Peace and love

Fruitarianism, Pregnancy and Intuition

2012-01-15T11:44:00.000-08:00

How do I know that 80/10/10 is GREAT?

Well,- I've experienced high energy levels while on a high fruit lifestyle so often that it convinced me 100%.

I'm very intuitive and before even knowing that the raw vegan lifestyle was an option, I often experimented with my food.

In fact, I've been living off fruit for long periods of time without even knowing about 80/10/10,- I was basically doing 90/5/5 just because it felt great.

Long before going raw vegan, I used to do fruity experiments. Eating apples for one week made me feel absolutely ecstatic and strong. I did it just for fun but it worked so well that I wanted to try other things. Couple of months after that I decided to eat grapes and some cashews for 2 weeks.

Then I once went fruit for 8 days on vacation and felt amazing.

The water fasts which I did regularly, amazed me too,- I felt so light and healthy that it didn't feel right to go back to cooked stuff.

I did also love making long juice feasts. The only thing I didn't like about all of this, was the way back,- back to the old ways which don't make you feel good long term.

All these experiments made me think a lot about my cooked lifestyle and the low energy levels.

Even though I was a vegetarian since 1991, I didn't feel as good as when I was fueled by fruit.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I suddenly couldn't stand the smell of cooked food! I couldn't eat anything at all in the first couple of days and then after that the only thing that tasted good to me was juicy fruit,- imagine that!

My inner voice was extremely strong during both pregnancies and I ate lots of rawsome food and fruit back then. All the things which I absolutely loved eating before, started smelling so unbearable, they made me feel sick! I had to often hold my nose, so that I could go grocery shopping,- the smells seemed strong and almost aggressive.

After going raw almost 10 years ago, I kept experimenting with fruit and went 80/10/10 (or 90/5/5, which felt best) without knowing anything about it.

I love fruit and living off fruit for extended periods of time once or twice a year (2-3 months each time) made me feel absolutely wonderful.

That's why I could say that I'm doing this for a long time. But that wouldn't be true because I kept going back to high fat raw with 2 avocados on a daily basis, thinking that good fats are important.

Well, now, thank Dr. Douglas Graham's fruity book “80/10/10” I can consciously enjoy this beautiful lifestyle. I'm so grateful!

Enjoy the fruit, dear rawies. Eat lots of it if you want to feel good on an ongoing basis.

My youtube channel

2011-12-29T05:26:00.000-08:00

I recently started creating videos about this beautiful lifestyle.

At the end of each video I usually improvise something on my violin.

Check out my fruity musical videos.

Here comes the first one:

Eva's First Fruity Video!

Enjoy!

The flow

2011-12-16T05:36:00.001-08:00

Today while watching the stream in the park and really feeling the energy of the flowing water, I suddenly realized that THIS is what the life is all about. We can not stop it from flowing,- it's such an amazing force!

It's an ever-changing now, as Eckhart Tolle says. And it becomes hard when we start clinging to things instead of just gratefully welcoming the reality.
What we can do is stay in the flow, FEEL each bit of it and enjoy it.

This is the way of experiencing true JOY on a daily basis.

Go out and feel this,- life is AMAZING!

Fruit up your life!

2011-11-13T06:56:00.000-08:00

Fruity life is sweet!

The good news is,- it's GOOD for you too.

Beautiful colors in the park

Make sure to eat lots of fruit on a daily basis,- it will make you feel happy with no reason,- wohoooooo!

I love fruit.

....and so does Charlie :-)

Here we go,- this is my Scottish superman!

Make sure to read Dr. Graham's book so that you know what I'm talking about.

80/10/10 works really well if you give it a try.

Playing with leaves is fun

Fruit rules

A very special day

2011-07-19T06:05:00.001-07:00

Sweet 13 today!

Happy Birthday to my lovely darling :-)

What a fruity breakfast, eh?

Daddy called to wish Charlie a happy day

Relaxing in the sun,- beautiful.

Wooohooooooooo,- what a great day we're having!

Igudesman&Joo

2011-07-19T05:30:00.000-07:00

Yes, we went to their concert in Mainz!

We went there by train. It was an exciting day :-)

We found a lovely little lady-bird on the way,- so cute:

Then we took some silly pictures and were ready for the EVENT of the day.

The show was great and we laughed a LOT. Man, were they good,- such incredible musicians and such a beautiful sense of humor as well,- what a treat!

I'm looking forward to the next concert of Igudesman and Joo,- they are spiffing!

June 2011

2011-07-19T04:16:00.000-07:00

Our June was sunny, wonderful and FUN!

Nicky and Charlie enjoyed their boat-ride:

Our concert was great, here are some pics:

Charlie's concert was amazing and I enjoyed it very much.

Here's a little video you can watch:

Mother's day

2011-05-08T10:53:00.001-07:00

Today Charlie and me had a lovely time in the Park.

This flute player is always there

We feel good!

Spot the differences between the first picture and this one, haha

yeah!

Posing........

I love the whole world *hugs*

Have a great mother's day

Dare to dream!

2011-05-01T03:33:00.000-07:00

Did you know that it's not easy to dream? That's right,- as soon as you start imagining what you want, lots of your limiting beliefs surface. They block the flow of vibrancy and force us to lead a secure life where we tend to get obsessed with creating more safety nets instead of building bridges. This puts us into a survival mode and survivors are usually busy with the struggle for life, instead of thriving--> which is what we are actually here for.

Most of the millionaires and successful people are courageous humans who went for their dreams, without allowing the fear of losing all the things they created, to control their lives.

The secret is to transform all your "what if"s into the positive ones like

What if the house I am dreaming about is already there waiting for me to move in

What if my income keeps growing every month

What if I can support 10 families and 20 schools with my income

What if I keep meeting inspiring people on my path who would love to work with me

Go on,- create your one ones. In fact, it is a great exercise to create minimum 5 "what if ups" every day.

I haven't read this book yet but ordered it on Amazon and am looking forward to reading it soon:

What if up!

What I discovered for me is this: writing down your ideas is a powerful thing to do.

Create a success journal, a gratitude diary, write down all your goals, dreams and thoughts and watch yourself grow with an incredible speed.

The speed is not important but it's great to see how fast things start clicking into place when you allow the energy of the Universe to flow to you and through you.

This is truly an amazing place to be!

The beauty around us

2011-04-26T05:47:00.001-07:00

This was fun

The flowers are gorgeous!

Spending time outside is so wonderful! I'd love to spend a lot more time out in the nature.

I love you, my darlings!

I am currently reading Dr. Robert Anthony's books, which are AMAZING!!! I'm so grateful I "found" him. It was Dr. Joe Vitale who pointed me in the right direction :-) I love him too, BTW.

Smiling in the sun

This park is near our place

What are you grateful for?

2011-03-27T05:06:00.000-07:00

Charlie made this delicious salad all by himself: the recipe is in
Nelly's new book!

This is what I found out last year: keep looking for things you are grateful for and you'll always feel the inner peace within you.

Find some time every day to write down all about the gifts you receive on a daily basis and you might find it hard to stop because there is such an abundance of beauty we are surrounded with.

Raw beauty,- I love it!

Raw spaghetti made out of sweet potatoes with a colorful sauce.

Green smoothies are yummy!

Nature's great piece of art:

Nicky's 16th Birthday,- wohooooo! :-)

Today I'd like to thank Revvell who taught me how to appreciate things,- thank you so much, my dear friend! Feeling grateful turned my life situation around and I deeply appreciate your help.

It's my Birthday!

2010-12-19T12:21:00.000-08:00

Here are some fun pictures we took on my B-day:

relaxxxxing :-)

The rawsome b-day food

Charlie made me a cute crocodile necklace and Nicky gave me a picture with a beautiful frame,- THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I still love SILLY,- wohoooo!

Nicky in Hawaii ;-)

...posing s goods I can, haha

Red cabbage&avocado cream

Charlie and me

It's been snowing non stop since yesterday,- just look at this: so beautiful!

Raw Winter

2010-12-05T08:07:00.001-08:00

The raw-food lifestyle just keeps getting better and better all the time. Just look at this beauty:

And here come girl-and kalepower,- woohooo!

My raw noodles with a spicy green sauce

Pulling silly faces is one of Charlie's specialities :-)

Cool girl with a cool hat!

Charlie had a lovely performance in November.

We went to the ice rink in the evening. It was frrrrrreeezing but Charlie enjoyed it anyway

Raw News

2010-09-03T03:30:00.000-07:00

Hey folks, hope you are enjoying this raw bliss as much as I do!

I found a nice raw vegan site where you can participate in a recipe contest if you like. It sounds like fun to me. Check it out:

RECIPE CONTEST!

And remember to go to Rohvolution on the weekend. (25-26.9.2010)

Markus Rothkranz is going to be there too!!

Here we go:

ROHVOLUTION

Today

2010-08-29T12:06:00.001-07:00

The blueberry cream was wonderful,- thank you, Kathrin!

Raw power :-)

This is the dessert table

Saunya, da raw chef!

This is the spicy coconut dish I made

And this is another raw creation of mine (with LOADS of avocados! :-) )

Nelly's raw crepes!

Charlie and me went out to play football :-)

The heavy table :-D

Charlie, the football star!

I love playing outside!

Yeah!

Saunya's legendary chocolate balls,- double yum!

Saunya's rawmazing crackers with cheese

The cheese was so smooth!

Nelly&Mimi with the mango-spinach smoothie.

Thank you for this wonderful event, dear Nelly!

Having fun,- again!

2010-08-27T11:11:00.000-07:00

SUN-flower! :-)

...getting ready for the potluck, haha

Raw Chef Charlie

Charlie and me made some raw jelly

Raw chef Saunya's rawmazing tarts!

Saunya

noodles........

with...

..noodles

Charlie's chocolate-blueberry jelly

Raw energy!

Sun&rain

2010-08-23T11:13:00.000-07:00

Nicky-darling *thousand hearts*

...and Charlie :-)

Raw vegan Strawberry-Blueberry chocolate cake

My beloved mangoes-->

This is a dish I created recently,- it was yummo!

I LOVE peaches, especially these ones.

The weather's been playing around a lot lately: here I'm enjoying the sun

and in this one I am glad that it rained :-)

Raw Raw Raw

2010-08-06T01:02:00.000-07:00

Our 3rd potluck was fun fun fun! This is Mr. Raw Chef-Charlie :-)

Saunya's lovely taccos

Me-->

Rawsome folks

and

rawsome food!

<--Saunya!

Nelly, the raw Goddess, made a delicious raw pizza and it was gone within minutes.

Our new friends

RAW PIZZA!

Charlie made raw blueberry-JELLY! yum

Know thyself

2010-07-15T07:27:00.000-07:00

Who doesn't know them,- those "annoying, evil and stupid people" who make you feel angry, sad and helpless with their tactless and/or shameless behavior?

What I found out for myself in the last couple of months is this: actually, those people wouldn't have been there if our inner world would have been clean. Clean of hurt, resentment and fears.

It's simple: as soon as you observe your thoughts and feelings and become fully aware of them, those people do either get out of your life or (and this happened to me many times) change their usual behavior and suddenly become more understanding and compassionate.

When we keep our inner self clean and strong, there is absolutely nothing to be scared of. The raw food takes care of the rest :-)

You will never be ab le to change "the others" or to save the world if you don't start with yourself. Isn't this empowering? I love it!

Yes, this life is full of wonderful magic and the best part is that we can change a lot by "only" changing our own perspective...which is the most difficult and most fulfilling task in this life.

Remember the ancient Greek aphorism: "KNOW THYSELF", enjoy the changes and go with the inner flow.

Love, Eva

Rawmazing time!

2010-07-11T12:56:00.001-07:00

The first Raw Potluck in Wiesbaden was a success!

We met at noon in this beautiful park and had tons of fun together!

I didn't know there are so many raw foodies round here....and they even told me that they know more rawies,-yes!

The food was delicios and the people are beautiful,- I love you folks!!!

It's all "made with love" :-)

These yummy chocolate balls are Saunya's speciality,- they just melt in your mouth *drool*

Aww, what a pretty girl!

Nelly was her usual wonderful self.

...and here comes the model again.

Saunya, the gorgeous raw choc expert.

Now let's try something new......

...are you enjoying the sun? I think so :-)

Need to keep those beauties in shape (I don't think so!)

Those are my girls ---> hugs

The first raw Potluck!

2010-07-08T15:05:00.001-07:00

I'm so excited: I decided to organise the first Potluck here in Wiesbaden and received messages from 14 people who would love to come too!

All the raw foodists aka rawies and everybody who is interested in raw vegan lifestyle are

WELCOME!

Our Party is on the 11th of July at 12:00 here:

1st Raw Potluck in Wiesbaden

We are planning to have lots of FUN! Apart from raw food, blankets, cutlery and tons of empty bottles(there is a well with delicious drinking water!), bring lots of friends and happy smiles with you.

I am looking forward to meeting new amazing people SOON.

Love,

Eva

A beautiful day

2010-06-27T13:04:00.000-07:00

Today we had an amazing day: we went to Nelly's wonderful Raw Potluck in Otterstadt.

Here come some lovely pics from our Raw PARTY! Nelly is such a lovely person,- I just love this girl!

NELLY

Raw goodness.

Nelly and me

Here she is again, with Charlie

Charlie: getting ready for the England/Germany game.

There were LOTS of delicious goodies and I loved the new people I met there. This is Saunya's heavenly delicious carob halvah,- it was an unforgettable experience. Thank you, Saunya!

At the end of it Nelly surprised us by making raw coffee! I don't like coffee but this drink was quite good.

After the party we went to pick some yummy cherries and enjoyed the sun and the company of our new friends. They have a great site where you can purchase delicious COLD PRESSED OLIVE OIL from Greece!

Charlie found a BIG dandelion :-)

I was so inspired that I decided to have the next potluck,- which is going to be the first one in Wiesbaden BTW,- at my place in two weeks! Come and visit us on the 11th of July at 12:00. There will be lots of rawies, great food and we are going to have FUN :-)

It's SUMMER!

2010-06-12T02:17:00.000-07:00

Finally! The sun is shining and it's WARM!

Here are some pictures from paradise :-)

I LOVE silly :-D

No more jackets, just a dress....
What a wonderful success :-)

May 2010

2010-06-12T01:38:00.000-07:00

Here we go again. We took lots of FUN pics and wanted to share them with you.

Enjoy!

Delicious raw pasta:

And here comes the amazing pesto sauce:

A yummy strawberry cake for afters:

Relaxxxxxing!

Jump up :-)

and again...

This is FUN

Wooohooooo!

News

2010-06-12T00:38:00.000-07:00

End of March we went to Berlin to Rohvolution. It's a huge raw food festival and I enjoyed each bit of it.

Here are some pics:

1. Nicky at the raw-dinner party.

2. A beautiful raw dish,- cauliflower with curry.

3.Us on the way to the dinner-party!

4. Playgrounds are fun!

5. More rawsome food!

Nelly&Volker did a GREAT job. Thank you8 so much for your work!
Nelly's raw site:

http://www.rohkoestlich.com/index.php?id=2&lng=DE

Enjoy!

April's pics:

having fun in the park!

We did even see some fish in the pond! Here it is:

Fascinating books

2010-03-17T13:38:00.000-07:00

Reading one beautiful book after another at the moment! I didn't know there are so many goodies out there!

This one is amazing and FREE, take a look:

http://www.attractmoneynow.com/

This one is simply BEAUTIFUL and peacefilled,
http://www.amazon.de/gp/reader/0470402563/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

- one of the most beautiful books I ever read. In fact, I'm so disappointed I finished reading it that I decided to start reading it again soon,- it's a lifechanging book!

This one is great because it's full of love to children,- Thomas Gordon's "PET".

http://www.amazon.de/gp/reader/0609806939/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

And this one I started reading yesterday and it's an amazing one too.Even though I'm not a school teacher I love reading it, it's full of wisdom:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/reader/0609809326/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

Thank you so much for writing this beauty for us to enjoy, dear Dr. Thomas Gordon and Dr.Joe Vitale!

I am so grateful I attracted this beauty into my life,- it's overwhelming.

Thank you!

For my Mummy

2010-03-11T13:06:00.000-08:00

Today I'd like to thank my mother for everything she did for me.

I had such a wonderful mother!

Lately I've been caught in a negative state of mind and been blaming her a lot for all the mistakes she made. Who doesn't make any mistakes in their lives?

Now, thank Dr. Joe Vitale's and Dr. Hew Len's book about Ho'oponopono (it's called "Zero Lmits") I managed to let go of all the pain,- what a huge relief this is,- it's hard to describe it!

It was not easy to be a single mother in Armenia in those days. She was always full of revolutionary, fresh and fun ideas.

Not too many people have ever heard anything about freshly pressed juices on a daily basis, a raw food lifestyle, autogenous training, jogging in the mornings or yoga.....she's been reading lots of books and I was the lucky one who could experience the freshness of life with her.

When I was 5 y. old she started going out for a run with me every single morning. I loved the morning air but the neighbours thought my Mum is weird and told her to stop „torturing“ the child :-D

It was great because I was also the first girl who had a scateboard and everyone kept asking me what it was :-)

In the evenings we did often go for a nice walk. We did also often talk about the books weve been reading in those days.

Thank you so much for showing me how important it is to keep going. What a corageous person you are. I will always love you!

Jumping up high

2010-03-08T12:34:00.000-08:00

Just look at these pics :-)

We managed to jump up so high, didn't we?

I was doing my best anyway :-)

How did we do that?

We took our trampoline out with us --> it's more enjoyable to jump around in the sun.

Well done, Charlie!

Simple and beautiful

2010-03-07T09:24:00.001-08:00

Simple things are sometimes the best ones, right? Just look at this,- a beauty on your plate.

This was our raw supper last week: zucchini noodles with cream-sauce.

Another raw meal which Charlie enjoyed a lot: radish spagetti with cheese.

Here comes the raw pudding:

Cheers!

Raw power with Nelly

2010-03-01T12:40:00.000-08:00

If you ever happen to go to Otterstadt, a little picturesque place near a town called Speyer in Germany, remember to visit a rawsome and beautiful Nelly,- a very special lady I had a pleasure to meet yesterday!

Have a little peek at her colorful and fruity homepage:

www.rohkoestlich.com

She organises raw potlucks once a month at her place and her food is truly beautiful! Not only did it taste great, the whole afternoon I've been feeling like experiencing something AMAZING probaly also because she is a very carismatic person.

She made sausages with chips and ketchup which my 11 year old son LOVED and so did all the others, BTW. The sausages were gone within couple of minutes, which can only mean one thing: the rawfood chef is a true ARTIST! Her rainbow cake was SO GOOD,- I wish I could describe how good it was but it's impossible to express it with words. The cashewcream-layer just melted in your mouth and the other layers were not less fascinating either. I didn't know that raw sweets can make you feel so extatic!

This is the dish Charlie&I made for the potluck :-)-chicory filled with a raw spread.

The first picture shows it better. But the second picture shows the raw chef himself!

Nelly has also got some yummy raw products and I bought, among other wonderful things (her raw-recipe book, for example,- it's full of beautiful pictures and yummy recipes!), these sweets from her:

www.booja-booja.com

Now those are truly delicious! It was hard to believe they are raw,- but they really are! And the best thing about raw choc is: you enjoy it and then you can actually stop eating because it's so filling and satisfying. My Goodness me, what a completely new thing to experience for me!

Untill now I was thinking that it's not really necessary to make raw recipes,- I kept eating tasty but simple meals. In the last couple of days I realised what a great fun it is making raw recipes with children. My son started asking what we are going to make for supper and day before yesterday he didn't even notice that all he ate was 100% sunny raw food! He enjoyed it too :-) and the process of trying out new recipes frees his creative energy,- Charlie likes decorating the food and is always full of new ideas.

There were 7 other lovely rawies who came to this YUMMY potluck. We had lots of fun together and I hope we will meet again some time soon.

Dear Nelly, thank you for making me feel so comfortable at your place and for showing me that there are a lot of new and exciting things for me to learn.

I am so grateful we met, I can learn a lot from Nelly. Her husband is a darling too and I wish them eternal happiness and raw bliss!

Now imagine thousand little hearts flying up to the sky,- for Nelly&Volker :-)

The wisdom of children

2010-02-22T11:33:00.000-08:00

At the moment I feel like I'd love to read all the good books on parenting.

There are so many things I didn't know about!

Right now I am reading the P.E.T. By Dr. Thomas Gordon and find it very inspiring!
(My dear friend Sonja told me about it, here is her site:
http://www.rawfunfamily.com/)
There are little tests you can do by writing down how you would react in a certain situation and imagine my thrill when I found out that my results aren't that bad after all :-)

Still: I know I made lots of mistakes and I apologise for them to my children!

Thomas Gordon is right when he says: „We need a new generation of parents who will accept the challenge of learning the skills for raising responsible children in the home. For this is where it all must start. And it can start there today, this minute- in your home.“

Thank you so much for writing this love-filled book. It helped me to understand my children much better than I ever did before. It helped me to look at myself from all the possible sides and find out what I can improve and how. It showed me once more just how much we underestimate our children and how MUCH we can learn from them on a daily basis.

Feeling inspired

2010-02-16T11:27:00.000-08:00

Today is Nicky's Birthday! Yipppeeeee! Yep, the 16th of February is a very special day.

We went out and had some fun together.

It was very cold but we didn't mind at all :-)

Hugs always meake you feel happy, right?

That's why I put my favourite T-shirt on
I bought it here BTW:
http://www.cafepress.com/Revvellations
it's a fun shop
and took some funny pics.

<--Look what it says on the T-shirt

So, do you want one? Have one then!

Enjoy :-)

Delicious

2010-02-15T13:05:00.001-08:00

This was yummy and Charlie ate his raw meal with salt and pepper :-)

<--Here it is: I just blended tomatoes, leek, spinach& cauliflower and made them look nice:-)

Feeling grateful

2010-02-14T12:23:00.000-08:00

Today I wanted to upload this picture on Twitter but for some reason it didn't work. I'm new on Twitter and it's fun :-)

http://twitter.com/freshlight1

Since I met Revvell
http://www.bodaciousliving.com/

online on Rawfoodtalk

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/

and learned how to do my daily appreciations,

Revvel created a huge thread here: http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=34741

my life starting changing really fast. I started appreciating each tiny thing that came my way and now I have the problem that there is not enough time for appreciating so many things every day :-)

This is amazing because I would just notice all the lack: this is not good and this is not enough and this could be better...but now I started focusing on the beauty and the more I focus on it, the more of it flows into my life, WOW!

I didn't know life is full of pure MAGIC and I didn't know I can create it!

Today, on this wonderful Valentine's Day I would like to thank Revvell for sharing all the GOODNESS with the world. To me, and to many others I know, she is an ispiring person and I hope her ustream shows will keep coming regularly,- they are wonderful!

Couple of days ago Revvell posted a link to this wonderful book written by Joe Vitale whom I didn't know before. Here is the link to it:

http://www.attractmoneynow.com/

This book is such a beauty! I read the book "The sience of getting rich" of W. Wattles before and it's great but perhaps I wasn't ready for the truth at that time.

Joe Vitale's book is SO INSPIRING! It literally loads you with energy and inspires you to change your life NOW. I wonder how he does that. Oh, actually I know how: he is full of love to people and you can feel that love in each of his sentences. You feel special and you feel loved when you read that book,- well, I did!

I can't describe how I felt while reading that book,- it's a powerful stuff and I'm so grateful I attracted it and it came to me! Yes!

Have a beautiful Valentine's day, everyone. This life is always full of LOVE. Spread the good news and enjoy the power of feeling grateful.

Lots of love from

Eva

Pics from November 2009

2010-02-06T13:13:00.001-08:00

Look at this tiny apple :-)

Here we go again -->

I bought couple of them

and

I enjoyed them!

I'm back

2009-11-15T11:06:00.000-08:00

Oh, I've been so busy that there was no time for
writing here at all. Thanks for keeping in touch, y'all :-)

Here come some new images for you.

...relaxing in the park.

We found some eggs under Charlie's
bike!

And then, couple of days later-->

Look at these cuties! Those are tiny little pigeons (doves).

Here we go,- see you soon!

Spring and hats

2009-03-17T11:42:00.001-07:00

Here comes our
secret agent N 1

I LOVE the
spring air!

My favourite food: babymungs with red bell pepper and leek.

Sometimes I put some green peeper in as well.

Do you recognize this girl???

Teethbrushingtime :)

Me after a special "carrots&parsley day".

I do sometimes have very special days like a mango,
an appple or a carrot only day. It's fun!

Avos: yum-yum!

The warm coldness

2009-02-09T12:17:00.000-08:00

It's been so cold that I HAD to go running in order to get nice and warm. From then on it felt great though and I was warmed up from inside for the whole day :-)

My favourite food is spinach right now,-yum-yum!

Here come some friendly peeps :

Charlie is enjoying his guac with tomatoes,
peppers and cucumber.

It was cold but sunny

2009-01-04T10:57:00.000-08:00

It was a beautiful
cold day.....

Enjoy your smoothie, sip away :-)

Wow, look at those new shiny shoes!

You like them...so do I,-great news ;)

The sun's been shining all day long.

Hello, you two,-let's sing a song :-) :-) :-)

My rawsome day

2008-12-25T10:27:00.000-08:00

The sky was beautiful
today. Just look at
this:-->

The stream looked clean and pretty.

I tried to sprout some
wild rice but it took ages
(over 2 weeks!) and didn't taste
good,-its tasteless.

The egyptian geese looked tired..or perhaps they are used to silly people with cameras ?

Apple a day keeps the doctor away...

...Garlic is stronger,
it will keep him away longer :D

The ducks were enjoying the warm weather.

Birthday presents

2008-12-22T03:38:00.000-08:00

Thank you so much for all the lovely presents!!!

This is the paper and the decoration Charlie made for wrapping up the present.

Charlie gave me this beautiful heart painted on
canvas.

<--He made this one at school,-isn't it pretty?

One of our favourite passtimes is pulling silly faces
:-)

Nicky gave me two bracelets. I wear them all the time.

She did also give me this wonderful mug. I used it today,-it works ;-)

ahhhhhh, are those two pulling faces AGAIN???

Mr.Drumstick's really bombastic :)

Autumn rhymes

2008-12-05T14:20:00.000-08:00

Be loving

and

be generous

you're worth it,

you are great

Relax,

let go

Enjoy this life,

You're strong and bright

Tonight.

Lovely people

2008-11-19T16:45:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone,

thank you so much for all the positive feedback.

I didn't know that vitamin B12 deficiency is such a common disease:get well soon!

It seems that people who are constantly stressed out develop it more often. The other reason for it might be our new sterilized planet: all the fruit and vegetables get cleaned too often before they enter our kitchen, and the v.B12 gets literally washed away on the way to us.

Just because I LOVED your mails so much, I decided to make the comment button work again. Let's see how it goes ;)

Hope to hear from you again soon.

Take care,

Eva

Before and later

2008-11-13T11:09:00.000-08:00

Nicky's first month :-)

She loves her little roly-poly bear!

The first Christmas.

shhhhhhhhh

The second year.

oh, what a cuddly cat.

Nicky is 3 years old.

Charlie
is
there
too!

This is the first picture of Nicky&Charlie (together).

.........................................

Climbing is fun :-)

Here they come again!

I am deficient in vitamin B12

2008-11-09T15:27:00.000-08:00

It started with me feeling tired and dizzy most of the time. The tiredness did become so strong, I sometimes couldn't get out of my bed AT ALL, because as soon as I would, I'd start feeling dizzy and faint and that was quite scary.

Some days would be better than the others but basically I just had to learn to cope, in spite of having such great difficulties every single day. It felt like all the others can walk around and have fun and I can only do it with a heavy load hanging from my neck and pressing me down.

The deep sadness was the other thing I had to deal with in this stressful time. Sometimes even I couldn't understand myself. Usually I am very happy and full of energy, but it seemed that I am sad and irritable ALL the time from now on :( The tiniest negative thing would make me feel horrible. I remember seeing an old lady feeding ducks in the park, and (me) bursting into tears because she looked so lonely and cute.

The problem was that I didn't think about the possibility of being seriously ill: I've just lost my mother and all the emotional and physical pain I had to go through was understood as a normal human reaction, which "will eventually get better". I tried to keep going on like this and hoping for better times but it seemed impossible. It was like going through a huge piece of jungle every day and falling into deep holes each time: it was simply unbearable. I didn't even know, people can feel such strong emotional pain so often, it was a huge burden I couldn't carry any more. I did go to the doctor and checked my blood levels.My iron levels were very low . Filling them up didn't make me feel better though. At some point I started thinking it's because of the tension between Nicky&me. Everything's changed so much since couple of months. It seemed impossible to get through the day without any worldshattering problems. Welcome in puberty!

That's why I decided to go to the therapist and ask her what I am doing wrong: everybody else seemed to be managing their lives all right, only I was struggling like crazy , WHY? And this is what she said: "Nothing is wrong with you, you sound all right to me. Your daughter is going through puberty and everything she does is absolutely NORMAL! Don't worry. It'll take another couple of years and then things will calm down."
She said it with a pleasant smile, as if she was happy about it too! "Ah well, at least I know I'm not crazy".

But things kept getting worse all the time. My tongue started bleeding and felt very sore for a long time. "Oh, that's nothing, it's just a bit inflamed.",-those were my doctors words. That little inflammation took 6 weeks to heal! I could hardly eat anything without any pain, it was awful.

The next symptom were the numb hands. That one did scare me a lot because I couldn't play my violin anymore, therefore I couldn't work! Off I went to the doctor again. This time he said I do have multipe sclerosis......it was like having one shock after another. In the meantime, my emotional condition was getting worse by the minute.

Things which normally didn't bother me at all, started causing such unbearable pain, I did end up feeling helpless and lost. I stopped seeing my friends because I felt embarassed of my unstable state of mind: I was scared of bursting into tears in front of everyone. Usually I loved talking to people, laughing, having fun, but ALL those activities were no longer part of my life. Sadness and exhaustion were now my new friends :( Remembering that I used to be the exact opposite from what I was now , I did finally decide to find out on my own what the problem was, because I didn't want to believe this MS diagnosis. It just didn't sound right to me! After doing a search on the net I was amazed about the similarity of my symptoms with the other v.B12-deficient patients. After asking the doctor to check my blood levels and him refusing to do that,- "You just have to put up with the diagnosis. I know it's not easy, but it's unavoidable!",- off I went to the different doc. While I was telling him all about my current physical condition, he interrupted me by saying: "It sounds scary enough to me. Lets check them now". The result was quite frightening too: instead of normal serum B12 level 200-1000, I did only have 25! "I did have a patient who died of the v.B12 deficiency and her levels were higher than yours.Be careful and take care. I'm very concerned about you". Everything is going to be fine now, I thought. But it doesn't seem to be that easy. When you have such a big deficiency it takes time to sort things out again. I hope I won't be left with a permanent damage of the nerves.

Wish me luck!

A day full of music

2008-11-01T16:54:00.000-07:00

Nicky is a "hat person". I think she would look good in any hat :-)

Charlie is getting ready for his concert.

Here she is again, full of smiles and happy vibes :-)

<--This is the first piece they played.

Me, myself and I: listening to the music.

This is the second one: it's cute :-)

Look what I saw today

2008-10-26T09:18:00.001-07:00

Aren't they cute?

their mother was a bit worried though....just like all mothers ;-)

I love this tree, it looks so magnificent.

Look at all this food!-->

The sky was beautiful too.

I did even comb my hair for a change :-)
but only because it's Sunday ;-)

Tonight Charlie made an avocado spread and liked it very much.

This is an interesting recipe as well, isn't it? :-)

This was the culmination of the day:
I saw some migrating birds!!!
I love the sound they make, it's so gorgeous.

Our children

2008-10-24T10:54:00.000-07:00

Little voices,
Tiny hearts.
Please don't hurt them,
That's not smart.

They are gentle
They have style,
Do support them,
They need that.

They need you
and
They need freedom,
They need lots and
Lots of love.

Take your time and
Show your care
and
Our children
Will be fine.

Old news

2008-10-16T10:38:00.000-07:00

This is Nicky's new look, which is quite old: I forgot to post the new pictures.

This one is over one month old.

......so is this one.

Charlie in the park.

Nicky at the computer :-)

White coconuts

2008-10-10T04:49:00.000-07:00

.....are delicious!

Look what I created last night, being inspired with this wonderful gift of nature: spagetti made of fresh courgette with raw tomatoe sauce and fresh thai coconut.

Try to find the difference between the two:

.....did you manage.......? It's easy :-)

It's conker time!

2008-09-18T11:36:00.000-07:00

He is searching for horse chestnuts, aka conkers.

.......found one!

Then we decided to make a nice pile of them for the squirrels. :-)

what a diligent boy!

Playing is fun.

......so is drumming.

....and this is the girl who adores him ............

and her..... ;-)

Our Sundays

2008-09-01T05:45:00.000-07:00

.......do sometimes look like this:

Charlie loves conkers!

wow, look at this -->

It was a sunny day :-)

A breath of roses

2008-08-21T16:48:00.000-07:00

These sunny days are lovely
And cheer us up a lot.
I love their scent, I am content.
A breath of roses finds me.

Jump up high

2008-08-19T02:05:00.000-07:00

Here come the jumpers. Right,
Do they have them on tonight? ;-)
We've been busy all day long
Nature: that's where we belong.

We are full of hopes and dreams,
Pray for happiness and peace.
Make your inner voice come through
Everything it says is true.

The light

2008-08-17T14:04:00.000-07:00

My sadness is still there
But it became see-through.
The light comes in,
I breath it in,
There is no more despair.

New pics

2008-06-20T13:33:00.001-07:00

Here they come...

first of all, Charlie's new haircut:

<--Charlie's old hairstyle

hmmmmmmm....yummy strawberries :-)

A bite

2008-06-20T12:09:00.000-07:00

Nicky got bitten by a dog. These are the pictures from yesterday:

Get well soon, my darling!

Summertime

2008-06-09T07:10:00.000-07:00

Basketball

Nicky's looking for the basket,
Charlie wants to get the ball
It's so good, it's so fantastic,
This grand game's called basketball!

We are running, we are chasing,
We all want to have a go.
Nicky gets the ball, amazing,
What a speed and what a girl!

Charlie's good at it as well though,
He is strong and he is tough.
Quickly does he get the ball and
Throws it to the other girl.

Now the other girl is trying
To succeed: fast, faster, run!
"Try to do it better, Mummy:
just relax and have some fun".

Oh, the children! Right...they're teaching..who?
Not me?! Oh no, come on.
I thought, the adults are there
To show their abilties.

But the little ones are smart
Always knowing what they like,
They enjoy this very moment,
Being wise and living NOW.

I am grateful you're with me
Thank you for this shining light
Sunshine, peace, eternal love
What a beauty, what delight.

Skipping and strength

2008-06-08T11:10:00.000-07:00

I did create my blogs in order to cheer myself up. I am going through what you would call "tough times" and am constantly trying to find my inner peace.

My diaries help me to see the whole situation in a positive light and not to disappear in the "dark hole".

It does also help me to remember: there is always a way out, even if you can't see it yet.

It helps me to keep going and to believe in beauty and love.

I hope the hard times will be gone as fast as they came and we can start enjoying life a bit more as soon as possible.

Charlie is concentrating..........

He looks much happier on this one:

I'll try to remember this one:

"Faith in oneself...is the best and safest course." - Michelangelo

These are the things.....

2008-05-26T05:40:00.000-07:00

............you have to deal with when you have teenagers at home :-)

Nicky loves her new boots and so do I: they look nice&shiny.

We did some playing in the park as well........

well, the little ones did.....

.......while their Mummy just sat there and ate some yummy things:

:-)

Flowers

2008-05-19T15:36:00.000-07:00

It's flower time. Just look at this:

Charlie feels "jumpy" again.......

........he likes flowers too :-)

ooooooops, what's she doing?

I think, she is enjoying the sun.

Silly? yes!

2008-04-29T11:03:00.000-07:00

We love this place, it's so quiet and green.

My favourite tree is there as well -->

First we met our friends,

then we had a little rest,

after which Charlie performed a great dance,

and a big jump!

Because being silly is one of our favourite pastimes,
we couldn't resist..........

Last weekend

2008-04-28T04:29:00.000-07:00

It started with a visit to the dentist. This is Charlie with a "sleepy cheek" :-)

Do you know this girl?

Skating in the park.

hmmmmmm, that smells nice!

.......and here come the magic swing pictures again.

..jumping up high........

...phew, that was strenuous!

The duck pond

2008-04-20T15:57:00.000-07:00

What a sunny day it was!

We did enjoy the sun.....

and tried to get a tan :-)

and then............

......she is concentrating.....well done!

wow, he can do it as well.

We saw a tortoise lying in the sun.....

This is the host:
.....yeah, "life is but a dream" :-)

What a change!

2008-04-18T14:37:00.000-07:00

Yesterday: a picture of a little girl.

This is today's picture of the same girl :-)

A good start to the day

2008-04-16T11:53:00.000-07:00

There are lots of possibilities for a good start...

I'm going to list couple of them here...in pictures.

This one is definitely one of the best starts because of the beautiful environment.

Doing some workout is not a bad idea either.

Swimming would be one of my favourite ones....

........followed by a mango or two.....

Young and younger

2008-04-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

These are the newest pictures:

These are a bit older.....but still quite fresh.

This is the secret agent -->:

..........with his scottish sister:

These are a bit older still.......which means that the children are younger :-)

What a yummy mango....that was on Nicky's 11th B-day.

What a beautiful place, isn't it?

Purslane is yummy

2008-04-09T18:44:00.000-07:00

It looks beautiful as well.

Voila. Bon appetit!

Run and jump!

2008-04-09T17:57:00.000-07:00

Both can be fun if you are a "jumpful" kind of person :-) If you don't know what it means: it's a rare mixture between .......well, all the good things you feel like doing when you are full of energy.

Do some stretching first .......

...and then start off with small steps

Try to listen to the birds, look at the sky and enjoy the fresh air at the same time.....or don't you like multitasking???

As soon as you find the next playground, try to chase all the people away first. There are lots of different ways of doing that. Our favourite one is the well established so-called garlic method. It works as follows: take the fresh garlic out of the special garlic-bag, (which you should always carry with you, just in case...) and start eating it as if it were an apple. Don't forget to take a deep breath every now and then and exhale as strongly as you can. That works wonders and you can start enjoying your free space soon after finishing your delicious meal. Lovely! ;-)

It wasn't necessary to exercise it on that afternoon though.......the place was quiet and empty,hmmmmmmmm :-( Actually, I love crowded playgrounds....oh well, never mind.

Who is this? .

I think I know her...

Wow, there she goes again....

..and BOOM! what a jump.

We love taking these pictures.

I'm sure you'd like to see them all.....well, all right then......just for you.

We did create a new kind of a jump.

Look at the last one:

Have a playful day.

We love football

2008-04-07T17:17:00.000-07:00

This was a refreshing monday afternoon.

It's been snowing a little bit in the morning and it's very chilly .......but nice.

The air is full of wonderful spring-scents. I wish we could sleep outside sometime soon. It would be so beautiful to wake up in the morning and see the endless sky.....I love that.

Camping without a tent is the best thing to do. No borders, no walls, just the nature and us. *dream*

What to do............

2008-04-07T15:29:00.000-07:00

.......when your children are "being difficult" (which usually means that they don't agree with their parents ).

This is what happened on Sunday:

me: "Let's go out on our bikes!"

Charlie: "Oh no........I want to stay at home."

Nicky: "No, I don't want to...."

me: "Come on, you'll like it. I'll show you a nice place I found today ."

Nicky: "I'm sure we won't like it."

Charlie: "That's right, Mummy, we won't like it at all.....so can we stay at home, please?"

me: "Let's give it a try."

After repeating all this 38738713 times, we did finally manage to get out of the house. There they were, sitting on their bikes and looking extremely uncontent. Then I had an idea. I bought a nice "raincoat" couple of days ago. I had it with me and decided to put it on.

Well, that certainly did cheer them up quite a bit. They started laughing so hard, we had to take a little giggle break :-)

Just look at this:

who is hiding under that cloak?

Let's go a bit nearer:

still a bit hard to recognise, isn't she?

:-)

And these are sunday's images:

my favourite tree

this one is pretty as well.

Eating carrots in unisono -->

Oh dear: no more carrots!

Nicky did like the trip after all.....or did she?

People on bikes

2008-04-03T16:29:00.000-07:00

The weather was so capricious today: it kept changing it's mind all day long! It was cold but dry all morning. As soon as we started off ( on our bikes) it started raining and getting darker, because of the clouds. When we arrived, it suddenly stopped raining and the sun came out.

"What a perfect timing!", I thought to myself. It wasn't that cold anymore and we started hoping that it'll stay like this for the rest of the day.

Charlie was busy doing this:

Here you can see and hear some more of today's afternoon: just click on the arrow.

Here he goes again.

This wonderful sunshine did last for exactly 30 minutes,
which is not too bad......BUT: after that the rain started coming down in sheets and we arrived home, completely soaked through.

Charlie couldn't move his fingers for a while because they were all frozen, poor thing!

I think the nature was making fun of us.As soon as we entered the house, the sun came out again and it stayed dry untill the end of the day.

A chilly day

2008-04-03T15:30:00.000-07:00

The temperature fell and the winter came back.

We went out anyway....and this is what we did:

1.Kept jumping up and down in order to keep warm,

2.pulled some funny faces,

3. found some creative ways of jumping off the log,

4. played tag,

5. climbed up the mountains,

and 6.did some dancing in the rain.

When we finally got back home, there were lots of
delicious platters awaiting us.

Well, I never!-->Charlie did secretely eat all the peas up.

:-)

Basketball

2008-04-02T02:31:00.000-07:00

Dear friends,

some of you were concerned about Nicky because she wasn't on yesterday's pictures.

Here comes the explanation:

Nicky didn't come with us yesterday

because she was busy playing basketball :-) She will be there all week: it's a basketball camp at school. She leaves in the morning and comes back around 7 p.m. On monday she was feeling ill but she became "the best player of the day" anyway :-) She went to bed very early and is now feeling a bit better.I hope she'll manage to get through the week healthy and strong.

Thank you for your thoughtfulness!

I'll put this one in so that you don't miss her too much:

Take care everyone.

Lots of love,

Eva

Hovering over the planet

2008-04-01T13:12:00.000-07:00

Today we went to a nice park. This is what it lookes like:

We took some more flying pics. At present this seems to be one of the most interesting things to do.

Here we go again:

Charlie took one too: well done, Charlie!-->

It looks like he is standing on the stones but he is actually flying, yes!

Swings&Co

2008-03-30T17:57:00.000-07:00

Today I've been practising to take some good pictures of flying children :-)

It wasn't that easy.........have a look at these

Looks funny, doesn't it?

After yesterday's chilly day the sun came out today and it was very warm......for the first time since months!

The flowers looked beautiful:

The data display on my camera wasn't set off properly, that's why it shows the year 2011.....

Nicky's been taking some pics of me jumping off the swing, but they don't look that spectacular because I didn't jump as high as she and Charlie did.

Here come some more swinging pics:

You should never underestimate the power of swings!

Have a great day!

2008

2008-01-17T08:11:00.001-08:00

I did find another asia shop where you can buy some fresh durian, yum-yum! It would be great if somebody could find a way to plant some durian trees right next to where we live. That's my dream. Well, it's one of them :-)

I wonder why it didn't work out growing durian in the South America, when they tried to do it in the beginning of the 20th century. Is the climate there that different? I'd like to give it a try (another dream of mine). It might work in some parts of the Central America........we'll wait and see.

My biggest wish for this year is that

all the people become more and more ecosensitive.

That way we could start feeling the power of love in our lives much more clearly. Everything will become nice and clean, including ourselves.

It's my month

2007-12-17T15:09:00.000-08:00

.......guess why. Because I was born in December.

Hope I'll find lots of lovely mangos to celebrate it with.

Welcome in my blog. Here I am going to try and share my thoughts about children, love, raw food, nature, music, books and many other things.

What fascinates me most is how much we can learn from children. It's unbelieveable!! I learn from them every day. (I hope they have the same thoughts about me ;-) )

It's getting chillier every day but I love the cold sunny wheather, it's so refreshing! The little ones seem to enjoy it as well, as long as they can spend lots of time ice-skating :-)

The pic doesn't really match the cold season but I love contrasts, so there we go.

Take care everyone and come and visit me again soon.

Love, Eva