I am sure all of you know by now that I am obsessed with Essential Oils. Not only essential oils, but Young Living Essential Oils. I am going to share with you on a deeply personal level my WHY!
It's currently 9:50 PM on a Tuesday night and a year ago Sophie would still have been partying in her crib, not wanting to go to sleep. She would party herself in to exhaustion and finally pass out upside down in her crib, no blankets and usually sleeping on a toy. Yes, I let my daughter have whatever she wants in bed with her! Currently she is sound asleep in her bed in the same position I laid her down in with a double ear infection!
For a good year and a half Sophie would also wake up in the middle of the night around 2 am and not go back to sleep until after 4. She was done sleeping. It is a common practice by our Mowat-Wilson kiddos. It is like something fires in their brain and tells them to wake up, be happy, and squeal FOR HOURS! I often wonder if it isn't some kind of seizure activity. I try not to think about it, but it creeps in once in a while.
Unlike my husband I can't go back to sleep if I can hear Sophie.
When Sophie would wake up in the middle of the night I would roll out of bed and check on her. All nice and mommy like at first but as it kept going I would get mad. Like ridiculously mad. I would yell in my room "WHY WON'T YOU JUST SLEEP!!!" or "SOPHIE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS HOUSE BESIDES YOU THAT NEED TO SLEEP!" Yes, I yelled those words. I didn't yell them at Sophie, I would yell them and then go in to her room so I knew she could feel my negative energy. Shane would ask if he heard me yell that night and I would shamefully admit that I did. I felt like a terrible mom in the middle of the night. I felt like I was the only one that suffered those restless nights. Like I was the only one in the world that didn't get any sleep. Since Dan works 3rd shift, I felt alone, fighting battle I already had lost the night before. There were times I would text him and ask him to come home from work so I could get 2 hours of sleep before getting up and heading in to work in the morning. I just wasn't a good mom in the middle of the night, not at all.
I was approached ever so softly by a friend from college about essential oils. I had heard of them but I never took any notice. I didn't research them and I didn't look in to them. I just brushed it off and thought that it wouldn't work because nothing else was! I was a total negative Nancy.
Finally, I was desperate. I needed sleep. I was cranky and sleep deprived. I didn't know what else to do. I basically chalked it up to this being our reality. I would never sleep again.
Then I jumped in, both feet. I didn't know how to swim in the overwhelming amount of information that was out there about essential oil, Young Living Essential Oils. I bought my Premium Starter Kit and started using them on Sophie. I researched....finally, and determined they were 100% natural and 100% pure. I felt safe using them on her.
I remember feeling overwhelmed at first and I didn't know where to start. Thankfully, Shelby was there for my million and one questions. I started slow with lavender. The bottle didn't say I needed to dilute it (mix it with a carrier so it isn't so strong) but I did anyways. I didn't know what dilute meant and I sure didn't know what coconut oil was. Who knew you could treat so many different symptoms through your feet?? Not me!
The first night I used the lavender Sophie didn't wake up in the middle of the night, but I did. I did for a few weeks because I wasn't used to her not waking up. I would go in her room just to make sure she was breathing. It was like I was checking on my newborn baby again, or my freshly released from the hospital open heart baby again. I had to make sure she was ok. And she was, she was just sleeping. Soundly. Perfectly. And all through the night. I was completely "sold" on the essential oils.
I started dabbling more and more in the oils and I noticed that I wasn't getting sick when my kids were. It was because I was using thieves. Thieves kills 99.6% of germs in the air within 10 minutes.
I can't use it on Sophie because it has rosemary and eucalyptus in it. There are certain oils I can't use with her but because of all the information out there I was able to research and know what I can and can't use.
I share with you because I want you to know where I am coming from and why. There are people that think it is witch craft, voodoo, or just plain craziness. There are even people out there that think you shouldn't use them, especially on kids because they can't cause seizures and they can die from them if ingested. I will tell you this, from everything I have researched I can tell you that I am 100% comfortable with using Young Living Essential Oils, and nothing else and it is because of their seed to seal guarantee. I know what I am using, why I am using it and what it does to me when I use it.
So, if you see my posing about my oils it is because I truly am trying to live a healthier life, inside and out and I am trying to do it more naturally.
Good night, time to oil up and go to bed!
