Mom Knows Everything

We all know how important it is to drink water, but I hate drinking plain water. It's so bland! I recently tried MiO and it's great! Not only does it flavor your water, but you can choose just how much favor you want. You simply squirt either a little or a lot, depending upon your choice, in your water and enjoy.

Abour MiO -

MiO is a liquid water enhancer that lets you make up to 24 250 mL drinks with one little squeeze bottle.  There's four tasty flavours to choose from - Berry Pomegranate, Fruit Punch, Mango Peach, and my favorite, Strawberry Watermelon. 

Each of MiO's four flavours are:

• Zero calories per 2 mL serving, 250 mL prepared
• Sugar-free
• Kosher
• Tasty
• Good Looking

Smoothies are very popular these days. I'm not really a smoothie fan myself, but there is one type of smoothies I do like.....orange juice smoothies. Orange juice smoothies are really easy to make and are delicious. Here's my recipe for them.

In blender put -
1 cup orange juice
1 cup skim milk
1/3 cup sugar (can use less, but I like mine sweet)
8 ice cubes

Blend until smooth. Makes two large glasses so you can cut the recipe in half if you are only making for one person. I make the large batch because whenever I make one someone else wants one too.

Although I can not take create for writing this, it was written by Philadelphia teacher Mary Carpenter on a Facebook post, I think that this too is my Mother's Day Wish.

Dear Children,

Mother’s Day is coming up, and I thought I should tell you what I want. This way there’s no guilty panic or last minute purchasing of flowers at the closest gas station. So, this is what I want, this year and every year after; it’s pretty simple really.

I want you to be a decent human being.

I want you to be who you are, but don’t be a (jerk).

I want you to work hard at everything you do, because life is too short not
to give it everything you’ve got.

I want you to ask for help when you need it.

I want you to help others when they need it.

I want you to learn how to cook, do your own laundry, pay your bills and
know how to clean a bathroom.

When you screw up, and you will, more than once, I want you to own it,
because it’s the screw-ups that make the victories sweeter.

I want you to travel, because the world is huge and you are one part of it.

I want you to know that even when we hate each other, I will never stop
loving you.

I want you to play nicely with others.

I want you to feed your curiosity.

I want you to find a way to do what you love, and realize that that might
look different than you originally thought.

I want you to respect every human being’s right to be who they are.

I want you to sometimes be more interested in someone else than in
yourself.

I want you to know that you are flawed and you are extraordinary. There is
no one else like you.

I want you to know that I would lay down my life for you in Lily Potter
fashion, any day of the week.

I want you to realize how lucky you are every once in awhile even if only for
an instant.

I want you to know love, even if it means getting hurt.

I want you to relax and not feel guilty about it.

I want you to know life can be brutally hard sometimes.

I want you to know that you can choose happiness even when the dark
side offers you cookies.

And…I wouldn’t mind breakfast in bed.

See, simple.

Love,
Mom

Spring is here and it's actually feeling a lot like summer most days. One thing I love about this time of year is that all the flowers are starting to bloom. I have many flower beds in my yard and I often get complements on them. People ask me what's my secret to growing my flowers and technically I have two secrets. The first secret to growing flowers is fertilizer. Many people go out and buy fertilizer, but I go the old fashioned way.....I get fertilizer right from the farm. I live in a rural area, really rural, and that means the I can get rich fertilizer straight from the farm up the road. My second secret is Miracle Grow. Once a week I water my plants with Miracle Grow. Between these two things I get strong beautiful flowers.

If you're having problems growing flowers in your garden why not try these two things and let me know how you make out.

Being a mother of both a boy and a girl there are times where I really notice the difference between the two of them. Well sure, there is the obvious difference, but there are so many more differences. My daughter is almost 11 years older than my son, but when I think back to when she was his age the differences are so outstanding. Firstly there is the whole mud and dirt thing. Why is it boys, no matter what they are doing, end up dirty? Using their imagination is another thing. When my daughter played it was always sunshine, puppy dogs, and rainbows. With my sun it's always fast cars, fighter airplanes, and destruction. Now lets talk about outside and going for walks. Sunday was a beautiful day and we went for a walk. My daughter always looked for flowers, pretty leaves, and stuff like that. My son on the other hand had to turn every rock we came across over in search of snakes and salamanders.

Yep, boys and girls are really different even if they are brother and sister!