Hit Me With Your Best (B12) Shot

After a long weekend, or even long work week, it's hard to get in the game.  For me, that was today.  I even broke my 'one red bull a day' rule!  That was when I remembered my sweet friend, Vitamin B12.  It is the best natural pick me up.  It is awesome at fighting fatigue and beating those 'I want to be lazy' symptoms.  Sure, any B12 will do, but I recommend B12 shots.  They have some amazing benefits to our daily and overall well being.

Energy:  decreasing fatigue and lethargy are the key to energy production

Healthy heart:  protects against strokes, high blood pressure, and can even play a part in improving cholesterol levels.

Hair, Skin, and Nails:  B12 promotes cell reproduction which makes those three super pretty.

Increased Metabolism:  B12 plays an important role in converting carbs, proteins, and fats in the body;  helping to maintain a healthy digestive system.

Sure you can get a good dose of vitamin B12 in some foods (eggs, seafood, poultry, cheese. etc.)  But, my favorite, quickest, and most effective source is the good ol' booty shot!  Because vitamin B12 needs to be absorbed into the blood stream, most other supplements don't work as well.  So, if you have access to the injections, I suggest you go for it.  If not, come visit us at Complete Hormone Solutions and get your quick fix!


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Checkered Cake

Birthday cakes are always and will always be a huuuge part of birthday parties.  Especially for the 4 year old diva that is my mini.  Having fun decorations and icing on the outside is great, but why not make the inside just as awesome!?

Please excuse the photo quality in this post.  They are all taken from my phone.  I will definitely not be winning any photography awards with them :))

Michaels and other craft stores sell tools to make cakes like this but today I am going to show you how to make it simply with things you will more than likely already at your house.

What you will need:

2 boxes of cake mix and ingredients it calls for

frosting (store bought or homemade)

food coloring

one small circle cookie cutter

one medium-large cookie cutter

long knife

First, you will bake your cakes according to the instructions on the box.  If you want rainbow, add food coloring to your cake mix. (2 boxes will make 4 9 in round cakes)  Once they are done and have cooled off to touch, take your long knife and slice the top of the cake to take off the "hump".

(the top piece will not be used in the cake so you can do as you please with it)

Next, with your small cookie cutter, carefully cut out the center of the cake and set to the side.  

Then, repeat with the larger cookie cutter.

You will end up with 3-4 outer rings, middle rings and center circles.

Now, you will piece the cake together.  You will want to add a small amount of frosting to the inside of each ring to hold them together.

 Once you have put your puzzle together, your layers should look similar to this.  

And now I suddenly want to go to target!

Add a layer of frosting to the top of 2 layers and stack away.

At this point the cake is not going to look beautiful, so don't get down.

Imperfections create perfection and originality!

Fill in any holes with frosting and ice away.

I used homemade buttercream on the inside and chocolate buttercream on the outside.

And voila! You now have a cake that will make all the kids think you are the coolest ever!

Bedtime Solutions

I don't know about you but, our neighborhood is loaded with monsters and witches.  Those darn things make it almost impossible to get a 4 year old to sleep.  Lucky for us, we found some handy anti-monsters, bad guys, and witches spray (water in a squirt bottle) under the kitchen sink.

 

The trick to it is that you have to spray it outside all doors that go outside.

So, we spray it out the front and back door. 

 

 

Just to be on the safe side, we spray it at the bottom of the stairs just in case one of those pesky monsters squeezes through the cracks.

 

 

 

 

Now here's the best news, Kody woke up saying, "Mommy! The monster spray worked!!"  Phew, I'm glad we got those darn things under control.

Side Walk Chalk Art

Kody and I love coloring on the driveway with chalk.  Becoming a part of the picture has become one of her new favorite things to do.

Behavior Chart

I don't know about you but, I have got a 4 year old who has completely found her attitude!  Her teachers at school say she is just the sweetest thing ever.  I'm convinced they have her confused with a different child.  So, it is my mission to find that well behaved little girl and enjoy time with her at home.

I found some little charts with every character you can think of on www.freeprintablebehaviorcharts.com and printed out a bunch of different characters for a few weeks.

For every thing she does, she gets a sticker.  At the end of the week if she has all of her stickers (I might change it all but one or two...haven't decided) she gets to chose a Popsicle stick from the jar.

Each stick has a different activity that we will do that weekend.

                           

- feed the duck

-go to the library

-movie night

- slumber party in living room

-childrens museum

- go to the movies

- get ice cream

- eat at red robin (her favorite restaurant)

- have a picnic

- go swimming

- horseback riding

- go bowling

- ice skating

- bounce house

- get a new toy

- alphabet tour

Tonsillectomy Recovery- Day 3

Day 3!!

Phew...day 3 you have officially kicked my butt!!  I woke up around 4am pretty sore so I got some more pain meds and ice and passed back out.  My mom took me to my house to get some more clothes and I decided to take a bath while I was there.  BAD IDEA!  It was fine until I leaned back to wash my hair and at that point I thought I was going to suffocate.  No good.  Following along with the bad ideas, my daughter had a birthday party to go to this afternoon at a horse stable.  I definitely should have sat that one out.  We got back to my moms house, I had some trusty mashed potatoes, loaded up on meds and ice, and hit the pillow filled bed.  

This is the best way I can describe to you how the day has played out haha

morning...

afternoon...

evening...

                     

Tonsillectomy Recovery- Day 1 & 2

Day 1!!

So far so good!  I had to be at the surgery center at 6:30 and was back at my moms house around noon.  I remember being rolled into the OR with two gorgeous nurses and having major girl talk (not sure about what) with them as I switched beds.  Then I woke up in an awesome recovery room where I slept for a few hours after that. 

For some reason I expected to have no voice afterwards but, I woke up just a talkin!  My nurse gave me a cup of the best vanilla pudding I've ever had, gave me pain meds, and sent me on my way.

In all of my research I did before surgery, the biggest tip I found was to sleep in a recliner and not a flat bed.  Apparently being upright keeps your throat from drying out.  So, I did just that.  I spent a majority of the day sleeping in the recliner with an ice pack on my neck.  OH!  and for some reason I had a really weird snore?? I don't snore so I'm gonna be pissed if after this I do.  In my short breaks from sleeping, lots of apple juice and pudding/jello accompanied my big bottle of happy meds!

As you can imagine, juice, pudding, and jello are not very filling.  Definetly after nothing to eat since dinner the night before.  So I tried some mashed potatoes.  I made sure they weren't very hot and ate them pretty slow.  I got them down and my tummy was then full! YAY!

They say the first day is cake compared to the rest...I guess we shall see.

Day 2!!

Still going strong!  I woke up in the recliner, throat felt fine still, the rest of my body is a different story.  Fortunate for me, I have the sweetest almost 4 year old ever.  She got out of her bed and hopped in the recliner with me and we watched cartoons on her kindle.  Right as I'm about to eat my pudding for breakfast she says to me "Mommy, can I feed you?" Ah melt my heart!  So she "fed me like a baby"  with the open wide here comes the choo choo haha.

Knock on wood...don't want to jynx myself here but, I've had strep that hurt worse than my throat does now.  Just feels like a lump in the back of my throat...not so much painful as uncomfortable.  The worst part is my tongue from where they clamped it down on the sides during surgery.  I've cut my pain med dosage in half and continue to drink lots of cold apple juice and keep my ice pack on.

I've now moved every pillow in my mothers house onto the guest bedroom so I can be sitting up and have lots of leg room...much better than the recliner!

End of day 2 and my voice is gone! :((