JabberJuls

GROSSMONT SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFERS MANY ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS.
Don’t let them discourage you from making the choice to utilize them for your student. Remember YOUR student Funds their School that’s why the don’t inform you of your options.

Phoenix Program is one option for an Independent Study Program with a Teacher assigned to your student. Only attends school one day a week and complete packet of paperwork and take test to finalize grades. Excellent program. Avoid TEACHER & ADMINISTRATION campus drama. Your grade is Your grade…no one to interfere with the grade you deserve. Do the work, take the test and get the grade to reflect your hard work and knowledge! My son went from Teacher given D’s & F’s to A’s & B’s. No nonsense and drama.

NOTE TO PARENTS – don’t feel like your student is stuck in the normal Public School System environment. There are many options for your student that the Administrators refuse to tell you about. You are in control of where and how your student receives education. Research your Local Programs for your school district and utilize your Educational options as a Parent to find the best environment for your child. Don’t allow the normal High School campus environment become a prison to your student. This setting may or may not be the best environment for your student to succeed and feel valued as a person. KNOW your choices.

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Michael’s House is another California drug rehab and alcohol rehab treatment facility located in beautiful Palm Springs within the San Jacinto mountain range. Their website is very informative about all their individual programs and treatments.

Michael’s House introduces the 12-step principles, has daily group and individual therapy, also life skills classes. Their Residential program offers delicious and nutritious food, an exercise weight room, meditation and quiet time, daily recreational opportunities, and other healthful and fun activities.

Just realizing and accepting the fact that addictions are real and you may have one is the first step to getting any help at all. Denial is the biggest roadblock that gets in people’s way from accepting the truth about an addiction. Just being open enough to hear or read through some addiction information may seem difficult to some people.

If you’re serious about finding the appropriate rehab facility for yourself or loved ones, be sure to investigate until you are comfortable with what is being provided.

I may have mentioned this website in the past, but I’ve recently been using this site and remember how simplified it has made my life. It brings together all your favorite search sites like yellowpages, city search, yelp, superages all into a 1-stop place. Local.com.

Quick access to my favorite local restaurants. No matter where I’m at in the US; Local.com helps me find exactly what I’m looking for. Especially when I’m in Phoenix. I sometimes travel with my husband for his business and I’ll locate our favorite eateries, grocery stores, pet kennels, etc. near our timeshare. Amazing how places are so close to where we stay, but how would I have known without this help? Use the local yellowpages or the timeshare’s local search directory only favoring their partnered businesses…yeah right. Local.com is a much better choice.

Try it out and see for yourself.

Another drug rehab and alcohol rehab place I’ve discovered specifically designed for women is called Orchid Recovery Center.

Their website is designed to be calming and peaceful as you search through all the information, just like their facilities. Orchid Recovery Center has been designed just for the specific needs of women facing addiction and unresolved traumas within their lives. Their program addresses the unique and specific needs of alcohol or drug dependent women in an environment that encourages healing and restoration of a woman’s body, mind and spirit. It’s a unique place that gives an opportunity for women to break the cycle of addiction and enjoy healthy, contented, serene and productive lives.

This is truly a unique drug rehab and alcohol rehab treatment center.

Out of curiosity, I’ve been researching a few drug addiction treatment programs lately and want to share a few of them with you over a few posts this week. Why is it most people only discover these places at the point of desperation or hopelessness? Then end up in a place that doesn’t really meet you or your loved one’s needs. It’s because this problem doesn’t affect us personally, but when it does you scramble to find out as much information, research study news, or resources of any kind as you can find and then make quick rash decisions.

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Fireproof the movie is an excellent resource for married couples desiring to improve their marriage; be it from being newlyweds or marriages feeling divorce is the only choice. Well, your marriage can change and work for the better with the Lord in the center. Click here to see the trailer and read a brief summary of what the movie is about.

Try the Love Dare! It challenges you to do specific things each day and journal about it and the affect on yourself and your spouse. You can pickup the movie, love dare journals, and other study resources at your local Family Christian Store for individual couple use or to facilitate a couples study group.

The Love Dare can help you evaluate your motives and intentions in your marriage. It will guide you to and through verses in the Bible about what God says our roles are in marriage. Discusses how Respect to a man is real Love, but to a woman Love means caring, listening, and being kind. Men and Women are different and God made us that way on purpose….learning the differences and honoring those differences as the Lord desires us to is what builds your marriage up.

This is the first couples study that Russ has personally took an interest in, searched out, and pursued for us to do together. I’m excited to see where the Lord leads our marriage. Thanks mom and dad for sharing the movie with us and planting the seeds.

I love eating fresh herbs, veggies, fruits and feta cheese. There’s really no other way to cook. Fresh Garlic, Basil, Tomatoes, and Olive Oil are my favorites. I crave avocado and pistachios too and didn’t even know til recently how many phytonutrients are actually in these superfoods. They really are good for my body. Amazing how my body knew I needed these things…it’s just listening and eating them.

PhytoLife.com has become an awesome new resource for me to access fresh recipes, health information, and ongoing research studies regarding Phytofoods. One of my favorite recipes on there is the Ruby Reds, Feta, and Watermelon fresh salad they have listed. Going back to the basics of nutrition and fresh foods are becoming the “in” thing again. Learn about living Phytosmart

As you may know, our son Luke has made some choices which led him into Juvenile Hall for a few days and now on probation til next year. Here we, Russ and I, are the victims of our sons choices and we are penalized to participate in some Family and Individual counseling and Parenting classes. Luke also has to do counseling and take an Anger/Assault class as well.

I’m a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and that the Lord has a plan for good to come from this. So I find myself trying to see where the Lord’s hand is within this crazy up and down situation we’re facing.

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Did you know in California that minors 12 and up can ring up a medical bill and you “The Parents” are responsible for it? Due to HIPAA privacy laws, according to Kaiser’s Lab Representative, they don’t have to let us know what lab tests are being done to our child. HIPAA doesn’t quite say that now, read here about actual parent rights.

Better yet, the Medical Provider doesn’t have to tell you if anything is wrong with your child either, if your child requests so. Whether you take your child to the doctor or not, if your child doesn’t give permission to the doctor to tell you about their health…the doctors don’t have to tell you one thing about your child’s health. Most doctors will because they’re rational about the situation, but quite a few are getting on the kick of tormenting parents and pushing the issue…just because they can.

Who put this law in place? How ridiculous is that?

Biggest question I really have is who is this privacy law really protecting?
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Today, I was a bit tired from getting up every hour on the hour with Buddy our dog. So I didn’t get started until around 10:30am. Russ got us glasses of water (16 oz. cups) we both took our Paranil pills, waited awhile and drank down the fiber mix and another glass of water. I did another 3/4 scoop of the fiber mix. It seems to help me doing that. I had a little stomachache for awhile this morning, but it went away.

We started getting hungry for lunch around 1:00pm. Within a half hour of eating and drinking another glass of water, I had an extreme bowel movement–more than yesterday. Its hard to believe all that is in my intestines. I was really happy so much movement is going on for me. Its working. I’m going to really make sure to exercise tonight even if its just walking for awhile.

Russ’s Legs are still bothering him today. I rubbed his legs down last night with sunbreeze oil from Sunrider. It helped relax the muscles a bit, he slept right through all Buddy’s episodes during the night. Regular as always…He’s had at least 2 movements already today and most likely another after dinner time.

To the jacuzzi tonight…maybe that’ll help his legs.