Our house is mostly gluten free because of my celiac dd. I don't bake or cook anything with gluten to avoid cross contamination. I buy regular bread and order regular pizza, but everything else in the house is gluten free. I got a 4 slice toaster and labeled it for gf and non_gf. When we make sandwiches, we never "double dip" so we avoid getting gluten in the butter or jelly, etc. I make sure people preparing food wash hands between touching the wheat and touching anything else. It helps to think of gluten as something toxic and sticky. It was easier for us to all switch to a gf household and have non-gf be the exception than to try to have just one gf person. The trouble for us being gf was much lower than the risks of the celiac being contaminated. After 3 years of being gf, I still don't mix my own flours. We use gf pasta, local gf bread, and gf bisquick for pancakes. We've changed our menus to be more focused on vegetables and fruits instead of having breads on the side. Good luck. Gf is hard to start with, but it gets easier with time.

I vote for corn products causing pain too. MSG and natural flavors are a great place to find bad things in your diet. I have a wretched migraine today from a cinnamon exposure yesterday. I'm having nothing but some grape juice today to help me swallow pain pills and nausea pills and any other pills that sound helpful after that. March... Strove Tuesday is a highlight with pancakes for dinner. Also youngest is spending a week at the zoo in a junior vet. Camp.

My kids have very different tastes in books. So far, The Hobbit is the only book that all three have loved and that I have loved reading aloud besides some pictures books, of which Where the Wild Things Are was the favorite.

You've already had good advice about the math so I won't repeat that. I suggest that you look for opportunities to do "hard stuff" that isn't school work. When the weather is warm enough, plan some longer hikes. Take plenty of snacks and plan to spend few hours once or twice a week hiking. It is a great way to build endurance and teach perseverance. Building something is also good. Home depot has classes for younger kids which help kids learn to work to achieve goals. Kids are really proud to have something tangible to show for their work. Plant a small garden and watch it grow this spring. Clean a space in the yard and plant bulbs. When they bloom in the spring, you again have something tangible to show for the work. These types of activities over time teach perseverance which will spill over into the rest of your child's life.

An idea I always kept in mind while I was educating my oldest was that if this was a school, would I send him to it? It helped me to objectively look at what I was teaching, what he was learning, how he was spending his time, how he was learning, how he was interacting with his teacher, how she treated him...ideas like that. We weren't perfect, but we tried to balance subjects he wanted with subjects he needed. We tried to tackle big ideas and hard subjects together. I worked hard to bring him into "The Great Conversation."

How about an aneurysm? They can be detected but not always treated and often don't slow you down. It is like a little time bomb.

I'm allergic to corn. Doctor Who and Supernatural right now. I have two enormous blue spruce in my front yard and three large cedars and three pines in the backyard.

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Laura, after you try everything else that seems reasonable, try what I have done. I either overreact as if the minor complaint is in fact the most terrible problem in the world until he reassures me that it isn't that bad, or I sing that song "it's the end of the world." Somewhere between the whiner and the stoic is a reasonable medium. I lean more towards strong-silent and have little tolerance for whining. This isn't something that can be fixed overnight. It requires that you respond differently than you have in the past.

We both usually work from home. I get dressed for the day in whatever I feel like, so does he.

Hello. I am here for a change. I've had a rough few weeks, but I'm hoping we get back to normal sometime this month. On the Friday before MLK day, dd13 had what seemed to be a stomach bug. On MLK day, I took her to ER for appendicitis. It had ruptured. So two weeks and four surgeries later, we're trying to get back to normal. I'm still sleeping in her room at night to be sure that she's okay. Youngest has spacers so she can get braces next week and is having trouble eating. We just might have smoothies for dinner, again. I have a mountain of laundry waiting for me. I hate it when I get behind. I haven't been to the store in weeks. I hope I can make some progress toward normal today.

Here is our weekday breakfast rotation : Yogurt with fruit and granola Oatmeal with fruit and honey Scrambled eggs with toast Pancakes Grits with bacon Always with a fruit and milk

You should have him checked and tested by his doctor. If he has frequent diarrhea and stomach aches, I would suggest a visit to a pediatric gastroenterologist if your doctor doesn't find a cause. There are many things that cause those symptoms and it is important to not only get the right diagnosis but to also have follow up monitoring.

Studio Art: Focuses on watercolor and pencil. Orchestra Algebra: Algebra by McDougal Littell. Physical Science: Prentice Hall "Science Explorer" Series. Latin III: Wheelock’s Latin Grammar History: world geography with an emphasis on how land and water formations shape political, economic and cultural life. Literature/Composition: Hake Grammar , composition focusing on paragraphs and topic sentences. Books include Beowulf, The Chosen, The Hobbit, The Miracle Worker and A Christmas Carol.

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My dh has always used it in Korean cooking, but my Dr with multiple food allergies is now allergic to it too.

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Last time my dh was offered a job, he had to wait while the company doing his background check verified that he'd graduated from high school. We only found out they'd checked because it took a long time due to the fact that his high school was a DoD school at a base in Germany that had closed. It might have been easier to lie before, but modern background checks will change that.

Bacon - it is what our allergists suggests for my tiny one. She's allergic to dairy and already eats avocados which are the top two things normally suggested. If he's not allergic to milk, add something like ovaltine or instant breakfast to a glass of whole milk to his daily foods too. A spoonful of extra butter to all of his veggies is good addition too.

I put my ds in highschool because he wanted to be with his peers. I took him back out because the environment was toxic for him. Later, I put him in CC classes (which I had to pay for instead of getting free for dual-enrollment) so that he could be taught by teachers that knew what they were doing for certain classes (Japanese, French, Italian, Chemistry) and so he could enjoy discovering topics with others who were also discovering them (philosophy). I think others have already said it better, but after years of being together, he needed more people and new people to share ideas with. In his philosophy class, he was able to walk through the Allegory of the Cave with people who had never read it before instead of with someone who has read it several times over the last decade and has already seen the sun. He told me that I had already formed my philosophies and couldn't interact with him the same way as people who were just discovering them. He was absolutely correct. Even if you do homeschool for highschool, which I did, I think kids this age really need peers to discover at least some of the subject with. And don't get me started on how scary it is to get a kids into college as a homeschooler. My ds has graduated, but the whole idea of it scared me. I was certain that I had ruined his life by homeschooling him for highschool. I am pretty sure that the idea of scares a lot of people into other choices. We, along with many others, made it just fine into college, but it was scary.

My mom lives with me most of the year. I love her, it's great to have her help...yada yada yada. But she drives me crazy after a while. I think it must be mutual because she's currently in Florida visiting her sisters for 2 months. She folds the towels differently than I do. She does the kids' laundry (which is their job) then complains that she thinks they need more responsibility. She washes my coffee cup in the middle of the morning when I plan to have more coffee. She sits on the couch in my office while I'm working and reads the paper - to me. There is a whole list of little things that are easy to put up with when someone visits that drive you crazy when they live with you. I love having a multi-generational household but having two women in the same house full-time takes a lot more patience that I have sometimes. I fell for you. :grouphug:

My favorite doughnuts are Krispy Kremes - HOT. I can't eat them, but they are still my favorite. My weekend was great. Dh and I went to an art place for a date Saturday night. We made a pair of paintings that coordinate while drinking some wine and listening to music. It was fun. I tried really hard to not be critical of myself. DH laughed at me a few times while I was being impatient about people not following directions. Today, we went to church then to the Y to swim and let youngest play on the inflatable obstacle course. I also read the newest book in an urban fantasy series and got a stupid migraine from stupid pork which is why I'm now overmedicated :) . We don't current volunteer. I am having trouble keeping up with the things currently required in my life. Now, I am sleepy and ready for bed. Monday is coming up fast.

What do you currently heat for lunch and snacks? MSG gives me migraines. I've been off of it for a long time. Here is a decent list that has helped me eliminate it. For lunch, I usually eat either a salad made with one of those baby lettuce mixes, feta cheese, beans, carrots and some fruit or sunflower butter with apples or a burger patty with salad mix or some bean chips with cheese and salsa, or leftovers. I snack on bean chips, cheese, fruit, or olives.

I read that today. Let me know how you liked it.

My newest workout pants are gray. ;) I got them specifically because all the rest of mine are black, and I wanted variety.