ourselves more Im sure.  Water drinking will increase your energy, make stronger hair and nails, clear and soften your skin!!  Im down for that ;)

I made my husband a special valentines dinner last night.  Now my husband is neither raw nor vegan nor vegetarian.  Thats fine, everyone on their own path right?  And I love to cook and so I made him a special dinner of breaded pork chops with garlic mashed potatos, garlic brown rice and broccoli.  I ate a bit of it because A) Gotta know what Im cooking is tasting right and B) Im not gonna deny myself some of I want.  Im not gonna go to raw foodist hell or jail if I do LOL.  He was suprised that the mashed potatoes were made with real roasted garlic.  He thinks I put to much work into it all, but I love him and wanted to give him a nice dinner.
So today we went to the supermarket and I went to my ever favorite section the fruit and veggies!!! But something about the produce section kind of depresses me.  Maybe its because I know how most of the food is ripened thank to Food Inc the film or because I know that alot of those fruits and veggies lose alot of their nutritional value as they sit there.  BUT theres nothing much I can do, I wanna eat raw then I need to eat whats there.  I love the farmers markets because they are so community based and local.  There is such a nice energy to them.  The one I used to go to with my Mom and daughter is really cute, which is something I miss.  My husband says there is one here in our town in the summer.

So I have been under a fair bit of worry and stress lately.  So I switched my regular coffee and hot chocolate drinking over to tea.  I bought Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time and Sleepy Time Vanilla and Bigelows Sweet Dreams.  I know these teas are calming and caffeine free so I went for them plus I enjoy their mild taste.  But ok...apparently they ARE making me not just calm but tired as well.  I was laying on the couch with my daughter and dozed right off.  As nice as it was to lay with my beautiful baby girl in my arms who is unfortunatly not feeling very well I have things I need to get doen LOL.  Perhaps I should pick up a couple non caffeinated herbal teas too so not to feel like Im gonna fall asleep all day lol.