Organize As You Go by Marie Ricks

It's true. My favorite pass time is reading Organizational, Parenting, Self Help and newly, Political/Government books. I just can't get enough of them.

I picked up this book on one of my "Seagull Runs". It just popped out to me. Ironically, I have two other organization books by Marie Ricks I haven't read yet!

This is a great book. I have read soooo many and this one is awesome.
First of all, the chapters are really short. So you can read one a day to help motivate you. Marie is fun and light hearted, but encouraging none-the-less.
Secondly, she actually gives advice that I have never head heard before. This is why it popped out to me. With chapters titled"Regroup When They Get Grumpy","Bad News to Good Progress","Deal with Double Discouragements","Maintain Functional Chaos","The Oops Syndrome". How could it not be good??!
There is a little "FLYlady" in here, but I am sure it is her own. Instead of 15 minutes, its "90 Minute miracles".
Take a look!

Mother Warriors By Jenny McCarthy- Autism's False Prophet's By Paul A. Offitt

This book is about how celebrity Jenny McCarthy is handling getting her message out about Autism and stories of other mothers who have had success treating their children's Autism with alternative methods.
She states that by diet you can cure Autism.
I am also reading "Autism's False Prophets" along side of it. They are totally different approaches. While Jenny's book is a more in the trenches and an emotional approach. Offitt's book is purely scientific studies. So you have to go where your belief style is.
On this subject, I am more inclined to take Jenny's side. Why? Because I have seen alternative medicine fix things that traditional medicine told me there was nothing to do.
I have never seen or heard Jenny McCarthy on any of the talk shows, so I went into this being blind. But I had heard, many years ago,that through diet you can help this condition. If you have an autistic child, it would be worth the $13.00. What is it going to hurt to get your child B vitamins and no dairy to see if they improve.

My pediatrician suggested I read "Autism's False Prophets" to help convince me of the safety of the MMR shot through studies not linking MMR vaccinations to autism. Although all of the evidence or studies are there, But of course, anyone can do studies to the be convincing of the result they intend I still do not have the peaceful feeling about inoculating my children with this shot. I think it's called "Mother's intuition".
Autism's False Prophets is written by a doctor who worked to help concoct the rotovirus vaccination. Which leads me to the question "Why is an expert on infectious diseases writing a book on treatments for a non-infectious disease?" Actually, all he is doing is trying to dispel all non traditional methods of treating autism. He says he is not apart of the "big Pharma" but really? Honestly, his attitude is a downer. It's like he's slamming the studies in your face and saying "It's not our fault, ain't nothing you can do about it, don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out."

Both of these books are generated more to parents who have an autistic child, which I do not. I read this book to see if I could ease my fear, to get the MMR shot, it did not work. I still feel the same. This is a personal decision we all have to make.

By The Way: For two of my pregnancies I was not immune to Rubella. My second and my fifth children. They are 13 years apart. My point: the efficacy (how long it lasts) and that shot REALLY stings and hurts even for a tough broad like me!

100 People Who Are Screwing Up America By Bernard Goldberg

The author straight out tells you this is HIS list, no polls were taken. He didn't care what party affiliation, he just calls them as he see them.
Ingrid Newkirk co founder and President of Peta, Enimen, Neal Shapiro Pres. of NBC News, Diane Sawyer, The Barbara's: Walters and Streisand, Ludacris, Howard Stern, Michael Savage, Phil Donahue, Jimmy Swaggart, Barbara Kingslover, Kitty Kelley, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore,

My Favorite I'd never heard of before:
Laurie David a very rude environmentalist who has no problem yelling in the faces of perfect strangers for driving an SUV, BUT has no problem flying to NY for the weekend in a private jet that uses as much fuel for that trip as a SUV for an entire year.
Amy Richards. A feminist who becomes pregnant with triplets and chooses "to get rid of" two of them (twins) by shooting Potassium Chloride into their hearts because of the inconvenience three babies will bring to her. No remorse. Totally sickening.

Although some subject matter, such as Amy Richards and Howard Stern is quite disturbing.
For the most part it is quite entertaining. It shed a whole new light on some of the rude, offensive and ignorant people we have in our great nation today.
It also helped me with several celebrities. Knowing who I should boycott for their 1) stupidity 2) America Bashing 3) Far left political views and disrespect for people I admire.
I buzzed through this book in a just a few days.

Redefining Joy In The Last Days By Chris Stewart

I was drawn to this book because 1) Chris Stewart's Great and Terrible Series is awesome 2) great title and 3) Its little and cute and a quick read.

I was feeling pretty depressed after eating nothing but vegetables (to get my liver cleansed you know...) and then gaining 2 lbs.
It's so awesome when the Lord answers your prayers.
Its so awesome when the Lord answers your prayers really fast.
Sure enough, the first chapter is what I needed to hear.
Satan knows how to rob me of my joy and by golly he has done a great job in some aspects. Lucifer will steal our happiness if we let him. It's not a new concept, but it was what I personally needed to hear that evening.
Other chapters discuss man v. morality,re evaluating our expectations, true gifts and demanding perfect water. I really liked the gifts and perfect water chapters as well.
Being only 60 pages and about 4x6 inches, it's a small quick read. Although I may not purchase it, if I did I would re-read it periodically. I am going to suggest it for my book club when we need a small, easy read.

The Stripling Warriors and Warriorette Workout By Shane Barker

We are reading this as a family every night and quite enjoying it. The author has good stories that are connecting with my 16 and 14 old sons especially. It's so hard to be a young person right now. I suppose it always has been, but I'm a pretty young mom and even the stuff I went through and my oldest (23) is nothing like now. It could be because we have moved and it's definitely different in South Utah County versus Draper. In Draper is was "cool to be good". Here it is not.

Some of the chapter titles are: Being a Valiant Teenager, Keeping Yourself Clean, Becoming Pure in Heart, Being Courageous, Being an Example and Developing Integrity.
At the end of the chapters he itemizes it and lists "Warrior Workout Tips".
In the Keeping yourself Clean chapter, he outlines the steps to repentance with out sound preachy.
I actually bought this book last Christmas and forgot I had it. We read it fairly quickly and I know it is the right time to read it. I really feel like the spirit is working on my son who always is "pushing the envelope".
I highly recommend this book, if your teens won't read, then read it to them, just a section or chapter every evening. So far this is my second favorite gospel teen book (Righteous Warrior by John BytheWay, all time fav. Read it twice to the kidlets). Easy and enjoyable to read.

The Truth ABout Hillary By Edward Klein

I listened to this unbridged book while canning spaghetti sauce. I soon found other reasons to be in the kitchen because I was so mesmerized by the information rendered. I have never had the desire to read about Hillary Clinton. This book was hard to put down.

I do not know the party affiliation of the author. I felt that his sources of documentation were legitimate and it was well done. Although this book has had contrary reviews.

The BCD (book on CD) starts off with the Monica Lewinsky situation and the goes back to Hillary's childhood, what her Father Hugh Rodham and her mother Dorothy, were like as parents and how their childhoods affected the up bringing of their only daughter ( she had two brothers).

Although her parents were very hard on her, she only looked at it to her advantage. She believed she could do anything, because, her parents thought she could. Her father had three rules

Over the years Hillary constantly reinvented herself. She was not accepted in Arkansas, Bill's political career was affected by this. So she became what the voters wanted her to be. To run for the senate to NY, she reinvented herself

Although written in 2005, the author talks of steps she had taken to insure her Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2008 and the reinventing of herself again to get that nomination.

After reading this book, I feel that Hillary Rodham is everything and more that I thought she was: Cunning. Calculating. Manipulative. Cold.

For all Democrats she should be their hero. She is strong and determined and little gets in the way of her goals. However; I am not a liberal and I do not agree with her logic.

She could be a very dangerous woman if elected president. Actually she could be a dangerous woman as Secretary of State...

The Liver Cleansing Diet By Sandra Cabot

So before I review this book I need to preface this and say:

I have been to the doctor and had blood tests done. I do not have high cholesterol or triglycerides; on the contrary I have low cholesterol (if that's possible, and it is) and low triglycerides. Ironically, the symptoms are quite similar.

So after my doctor informed me that I have a congested liver and I would never loose weight until it was functioning more efficiently- I decided it was time to clean that baby up and went online to find out how. The liverdoctor.com caught my eye. Dr. Cabot told me everything my doctor already had and even more.

The Liver Cleansing Diet by Dr. Sandra Cabot

The liver is the biggest organ in the body and is often overlooked. Dr. Cabot does an excellent job of explaining the functions of the liver and how important the liver is for the over all well being of the body. She also gives you the symptoms of a "fatty" or congested liver.

Keep in mind, if you see a traditional doctor for tests your levels may be in healthy perimeters according to that doctor. If you go to a nature path or alternative health provider you will get better help with this problem. Alternative health Providers are not quacks. They like to fix the problems rather than treat the symptoms.

I can not tell you how much I learned about the process of the liver in this book and found it so interesting. Did you know that the liver regulates carbohydrate metabolism, stores certain vitamins such as B12,regulates protein metabolism, detoxifies many toxic substance sand chemicals,and is an internal cleanser:

If the liver filter and/or detoxification pathways become overloaded. this will cause toxins, dead cells, cancer cells, fat globules and microorganisms to build up to undesirably high levels in the blood stream. This increases the workload of the immune system. The immune system becomes overloaded and irritated causing it to produce excessive inflammatory chemicals....This leads to symptoms of allergies, chronic fatigue, recurrent inflections, or auto immune diseases. page 52

Some other symptoms of a fatty liver are coated tongue, foggy brain, circles under eyes, bloated abdomen and bad breath. Itching skin and brown spots or skin rashes. Sugar cravings, inability to loose weight, sluggish metabolism, poor digestion, headaches, high cholesterol.

I looked at this as a liver-cleansing diet, not a diet to loose weight. However; it makes total sense that anyone following this diet would loose weight. Dr. Cabot suggests you eat food that do not burden the liver any more than it already is for 8 weeks. So no refined foods such as white flour or sugar, dairy or red meat. Basically lots of fresh vegetables/fruits and chicken or seafood. With the summer gardens and harvest time approaching I thought this would be a perfect time for me to try it.

The book is a quick read for the second half is full of recipes. I read it in one evening.

Dr. Cabot writes in an easy to read style that is very thorough and uplifting (there is hope to be thin again!). Before another diet is tried, a person should really think about this, since it is genetic and very common. Not to mention it is very easy to get your liver in this condition by not eating good healthy foods.

Although I purchased this book (which I feel was worth the price of $10). This and several of her other books I found at the county library in my area. Her website is great and a lot of the material is covered there.