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Merry Christmas 2018!

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Christmas Opryland Hotel NashvilleMerry Christmas to all of my wonderful blog readers! How are you celebrating? What I love about holidays like Christmas, New Year’s, and Easter is that they are celebrated by people across the world, each with their own traditions. It’s just really neat to me to think about millions (if not billions) of folks from different countries and backgrounds, although thousands of miles apart, all focused on the same thing at the same time.

This year, Mr. Handsome and I are on baby watch. Perhaps our son will make his appearance tonight or tomorrow. Although he still isn’t due for another two weeks, I have been having quite a few contractions. We haven’t decided for sure what our plans are for the day, but we are going to make homemade deep dish pizza for dinner, which is something that he always did with his family growing up, and we are planning to watch The Sound of Music later. (Mr. Handsome isn’t a huge fan of Christmas movies.)

 

Homeopathic Cough and Flu Remedies

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all-natural homeopathic cough and flu products

This year’s flu has been a doozy. We have a number of friends who are nurses, nurse practitioners, and medical doctors (in one of the Bible studies we are part of, more than half the attendees are in healthcare), and they have all told us that the hospitals and clinics where they work are overcrowded with flu patients, to the point where some are having to place beds in the hallways. Tragically, a devastating number of folks of all ages have passed away.

A few days after New Year’s, I came down with what was likely “the flu.” My temperature peaked to 103 degrees Fahrenheit, and I had a terrible cough. Thankfully, I was able to bring my temperature down with Tylenol.

I tried a couple different types of cough syrup (even one with guaifenesin), as well as a prescription cough tablet, and nothing seemed to help. (Surprisingly, many studies have found that the vast majority of conventional cough syrups don’t actually work.)

Well, Mr. Handsome was talking to a nurse practitioner friend (one who has been treating flu patients left and right), and he recommended black elderberry. We immediately headed over to the vitamin store and picked up the three products pictured above. They turned out to be game changers.

If you’re sick, I highly recommend these all-natural cough and flu products. And if you’re around sick people frequently and want to protect yourself, you can do as our NP friend does and take a low dose, specified on the back of the middle box, for prevention. If you can’t find these specific products at your local vitamin or health food store, just ask the clerk if they have any other black elderberry cough and flu combatants.

Out of curiosity, are the countries represented by my loyal international readers suffering from the flu as much as we are?

A Goal for 2016

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Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? My goal for 2016 is to read through the Bible. I created a two-year reading plan for my sister-in-law’s high school Awana group, although I hope to complete it by January 1st, 2017.

Instead of listing specific chapters for each day, my reading plan has monthly goals. That means you don’t have to worry about getting off track if you miss a couple days.

Would you like to join me in reading through the Bible? My reading plan is embedded below, or you can click here to open it in a new window.