Catching up

My last post was titled "Overwhelmed." Today I sit less overwhelmed and a tad more confident in our new gluten free adventure. It has not yet been 90 days, although it seems like it has been 190 days. It is definitely still a day to day challenge but the thought of going grocery shopping at three different grocery stores no longer makes me almost cry. The hardest challenge for us and for Wylie mostly is finding snacks that taste good and budgeting the expensive change.  I have baked a lot of breads, cookies, cakes, etc which all have turned out great. Most of our dinners are turning out to be good now as well. I still look up a lot of things as I am not confident in the "hidden gluten" list.  Most importantly is that we believe it is making a difference in Wylie's day to day living. He is not complaining and in tears on a daily basis from stomach pain.  This is why it is easy to keep going and going. I see progress and he feels better!

I guess I also missed a Halloween post.  Once I printed off the gluten free candy list we started celebrating. We realized he did not have to miss out on too many of his favorite candies and/ or chocolates.  The weather was great on Halloween and we all went trick or treating together while my Dad stayed at our house and passed out candy to the trick or treaters. It was a fun & tiring night for all.

Oh shoot, I also missed the entire month of November and now I am trying to remember what we were up to.  I must get my memory from my Dad (hehe).

I had a few personal highlights this month:  I had my Twilight party for the final Breaking Dawn movie.  It was a fun night, full of laughs and one that we all can look back on and laugh at our patheticness.  I also got the great news that Mister Jon Bon Jovi was starting his tour early on in 2013 and also bought some tickets to a few different shows.  So far to date, I will be going to Nashville with Jacques to sit 5th row. It will be his 1st JBJ concert and my . . . . 21st! I will also be going to the St. Paul show (sitting close enough to hopefully be sweat on) and to the Des Moines show.  More to be announced in the weeks ahead!

We also had a few things that were not quite as fun. Tori had another surgery to put tubes (3rd set)  in her ears and do some prep work for a potential future surgery to her ears. She did great and was so brave! I was very proud of her. We also hosted Thanksgiving again for my family, which turned out  to be a big flop. Wylie got the stomach flu the night before Thanksgiving, Kasey got the flu Thanksgiving night and I got it Saturday morning.  My brother, his daughter and his girlfriend went home early and I missed out on my black friday shopping that I had been looking forward to for the past year. On the bright side, the cousins got to spend some time together and we did get to  enjoy a good Thanksgiving dinner together which included with plenty of laughs and lots of wine!

~It's My Life~