The Hylton Life

   Anytime my children fall ill, I don’t hesitate to get professional medical health opinions. In this world of frightening diseases, even the most non-threatening, if left unchecked, can have consequences. So when my son developed unusual skin lesions, I had to act fast. Over the past few months, my son developed what looked to be a wart where his hairline meets his forehead. After visiting the doctor, he was unsure if it was a wart. He, therefore, advised me to keep an eye on it. It grew rather quickly and was irritated and itchy. Our family physician suggested I use medicated salicylic acid bandages. I saw some improvement. After a while, it just stopped working. Then slowly, the ‘wart’ started to shrink on its own over a couple of weeks. Then BOOM, it came back with a vengeance and, so did a bunch of smaller ones, located on his face, neck and one on his back and ankle. After nearly a month of waiting to be seen by a dermatologist, we got ushered into an interestingly smal...

   My children are always happy to eat, but as with most children,  if it’s the greenest piece of broccoli they have ever seen, it will be rejected. There is no secret that, as a mother, the essentials in my  freezer involve super sweet  strawberries,  mangos, pineapple, blueberries, bananas and whatever other fruits I conveniently buy frozen. I also love to cut up and freeze over-ripe fruits to use in smoothies.  Here comes the best part; the sneaky veggies. The fresh, never frozen sneaky veggies pair beautifully with sweet and creamy fruit. My children never know the difference. Here’s a great  Sneaky Veggie Smoothie Recipe  my children drink and ask for thirds. Sneaky veggie Smoothie: *2 ripe bananas *1 whole avocado (peeled and pitted) *6 – 8 large frozen strawberries *2 cups of loose spinach (washed) *1 cup of frozen mango chunks *1 cup of kale (washed and coarsely chopped) Place all ingredients in a full-size blender with 3 cups of cold...