Taking One Day at a Time

I have to keep telling myself to just take one day at a time or things will get too overwhelming. It's my third day here and things have been none stop since we got here. Yesterday was suppose to be our last fun family day with Matt, but he came down with an awful headache. He didn't feel like doing anything except resting and that's all I wanted him to do to get better. My dad and I ended up taking the kids to the park instead of going to the beach. That was after we had finished all the juicing for the day of course.

Here is a glimpse of our day. Dad makes mom's breakfast of orange juice and oatmeal in the morning. Then after we all eat breakfast, we start on the juicing for the day. There are nine juices that mom drinks throughout the day and we try to make all that we can in the morning. Three of the nine have to be made fresh and drank within 15 minutes of making. Those are the green juices that consist of romaine lettuce, tender beet tops, green pepper and a green apple. The other juices that we make in the morning are her carrot/apple juices. She drinks two carrot juices and then four carrot/apple. Yum! Yum! I haven't actually tried any of these yet. She basically drinks a juice every hour. They make her very full so she hardly has an appetite when she does eat. Each carrot juice has four carrots in it. She feels the best and has the most energy in the morning and eats the best then too.

For lunch mom gets hippocrate soup, a potato and a salad if she wants. She can always eat fruit too, but she usually doesn't want fruit or the salad for lunch. She eats very small portions these days. Then for dinner mom eats the same thing. Karen and I try to come up with different exciting ways to make her potato and salad with the things she is allowed to have on it.

So it seems like we are constantly doing something, shopping, washing vegetables, juicing, making a meal, cleaning, etc. Karen is back to work now (night shift) so dad and I are trying to get the swing of things and figure out the best schedule to do things the most effective way possible. All the while of course with Jewels and Myah running around and meeting their needs.

In the evenings we make the hippocrate soup every other night which consist of celery, leeks, onions, parsley, parsnip, tomatoes and potatoes. It gets simmered for two hours and then blended. It taste kind of like baby food, but not too bad. Then on the other night we make the coffee enemas which just consist of organic coffee and water. It just gets boiled and simmered.

I'm finding it's hard to keep this updated every day so I'm trying to give all the information now of what our days will be filled with for what I'm sure will be a long time right now. I think we are all exhausted and tired so we definitely need the power of prayer for our strength to be renewed every day and have the endurance to make it through this season of life.

Mom at this point is about the same. Her skin does look more yellow to me then the first day I saw her, but she does seem to have more energy then the first day as well. Since she does feel best in the morning she does try to take a short walk and sit in the sun for a few minutes a day. Then the rest of the time she mostly spends on the couch resting or in her bed. She still seems to be getting the indigestion and nausea later in the day so I know she'd appreciate prayer for that to subside. She would love to have more strength and not be so tired too.

Here are some verses that mom has said have helped her get through.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

John 14:1-4 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

2Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Psalm 23 and 27