Waking up

Yesterday I worked so hard with my brain that all of my body was aching byt 7 p.m., and I thought I was about to get the same flu that the kids are having.

In the morning I had eaten buckthorn berry powder mixed with coconut flour and had mixed a warm cup of water, honey, ginger, garlic and organic lemon. This strangely enough cleared both my brain and my body for the day. But as said, by 7 p.m. I was falling back down. Then I ate a couple of choco-balls, filled with vitamin C as I had rolled them in the same buckthorn berry powder and also added other super food to the dough (maca powder, roseship powder). Strangely enough at 8 p.m. my head was clear again and I could finish my job by 9:30.

This morning I woke up exhausted, like I would have run 10k at least yesterday. It's strange how much energy full brain concentration requires. It's also strange that the flu that I so strongly felt yesterday has not made its entrance yet, although I did relax after finishing the job yesterday evening. Will I still become sick? Or was the vitamine c, garlic, honey, ginger medicine enough to kill the bugs?

Kids are also in better shape but Kidtwo has a runny nose and Kidone has been coughing through the nights for almost a week now. I do not want antiobiotics this time for them. Seriously considering the onion-trick. Just wonder, how will I convince them to roll a bandage with onions around their head... hmm...

The art of staying alive

I am not really active right now. Just reading through the most essential blogs and then off to my duties. Both kids are sick, hubby still in bed due to his knee surgery and myself barely alive from the stress and a tight deadline coming up this week. Working night shifts on all fronts here - it's crazy.

Lucky me I got my mom over here over the weekend. ´She cooked and made our kitchen look deseant again. I even had her make fish bone broth! She claimed she had never done it and that it was so useless..better buy ready made... but once our salmon fish shoup was ready, she admitted that the bone broth made it tastier than ever before. So no the freezer is filled with broth from beef, chicken and fish. In  addition, we filled it with meetballs, thai chicken and some other goodies. Things are set. Almost. It is still h*lluvajob to keep the family (and myself) alive!

Today's menu

Watermelon. Only thing that worked on a kid with the flu. Second day on food strike.

Thank you, thank you globalization and industrially farmed Brazilian watermelon, love ya!

Food Rules by Michael Pollan

Nowadays when I go to the grocery store I just feel how crazy it all is. First we were convinced that industrial processed food, industrial farming including all those pesticides was the most efficient way to produce food. Many traditional farmers were forced to industrialized... just so that now, when there is almost no traditional farming left, we pay dearly either with our health or our money to get the food we "deserve".

It's just so absurd. The whole food business is just absurd. What we should do now is save the little that is left of traditional farming in the developing world. But no, what do we do... we go to teach them to eradicate poverty by industrialization... yeah right. Tonight there is a program on tv about the liquid waste from Indian pharmaceutical plants contaminating whole rivers in India. The produced medicins go to European consumers (maybe to cure a desease caused by industrial foods...) and the waste is left to the Indians to deal with (read: get seriously sick). Its just crazy the whole system, isn't it?

Sleepless and on "C-o-C"

Last night I have been working as a water shuttle for Kidone. She suddenly got a caugh that seems to be rather painful and a fever to go with the pain. Today, I have eyes that do not want to obey my impulses and a mind not apt for thinking. Not so good considering my deadlines. However, with small children this can always happen and when it does, it is the best moment to take a break and focus on the essentials. That is why the concept of "care of child" (VAB- vård av barn = employer must let parent stay on sick-leave with sick children under 10 years of age) is the best invention in the world. It doesn't only let you care for your child, it also forces you to care for yourself.

So I am now forcing myself to take a break and make a cake for my patient that seems to have gone on a food strike. Unfortunatelly, she was supposed to go to one of her best friends birthday party tonight, so to cure her grief I've promised to make a cake. Just wonder how to do that with this mushy brain of mine.

Kefir

Found myself a Kefir dealer. Will get my creatures next Thursday. Excited.

The Ministry of Healing the Land