Heather Elaine Yates
I Am Who I Am. I have lived well for over 36 years, experiencing both great joy and great sorrow. I have learned to live with little money and have been blessed with abundance that can not be measured even when finances are slow. I have battled depression and won. I have found ways to work with bureaucracy and retain my freedom. My life has been full, varied, exciting, mundane, and well rounded. I am a jack of all trades and a master of some. I am a mother, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, and a friend. I have experience as a preschool teacher, plant gentics researcher, work from home consultant, freelance writer, nanny, childcare provider, bus driver, bookkeeper, and mom to 2 adopted kids with special needs. I harbor a love of God, the outdoors, reading, children, science, and living in harmony with our world and technology.
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BS in Biology, college credits in education, Biblical Studies, and philosophy. Former Cornell Research Technician in agricultural research, plant breeding, and genetics. Former research volunteer with ECHO. Adoptive parent SN.Interests
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Cinnamon: Help for Belly Fat and Sugar MetabolismThis common household spice has been shown in scientific research to increase the body's receptivity to insulin, thus lowering and regulating blood sugar and reducing visceral fat. It also has antibiotic properties, and is inexpensive. -
Great Educational Summer Program in the Southern Adirondacks and Capital DistrictFrom traditional summer camp to college offered course programs, you have numerous options to enhance your child's summer experience in the Adirondack and capital district regions of New York. -
Spring ThawA poem about the gentle and glorious arrival of Spring. -
Glycogen: The Reason to Rejoice in Losing "Water Weight"Glycogen is the simplest stored energy in your body, and must be burned off before you can start burning the stored fats. Gylcogen holds onto over double its weight in water, which is realeased when the body uses glycogen. -
A Review Of: Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation by Wayne DyerMeditation can increase a person's physical, mental and spiritual well-being. It is also vital to the Law of Attraction and Allowing. Dr. Dyer provides a powerful meditative method with exercises than can help both the beginner and seasoned meditator. -
Easy Hikes for Beginners in the Adirondack Mountains Low Peaks RegionExploring the Adirondack Mountains is an activity that can be enjoyed by any skill level, and the Low Peaks, south central area provides greater accessibility to easy hiking trails for beginners or for families with young children.
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Conscious Connection: Your Ability to Improve Your SituationThe greatest gift we were created with is the gift to use our choices to improve our world. Understanding how we lost awareness of that gift is an important first step to getting it back. -
Acceptance: The Art of Taking Life as it ComesWe all have struggled with issues that have arisen in our lives while we are trying to reach a particular goal, but focusing on the bad does not help. Acceptance is at the heart of using the Law of Attraction to your advantage to reach your goals. -
Forgiveness: Clearing the Path to WholenessWhen we forgive a loved one for hurts or damage they have caused, it must be processed on a deep, honest level. When we have not forgiven deeply, those old hurts can fester without our knowing, causing blockages for our persoanl growth. -
Balance: The First Step to the Rest of Your LifeBalance is a necessary part of walking forward, both in a literal as well as a figurative sense. Finding and creating balance in your physical, mental, and spiritual self is vital to moving your life in the forward direction that you seek. -
Easy Enchilada PieUsing Enchilada Sauce, tortilla shells, tuna fish, rice, and cheese you can make a unique and tasty Mexican dish for dinner that is easy to assemble and great when you are short on time and don't want the mess of tacos.
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Shrimp and Cream Cheese Appetizer RecipeIt is easy to make, easy to present, easy to clean up, easy to transport, and best of all is an appealing and very tasty dish, even for your most picky eaters, at Thanksgiving or anytime you need an appetizer. -
The Reflective Value of Attending Your College Homecoming CelebrationReflections on the value of attending a college homecoming celebration. How the time we spent coming into who we are can help remind us of where we are going when we have lost our way. -
Review of Just One Look by Harlan CobenJust One Look by Harlan Coben, weaves a gripping tale of how one simple photograph shreds the peaceful world of one suburban family. Coben is masterful in his ability to make the tiny ripples in our choices create waves later in ones life.
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Review of Dragon Harper by Todd and Anne McCaffreyDragon Harper is a masterfully written book that reveals more about the beloved world of PERN. It is set near the end of the thrid interval. A gripping story of the youth, Kindan, who continues to show that greatness can be found in ordinary people.
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The World's Largest Garage SaleFor over 30 years, Warrensburg NY, located in the Adirondack mountains, has hosted The World's Largest Garage Sale. It is a great autumn getaway with great bargains, a large array of goods and foods, and live entertainment all weekend long.
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Getting Started in Network Marketing the RIGHT WayIt is hard to get going in Network Marketing, but if you follow a few simple suggestions about list making, inviting, and using simple marketing tools, you can get off on the right foot.
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The Power to SUCCEEDThe number one thing that those people who succeed did differently than the people who failed is that they did NOT give up, EVER.
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Network Marketing is for ANYONEAnyone can be successful at network marketing. Reasonable forethought, careful choices, and working hard at the right things are necessary for success. It is a business that gives as much as YOU put into it. -
Frugal Living: Energy ChoicesMore than 25 states are in some phase of energy deregulation. This means energy customers have a CHOICE of supplier, and thus prices and plans. Exercising that choice helps keep prices down.
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Free Market: The Power of ChoiceThis article details the four main issues that face a person in starting a venture into the free market: target buyers and product match, profit and affordability balance, customer values and ethics impact, and respect in representation. -
Proactive Searching Tips for Faster Adoption MatchesBe proactive in searching for the waiting child to add to your family. Perseverance, patience, and activity pay off in reducing the waiting time between home study completion and child family match. -
Tips for Finding YOUR Child in the US Adoption SystemA collection of on-line photo listings of waiting children, family recruitment connections, family-child matching programs, and other ideas on how to maximize adoptive parents' chances of getting matched sooner.
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Parents or Teachers: Who Knows a Child Best?Looks at the challenges involved in meeting a childs social and educational needs from the prospective of the IEP formulation and how the people involved need and open mind.
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Subprime Lending Crisis Saved Christmas -- for UsRejection by sub-prime mortgage lenders meant that we were able to breathe peacefully as we shopped for gifts for our children, knowing that we had dodged the bullet that hit so many people with similar credit and financial problems.
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A Practical And Affordable Gift IdeaOverveiw of a great, unique, personalized, and affordable gift package for a family.
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Finding the Best Christmas TreeCompares the most common types of cut Christmas trees witha recomendation for my opinion of the best type.