Karen’s Opinion

Poor Val has not been feeling well and was a bit late getting Four Foods on Friday questions up for us to answer. Get well soon Val!

Here are the questions for this past Friday.

1. Are there any drinks you feel help you get better when you’re sick?
Unfortunately I was sick recently and can answer that good ole Gatorade was the only thing I could stand do drink.

2. Are there any foods you feel help you get better when you’re sick? Pancakes

3. Starve a cold, feed a fever. Do you believe this? I am not sure what this means. I am always hungry. Being sick never helps me diet.

4. Who cooks when you’re sick? My husband is usually the one who cooks in our house. He cooks when I am sick.

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I need my mommy! LOL Seriously though, I need someone to hold me accountable to maintaining an exercise schedule. When my mom is home from her winter stay, she and I walk and go to the gym. We sorta coax each other into doing what we need to do.

I think accountability is the key to successful exercise programs. The other key is eating sensibly. There is a great website, www.wellnessdaily.com, that has valuable tips to help us get on the right track to good health. There is a section on eating healthy foods that gives portion sizes to help you choose the correct size to help you maintain or lose weight. Our minds have been tricked into thinking the portions served at restaurants are what we are supposed to eat. Check out the sizes given on the website. You will be pleasantly surprised.

The website is helpful when deciding on supplements, healthy snacks and which exercises benefit you most. Unlike other health information websites, Wellness Daily is easy to read and I found it so interesting that I had to drag myself away.

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What do they do with all that stuff they used during the Olympics? If you think about all the buildings you would hope they would be put to good use but what about the other things like decorations and signs?

Mannington Mills has partnered with 3M Canada, the folks who supplied the graphics that we saw everywhere from on the sides of buses to billboards. Mannington plans to turn the material into an ingredient they can use to make premium tile flooring.

Mannington already recycles post consumer products from drywall and vinyl composition tile and diverted more than 19 million pounds of previously used flooring and drywall from landfills.

Way to go Mannington in their efforts to recycle and reuse!

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Reality shows are very popular these days and I admit to being caught up in a few of them myself. I don’t know why but I am interested in how Jen and Bill of the Little Couple and Michelle and Jim Bob of 19 Kids and Counting react to every day things in their lives. The thing I like about their personalities that differ from other reality shows is the respect they show each other. You can tell that they genuinely care about each other.

I was similarly impressed with the movie The Blindside, starring Sandra Bullick. That movie showed how a person can make a difference in someone’s life.

Now and then, I run across a book that has the possibility of changing lives. One such book is Raising a Father written by Arjun Sen. The following video gives a hint of what the book is about.

If we stop to think about the amount of time spent with our children, we are often surprised to see how quickly the time passes. This author of this book made a big decision to leave the corporate world to spend more time with his daughter. At the age of 37, he realized that he wanted to be more the father that she wanted him to be instead of what the corporate world expected of him. Not many come to this realization or if they do are willing to sacrifice success for the sake of a relationship. I admire that he was able to not only see the light but was able to walk the walk. Raising a Father is a wonderful account of how important relationships are.

This book sounds like a wonderful gift for someone. I am anxious to read it to find out how, as a mom, I can get closer to my kids.