This sweet girl loves for me to play with her so when she is home from school we have been having fun together.
She is just such a joy and I love soaking up our days together.
Lucy turned 2 years old and spent her day being boarded. Not that she knows or even cares. The lady who grooms her, also boards dogs. Lucy had fun playing with other dogs all week while we soaked up the sun at the beach.
Rascal has had some ongoing stomach aches and other stomach issues that seemed to worsen recently. The dr brushed it off as simply anxiety but my momma gut told me it was more. I pushed for them to run tests and they ran tests to cover a wide range of stomach issues (including celiac, crohn's, other food allergies and a ton of others). When we got the results back I was not prepared for what they were about to tell me. All of the tests came back great with no red flags but he had numerous other food allergies that we had no clue about. I held back tears in the office and tried to be strong for Rascal's sake but I knew this meant an even more restricted diet and more exclusions from so much. The results showed he has a low allergy to shellfish, a moderate allergy to corn, soy, tomato, sesame and a high allergy to wheat.
We immediately set up an appointment for further testing with the allergist and we were told to eliminate all wheat out of his diet since it was the highest ranking allergen.
I cried for a solid 24 hours and was in denial. I wasn't sure how we could be just finding this out and how I was going to explain to Rascal that the things he loves so dearly (pringles, cheese-its, breads, pastas etc...) were now off limits. He was actually ok with the news. In fact he told me "it's ok mom, we will just find new foods for me to eat!" Bless his sweet heart, no 8 year old (or any one of any age) should have to go through food allergies.
I am still trying to wrap my head around gluten free nut free cooking. Gluten free is a whole new ball game to me and it's like learning to cook all over again.
I have mastered gluten free sausage balls :
Well I guess mastered isn't the word for it... .the recipe still needs more tweaking.
I also took advantage of a sale on Enjoy Life products. They are free of the top 8 allergens and make cookies, granola, cereal bars, chocolate bars and chips and a lot of other items.
As of today we have been gluten free for 3 weeks and we are already seeing some slow improvements. Rascal is on probiotics to help heal his stomach from years of eating wheat and irritating his poor stomach. I have also found a highly recommended essential oil that we rub on his stomach two times a day. He says it takes his pain away immediately (YAY for natural remedies!!).
It'll be a long road ahead of us but the great news is there is a good chance he will out grow these new allergies.
Baby A and I went to vote and she was so excited to wear a sticker too. She only wished it was bigger... we are raising a proud American!
After voting she asked for Starbucks and shopping and I couldn't say no to her.
We had a wonderful day together.
Baby A is LOVING school! She comes home eager to do her homework (that will change all too soon) and she just talks and talks about all the things they do at school.
This week they had to bring in items to fill a show box for Operation Christmas Child. It took her FOREVER to decide on what the special little girl across the world would like. She was so into it and it really made me proud to be teaching her about giving.
She is following in her mother's footsteps already and is counting down the days until Christmas decorations go up.
Just a few more weeks for us at this house.
There is a short recap. I will try so hard to get beach pictures up but it may be next year before I get to it ;-)
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