Category: My journey
(NOTE: I bought the Diva Cup with my own money to try out & review. No one asked me to review this product.)
Earlier this year I decided to make the leap.I wanted to try out a Diva Cup.
It is no secret I am a huge probiotic fan.
If you are unfamiliar with probiotics, they are beneficial microorganisms found in certain foods, like yogurts. Probiotics not only give our immune system a boost, they also give our digestive tract some help developing healthy flora. Healthy flora promotes better digestion, as well as less gas and bloating. Bonus!
Let’s see a show of hands. How many of you have kids that have a shitload of toys? Pieces & parts of toys? Toys from fast food places? From birthday party goodie bags? Halves of toys that have no match, rendering it useless?
My kids would pull stuff out of their toy boxes, cubbies and bins in search of a particular toy. They would then step on these pieces and parts in the dark of night on their way to the bathroom and howl – ever stepped on some of those Legos? Yowch!
A couple of years ago during a rainy stretch in June after school let out, I had had enough. I went on a tear and got the kids swept up in my let’s get rid of this nonsense fervor. They got to hold on to the toys they loved and played with the most, and we donated or properly disposed of the rest.
There’s a contest over at Uppercase Woman to win an iPad 2, sponsored by Buy More Contacts – head on over there for a chance to win one yourself! If you haven’t had a chance to get to know Cecily, you should. She’s an honest writer, even when it’s uncomfortable. I appreciate that.
She shared a story about getting contact lenses when she was a teen, which inspired me to share my story too.
If you haven’t been keeping up with Live Green Mom, I grew up in Texas with three sisters and a single mom that was all about being a Born Again Christian. She even became an ordained minister. I don’t know how to explain the whole thing well, but she believed in faith healing, speaking in tongues, and the casting out of demons.
Question for you…
When you were growing up, did your mom ever do or say anything that made you think, ‘I’m going to have to ask her about that one day when she can’t yell at me for asking about it?’ I have quite a few of these tucked away.
When we were growing up, we didn’t use plastic garbage bags in the kitchen trash. We used the brown paper bags that the groceries came in, tucked inside the kitchen trash can, then when they got full, pulled them out, then dumped into those larger black trash bags that went out by the curb for the garbage man to pick up. We could fit about 4 brown bags of trash into the larger plastic bags.
