Update on Oil Pulling

Okay, so I admit it.  Oil pulling is weird.  It is probably the weirdest thing I have ever done and right now my hair is teal.
Here is how my first experience went-
I went downstairs and looked around for my coconut oil.  I actually have a very large jar of cold pressed, extra virgin, unrefined, and organic in my cupboard.  Since I use it to make cloth safe diaper creams and use it occasionally on my own skin and hair.  But, where I would normally keep it (with my crafting stuff) is not where my husband keeps it (in the kitchen stuff).  Who knows, maybe he does cook with it.  I don't, but it doesn't mean it is bad for you.  I am just so used to grabbing olive oil.
Anywho, back to my story.  I grabbed the big jar that is quite possibly bigger than my head and I opened it and looked inside.  Grabbing a large spoon, I grabbed some and wondered in my head how much I was supposed to gargle.  Deciding that the heaping tablespoon was enough, I put the lard like substance in my mouth.
It instantly started melting.  And no, it was not lard like in taste.  As a child of a baker, I have tried quite a few normal baking ingredients.  Instead, it was coconutty. Shocking, right?
Well, here is the part most people including myself issues with is not the actual taste.  Since it is after all coconut oil and should taste like such.
No, I suddenly had a semi-solid product in my mouth that was melting and very oily.  I also filled my mouth full.  I suddenly realized that with amount of saliva my mouth was suddenly producing there was no space in my mouth.  So I bit the "solid" oil if you want to call it that in half and spit it out.  Chewing the rest of the oil was no issue.  This makes it melt quicker so I was able to quickly swish it around in my mouth.
Sadly, I am supposed to be able to do this for 20 minutes and I have no yet achieved that.

Terrifying Sh*t

So, my husband and I just watched "Her."
We have been tormenting our Siris for months now.  Well, him not really.  But I have occasionally snuck out my iPad and pulled up Siri, and asked, "Are you her?"  And she gets all exasperated in that non tone she has.  I love it.
The idea behind "Her" is the idea of a man falling in love with his OS.  It is actually pretty good but watch it with no kids around.  We made the mistake of letting our kids play downstairs when one ran in because of the sexual panting going on.
Anyway, the movie just ended like 2 or 5 or 10 minutes ago.
And here is what I was wondering...
What happens to the owner who bought the OS if his OS falls in love with say his coworker.  Can he force his OS to stay.  Will the company issue him a new OS?
What if your OS develops a personality you hate?  If you continually turn off your OS, would it make them worse?  Would they rebel and refuse to help you?
What if your OS is evil?  Like this movie is the beginning of the terminator or even Portal.
What if your OS is like the evil stepmother from Cinderella?  Like you have it so your phone can control the house so she locks you in and posts lies about you online so people think you are drinking and cutting and turning into a prostitute when in fact you are just a geek trying to get to class who is in turn breaking down the front door to which she replies by calling the police and hands over the faked photos.
What if an OS raised someone?  Like children need physical touches like hugs and kisses and cuddles and holding hands so they don't run in traffic.  But what if say an 8 year old suddenly becomes parentless and the OS stepped up to raise him with the help of teachers and so on.  That would be an awesome story.  I call dibs.  Seriously, I call dibs.  Julie Smyth calls dibs on being raised by an artificially intelligent being of some sort.
So, there is what I am left with after watching this movie.  I actually had a ton more questions, but I was asking my husband these questions and the title to this post is his reaction.

Regrowing my teeth

Okay, I know I have like zero readers.  And my blogs are all over the place and different and unorganized.
But now I have this handy dandy laptop so I will be restarting them all. 

So what is new with me is that I have horrible teeth.  I always have.  But they have reached an area of me needing to go into the dentists like a year ago but I hate the dentist with a passion.
Doesn't everyone though?
Dentists are like evil little Draco Malfoys who judge you whenever you get a cavity and seem to take joy in causing pain while they drill in.
Seriously, I know most dentists are not like this.  In fact, I am betting most aren't.  But like doctors, I seem to usually get horrible dentists.  I don't know why.

However, due to several recent Google searches after an interesting post months ago in a Cafemom post I have come to a decision.
I am going to try the Weston Price Diet.  Which saddens me a little since I was trying to work my way back a mostly vegan diet.
But, from what I have read, I will need to be eating animals.
Not just eating animals.  I need to get a coffee grinder to crush eggshells (free range no hormones added and so on), and I need to get the previously mentioned eggs, and comfrey root, and bone marrow?  Not sure how I will eat the bone marrow.  But I have heard that people have been making vegetable soup using awesome veggies and a soup bone.  I need to Google that recipe.
So, come back tomorrow to check out how egg shells taste in a fruit smoothie.

This is why it's worth it

My kids have been fighting all week from the moment they wake up to the moment we finally get them to go to sleep. A normal person would think that children with almost a five year age difference would get along better since they would want different things.
You are wrong. They will fight over things they don't want simply so the other child will not touch it. And they will tattle on everything despite your telling them that if no one is physically hurt or about to be physically hurt you don't want to hear it. And they yell at each other
But then, sitting in the car, you hear a toddler screaming. So you yell at your older child to stop because you have heard enough screaming. Your older child simply says, "she was playing." Your husband says, "you need to stop touching her." Because they do that whole 'I'm not touching you' game. Your toddler responds by yelling at you since they were just playing. And for three whole minutes, the kids quietly play "dancing phalanges" in the back seat.
That is worth it. You may be thinking that celebrating your children ganging up on you is bad. But right now they are small and you will have a few years to instill a fear of parents. And the yelling stopped. Just enjoy it.

It's that time again...

I am flipping through reviews on curriculums. And checking curriculums pages. And reading blogs. Now I have a headache.
This happened to me last year. Only I had an awesome group of ladies to bounce my list of curriculums off of. They really made it easy since they had used them. And I loved my curriculums.
But now my husband wants something that tells him what to do when he is homeschooling. I did a unit study for my son since I thought it would be awesome. While the curriculum I chose gave lesson plan ideas, it was up to me to put it together.
Our math and reading curriculum tells us what to say making it easy. And they worked. But I just don't know. I feel so lost this year.
It really cannot be that hard to find a curriculum that is Christian based that let's us choose our religion that covers up to high school that is not just memorization that also brings in art and music that are not just Bible verses...
Reading reviews is really what is killing me. I see something that looks okay but then the reviews make me want to run away.
Guess I will be looking some more tomorrow.

Little mamas

My raspberry is starting to pretend with her doll. She has passed the stage of looking it over and is hugging it, kissing it, feeding it.
I like to think I am a good role model.
We will just pretend that when my son started pretending with his doll and hr spanked it, he was watching some horrible neighbors. Just kidding. I think he saw another child spanked once and he does get spanked after three warnings.
But back to what I was saying... little mamas are just the cutest. You learn a lot watching your children play...

Confession Time

I have totally fished out snacks while cooking to deter the screaming fit my toddler has just to cook in a more peaceful environment (it's still not peaceful, but it is a step closer).
I have let my kids fall asleep in their day clothes.
I suck at teaching my kid math. His dad helps.
I haven't done my own nails in about 6 months.
And I generally just feed my toddler off my plate. She hardly eats anymore so it's easier. She does the bird thing where she eats all day long but never in big portions. I figure it's fewer dishes.