Lavender Living

I love my family and friends, my faith, to travel and see other countries with history and culture that I cannot even fathom, teaching others, not just a second language, but the world and culture that goes beyond the four walls of a class room to create the beauty behind the language. I love taking pictures of scenery, my children and friends.  I love digital scrap books and recording memories.  I love my iPhone, my macbook pro, pasta and bread (specifically Bread from Spain!), the color black (it is afterall a slimming color:),  to read all types of genre, but specifically on the edge of the seat suspense, mysteries and romance... Yes I did indulge in the 50 Shades of Gray series and shhh... I liked it! (I am also that person that reads a book like a movie and will stay up all night to finish a book I started that day!), chinese food, the Summer and just lounging at the pool.  I love teaching Spanish, I love learning!  I was introduced to a new method of teaching in 2013 and it turned my professional world upside down!  I began after ten years of teaching traditionally, teaching with the CI method of teaching Spanish... My kids love it and are able to produce with ease... so I LOVE IT!  I love connecting with High Schoolers middle schoolers, and elementary kids, organizing Prom every year (even when we hit stressful times:), learning how to be a better teacher, and collaborating with other teachers that want to be better at what they do. I love teaching future teachers to be teachers. Oh.. and I love the oil world.. and how it has changed my life!  I love teaching others natural alternatives and about natures first medicine. 

 

So about those oils..... Well, what can I say? I love them too! However, when I was first introduced to oils I was very skeptical and totally did not realize how the oils would transform my life with how we would incorporate it as a daily part of our life.  I took a leap with trying essential oils willing to try anything for my Grayson.  Who wouldn't try anything for their kids!?  He is allergic to grass (breathes it, touches it etc.) and he turns into hives.  We were giving daily allegra and benedryl throughout the day and it still would not clear up.  Would end up at the allergist, get prednisone---have a crazy child and start the process over.  Oils changed our life! He wants his oils!  (he says it smells like mama's gum:).  The hives go away... and have not come back with daily use.  

 

If you had told me when I started my oil journey, that I’d be spending my time online educating, sharing resources, and talking about and taking orders for essential oils, I would not have believed you for a second. I don't do the multi-level thing, I don't do parties and I hate pressuring people to buy things. I can fundraise like no other, but bottom line... I hate fundraising!  I grew up in the family business and sales is in my blood, but have never had the desire to walk that walk due to the stress that it endures.

 

I love YL and I love the team I am apart of because we do things differently. I’m not chasing people down, I’m not pushing useless items that, lets face it, are not going to work.  I’m literally bringing new joy and health to the people that I know.  I am sharing results of how a product has helped my family and more than willing to help others see and learn how it could help theirs.  The big selling point that made me take the leap was that this product comes from a company that has no strings attached.  Anyone can back out and they are not out anything more than the products they purchased.  A company that stands behind their product because they know their product is quality.  The product sells itself. The Lemon Dropper team that I am apart of started a business method of sharing and teaching about the quality and benefits of oils, not selling the oils to make money.  This is one more reason why I love my oils!:

 

I used to think Essential Oils were for yuppies (you know the modern hippies), a new fad, something wierd people did...a gimmick-- something that is pushed to mirror the processes of our ancestors and other cultures.  After discovering the millions of uses from cleaning, to snoring, to moods, to asisting with health issues, and even insect prevention! I decided that if it was a fad, I was in... and wondered what I had been missing out on! I realized after living in my new home after four months, that I had not unpacked the medicine cabinet... and we did not miss it.  That told me it was not a gimmick!

 

If I could choose only five oils to use for the rest of my life, I would have trouble choosing!  I couldn't pick one or two, let alone five... however TODAY, I would choose…Frankincense, Lavender, tea tree oil (Mel A), Peppermint & Lemon. Frank is the “Big Daddy” of essential oils; that guy takes care of everything. Lavender is the one oil that is listed in pretty much every recipe and the reason why it is the base of my team: Lavender Living, and this page. I actually cannot think of anything lavender won't help. Lemon is such a clean scent and easily combined with other oils to make a greater deal, Tea tree oil (Mel A) was my savior when eeek... my daughter got the dreaded head lice!, and peppermint I feel can assist with every allergy and kill every headache.