THE PARK POST

   I was definitely not forgotten this Mother's Day.  Mike and the kids brought me breakfast in bed, beautiful flowers, notes and gifts, and the day off from all work. It was awesome!! We talked to both our moms and Grandma Arnell and wished we could be with them in person more often. We love and admire the great women they are. I volunteered to help with the mother's day gifts for all of the women at church this year, thinking I would just buy something from Deseret Book and make it easy, but unfortunately they sold out of the forget me not flower kit and I had to go to plan B.  Some other women in the ward and I put together these homemade versions and they turned out pretty cute. This quote is a classic that will be burned into my memory forever after tying up 100 of these things and I know I will not forget it anytime soon:

 Because we have all kinds of eaters around our house, ranging from barely eating to over-indulgent, I personally have felt a little schizophrenic about not only what kinds of foods I should buy, but what kinds of messages I should send to each child about how they eat. There are so many confusing voices in the world surrounding nutrition and health that  it literally can paralyze me and leave me so frustrated I just give up trying.  However, this last week, I  felt like I  found an answer to my health conundrum in this amazing book, Intuitive Eating.    My sister in law Katie recommended it and I think it is such a smart, logical, and true approach to how our bodies work.  The basic premise is that we are biologically built to know how to eat and how much, and we just need to get back in touch with our own body and let it teach us.  I love this approach because it teaches us to trust ourselves and focus on how we feel instead of how much ...