When the Geek and I met, we lived in different states. When we decided to marry, we had to decide where we wanted to live. It didn’t take me very long to decide that Houston was NOT where I wanted to raise my family. It’s my hometown (we moved here … Continue reading
Mr. Happy has been teething. He actually cut his second tooth last week! Here’s the problem: he’s a rotten teether. Mr. Charm was great – we hardly ever knew he was teething. It was as if he thought to himself “Excruciating pain in my mouth? Whatev! I have people to charm … Continue reading
The kids and I had to come down to Houston last week to take care of some family business and we are staying with my parents. My parents are WONDERFUL about their grandchildrens’ food issues; last year, Mom and I even made the entire Thanksgiving dinner allergy-free for Mr. Charm … Continue reading
Due to our heavy food issues, our geographic isolation, and my current ‘not 100% comfortable’ level of dealing with any food I don’t make myself, my kids and I are sort of shut-ins. We don’t go out much, except to run errands. They don’t go to daycare, they don’t … Continue reading
We’ve seen great improvement in Mr. Charm since going fructose free. He’s much better behaved, and his verbal development is speeding up. Now, it seems, he wants to communicate verbally, whereas before he was content with using his few words combined with gestures to get his points across. We’ve also … Continue reading
You may have noticed that since we’re on a dual elimination diet in our house, we eat a LOT of potatos. So, I thought I would share with you the spoils of our latest potato buy: What? You DON’T buy your potatos in 50 lb bags? We get 10% off … Continue reading
Years ago I found a recipe for something called “Chicken Hash” in a magazine. I never actually made it, but I saved it because it looked really good. With this dual-elimination-diet-thing going on in my house, I’m scrambling like mad to find edible meals to serve my family. (Delicious is … Continue reading
OK, I wrote this post with the plan to post it today, but over the weekend some things popped up on our radar that complicates the issues. I didn’t have time to re-write it to include the new stuff, so, here’s the originally planned post, with the weekend revelations at … Continue reading
If you’re a FAM, you likely have a kiddo that is a tad sensitive to irritants. Disposable diapers are wonderful in a lot of ways, but when they turn your baby’s butt bright red (even if you change the diaper so frequently they aren’t even DONE yet when you’re trying … Continue reading
I HATED when my Mom would say that to me as a child. H-A-T-E-D it. Because I could never see what was “good” about whatever she was referring to! Welcome to Motherhood, Mama! I find myself saying it to Mr. Charm all the time now. I’m not starving him; he … Continue reading
