March 8th, 2010

Fresh Juice Recipe: Super Greens Juice

Another juice recipe for you. If you tried the Beet, Car­rot, Apple Gin­ger Juice, I would love to know what you thought.

Today I tried a Super Greens Juice. If you are con­fused about what “Greens” are, here’s a tip: veg­gies and fruit that are green in color. Think kale, cel­ery, spinach, col­lard greens, beet greens, broc­coli, cucum­bers, alfalfa sprouts, wheat­grass sprouts, onion sprouts and so many more. Greens Juice is great for cleans­ing your body and jump star­ing any weight loss pro­gram. Own­ing Pink does a great job of explain­ing the amaz­ing­ness of Green Juice so go there and read about it.

This Super Greens Juice recipe comes from Goop again but I encour­age you all to try dif­fer­ent vari­a­tions. I have adjusted the recipe to make three 12 oz glasses.

• 2 cups of Kale (use everything)
• 1 whole Lemon
• 2 inches of Ginger
• 8 stalks of Celery
• 3 whole Pears

Run every­thing through the juicer. Remem­ber that leafy veg­gies are a pain so to make sure that they juice com­pletely, I wrapped the kale around the cel­ery sticks. Made life A LOT eas­ier. Also, make sure you stir your juice very well.

February 26th, 2010

Happy Birthday Nicola

In Lov­ing Mem­ory of Nicola Diana Kennedy

You would have been 37 today and for rea­sons still unknown you were taken from us just 9 days after you turned 36. Life has been so hard since then. I tried to be strong– to keep Jaida and Kayla together to ease the pain that they were feel­ing. I have endured crit­i­cism from many– both to my face and behind my back– for things that were beyond my con­trol and even now I am sure that peo­ple are whis­per­ing about how I am not doing what I should to make sure that every­one is OK. But, and it has taken most of the year for me to real­ize this, none of that mat­ters because when it comes right down to it, no one can ever truly under­stand the bond between sisters.

You and Car­o­line are the first friends I ever knew. You were my pro­tec­tors when life was scary and our bond was so much stronger than the future argu­ments that would tear us all apart for so many years. We are sur­vivors. Fos­ter par­ents, orphan­ages, adop­tion, daddy’s death.… Hell, we sur­vived Momma Kennedy and her strict par­ent­ing! We were always there for eachother even if that meant not being there at all.

No one can ever truly under­stand that bond and no one can take that away.

I miss you. I miss the times that we shared– our dance rou­tines, hair and makeup lessons, sneak­ing out to Skate Key and the Fever and your advice on how to deal with our mother. I miss your smile and your will­ing­ness to help every­one– even those who did noth­ing but take advan­tage of you. I miss your pas­sion to live and your hot tem­per. I miss the phone calls and our talks about sex and all the things that we were told were naughty. I long so much for the days of Clear Pool Camp, dou­ble dutch at Grandma’s, and you braid­ing my hair so tightly that I would cry just from mom telling you to do my hair.

I wish that I could have pro­tected you from all of the chaos, but you wouldn’t let me. You never let me for­get that you were my big sis­ter. I wish that I could tell you that I love you and hear you tell me again. I wish that you and Car­o­line could have said the things that you both really wanted to say to each other. I wish that we could have all just hugged each other one last time.

Nicola, I miss you so very much. I have let go of all of anger and the hurt. Car­o­line and I under­stand now. We will honor our sis­ter­hood because we learned from you just how short life is and how much regret weighs.

I am eter­nally grate­ful for the time we shared. I was blessed to have you and to have known the real you. We will for­ever be the Kennedy Girls and I will love you always. Happy Birthday.

Your baby sis­ter,
Kristina

February 22nd, 2010

In Memory of a Little Life

In Lov­ing Mem­ory of Saman­tha Michelle
Born too Soon at 19.5 weeks
Feb­ru­ary 22, 2003