Mommy, I am trowing up!

I bet not a single mother wants to hear, "Mommy, I threw up on the bed..". There is just something in having your child vomit that makes even the toughest adult cringe. For me its the worst thing a child can have which makes me almost trow up as well. I wasn't sure what to give my little 2 year old, what medication should she take? My sister recommended giving my baby a drop of grapefruit seed extract diluted in tea, or juice a tablespoon at a time... and sure thing it worked... by her nap time she felt better, she even ate some soup...

Medication or Herbs?

With having three little girls, I always have little ailments that I need to make better. My older little star, who is 4.8 years old, doesn't like to eat breakfast she is a very picky eater... so occasionally gets an upset stomach or just has no appetite. My little remedy that I occasionally use is peppermint tea, or chamomile tea, it calms her stomach and also gives her an appetite. Chamomile tea helps my 2 year old little flower, who has a great appetite, but she is going through the cry baby stage and the terrible twos.... so the tea calms her down, and its a great thing to have a little afternoon tea party with my little girls- gives me a reason to talk to them, to ask them their baby dreams, and their wishes.... Also, the peppermint tea help my infant little sunshine, she has little stomach upsets, and she gets gas in her tummy so that help relieves the pressure. For myself I enjoy drinking green tea which has so many healthy side benefits. I hope you will get to enjoy drinking tea as well and not for the health benefit but also for you to relax.

The basics first- my childhood.

I grew up in a very large, loud family. My parents were clueless in how to raise children, but they did the best they could. My mother was against birth control so in total she had 10 children. I was the oldest child, which made me her little helper quite early.
My earliest memory is of my mother locking me and my siblings in a room so she could do some house chores. I remember just sitting there, looking out the big windows outside, and trying to watch my little siblings, I was around five....
Another memory I have is my mother heavily pregnant going into labor one late evening, my father was away in another town selling our home grown tomatoes to make some money. Having no car, and not even knowing how to drive my mother called an ambulance from our neighbors phone, (we didn't own a phone) telling me to watch the kids, as she left. I remember waking up to my brothers yells "Mama!! Mama!!", he was standing on the porch.... Our father arrived later that day to find us home by ourselves, I was around four.....
When I was five my father took me to his sisters house in another city and left me with her for a month, after he got back to take me home I forgot him and didnt want to go with him.... the experience of staying there without my parents wasnt something I wanted and it left a lasting scar on my soul....
I was the babysitter for my siblings from then on... I remember when we were moving to America I was watching my 2 year old brother, I was so enthralled with the airplanes that I took my baby brother and stood by the protruded window watching the excitement... while my whole family was boarding... my mother realized that we were missing so there was a wide search going for us until the found us plastered to the big windows which protruded to the front and hidden us from view.