Well I haven’t updated about myself in some time.  (That sounded self centered) LOL! I have been responding to the oral chemo pretty well.  It did give me a few kidney stones which were NOT fun!  I feel well and I think it has a lot to do with my life style.  I eat as good as one person can.  The fuel to my body is definitely SUPER unleaded! LOL! Keeps me going… I like to try a lot of new alkaline recipes for meals and deserts.  Some have been good and others poo, but none the less I’m trying!  Here is one that turned out super yummy!!  I also provided the recipe!  My kids didn’t even know it was healthy LOL! Those are the best kinds!  Eating this way just doesn’t make you feel good it also makes you look good! I am skinnier than I was in High School and I’m pretty excited about that!  I of course work out 3-4x a week which helps this, but all in all what you put in your mouth is what you become.   Harsh but the hard truth!

Feel free and follow me on pinterest! I find LOTS of good recipes for the healthy body! And I can tweak just about any recipe to be a healthy one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 1/2 cups quick ORGANIC (RAW) cooking oats
1/4 cup packed ORGANIC light brown sugar
1 teaspoon (aluminum free) baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ORGANIC vanilla extract
1/2 cup Coconut Milk or Almond Milk
1 large egg, lightly beaten (Cage free Brown Organic Eggs)
1 large mashed ORGANIC banana
1/4 cup creamy ORGANIC Almond Butter

Mix together the quick cooking oats, light brown sugar, baking powder, and ground cinnamon.

Add in the vanilla extract, milk and egg. Mix the ingredients together.

Then add in the mashed banana and almond butter. Combine all of the ingredients.

Pour the mixture into a lightly greased 8 by 8 inch metal baking pan. Bake at 350 F degrees for 20 minutes.

Cut into squares and enjoy! and add a little raw honey on top!

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Well after 6 hours at IAH waiting to fly to Florida and using stand by tickets we kept getting bumped to the next flight.  We were headed to Orlando for a week at Disney with my little ones.  So since we already lost a day we decided to just make the trip.  We drove to Destin last year for our summer vaca and it wasn’t that bad.  Well add on about 5 more hours to an already 10hr trip WHEW I can’t believe we made it there alive!

Disney was so much fun.  Other than eating like crap and gaining weight at least we walked it all off! LOL!  When I took my PH levels before I left it was 7.4 when I returned I was very acitic at 6.2.  If you don’t know what this means it is the break down of your PH in your body.  This helps fight disease and in my case I need it to be normal! NOT ACITIC!  Just goes to show you what a weeks worth of junk food does to you.  I was so sick as well…felt horrible!  Kylie my oldest even broke out in hives from the food.  Just goes to show you how our body responds after feeding it so well.  Makes you wonder huh?

Anyways, enough on the health rant.  All and all we had a great time!  The girls had a blast and I enjoyed meeting people from all over the world.  Even made some new friends from NYC.  Hoping to stay in touch with them.  He use to be a WWE wrestler which I thought was cool.  I also ran into a few of my clients randomly…Jason (my hubby) said only I would do that LOL! I really do just LOVE people!  Since I forgot my dang camera I had to use my stinkin phone! UGH!!  For a photographer I wasn’t to happy! SO here are some of the pictures I did get

This summer is going to be full of fun things!  In a few weeks we will celebrate my birthday at the river (21 again:)), and then a GNO (much needed) at Paiting with a Twist, then Cali with some friends for a quick (childless) vaca! I’m SO excited about this Summer!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watching the Parade.

Funny how life changes not only how we think, but also how we look at things.  I have 2 girls (ages 2&4), they are my LIFE! They are my heart walking around. Every day is a new adventure in our house. Instead of huffing and puffing and having NO patience, I now sit back, relax & enjoy the ride!  I no longer yell, scream or even give spankings.  I discipline differently than I use to.  I have patience like I have never had before, and most of all I feel a LOVE like I have never.  Not only for my beautiful girls, but also my wonderful husband.

A few years back Jason (My hubby) and I had a very rocky road.  I honestly wasn’t sure our marriage would make it.  I was tested beyond measure.  Here we are 3 years later with a love we would have never known if we didn’t’ cross that bridge.  God always knows what he’s doing.  Sometimes in life we have to walk down a rocky road to cross a bridge to a more smooth road on the other side.  Not only do I see this in my marriage, but also in myself.  I am comfortable in my own skin.  How many people can actually say that? Not many!  I love ME!  I wouldn’t of chosen anyone else’s life but my own. 

Life really is what you make it. No matter what rocks get thrown at you.  You can dodge them or let them hit you…your choice!  We really do make our own choices on how we react to things in life.  When I was first diagnosed with Leukemia I was a bit shocked.  The last thing I wanted in this world was to have cancer.  I use to actually pray I would never get it!  Well here we are…, but the good thing is it has changed me.  Not for the worse, but for the better.  I now take life with strides instead of jumps.  Things no longer bother me like they use to.  I am sad I have to battle this ugly disease, and I’m not sure about my future, but I know that whatever may come I’m lucky.  I would have never chosen a different path for me.

 

Growing up as a child (only child) in an abusive home I saw the world through fearful eyes.  I walked through life in fear.  I was always afraid to turn the corner.  I not only lived in fear I walked in it.  No matter how strong I thought my faith was…it would always be shaken.  I didn’t KNOW the Lord.  I thought I did.  I saw through worldly eyes.  When you become a new creation (Christian) you pick up your cross and walk with HIM.  I always thought I understood that. NOPE!  Not till now.  Not till I stared death in the face and laughed.  Not because I was scared, but for the first time I felt what FAITH meant!  It meant to look fear in the eye and LAUGH! 

So I must say God is good…he is not just good when everything is going our way, but he is good ALL the time!  When you stop living with the world and in the fear that it offers, but pick up your cross and walk, that is when you know what FAITH is.  I now see this and for this…I am grateful!  I think I can say at the age of 30 I have FINALLY GROWN UP!

PS:  I’m starting to write a book.  I’m very blessed to have met a girl who lives 3 blocks away who is not only a writer, but also a CML survivor. God is REALLY working in my life.  I can’t wait to share…

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Well Karrington my youngest turns 3 on May 26th.  Her birthday party is next weekend.  I’m SO excited to see her face when she see’s all of her friends and family around.  I also got a clown (which should be fun).  I go a little all out for birthdays.  I think it’s the ONE time a year you should really celebrate!  Every birthday is a blessing…I see this now more than I ever have.

Here are some cute pictures I took of her.  Her theme is Bubble Guppies…her fave show!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You read that right….I have had SO much energy lately I’m just waiting to CRASH!  My new obsession (SUPER FOODS)!!  Crazy what you learn when you think outside of the American box.  Last year at this time I would have never thought I would be eating algae as a part of my diet!  Spirulina is one of the BEST super foods there are.  GO RAW has some awesome Energy Bars that will wake you up and knock you into super man mode! 

I have been reading a few books which I will list at the bottom of this post.  I find it a blessing to learn all this so I can share with others.  I enjoy it more than I enjoy photography and that is SHOCKING to say!  God has really given me a heart for healthy living.  I am officially VEGAN! I guess the way I live now you could call me a hippie.  Aside from the smoking marijuana that is…LOL!  Why I went vegan? Well this Southern girl was raised on MEAT!  My dad use to compete in BBQ cook offs all the time growing up.  So I think I have had enough meat in my body to last my life time.  Meat is super acidic and VERY bad for people with cancer…like wise so is SUGAR! 

When your body is acidic its a breading place for bad bacteria AND CANCER cells!  For someone with cancer I have a rocking PH level! NO disease can live in a high alkline ph.  So with this world and the way we live most people are acidic especially those with a disease.  If you are acidic you are a disaster waiting to happen.  I have learned SO much even since Janurary of this year.  I thought I knew what was healthy, and I thought I was healthy!  I thought I knew what eating clean and organic was all about.  Man was I mistaken!!

One day I will write a book about my life testimony.  I know for a fact God has called me to where I am now.  I am a dreamer as they say.  I dream about things that will happen, and these visions ALWAYS come true!  I had a dream recently that I was standing in a room that was full of sunshine and white.  I was standing next to a table (only thing in the room) with a book under my arm.  I was super nervous and could hear a loud group of people cheering on the other side of the wall.  In walks a man and grabs my arm asking if I am ready.  I told him I was very nervous and he said I would do GREAT!  He opened the door and as I walked out the door the cheering got louder and louder, and I knew that it was for ME!  I woke up and first thing that came to mind is I was speaking and this was my calling.  I am here to uplift people through trying times with Gods words.  His word speaks life to those who believe.  He IS a miracle worker and a HEALER of man!  Then my friend confirmed my dream by a dream he had.  He told me we were going to some big gathering and we were walking from our cars into some place where there was a lot of people. I thought that was pretty cool!  He is also a dreamer and a ROCKIN man of God!

I AM HEALED!! Do I have proof on paper from the doctors yet? NO.  But I know God has healed me.  Sometimes we don’t see the supernatural.  He has healed me not only of my disease, but of my past and has healed a broken heart.  I really felt God speak to me saying…Shara if you don’t FORGIVE those who have hurt you then I can not heal you or forgive you.  So from that moment on I have been forgiven & HEALED!  What a moving experience.

God is so amazing isn’t he? He can take a test and turn it into a TESTIMONY, and victim into a VICTOR!  He can ALWAYS use your bad and turn it into something GREAT!  We aer promised this, and he holds to his promises.

Books reading:  Super food the futures medicine by David Wolfe, Crazy, Sexy Diet by Kris Carr, and Knock out by Suzanne Summers, Healing the sick by T.L Osborne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I am also selling some darling Leukemia awareness bracelets.  This helps A LOT with the unexpected medical bills we now have.  And WOW are they BIG! I can only imagine having to pay MD Anderson all this for the rest of my life (as they say).  My husband has his own company so our insurance blows!  It barely covers anything and the deductible is off the roof!  I’m never one to ask for anything, but these bills are NOT cheap! After the bills are paid ALL the remaining $ goes to the LLS (http://www.lls.org/).  Also, if you are not a bone marrow donor PLEASE become one!  It is just a swab of the mouth. SO easy and could one day save a life!

Scripture of the day:  For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6:14