Oct 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have to admit, I am SCARED about Halloween (always) since I found out about my kids’ food sensitivities.
Trick-or-Treating when you can’t have food dyes is a
nightmare!
School parties are horrific- people send red or orange punch, colored cupcakes, bags and bags of nasty red and black candy. Not fun. Having three little sugar fiends who try and hide whatever “bad” candy that they manage to get without mom’s knowledge is not fun either. (Well, the insane reactions and rashes afterwards aren’t anyway.) If you didn’t know it already, Red 40, Yellow 5, and many others aren’t even allowed in some countries in Europe as they are not as safe as the FDA wishes us to believe. We just found out that most marshmallows have suddenly started putting Blue 1 in them, which is a big problem for kid #2. Great, now I have to make marshmallows too?
My oldest son (AKA kid#2) went to a birthday party a few weeks ago and had gotten a “goodie” bag filled with candy that he can’t have without my knowledge. He hid it under his bed and was steadily sneaking it. I couldn’t figure out why he was acting absolutely INSANE, not listening, jumping all around, screaming… Well, needless to say daddy found it and solved the mystery.
I’m taking a preemptive approach this year,
I’m pre-ordering candy (AWESOME & INTERESTING CANDY) from The Natural Candy Store.
(And, NO, I don’t get freebees or even acknowledgment for mentioning this.)
They even have sprinkles for sugar cookies and cupcakes!
Maybe the monsters will only be the ones in costume this year!
Oct 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
When you give a mom a mirror…
Which is not very often- probably not enough,
She’ll see frown lines
and freckles that must be cancerous,
and remember that she needs to put on sunscreen,
She remembers that she never put on much sunscreen in her days on the beach
surfing and swimming so
she will think she needs to go put sunscreen on her kids,
Putting sunscreen on her kids she will see their little faces and think
that maybe they do look like the eyes
that were staring out at her from the mirror,
That will make her think
that maybe she is the same girl after all.
She’ll see time passing and like it.
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop.
Oct 6, 2009 | Florida, Travel, Uncategorized, United States
We’re back! Disney was fun. This fall break the kids have is going to be nice. Great deals on vacations, good weather, small crowds! Now for some shameless pics of my kids…
(All taken with my phone so forgive the bad quality.)
We happened to be there during the Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, Oktoberfest, Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party, and German Reunification Day which was fun too. (We didn’t make it to the Halloween Party for 2 reasons-
1) It would have been $420 more for us to go.
2) The kids can’t eat any food coloring so candy would have been a problem!
We had loads of fun anyway, and on the last day we went to the parks it was a special fireworks show which was the best I’ve EVER seen. Also Magic Kingdom was open until 1am that night and we actually stayed all day which ended up being really neat. The kids were great, except for maybe two small incidents- not the easiest thing for a severely hypoglycemic kid with sensory issues going into a crowded park- but he only had one melt down. The youngest had his on the plane which lasted a good ten minutes. The worst thing was that we were the ONLY family with kids on that flight! Talk about business people praying they weren’t sitting next to us! He crashed and slept the rest of the way which was good for all.
I am now trying to wade through the laundry. Tonight Emily and I go see “Mamma Mia!” which I’m really looking forward to also!
I have to admit, I am SCARED about Halloween (always) since I found out about my kids’ food sensitivities.
