New Casa, Heladerador y Davidcito

As you can probably guess from this post's title which means new house, ice cream maker and little David to the Spanglish impaired, a lot has happened in our family lately.  First off we finally moved into our home ardnd will have lived there 3 weeks as of tomorrow.  We've owned the place (or the mortgage anyway) since January, but Joey was allergic to it so we had to put on our Bob the Builder hard hats and go to work remodeling.

For our remodel job we installed hardwood flooring in the upstairs bedrooms and office, and since we had just bought a house, our piggy bank just had enough to buy the materials, but not pay someone to install them.  A family friend helped us install the flooring, and it looks awesome.  We also painted, put in new baseboards in said bedrooms and updated the lighting in the kitchen.  The finished product looks pretty good too.  Franky Lloyd Wright eat your heart out.

We would have finished and moved in sooner but there was a big complication. Joey was allergic to the glue under the carpet in those bedrooms and by allergic I mean extremely.  I think somehow his body could detect if you had one single molecule of carpet glue dust on you, and if you did he would go crazy, would quickly get aggressive, would get a rash on his cheeks, and would be up at least 2 hours during the night screaming (on 2 nights he actually stayed up the entire night).  So there were a number of times where we had to take 2-3 showers a day and Joey couldn't be anywhere our house or us until we had taken a shower if we had been working at the house or he'd have a reaction, and the next day we'd be the exhausted walking dead (like in the movie night of the living dead, but more attractive than the old zombies).We discovered his particular allergy through a process called muscle testing.

Here's what we've found on muscle testing.  Basically your body (subconscious mind, or spirit, etc) knows a lot more than your conscious mind.  It knows what's good for you and what's bad for you.  Your body reacts to stimuli that are good for it by muscles being strong, and it reacts to negative stimuli by every muscle in the body going weak.  You can also ask questions and your body will give you a nearly immediate response of yes (strong muslce) or no (weak muscle) to what's asked.  I know it sounds a little foreign to what most people have grown up with, are used to, and understand..  But we've tried it and that's how we discovered what the allergen in the house was that Joey had problems with (the carpet glue).  Once we ripped out all the carpet, scraped off all the glue, put floor sealant over those spots, painted and then put the flooring down (along with having a professional carpet cleaner come in) Joey didn't have any problems. You can't argue with results.  Click for more info on the history of muscle testing, and how to do it.   A lot of chriopractors actually use muscle testing to determine which vertebrae is out of alignment too

We've also been able to diagnose Joey's allergies with this method.  Asking if he is allergic to something in particular, or were able to discover the cause of an allergic reaction using this method.  Since Joey has had nigh unto 100 allergies (and would even become allergic to eating the same foods too frequently) muscle testing has been a real lifesaver for us.  We are able to identify and through other natural medicine techniques eliminate many of his allergies, and we're happy to report he's getting a lot better and can live in our new house.

2 Days After we moved into our  new house 'twas our anniversary and Sahra got me a homemade ice cream maker (thanks babe!).  The next day we made some ice cream, and it was delicious. Then the next day was the big day.  It was David's birthday!