Monday Mix-Up Continued… (Click here to go back to page 1.)
Here's what I've found for you this week…
- Catch a couple more conference highlights that you may have missed after last weekend. First, from my local blogging friend, Melissa: My first visit to the land of milk and honey. And here is a fun conference video from Mama Natural (even though I have a dorky look on my face!):
I love the part with Jenny — I was watching sweet Paloma while Genevieve and Mike filmed this, and because I'm a mom and can multitask, I also got a quick shot of the whole scene:
- Do you guys remember when my friend Jill wrote a guest post here about her husband, David, choosing to wear a mask at his job rather than get a flu shot? (There are lots of sources for help at that link if you're in that situation.) Well he ended up quitting because he couldn't take another 6 months in that mask (and thankfully he has another great job where the flu shot isn't mandatory), well now the hospital where he used to work doesn't even give the mask option anymore, it's take the shot or be fired!!!!! The Land of the Free? NOT! By the way, David just wrote an e-book on flu vaccine mandates for healthcare workers and it will be available very soon. I'll keep you updated! Read the interesting Facebook conversation about all of this here. If you are a healthcare worker, do you have to get a flu shot every year, and if so, how have you handled it?
- By the way, did you know that Facebook HIDES my posts from you, even if you've liked my page?! I've got over 50,000 followers, but many posts are only seen by a couple hundred people because FB wants me to pay them to advertise. (That's why some stuff in my Monday posts are duplicated from FB because no one saw it yet!) If you want to make me really happy, go to my page here, and right by where it says “LIKED” (hopefully you've liked my page already), click the arrow there for a drop down menu, and click “get notifications”. That should work so you'll see more of what I've posted. ALSO, if you comment or like more of my stuff, that'll also make it so you'll see more. THANKS GUYS!
- I figured it was a good time to share a tried and true recipe for how to cook a turkey:
- Here's another one that cracked me up from Facebook last week:
- Did you catch last week's posts? Here are the highlights:
- American Academy of Pediatrics, take note: European Study Shows Connection Between Consumption of Raw Milk and Lower Infections in Children. “There is additional new evidence that raw milk is a protective agent in infectious diseases in young children,” says Prof. Dr. Ton Baars, a senior scientist for milk quality and animal welfare at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Germany.” (Source)
- Here's the book that convinced me of the safety and benefits of raw milk, and we haven't looked back since:
Have you seen this post: The Perfect Raw Milk Pour Spout.
Or this one? Everything you wanted to know about raw milk safety issues, benefits, and more: 
Last one on raw milk: our youngest is showing off his shirt here, and at this Raw Milk Superpowers post, you'll find out all the ways you can help your beloved raw milk farmer by supporting the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund! 
- Does your spouse support or sabotage your efforts in the kitchen as you try to feed your family healthier? Scroll down through the posts at this link to read more about that and also find out how my husband, Kent, feels about all the changes around here in the past few years. 🙂
- Here's my weekly reminder to be sure and look around my archive page if you haven't lately and my recipe-finder page.
Have a great week!
Jen D says
I think you are just being real when you show your grief. I have not had to go through that grief yet but hearing about it helps me try to live in the moment and realize that we often take family and family gatherings for granted. So you are helping me by not just burying it and moving on. I’m saying an extra prayer for you and your family as we enter the holidays.
KitchenKop says
Thanks Jen, I’m very grateful for that.
Love,
Kel
Tracy says
I work in a hospital where flu shots are mandatory. There are only two options around it: You can declare a medical reason (ie egg allergy, in which case they’ll give you an egg-free vaccine). Or you can have your clergy write out why the flu shot goes against your religious beliefs; you cannot write this statement yourself. My pastor is new and I don’t know him well enough to ask for this. Only then can you wear the mask. However, I work in a Neonatal ICU. If you were a parent and I walked up to your baby’s bedside wearing a mask, what would you think? That I was sick. So I called employee health and made sure they had the flu mist available. Then, right before I went in, I completely coated the inside of my nostrils with coconut oil. The employee health nurse handed me the syringe with the flu mist in it, told me to shoot it up my nose, and as I was doing that, she turned her back. I didn’t inhale or anything and most of it dripped right out. Then she handed me a tissue and turned her back again, so I promptly “absorbed” whatever flu mist was still hanging around. I realize this isn’t ideal, but I feel like my options are extremely limited at this point.
KitchenKop says
I wonder if she turned her back just so you could do that? Maybe she hates the policy too?!
Either way, good thinking on your part.
Kelly
Karly says
There so a lot of advice out there about ways to avoid the mandatory flu vaccines for health care workers, but does anyone have any ideas for active duty military? My husband is required to get the shot or the flu mist every year from the military clinic. There is no legal way to refuse. Is there anything he might do to lessen effects or try to repair the damage afterward. He’s young and healthy now and I would like him to stay that way.
KitchenKop says
Karly,
Have you seen this one?
https://kellythekitchenkop.com/protection-before-forced-vaccination-welcome-healthy-home-economist-readers.html
Kelly
jmr says
I know you’re still grieving for your Mom. My father died at Christmastime when I was quite young. For the first couple years, Christmas became a time to grieve. Now, years later, it’s always the time we talk about and remember my dad the most. We’ll always miss him, but now it is with joy that we remember him. I pray that in a year or two, you’ll be able to feel more of that same joy for your mother and much less of the grief and pain. And write about it all you want on your blog. Most of us have lost a loved one and we hurt for you.
Thank you for the laugh about cooking a turkey.
KitchenKop says
I pray that too, thanks for your understanding!
xoxo,
Kel