Monday Morning Mix-Up 9/27/10
September 27, 2010 · 8 comments
A couple things before I share some fun pictures with you:
Tomorrow I’ll announce the WINNER of the Real Food Nutrition & Health e-course! Email me for a $20 off coupon code! (Kelly@KellytheKitchenKop.com)
Are there any Christian Moms out there who would like a handy Holiday Planner? Written in part by Marilyn Moll, who most of my readers know, if you’re a type A planner like myself, this will be right up your alley. As all type-A’s know, to stay on your game you must start early. The suggestions in the book begin with things to do starting with next week! You can see some sample pages at that link.
- We went to Art Prize TWICE over the weekend! We went out for our 23rd anniversary Friday night with Bob & Sonia and Joe & Meg (who were celebrating their 18th), and then Sunday we went back with the kids, my sister, and my niece who is home from Seattle. I got some great pictures to share with you! (Read last Monday’s post if you don’t know what I’m talking about…) Did I mention that the whole thing is free?
Here’s where we went first, Kent loves this place:
Next we saw “the pig”, notice the people below so you can see how huge it is!
Look at these neat sculptures, all made out of nails:
Aren’t these faces cool?
I love this “statue guy” (I don’t know what he’s really called):
Here’s the 6 of us, you can see the bottom of the pig above our heads (kind of blurry… Isn’t Sonia’s hat cute? She said she loves it because then she doesn’t have to do her hair!):
This one was kind of dumb, in a fun way, and I thought it was a good way to show you the crazy range of entries that you see at Art Prize. These are pieces of toast that have messages on them from people who text their message to a certain number…
Now for my favorite. When you walk up to this one, here’s what you see – it’s 8 different boards, painted a different shade of brown, with each shape a little different than the one behind it:
The sign says it’s a picture of a late congresswoman from Ohio. Then you step on these two feet out in front and here’s what you see – ISN’T THIS SO COOL?!
I took this last one (with the pig in the background) to show you how hopping downtown Grand Rapids was at 11:00 at night – as I said before, the “feel” walking around the city was so fun and exciting and just reminds of of Chicago:
Now for some real foodie goodies – I have a lot this week:
Later this week I’m putting up another post on vaccines. It’s about a chat I had with a nurse at our doctor’s office. Those are the kinds of posts I LOVE to write, when the words literally jump off my fingers because I’m all riled about something. I can’t wait to hear what you guys think about this one…
Normally I don’t link to Mercola anymore since that time he and his peeps irritated me, but Kent found a great article in the Huffington Post worth sharing: If You Want to Age Gracefully Don’t Eat This. I love the part that starts out like this: “Read this if you believe fruit is healthy and you can consume unlimited amounts…”
Dr. Oz is clueless about REAL Nutrition – a great post from Sarah!
Could there be a spy in your midst? Interesting (creepy?) post from Kristen…
Alex just posted about the latest push to get us to eat more baby carrots, “Eat ‘em like they’re junk food.” The only problem is, I had heard that the stuff they use for preservative in the non-organic ones is pretty bad, but I don’t know details. Does anyone know more?
When you see the picture in this article, “We can build whatever animal you want to eat, say scientists,” see if you don’t think the same thing I did: “That has GOT to be fake!” The whole article is just plain scary.
I’ll see you here later this week for Real Food Wednesday!
A couple things before I share some fun pictures with you:
I took this last one (with the pig in the background) to show you how hopping downtown Grand Rapids was at 11:00 at night – as I said before, the “feel” walking around the city was so fun and exciting and just reminds of of Chicago:
Now for some real foodie goodies – I have a lot this week:
I’ll see you here later this week for Real Food Wednesday!
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Neat pictures!!
I read lots of those articles already. What a surprise, more people got it wrong!! lol. Oh well…we just have to keep at it.
I can’t wait to see your post on vaccines. It’s a topic that continues to irritate me!
About the salmon: I got an email notification late last week that apparently the FDA is not approving the genetically engineered variety at this time but cannot find any news sources to back it up yet.
I got the same info about the FDA putting the salmon issue on hold for m ore research. Can you imagine if this frankenfood got out and mixed with wild salmon?
I can’t wait for the post on vaccines … our eldest is preparing to leave for Cambodia, India and Thailand for a 5 month mission trip in January. The list of vaccines she has to have is horrifying! I don’t even know where to start researching what is truly necessary (if any of them really are?) and what doesn’t have to be done. Also, any info from anyone about a staggered schedule so we don’t bombard her system with so much at once. HELP!! Thanks!!
I was so caught up in my rant about vaccines I totally forgot to wish you a Happy Anniversary!! And, the pix of the art show were wonderful!! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Elaine!
I’m working on this for you…will let you know when I hear back from someone.
Kel
Elaine, OK, here was Sally Fallon’s response to your question. I emailed asking who you could contact to ask about which vaccines would be a good idea, and this is what she said:
“I have traveled all over the world, even to Africa, and never had a vaccine. They are not required. Sally”
Wow, Kelly!! Thanks so much! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you taking this on and asking for me. Please send my thanks to Sally!!