An update on how things have been going...

Good day all. I wanted to pop in here and give a bit of an update on how things have gone this week. I'm sorry I don't have more pics of the food I've made. Well after the first week we already see some changes. The first being about the food....I need to simplify it more :-) Not that it was complicated, but it was too different than how we were eating before. So I have revised my menu to this:

(breakfasts and lunches will remain the same)

Mon: Veggie, bean, noodle dish--something cold/fruit pizza

Tues: Roasted veggies over rice

Wed: Chicken salad

Thurs: Flat bread or focaccia and a salad

Fri: Bean burgers

Sat: Taco salad (meatless)

Sun: Soup

We will keep with that line up for the rest of the month, putting in a new recipe if it sounds really good. The girls, in particular the younger ones, have eaten a lot of fruit :-) I'll just keep serving them the food and they have to keep trying it. I'm hoping over time they will acquire a taste for it.

For other changes....I've personally noticed that Jeremiah's face doesn't look so puffy. Not that I thought it looked puffy before, but today I really noticed a difference. Moira has been having her allergy cough. It had been getting pretty bad in the past few weeks. She was having episodes of very loud snoring as well. On day two of the diet she stopped coughing. And then on Thursday I was running behind and decided to use up something in our "old food stash", a box of mac and cheese. By evening she was coughing! Since then, it's stopped. So there ya have it, Moira has issues with dairy! We have all seen improvements with our intestines! I'll leave it at that :-)

I know there was one other change but it escapes me at the moment. I'll make sure to write about it when it pops back into my brain!

We have a busy week ahead of us. Jedidiah is supposed to have his 6 month appt. with Duke GI. I'm thinking of canceling. Mostly because we know what they are going to tell us, which is nothing new to us. We don't have any concerns about his tube and I feel that going ALL the way out there with ALL the kids is just more than I want to do to hear what I heard six months ago. But part of me feels like I should. Hmmm, we'll see. We have our wheat order to pick up, we'll have 5 young men over for dinner that same night, Jed has his speech therapy, there is a marriage conference Friday and Saturday and then Jeremiah's parents come for a visit on Sunday. Ok, I need a nap now :-)

I found this great little crochet sponge pattern online. I have tried the knitted and crocheted dish clothes, and I do not like them. They are too big, get heavy when wet and I just didn't like them. But these fit in your hand and are a dream. The only down side is that they do not dry very quickly....at all! So you would have to make sure to wash and dry them often. But I am making a bunch of them because I love them so much, and they are really easy and fast to make! You can find them HERE.

I had originally found that pattern from another site where they have a really neat free downloadable garden planner. You might be interested in it and you can find the planner HERE.

There has been some interesting things going on with Jed this week. I am not sure if it is coincidence or not, time will tell. We started him on the chealating protocol for the mercury. His homeopathic doctor told me that the reason he was waiting to start him on it was because he wanted to see improvements first as the chealating tends to bring out old symptoms since it is bringing out the thing that is causing his symptoms to begin with. I hope that made sense. Anyways he told me what his dosage would be but that I needed to start him off at a very (very) low level first and build up. I asked how I would know if I was giving him too much too soon and he said I would see symptoms flare up. OK, easy enough. So the first week I started with a very small dose. This past week I thought I would increase it. And by golly it was too much! This week he fell asleep twice during the day (one was when we "lost" him), which is not like Jed at all. He has been off his prilosec for two months and the first month we had to use a homeopathic remedy to help him with his reflux. But this past month he hasn't needed to take anything for his reflux! BUT the past two days he has started doing his reflux cough. And he threw up the other day. He hasn't done that in ages!!! Something he did all the time though in the past. So I backed off on the dosage yesterday. His doctor said this would be a slow process, but I never figured it would be THIS slow. The amount that we are supposed to work up to with one of the chealating agents is 1/2 teaspoon, but he is only getting ONE drop!! ONE. I upped it to two and he started having issues. I also started giving him two capsules of the other agent and he has to work up to 5 or 6. Did I say this is going to be a long process?

OK, must get going. I need to hook up Jedidiah and play a game with Flannery. I did want to say before I get off that I would really recommend everyone listen to the sermons that we have had at church on the ten commandments. I can almost guarantee you that you have never heard the ten commandments taught like this before! I know better than to think, "What could be said about (blank) that I haven't heard before....?" But with the ten commandments I have to admit I wondered what could possibly be said about them that I haven't heard yet, especially when I found out that only one commandment was going to be preached on per week! But let me tell you, it is a must listen. Go to my side bar and click on my church link (Hope Baptist) and go to the sermons page. I think you will come away with a new understanding of the commandments and the height, length and breadth of them!

Blessings!