Hello, 2014!
New Year’s Day usually means lots of “pie crust promises” (to quote Mary Poppins). Easily made, easily broken! It’s a time of Resolutions and a determination to Make Changes.
That’s not so easy as an FPIES family; we can determine to change things all we like, but until our little one’s bodies can handle foods there isn’t much we can do. We just have to stay the course and keep putting one foot in front of the other.
That’s kind of refreshing, in a way, don’t you think?
No great pressure to overhaul our entire way of life in the pursuit of some lofty goal. No major lifestyle changes (with the accompanying guilt when we inevitably slip up).
Just keep your eye on the ball, and keep working your way towards the goal post.
Tomorrow I’m going to talk a bit about how Darrel and I are re-thinking our approach to food trials, but other than that, my personal and family plans for 2014 are pretty much the same as last year: keep working towards a healthy, well-rounded diet for my entire family, and keep us all from getting sick/reacting as much as possible.
As for writing/professional goals, though, well, I have some exciting things heading this way!
For starters, Darrel and I conceived of a project that has me so excited I’m tingling! We hope to have the first part of it unveiled in the next week, so stay tuned for more details!
Here on Cradle Rocking Mama, I’m going to start a new weekly series, and I’m making some changes to the way my blog is formatted to make it easier to seek out recipes by ingredients, dietary restriction, or other categorical searching.
I’m in the middle of writing a book to help all food allergy families deal with emergencies, and am in the early stages of creating my first ever eCourse!
I can’t wait to get all these things out there into the world to help out food allergy families (or, frankly, ANY family that could benefit)!!
None of those are really goals: they’re Projects I’m Working On and I hope beyond hope that I have them out in the first quarter of the year.
Whenever they’re ready, though, you’ll be the first to know!
My biggest goal of the year, in all that I do on this blog, is to continue to provide educational, useful content to YOU. Everything I do will be looked at through that lens. So if there is anything that you’d like to see here, please don’t hesitate to ask! That being said..
Here’s an important thing that I need your help with.
I have lots of subscribers to my blog (thank you!) but I have a great many readers who come to me via Facebook and my Fan Page. That’s great, too! Except…
Facebook has come out with a new stance: organic content from fan pages is going to decrease over time…unless the host pays Facebook to share the content!
In other words, when I share a link on CradleRockingMama’s Facebook page (a link to free content I’m giving to you), the only way most of you will see it is if I PAY Facebook money to do so!
It’s Facebook’s prerogative to do this, but frankly, I don’t have the funds to pay them every day of the week to get my blog posts out into the world.
So if you haven’t done so already, I’d encourage you to sign up to CradleRockingMama via email. (I won’t spam you, all you’ll get is an email when I have a new blog post up! I also won’t sell your email, give it away, or anything else remotely nefarious!)
Enter your email address at the top of the page where it says “Don’t Miss A Thing”, and you’ll be kept in the loop with blog posts, AND with all of the other exciting things happening this year!
As a small conclusion to this oh-so-excited 2014 announcement post, I have a little somethin’ to say to 2014:
Hey, 2014! It may be presumptuous of me to do this, but I’m going to tell you what I want from you this year:
2014, I want you to be the year that Zac outgrows FPIES.
Barring that, I want you to be the year that he gets at least one new safe food per month.
Everything else is icing on the cake, m’kay?
That’s not too much to ask, is it, 2014?
Nah…didn’t think so!
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