Sunday, May 29, 2011

Meet Me



Hi, I'm Jenine. I'm wife and partner-in-crime to a wonderful husband of 16 years. I'm a stay-at-home mom of two girls. We homeschool our daughters and since I'm the one at home during the day, I guess that would make me the primary educator in the family.

In between educating our girls, looking after the home front, putting out fires, making and taking calls, preparing meals, playing chauffeur, and acting as a bandage dispersal unit; I try very hard to maintain my sanity.

I'm a out-of-practice yogi, a crafting nut, a novice hooping enthusiast, a pretty good cook, and I can make a mean Tres leches. 

I try to instill the importance of natural and organic foods, environment friendly household cleaners, reducing our carbon footprint on our earth, and the preservation of nature to my girls. I'm slowly transitioning from store bought cleaners to ones that either I make myself or ones that I can buy but feel good about. I have made my own soaps and hope to start that back up soon. 

I am about to get down to brass tacks with a real food lifestyle that I hope will ease my stomach issues, increase my energy level, and uplift my overall well-being. I'm a firm believer in both science and nature's ability to heal and have found a wonderful combination of the two in therapeutic quality essential oils. I'm also tinkering with nutritional supplements to fine tune what my body needs to feel better. I make my own water kefir and am trying to perfect the fermentation times and juice proportions so that my kids will enjoy it as much as any sugar-filled beverage. Our kitchen often has various experiments going on at any given time that my fantastic husband has turned a blind eye to and hasn't complained about - yet.

We are a critter friendly home and currently keep in the company of one dog, three cats, two ferrets, and about one thousand red wiggler worms that do their best to provide us with nutrient-rich compost.

Other words to describe me: good friend, computer junkie, animal lover, blogger, brutally honest soul, social media gal, gamer, LGBT supporter, dreamer, forever a student of life and observer of human nature, frequent insomniac, and night owl.

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