Hungry anyone?

Don't think we will be forgetting Christmas Dinner 2009

The Holiday has ended!

I am so greatful that it is over and done with and all my decorations are back at the storage unit. I can not bear to start a new year with all the old stuff up reminding me that it is still Christmas. Even the lights are down from the bushes. wow! It looks like we have so much more space in the family room without that giant needle dropping Noble Fir tree by the TV. I have started thinking of my goals for this coming year.
1.Move out of California
2.Get rid of the "stuff" that we have in our place including the stuff in storage.
3.let my hair grow out again.
4.Cook every recipe in this cookbook
5.finish Personal Progress and receive my adult medallion

Not too hard in case God throws us some curve balls. I think we could really move out of here if something opens us anywhere but here. I would move to Alaska if that was avaliable. But mostly I would like to move to Oregon, Warshington, Texas, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, Alabama, Kentucky, Kansas etc. Just not L.A. County or the rest of California unless it was in mountains and away from lots of people.

Merry Christmas!

with love,
The Warrens 2009

Happy Merry!

I watched the funniest episode of Community where they were so PC about the holidays that they just called it Happy Merry. Can America get anymore ridiculous??
Anyhoo here are some Happy Merrys goings ons at ours houses.

can't stop hugging jeremy when he is wearing Stetson All America- I call him my Tom Brady
Ho Ho Ho! Santy came early to our house this year!
This is what happens to your tree when the kids take the pictures
lens wouldn't open all the way, but Emily is enjoying the fake snow AKA- Rain.

My Own Personal Miracle

5 points for the one who guesses where that line comes from.

anyhoo we had our christmas break early this year. in fact we combined it with thanksgiving and took the following week off from school and work. I thought we were going to palm springs and there was no way Sarah was gonna miss school for that. But the night before we left for the weekend Jeremy tells me we are spending a week at Disneyland and California Adventure!!! Totally sweet news! (The kids had no idea where were until on the tram going into disneyland and the drive said welcome to Disneyland. Boy were they shocked and excited!) So we packed and piled into the car for a long 30 minute drive to Anaheim and checked into the time share and headed off to Disneyland. It is suppose to be the slowest holiday week but for reals people! it was pretty packed. We did almost everything and i think we had more fun at california adventure than disneyland. It was less crowded and had a ton of rides for the little darlings. the lines were no wait at all too. major bonus! It was perfect weather and we saw a great parade and great characters. I love Frontier Town and New Orleans Square the best. So i got to take a picture with Jesse and Woody and I yelled out " There's a snake in my boot" and jesse started laughing and woody just turned at me and shook his head. it was hilarious! well our camera was dead so we had to borrow one and all the pics on that camera. so the pictures will just have to come later. oh yeah and with the Princess and the Frog coming out this week they had a huge jubilee that was mardi gras style and I was lovin all the jive!!! i can't wait to see that movie! So we ended up with season passes and literally broke the bank account. Disney did it again to poor california family but this is our Christmas present and I can't wait to go back!

My Experiement

So for all my life I have had issues with food. Not with comsuming too much or too little but the whole digestion thing. I felt like any time I was going to eat something there would be a problem. And I eat pretty healthy. Hey the daily brownie is healthy right? So finally at age 100, I mean 31, I decided something has got to change and I wasn't about to go through some crazy tests with a doctor. I simply don't have the time or patience to listen to some bozo "try" and figure out what went wrong with me. I am pretty smart and not clueless about different digestion problems. Heck, my mother has Colitis, so I know about THOSE problems. Not cool and very painful if not eating properly. So I was challenged to do the Atkins Diet cuz I mocked it so badly. And yeah, I totally believe in the Food Pyramid so it was easy to laugh at Dr. Atkins. Wow. Big. Mistake. So about 2 1/2 weeks ago I set aside my craving for sweets and breads etc. I lost my craving treats *sob sob* and guess what? I also lost my painful digestion problems. I didn't figure it out until taco salad night at my house for din din. I asked jeremy to grab some chips on the way home from work and he shows up with Gluten Free Chips. I started laughing and asked him why he bought Gluten free chips. Jeremy says: They were the cheapest.
Little did we know that was going to change my life. Within 20-30 minutes after eating I start to have a serious, painful problem along with other unsavory responses to the food I had just eaten.
After Taco Salad, I have nothing. I was confused. I stopped and looked at Jeremy and said "Something is wrong, different, I feel good with no tummy aches. Why?
I went through what we ate. Ground Beef, cheese(my enemy cuz i thought i was lactose intolerant), tomatoes, lettuce and gluten free chips. I knew it! The chips were the only thing different. I had a gluten problem. After that I night I was strictly adhereing to a gluten free, sugar free diet along with Atkins and the results have been astounding. I accidently had a soup with barley in it and was suffering but I didn't repeat that. It was my control soup if you know what i mean. So now I begin a new chapter in my life as a Gluten Free Mom.
It works for me and I am happy to follow this new food lifestyle. I started losing a ton of weight with no other changes to my exercise. Who knew?? I don't need a doctor to tell me otherwise cuz this seems to be working. Finally I can eat without wanting to die afterwards. Now I just have to annoy everyone else by asking what is in their food all the time. How do I do that tactfully? I guess I will figure it out as I go along.

PTA rears its ugly head

How do I get the old PTA pres to hand over all the budget and bylaws so we can do our audit and get on with the new year????? any suggestions cuz threats aren't working!