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Comment on Another skin check: update (9 months post melanoma removal) by Kasia

Kasia — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:35:45 +0000

:] I also sing in our church’s worship choir, and it is SUCH an amazing blessing. I can be up past my bedtime and still come home refreshed. I find myself singing worship songs at work which is what I need to push through a rough day and remember to be the salt and the light there :] I am SO glad God blessed you (and me for that matter) with the courage to join the worship team!!!!!

Also PTL for a clear check up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Nausea, morning sickness, evening sickness & all day sickness remedies! by Kasia

Kasia — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:28:11 +0000

clearly I am behind on reading blogs and blogging.

1. you can also use aromatherapy oils under your nose. It’s an old nursing trick to put a couple drops of essential oil in your mask before a big surgery or a particularly bad dressing change.
2. rubbing alcohol. we give alcohol swabs to post op patients to smell for nausea, sometimes it works BETTER than the IV meds
3. I have never tried them or researched them but there are “preggo pops” and the like available at maternity and baby stores that are natural hand candies with ginger, etc to help with nausea
4. home made chicken noodle soup made with ginger root. good for preggo nausea, good for when you are sick, all around good.

Comment on Our Happy News! by Karen Ziemkowski

Karen Ziemkowski — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:16 +0000

Congrats! So happy for you guys!

Comment on homemade & chemical-free vapor rub by Karen

Karen — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:27:09 +0000

Thanks Heather!! I’m saving this!!

Comment on how to make diptych templates in Lightroom 3 by Heather

Heather — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:39:08 +0000

Shannon,
It’s been a while since I’ve done this – but I think I still had to crop the gutters to be symmetrical for each post… because you can do fewer rows, but there would still be white space to crop out.
I’ve heard good things about blogstomp. Maybe check that out?
Heather

Comment on how to make diptych templates in Lightroom 3 by Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 06:35:47 +0000

I have a question. Haha, maybe 3. If I want to only make 1 row of 2 vertical images is that possible and easy? I can do the 4, but am looking for only 2. AND, if I want it to lay nicely in my blog and fit to the same width as my horizontal blog images, do I have to re-import it into Lightroom and then export it again to resize it? I just found this article of yours and it was super helpful, but now I’m lost again. I have Lightroom 3.

Comment on meal planning for the MONTH of February by Heather

Heather — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:18:13 +0000

Thanks Karen!

Comment on meal planning for the MONTH of February by Karen

Karen — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:45:29 +0000

I always love reading about your meal planning, Heather. You have some awesome ideas. I still owe it to you that I started meal planning in the first place! <3

Comment on The Freckle 2.0 by Karen

Karen — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:04:52 +0000

ugh, heather, i’m so sorry you’re still dealing with this. sending you a hug and a wish that it was just a funky looking freckle and nothing more.

Comment on The Freckle 2.0 by Cherise

Cherise — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:00:37 +0000

I’m sorry you’re going through this again, it can’t be easy
In my times of weakness I think of Paul and all of his trials and tribulations, all of his physical weaknesses and how he still praised God in the midst of it all.
He was in prison when he wrote a letter to the Corinthians and in 2 Corinthians 12 he says,

8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.