Our latest venture...

This week Tim & I signed up with the company Monavie. With so many people fighting health issues and especially cancer from free-radical, abnormal cells, their product makes sense. It's from the acai berry, preserved by a procedure that retains 99% of the berry's nutrients. (Most store-bought acai berry drinks aren't as healthy, since the berry loses all but 12% of it's nutritional value in the first 24 hrs. of being picked). Their flash freeze process done on-site in Brazil makes all the difference.
You just drink the Monavie juice, just 2 oz. twice a day, and it's a blend of 19 fruits from the 4 corners of the world, and has the anti-oxident and nutritional value of 7 - 9 servings of fruit. It's not a cure, not medicine, but it's a superfood, which means it can sustain life on its own. How cool is that in a society where we never eat enough fruits and vegetables, and those we do aren't natural anymore unless you buy organic?

The best part is the money. We've been involved in other systems before, but they never had this kind of money, especially this quickly. I had the opportunity to meet people making thousands of dollars a WEEK and they aren't superstars, or the unusually successful type, and they've only been in a year or less! The cool part is, we can start for just $39, not hundreds and hundreds.

Finally, there's light at the end of the financial tunnel and it isn't a train!
It's good to have hope again.

What did the world do before video games?

I've spent most of the day watching my son and my husband playing video games. I enjoy using the wii as much as the next person. It's fun to play tennis, bowling, golf, baseball, shooting, billiards, and more - and the mii people/characters are so cute! I love creating them and downloading cute ones like Chicken Little, Yakko Warner and Snoopy. But the system's been on at least 8 hours today. First Adam plays online against people in Guitar Hero III, then in Medal of Honor 2. It's very different from playing against a computer, or someone in your house. But now even my husband's addicted to playing the online WWII game! It's kind of funny when Tim says, "You know, Adam, you've been playing for over an hour..." Then he proceeds to play for the next hour and a half himself!

Meanwhile, I sit here in our tiny living room wishing we had the new house already. I'd be in my room away from all the noise, or relaxing in the swimming pool, or enjoying the clear, warm, night sky, or making something in my beautiful new kitchen.
But here I sit, wondering, "What did the world do before video games?"

I remember growing up, my parents would put me on the back porch, threaten me if I left the yard, then locked the door for the next 3 or 4 hours. I spent so many hours on our postage-stamp sized yard in the city with nothing to do but draw, read, and occassionally exchange a few words if a neighbor came out.

My kids used to always play outside riding bikes, climbing trees, playing on their swingset, digging in the mud, you know, outdoor stuff. Here we don't have a yard, so they can sometimes play a sport in the grassy common area, or ride their bikes, but I can't wait til we're in a neighborhood where they can walk around, explore, meet the new neighbors, and play at friends' houses.

Anything but waste hours on end playing games and staring at the TV. The part that really gets me is that the war game that they spend hours playing doesn't involve activity like other wii games - it's just like all the rest - great for building couch potatoes.

I hope we get the house soon!