As a busy mom of 20 month old boy and a 4 ½ year old girl I sometimes wonder where my day goes.  Some people have asked how do find times for work?  Just this past weekend, I spent 15 minutes for business follow ups contacting clients with specials for the month and whose accounts were ready to expire, and made over $200 in business.  One person tripled their monthly order and another ordered over $200 in product to not have their account expire.

Active children and a husband that works swing shifts make work a challenge, whether it is making dinner, laundry, tripping over toys, craft time, home schooling, gardening, and yard work.  Also, we are involved in the church.  So where in all that does one fine time to do a home business?  This past weekend it took 15 minutes on my computer while my kids were watching a movie and snack time Sunday afternoon. 

Why do I share this story with you?  Because I know you know someone right now whose HEALTH is being affected by financial burdens, loss of job, lack of work, credit card debt, or a pending lay off.  Seven years ago I made the decision to get involved “in one of those home businesses” and it was the best decision my family has made.

Today’s topic is about a home business and how to know if a home business is right for you. 

It’s my hope that you will share this with one of your friends who needs this message.  I really was inspired by this information and wanted to share with all of you.

Sincerely,

Mary Simmons

Wellness Coach & Mom

Better Living Essentials ~ Making Better Choices for Life

Don’t wait for the Lottery to change your life.  Think about starting a home business.

“The stewardess on the plane was an amazing woman with many talents. She was originally from the Philippians and moved to this country had several degrees and different careers during her life.  She loved people and just had a caring heart.   Her husband and she recently adopted a Philippian baby girl and he was living in the Philippians with their daughter and she was flying the skies.   They had a home in Texas too and I didn’t ask but I just felt that her heart was with her family.   Maybe her husband could not get citizenship, maybe there were legalities of leaving the country with their baby, maybe they had more help from their family there I don’t know.  But I just knew that although she was a phenomenal stewardess and seemed to love her job, if money didn’t matter she would probably be with her family creatively making money another way.  

I was checking out at the grocery store and I heard the two clerks talking about the upcoming BIG Lotto drawing.  The one cashier said if I win I am paying off my school loans and paying cash for Law School.  The other cashier said…  “I don’t know what I would do…. Maybe build a new house, but I really could have any house I wanted.”    I asked, “Are you all talking about winning the Lottery?  They said yes .  And then I proceed to question them. Sue the one cashier in her late 40’s tells me that really she doesn’t want to win the lottery she just wants to BE COMFORTABLE.  Be able to pay all her bills.  Get away for the winter where it is warm.  And be able to take weekends and holidays off and not be stuck working the upcoming Easter Sunday Holiday like she is this year. 

My heart hurts for both the stewardess and the cashier, not because of the situations they are in but because they don’t see a way out of their situation.   BUT I DO.  (story from a friend)

It’s called a Home Based Business and simply it’s a small business that you can run from your home or from your smart phone and I-Pad anywhere in the world.   In 2003 I was introduced to the concept and in 2004 I started getting serious and partnered with Young Living Essential oils to distribute and market their products all over the world.  Today myself and 20 other associates in our team work 2-20 hours a week sharing, teaching and marketing about Young Living products to more than 2500 people all over the world.” 

What’s the earning potential on that?   COMFORTABLE.   It allowed for comfort when I quit my job in 2006 to start a family and be able to stay at home to raise our kids. It allows for us to create jobs. So if you think you want a little comfort in your life, or you want to be able to work from home, or you want to just have enough money to do a few extra things this summer watch this message. 

How do you know if a Home Business is right for you? 

1 You have to have a strong desire for change.  

This is a commitment and unless you have a strong WHY you are doing it then you could quit when times get tough.   Don’t start a home business unless you have a strong why.

2 You have the capital to invest – Company & Training   

This is a business and it will require an investment.  Most home businesses initial investment range from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand, which is a much smaller investment than starting your own restaurant or store front business.   In addition, you will need monthly capital for training, products, and marketing expenses. 

3 You have time – 18 months of 5-10 hours a week minimum

A true lasting business will require consistent work weekly (5-10 hrs. minimum 10-20 hrs. maximum)  for no less than 18 months.  You may see results before this but to created lasting residual income give yourself a time commitment of 18 -24 months.  (I also recommend not working more than 20 hrs. a week consistently or you will end up in burn out)

4 You are teachable and willing to learn new things

Even if you have a background in sales and business make sure you keep a teachable mind and heart.  In this industry you must constantly learn new things.   You will need to learn to communicate in new ways like through social media, email, video, etc.   

5 Self-motivated hold yourself accountable  

Unlike a job, a home business doesn’t have anyone telling you to work or not.  No one will fire you if you don’t show up for 2 weeks, but you won’t see the results.  Self-motivation will pay you huge profits!

6 You have a product that is consumable or gets used up

A consumable type product based home business creates for re-orders and loyal clients.  This is the foundation of any good and long term home based business.  This creates an income that is residual, meaning you get paid every month because they client re-orders every month.

7 You have some passion or excitement for what you are doing

Don’t try to start something you don’t have any excitement for.  Passion will fuel your profits.

8 You are okay making mistakes

Every business owner makes mistakes.  Don’t be afraid to. It’s not about perfection it’s about results.

9 You’ve come to an agreement with your spouse children about your business

This is very, very, very, important to do.  Have a serious talk with your family.  Let your spouse or significant person in your life learn how you did about your business.  Decide together when you will work your business and how you will.  Example: (Wednesday night’s mommy is not home,  Every Tuesday Thursday Daddy works on his home business from 5:00-7:30) 

10 You have to willing to work harder on you than anything else.  Personal development.

It may sound strange but if you have ever watched seasons of the Biggest Loser you will see the most successful individuals in lasting weight loss work harder on their own issues and improving themselves than anyone else.  It’s the same in this industry.  The long lasting top earners are the ones who have worked harder on themselves, their people skills, issues, challenges, and STUFF.

So what do you think?  Do you think owning a home business is right for you?  If you are serious and ready to take the next step this month we are interviewing for Associate Home Business owners with our company.  Call our office to set up a pre-screening interview to see if what we have might be a match for what you are looking for and if your skills, goals and talents are a match for us.  Call Better Living Essential office at (888) 873-0736 and an associate will get back to you in a timely manner.

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Bra…  Friend or Foe

By:  Pamela Howard, DC, CCT

Every morning, women get up and put on their bra; it’s part of our daily routine.  Since breasts have become “fashion accessories”, we must make sure they take their rightful place. But what if your bra was harming your health, would you forsake it?

Syndy Ross Singer & Soma Grismaijer are two researchers bold enough to study the effects of bras on women’s health and wrote a book on it, Dressed to Kill; The link Between Breast Cancer and Bras and their follow up book, Get it Off! Understanding The Cause of … Breast Pain, Cysts and Cancer, despite threats with a lawsuit by the Intimate Apparel Council (trade association in the US for the multi-billion dollar bra industry).  Singer & Grismaijer found it interesting that the cancer industry has never looked at bras and breast constriction as a possible cause of breast cancer. They concluded that with a medical industry that earns $10,000,000,000 annually on treatments for breast cancer, getting rid of bras would cost the medical industry billions.

Surrounding our breasts is the greatest number of lymph vessels and nodes. When the breast region is constricted by a bra, the lymph system cannot flow freely. This causes a buildup of fluid, less effective feeding and cleansing of the tissue, an increase in accumulated toxins and restriction of lymphocytes which destroy abnormal cells.  In addition, the petrochemicals in bra materials can leach out of the fabric and into the skin, causing loss of breast skin color and dermatitis.  Dr. Irmgard Keeler-Howard of Houghton College states that chemicals that comprise elastic may be cancer causing.

Consider Singer & Grismaijer’s findings:

o  Women wearing bras 24 hours per day were 125 times more likely (3 out of 4 chance) to developing breast cancer

o  Women wearing bras more than 12 hours per day, but not to bed, had a 1 out of 7 risk

o  Women wearing bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk

o  Women who rarely or never wore bras had a 1 out of 168 change of breast cancer

o  Wearing a bra at least 14 hours a day tends to increase the hormone prolactin, which decreases circulation to the breast tissue.

o  Professional women have higher than average BC incidence rates than rural women who wear their bras less often

o  80% of bra wearers who experience lumps, cysts, and tenderness saw their symptoms vanish, within a month of getting rid of their bra

o  In 1997 Singer compared a group of women in Fiji – half of the women wore bras and the other half went without.  The diet, environment and lifestyle of both groups were the same.  Those who wore bras had the same rate of breast cancer as women in the US.  Those who went braless experienced practically no breast cancer.

Bras are not the first item of clothing to be called on the carpet for potential health issues. Over the centuries, various items of clothing which chronically constricted a region of the body have come under fire.

Asian cultures bound women’s feet in the name of fashion, creating irreversible deformed and dysfunctional feet.  Tightly laced corsets from the 1700-1900’s contributed to an enlarged left heart ventricle as well as congestion of the brain, liver and kidneys.  Neckties have been linked with reduced blood circulation to the brain, shoes causing corns; Tight Pants Syndrome may be the cause of unexplained stomach cramps, and chest pain and heartburn.

In addition, tight belts restricting lymphatic flow to the groin region may be linked with increases in colon cancer. This, incidentally, occurs most frequently below the belt region in the sigmoid colon and rectum. Also, men’s tight briefs reducing sperm count, and repeated trauma from eye glasses have been linked with skin cancer on the bridge of the nose.  I think you are getting the idea, constrictive clothing may not be the direct cause of our health issues but it certainly creates an environment conducive to ill health.

It’s time we consider health over fashion and demand new fashion trends featuring healthy breasts…  au natural!  Enhance lymph flow with gentle lymph massage, moving them from the nipple outwards, mostly toward the armpit.  Stimulate lymph flow by dry brushing, rebounding on a mini trampoline or bouncing on a gym ball while moving the arms.  If you must wear a bra, consider bras made from natural fabrics and avoid padded, push-up, sports, strapless, underwire and tight/ill fitting bras which contribute to breast compression as well as bras resembling body armor which may heat up breasts to unnatural temperatures.

Dr. Pamela Howard, DC, Certified Clinical Thermographer; founded Advanced Thermal Imaging in 2005 to provide a safe, non-invasive means of detecting health concerns utilizing Thermography throughout Central PA & Upstate NY. Visit her website to learn more at www.athermalimage.com

Would you like to learn about Young Living Essential Oils that have been found to help breast health and even inhibit cancer growth? We are here to serve you so let us know if these topics are important to you.

Discover Your Own Value

By: Angela Brooks

“You deserve mean children” … “Your ornery and always will be” …  “Your just like them”

As I reflect back in my early days. I still hear words that were spoken over me…not once…but for years. Why would I not believe them they loved me right? and they knew me better than anyone, even myself. Cause how I could I know who I was as a kid growing up – I was being told who I was before I had permission to deny the words that were coming at me.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not angry at the ones that spoke those words. I understand now they were trying to deal with their own mess in their journey …some of it just spilled out on my road and I stepped in the toxic waste. It stuck to my feet for many years because I did not know I could just wipe it off and be done with it. Instead…I carried it…into everything I did for the next 29 years.

I grew up in church where when someone asks for prayer it became the gossip of the church. Instead praying for guidance or healing of a situation it was judged. As I grew up I saw fewer people kneeling in public. It made me hold back from asking, not wanting to be the center of church attention. I just held it in – since those were church people and knew God – I sure did not want to ask God to help me because…well his opinion scared me.

I knew the bible had all the answers for my life and it said “You reap what you sow” and I had sowed some pretty bad seeds…so I figured I was getting what I deserved, and I needed to suck it up.

Living Life according to what I believed

At the tender age of 16 I knew it all. I got married and moved to another country….not another state. I lived in a duplex that had rats the size of cats that lived in the garage (I am not kidding).

I did not lay eyes on another family member for two and half years. My mother came to visit once for 30 days after the first year. My youngest friend back then was 30 years old. I hung out with people who were past the silly thoughts I was having at 16 – so I tried to be like them. Grown up – drinking and partying to fit in. I hung with the best of them. I got in two fist fights, one with military women and almost got deported from the country – punched a man in the face when he put his drunken hands on me – then told his wife.

I never felt like I fit in. I wanted to be more than broke, and broke is what I was. Since I had never bought groceries for myself much less a house hold – I had no idea how to look for bargains and make the best of having little. I was allowed to spent $80 on household and food every 2 weeks. Most of the time my refrigerator had crackers and peanut butter. I ate the left-overs at the day care center I was working for, I only worked 15 hours a week. The other 153 hours a week I got hungry often. I was thin, very thin.

At 18 – I lived in the south, in house that had cock-roaches, (I hate those things) around more strangers trying to find my way. They did not know me and I didn’t either. Inside of me, I knew I wanted more – I just did not know what it was. I had mentioned once out loud that I wanted to work in business – I did not know what kind of business. I was driven in that direction but after being told to get a real job and not waste my time. I did. I was like them in the rat race. Stuffing my dream deeper in my pocket.

My Belief was showing up

At 20 I wanted children – but was told I was too young and what did I know about raising a kid – I could not take care of myself. The baby that I miscarried was never mentioned again – it was not talked about – I was not allowed to talk about it or to cry over it. It was over. Move on. Be tuff. Grow the hell up.

Sowing more seeds

At 21 1/2 years old – I was divorced after 6 years of whatever that was called, a marriage or a cage. I was angry at the world and it was not going to get in my way! I spewed whatever I wanted to whoever I wanted and could care less if it hurt your feeling. Grow the hell up and get over it.

I ran head first into another relationship that poured more acid on the toxic waste that was on my shoes. Walking down a path that brewed more anger.

This sums up my worldview at the time.

Full of spit and vinegar I was living out what people expected me to be. Mean, Ornery and like them. On the inside I knew I was not like them and that was not who I was. I had no idea how to change the pattern. I was right dead smack in the middle of a pit with no ladder – no hand held out to pull me up. Since I was so close to the ground I dropped to my knees and looked up. I said, “God – if you can hear me then I need you to help me this is not the life I want.” – something twinge but I had no idea it was God. I walked on.

Ending another dead end relationship, jumping right into another one, this time it almost  took my life. I fell head over heels in love with the devil himself. I knew with every part of my being I did not need to be around this man. He scared me – he excited me – but I could not leave. Everyone had already told me I was wrong again and I was going to get what I deserved – so I waited for it to show up. Family members stopped talking to me and would act like I was not in the room. Church felt like I was choking so I stopped going, my friends were his friends, my life was a freaking mess. Then it happened – he hid my one year old son from me for over 15 hours. I quickly understood how psychosis felt in my patients. I also understood how women who had shot their husbands did it with the blank mug shot face.

My son arrived home safe and I was scared and angry. I wanted out – but again felt I was in a pit that was deeper than before. This time I had been abandoned from all the males in my family. I called no one, I stayed until he hit me so hard in my left eye that he lifted me off the ground. I left shoe marks 5 feet up on the white wall in the hallway – I remember falling what seemed like forever, but I do not remember hitting the floor. I was floating in time. Everything stopped but yet it felt like it was in slow motion. I tried to get up and saw the huge puddle of blood on the white carpet of the brand new house. He rolled me over and our eyes met. There was hate – anger, actually I saw fire. I opened my mouth to scream and I don’t know if anything came out. All sound was gone, I could hear nothing, but I felt the tears roll down my cheeks and I rose off the floor with such power that I swore someone picked me up. The rage that came out was that of 10 horses – I screamed and I made a promise that I have never gone back on. With the whole left side of my face swollen down to the middle of my neck – I had whip lash and blood pouring out my nose. I felt no pain, I felt no feelings, I had something pushing me out the door so fast I did not realize I had my son wrapped around my hips like he was super glued. No one touched me – no one said a word. They moved out of my way. My ass was out of there.

I got home, walked into my bathroom and stood in front of the mirror. My face was black and purple, my shirt covered in blood, my son looked as if he was so scared he would never speak again. I looked at that young girl straight in the eye. “You will never live like this again, you will not look back, I have no idea where you are going but it is not here.” I dropped to my knees and said, “God I know you are here – and I need you and tonight I need you to show up. The peace that fell over me was like a cool breeze – I held my arms out and allowed him to love me in the mess I was in and the tears fell – buckets full.

I picked up the phone and called the ones that had stopped talking to me. Within 6 hours the biggest U-haul I had ever seen showed up, my driveway filled with people I did not know. Women came in my kitchen and began loading boxes faster than I had ever seen anyone pack. Not one person mentioned my face – someone took my son because I could not remember when he had been fed or had a drink.

I drove out the driveway broken, crushed, and lost.

Somehow I knew what just happened was going to be used later in my life for the good…somehow.

Visions lead people

I still had the passion for business in my gut. I ran into an old acquaintance and she had a bottle of product she was selling she told me how she was making money selling them to people. It was my first exposure to marketing a multi-leveling company. I was in! I had no clue how to make it work and neither did my friend, but I was drawn to it. I stayed with the company for several years – making MM’s and gas money.

At 25 – I began working out in the gym – which lead me to a new group of people who needed my product. They all bought it. I began pumping iron and dispensing the anger inside onto the dumbbells all 30lbs as I curled them with each arm. One…two…three….four…. My body began taking on a new shape that brought a new confidence in myself.  I went on to try out for the gladiators in Nashville – I was toned packed with muscles and full of attitude. I never once thought they could beat me. I smiled at my competitor who was twice my size and grinned. My mind was set – I would have one of those uniforms.

I pushed – I pulled – I darted – I jabbed. I made the 2nd string.

I could see myself on a stage and I just guessed it was the gladiators – I never got the chance to use my 2nd string position. I did not care – I made it.

My focus, drive and vision pushed me to the level I was able to compete. It was never about moving onto the next level. It was about filling the desire that was brewing inside. From there I focused on running a 10K Classic, I did not want to win it – I wanted to finish. Out of 1500 people I did – #84. Another goal met – I felt confidence rise again.

Strength was growing on the inside.

What I had learned from a very rocky path were the things that I focused on – I got. Even the rocky relationships – they were what I felt like I deserved at that time. I was filling my belief. It took lots of tears, a few more back slides, and determination to know I was designed for more and what I deserved was to be live wild and bold like my God had designed me to be. He gave me the courage to move forward and knock the dust off my feet from the journey that was behind me. It took 16 more years before I could see through the fogged life that I had lived. I am no longer angry; I actually have the courage to thank the people in my past for pushing me out of that life so I can be who I am.

At  16 – 18 – 20 – 25 and now 45

I had people who loved me and supported me my whole life – but I shut them out. As a brewing volcano I was not looking for the positive in my life. Today, I am blessed! I have two healthy children, a wonderful husband, a home filled with peace and love, a job, a business, I am a published author, and I am headed in the direction bigger than my minds- eye because I am focused with a business coach in place to lead me down a path she / and he has already paved. I am not walking in the dark but full on in the light that was provided.

As a business owner – learning how to generate my own leads, write my own copy, lead a team full of business minds, speaking into the lives of other nurses in a place I wanted out of, I know how you feel – as you can see – I was once there. I felt like I had nothing to offer anyone else – I was not good enough. I remember telling my best friend at the time “I am going to be a millionaire someday – even though I had no idea how I am going to do that”. She laughed and so did I – except deep inside my gut I believed me.

I knew I had to change

I was drawn to the internet in 1996 – but not very many people were online yet. It was drawing me like a magnet.

After working with a few companies online, before I found one that I could relate to, the business journey began. I followed people who were leading with the business model to talk to more people and follow up on the phone. To be honest, I sucked at it. I made very little money.

I hired a coach, Sandi Krakowski, in 2011 for a full year and learned the skill of life/business coaching (to coach myself and others; to learn how to truly “listen” and connect with people, and to myself).

After my first six months with that coach I was clear on what my core values were; I was mindful of how to apply what I had learned in my own life; so I could attract the outcomes I sought.

Once again for 2012, I have hired two coaches Sandi and PJ McClure to continue growing personally and coaching my business.

It takes time, and I have lots to learn. I apply everything she teaches me – even when it makes no sense to me – the results show up. I apply it again. My business grows, so does my confidence. In 8 months I replaced half of my nursing income.

As I sit on my couch looking out the front windows I can look out across an open 17 acre field – in the distance the dogs are barking and the day is coming to a close. In the distance, is the world that is waiting for me, the same world that I despised at one time. The same one that I thought had nothing to offer for me.

As I reflect on my life I now know that with every painful wrong turn there is something to learn. Someone is out there waiting on me to grow .

My journey began 29 years ago

As I consider all the people touched by my decision to contribute rather than complain, I’m moved beyond measure by the potential I know is inside each and every one of you.

Everyone has value, and it can be expanded when you get in touch with your true self.

Everyone has a story to tell.

Everyone has life lessons to share.

Everyone has skills that can be repackaged to make a greater contribution; to make more money; but more importantly, to connect yourself with the world more closely.

P.S: Please leave a comment below – I would love to hear from you.

Angela Brooks is a mental health nurse educator who spent the last 22 years working in a state funded mental hospital. In ‘A Nurses Story’, she shares not only what her patients have taught her over the years, but what we can all learn from those we consider ‘at the  margins of society’. But it’s also a book about nursing, about nurses, and about how a nurse healed alongside her patients. Ultimately, “A Nurses Story” exposes a raw truth – that each of us, individually, can inspire self-worth and purpose in every life we touch, if only we choose to.

What are nurses really thinking? What causes them to be frustrated and want to quit nursing even when they love taking care of people? What makes nurses stay, even when it feels like everything is against them?  In ‘A Nurses Story’, you’ll discover the answer.  

The words in this book give voice to the millions of men and women who care for us and our loved ones every day in our most vulnerable times.  ‘A Nurses Story’ is their story.

So you moms/dads who love to cook but want quick meal’s so you can still have a good meal and not lose valuable quality family time.  This information is for you or someone you know.  You do not have to spend hours in your kitchen to have a healthy hearty meal for your family. 

I just like the next mother/father love to cook and take care of my family.  But that does not mean we have to spend hours in the kitchen.  So the idea is to take meals you already make or come up with some new ones and figure out how to make them in the slow cooker and or prepare ahead of time.  The idea is 30 minute meals (preparation time only; not the cooking process).  This may take longer for some then others and that is ok but know that meal planning and planning ahead will save you not only money but lots of time.  Both cooking, shopping and so on.

Also, a key to this taking 30 minutes to make a meal is to get the family to help with dinner.  We try to get them as involved as possible in things around the house.  I know this is about food but want to make sure I get the point across that kids learn from us in every aspect of the home.  And it is paying off, not just in the kitchen.  This last Saturday we (the whole family) cleaned the house in 1 hour.  My 17 month old loves to help me with the laundry!  I’m glad that my kids love helping and spending time as a family. 

In a blink of an eye our kids grow up; we assume that our spouses will be here forever.  But all this too will come to an end.  So take EVERY MOMENT, treasure it and make the most of your times together.  Please feel free to click below and down the "7 Meals-30 Minute Meal's".

“ 7 Meals~30 Minute Meal’s”

So it’s 2012, we are almost a month into the New Year;  what happened to January?  How many you are already breaking those New Year’s Resolution’s?

Well, I for one did not make any per say; I have things I want to do in 2012, and with continued support from my family and God I plan to do so.  One day at a time; and not stress over things that I do not get accomplished.

To start off the New Year I got a bad cold; what better time than to use the new juicer I got for Christmas.  Both my kids love to help in this process.  Now I did not have exactly what I needed so we made up our own recipe.

This month has just flown by and I feel like that not much has been accomplished; but I am reminded that what has gotten done is what is important.  Time with God and my family; even though I have work stuff to do it will wait and the time will come.

I was reminded by a friend the other day of Joshua 1:9 “Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord they God is with three whither so ever thou goest.”  I needed that as the last couple weeks I felt like forever step I took forward I was taking two back.

Sometimes as a stay at home mom I feel like at the end of the day or month I have nothing to show for it.  Time seems to get away from me!  But I continue to remember that no matter what it will all happen in GOD’S time not MINE. 

While doing things for other throughout the year we need to also take care of ourselves.  My goal is to exercise 2-4 times a week and be applying Essential Oils on a daily bases.  We need to learn to live by example to our friends, family and clients. 

Leaving you with this thought as we close out the end of the first month of 2012; what are you going to do for God, yourself, friends and business (home or otherwise) for the remaining 11 months of 2012? 

Healthy Breakfast Choices: Home made-Greek Yogurt Parfait w/raspberries from freezer (we grew)

As I wonder if I am teaching my kids anything, are they learning and is it sinking in Joshua (my almost 15 month old) climbs up on my lap.  With an empty roll-on essential oil bottle (Deep Relief and Tranquil) and lifts up the edge of my shirt and rubs in on my tummy.  Being fully aware that this took no prompting and that he was smiling knowing what he were doing.  I am so thankful that my kids love the smell of oils and know how to properly use them for the most part.

Which on that note; last week my curious 4 year old (Joy) was at my friends office and found a bottle of Thieves Spray and accidently sprayed in her eyes while looking at it.  As calmly as possible I got a cool cloth and some V-6 Oil and applied.  With in minutes she was all better. NO need to call poison control or go to the hospital because it was an "all natural product" and it was not chemically based.

Joy has wanted recently to help me start cleaning, etc.  I can have her help me clean without worrying because I clean with Thieves Household Cleaner which is completely safe and chemical free.  

Both my children LOVE to brush there teeth and this is something that I enjoy seeing them do together.  And we use again all natural tooth paste.  We introduce them to teeth brushing as young as 10 months and use Thieves Toothpaste and Kid Scents Toothpaste.  The kids will use both toothpaste and love the flavor of both!