We are gradually getting back on our restricted foods lately.
We had Christian allergy tested and he is not allergic to anything he has been off of for the last year. I think he was allergic to all these at one point and since he was off them so long, he healed and now he is allergic to other things. Anyway, I have slowly been giving him his restricted foods and he is doing well.
Courtney is doing a lot better too. She is back on wheat, yeast, milk, soy, egg, and a couple of others. I have not let her have peanut butter yet, that was her highest number! I am also very aware of what she is eating everyday.
As for myself, my doctor recommended that I start going back on my foods too and I have been trying to get my restricted foods back into my diet. I have not had much problem either.
With all this said, it has been very easy to get back to our old habits. One such habit is eating something made of wheat at every meal. Between cereal, bread, buns, crackers, etc., it seems that we can eat wheat non-stop. I have been very vigilant about the wheat and have been restricting my children and myself to one wheat product a day.
Milk has not been an issue because we rarely eat anything made out of milk and Courtney actually likes the rice milk better on her cereal! I would really like to get cheese back in, but I really don't want to buy the processed cheese again. I need some tips on what to buy.
Even though we are back on wheat and it is very tempting to make baked goods out of wheat flour, I am going to continue to use oatmeal and my other gluten free flours. Right now, I am making banana muffins out of gluten free flour and I even used flax seed instead of eggs. My children could've ate the entire bowl of batter if I would have let them!! Even Megan!
Through all of this, I have learned that we cannot get "stuck in a rut" when it comes to food. It is very important to rotate food and not eat the same things day after day. We are all finally feeling good again, I don't want to mess this up!
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Where did our pillow cases go??
While we were on vacation this last week, Matt and I went to make our bed and figured out that we were missing two pillow cases. I had all the sheets and blankets in the house and I washed everything up before I left and I assumed everything was together.
Today when Matt was cleaning out the camper, he told me that he thinks he knows where those two pillow cases went. They were stolen.
When these "burglars" got into our camper over the winter, he thinks they put everything they wanted to steal INTO our two pillow cases and hauled their loot out the door (or the window in our case)!!! Wouldn't a pillow case make a nice bag for a couple of extension cords, a real nice TV and DVD player??? Yah, I thought so too...
Today when Matt was cleaning out the camper, he told me that he thinks he knows where those two pillow cases went. They were stolen.
When these "burglars" got into our camper over the winter, he thinks they put everything they wanted to steal INTO our two pillow cases and hauled their loot out the door (or the window in our case)!!! Wouldn't a pillow case make a nice bag for a couple of extension cords, a real nice TV and DVD player??? Yah, I thought so too...
Back from Vacation!
We spent the last four days in Des Moines, Iowa on vacation. We went with some other homeschooling friends and we spent two whole days at Adventureland. We got half price tickets through a homeschooling parent here in Nebraska. :) Two days for the price of one!
I am not a huge ride fan, but apparently everybody else in my family is! Courtney and Megan did most of the roller coasters and the "spinny" rides. Courtney did so many at one time that she wasn't looking too good for awhile! Christian did all the little rides that he could and even rode some of the bigger ones with Matt. As for me, I like to keep my feet on the ground and not spin in circles! I did the bumper cars and the skyfari, but that was about it! I was glad to keep track of Christian!
It was a little cool while we were there, so often times, there were no lines. The attendant would often say, "Do you want to ride again?" Sometimes Christian and the girls rode the same ride 3 or 4 times in a row.
We were also planning to go to the water park that is attached to Adventureland, but since it was cool and cloudy, we didn't go. We spent most of the afternoon in the second day watching shows. We watched the circus and a magician. They were pretty neat!
We were going to stay another night, but then we saw there was a 90% chance of rain for Saturday evening and during the day on Sunday, so we just came home a day early.
On our way home though, we stopped for a bike ride. We drove about 10 miles north of Des Moines to a town called Madrid and got on the High Trestle Trail. We had some friends tell us about this, so we wanted to see what it was all about it. This trail is along an old railroad track line and there is a 1/2 mile bridge that you ride over. It was pretty neat!
After this, we loaded our bikes up and headed home. We were home by 6 pm last night and unloaded the camper between the rain. I think we only have a little bit to clean out yet today.
Next on our summer agenda: Christian's birthday party on Friday night!!
I am not a huge ride fan, but apparently everybody else in my family is! Courtney and Megan did most of the roller coasters and the "spinny" rides. Courtney did so many at one time that she wasn't looking too good for awhile! Christian did all the little rides that he could and even rode some of the bigger ones with Matt. As for me, I like to keep my feet on the ground and not spin in circles! I did the bumper cars and the skyfari, but that was about it! I was glad to keep track of Christian!
It was a little cool while we were there, so often times, there were no lines. The attendant would often say, "Do you want to ride again?" Sometimes Christian and the girls rode the same ride 3 or 4 times in a row.
We were also planning to go to the water park that is attached to Adventureland, but since it was cool and cloudy, we didn't go. We spent most of the afternoon in the second day watching shows. We watched the circus and a magician. They were pretty neat!
We were going to stay another night, but then we saw there was a 90% chance of rain for Saturday evening and during the day on Sunday, so we just came home a day early.
On our way home though, we stopped for a bike ride. We drove about 10 miles north of Des Moines to a town called Madrid and got on the High Trestle Trail. We had some friends tell us about this, so we wanted to see what it was all about it. This trail is along an old railroad track line and there is a 1/2 mile bridge that you ride over. It was pretty neat!
After this, we loaded our bikes up and headed home. We were home by 6 pm last night and unloaded the camper between the rain. I think we only have a little bit to clean out yet today.
Next on our summer agenda: Christian's birthday party on Friday night!!
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
I love hail--- HA!
After finding out a couple of weeks ago that our camper was totalled by the hail, we now know we need a new roof, gutters, and all accessories on our house! Yikes!
Matt was not really concerned with our roof right after the hail storm, but lately, we have seen a lot of roofing companies in our neighborhood and many signs going up in front of houses. We had a guy stop by last night from a certain company (he just saw matt outside and walked up to the house). He inspected our house and said we had damage. Matt got on the roof and looked at the wood shake shingles and this guy showed him how they were split. We also walked around and saw all the paint chipped around the windows and dents in our gutters. Yep, plenty of damage on our house! Here comes a new roof, new gutters, and some new paint!
So now we get to call insurance back up- I'm sure glad they know us there!
PS We are getting the camper out for our first camping trip this season and Matt is finding even more stuff missing from when it was broken into! Like our weather radio and another big extension cord. I would sure like to know where all our stuff is right now!
Matt was not really concerned with our roof right after the hail storm, but lately, we have seen a lot of roofing companies in our neighborhood and many signs going up in front of houses. We had a guy stop by last night from a certain company (he just saw matt outside and walked up to the house). He inspected our house and said we had damage. Matt got on the roof and looked at the wood shake shingles and this guy showed him how they were split. We also walked around and saw all the paint chipped around the windows and dents in our gutters. Yep, plenty of damage on our house! Here comes a new roof, new gutters, and some new paint!
So now we get to call insurance back up- I'm sure glad they know us there!
PS We are getting the camper out for our first camping trip this season and Matt is finding even more stuff missing from when it was broken into! Like our weather radio and another big extension cord. I would sure like to know where all our stuff is right now!
Monday, June 3, 2013
Operation: Rescue Baby Bird
Matt came upstairs from his office today about 8 am and said something was making quite a bit of noise in the window well right outside his office in the basement.
We all went outside and there was a bird stuck in the window well! Matt got some gloves on, picked it up, and put it in the grass. Then he headed off to work.
So you can probably guess who was the first kid out to see this bird?? Courtney of course!
She went right over to it and started talking to it in a real sweet voice and was encouraging it to fly away. We really didn't know the story behind the bird, but Courtney was determined that it was hungry. The bird would open its wings up, move about 6 inches, stop, and chirp some more. When Courtney got close, the bird would open it's mouth like Courtney was going to feed it.
Here was the conversation at that point.
Courtney: Mom, I think the bird is hungry. Let's get it something to eat. I know we have bird food inside.
Me: No, I don't think it eats bird food. I think it's still a baby bird.
C: Well, then it eats worms, right? I need a shovel. I will dig it a worm to eat.
Megan (who was standing about 10 feet away): No Courtney, you can't just feed a baby bird a worm. The mom eats the worm and then regurgitates it and gives it to the bird.
Me: Really Megan? I thought only penguins did that.
Megan: No, All birds do.
Courtney: I'm going to feed it a worm anyway. GET ME A SHOVEL!
Well, I didn't get her a shovel, but told her I would go inside and see what baby birds eat and what exactly we could do with this bird. We had to rescue it!!
I went inside and looked up "what do baby birds eat" and sure enough, Megan was right. Mama birds eat food and regurgitate it and feed it to their babies. YUK! The computer said to not feed baby birds anything, espcially not water or milk.
I then checked out "bird rescue" and came up with a few sights in Omaha. I was even going to call a place (for Courtney's sake) to see what to do with it and then I came upon some very useful information. It said that if you found a baby bird in your yard, just to leave it as long as it has it's feathers. The mama birds actually kick their offspring out of the nest to learn how to fly and they need to learn how to fly off the ground. It also said that the bird will probably act like it's hungry and that the mama bird is somewhere around. We were not supposed to interrupt this process.
I went outside and told Courtney, she felt better, but continued to watch the bird. By noon, the bird was still in the yard and I actually thought it wasn't looking too good. It didn't look like it was going to be able to fly and I thought for sure it was going to die in our yard and then I would have a very sad girl on my hands.
We went outside about an hour later to "check on the bird" and it was nowhere around! We couldn't fine it anywhere. Either 1. It got eaten by another animal. or 2. It actually learned to fly and was doing what it was supposed to!
I hope for number 2!!
Matt mowed the lawn tonight and I searched the yard again for the bird and told him to be careful, but neither one of us found anything! Hopefully the bird is back with its mama tonight!! We can only hope. :) At least that is what we will tell Courtney!!
We all went outside and there was a bird stuck in the window well! Matt got some gloves on, picked it up, and put it in the grass. Then he headed off to work.
So you can probably guess who was the first kid out to see this bird?? Courtney of course!
She went right over to it and started talking to it in a real sweet voice and was encouraging it to fly away. We really didn't know the story behind the bird, but Courtney was determined that it was hungry. The bird would open its wings up, move about 6 inches, stop, and chirp some more. When Courtney got close, the bird would open it's mouth like Courtney was going to feed it.
Here was the conversation at that point.
Courtney: Mom, I think the bird is hungry. Let's get it something to eat. I know we have bird food inside.
Me: No, I don't think it eats bird food. I think it's still a baby bird.
C: Well, then it eats worms, right? I need a shovel. I will dig it a worm to eat.
Megan (who was standing about 10 feet away): No Courtney, you can't just feed a baby bird a worm. The mom eats the worm and then regurgitates it and gives it to the bird.
Me: Really Megan? I thought only penguins did that.
Megan: No, All birds do.
Courtney: I'm going to feed it a worm anyway. GET ME A SHOVEL!
Well, I didn't get her a shovel, but told her I would go inside and see what baby birds eat and what exactly we could do with this bird. We had to rescue it!!
I went inside and looked up "what do baby birds eat" and sure enough, Megan was right. Mama birds eat food and regurgitate it and feed it to their babies. YUK! The computer said to not feed baby birds anything, espcially not water or milk.
I then checked out "bird rescue" and came up with a few sights in Omaha. I was even going to call a place (for Courtney's sake) to see what to do with it and then I came upon some very useful information. It said that if you found a baby bird in your yard, just to leave it as long as it has it's feathers. The mama birds actually kick their offspring out of the nest to learn how to fly and they need to learn how to fly off the ground. It also said that the bird will probably act like it's hungry and that the mama bird is somewhere around. We were not supposed to interrupt this process.
I went outside and told Courtney, she felt better, but continued to watch the bird. By noon, the bird was still in the yard and I actually thought it wasn't looking too good. It didn't look like it was going to be able to fly and I thought for sure it was going to die in our yard and then I would have a very sad girl on my hands.
We went outside about an hour later to "check on the bird" and it was nowhere around! We couldn't fine it anywhere. Either 1. It got eaten by another animal. or 2. It actually learned to fly and was doing what it was supposed to!
I hope for number 2!!
Matt mowed the lawn tonight and I searched the yard again for the bird and told him to be careful, but neither one of us found anything! Hopefully the bird is back with its mama tonight!! We can only hope. :) At least that is what we will tell Courtney!!
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Exhausted!
Anybody else thoroughly exhausted from this weekend yet? I AM!!!
In addition to homeschool conference all day plus dance recital last night, Christian decided to come down with bronchitis yet AGAIN and he got his fever last night during the recital. Bad timing son!
So because of that, we were up half the night dealing with "bronchitis boy" who refuses to take albuterol so he can breathe better. We might need to start bribing with candy. He is not a happy camper this morning.
I have another full day of conference plus Megan has another performance right in the middle of the day. (So I will leave the conference and come back again!)
Remind me not to do this again next year!!!
In addition to homeschool conference all day plus dance recital last night, Christian decided to come down with bronchitis yet AGAIN and he got his fever last night during the recital. Bad timing son!
So because of that, we were up half the night dealing with "bronchitis boy" who refuses to take albuterol so he can breathe better. We might need to start bribing with candy. He is not a happy camper this morning.
I have another full day of conference plus Megan has another performance right in the middle of the day. (So I will leave the conference and come back again!)
Remind me not to do this again next year!!!
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