This is My New Year's Eve...

Yup! Tonite is my "New Year's". You see, I am not a winter person- at all. In fact, its a good thing that I now live in TX &  no longer live in NY because this past winter was brutal for me. I know now that cold weather & lack of sun shine do a number on my morale. It's horrible! Its all I can do to get the minimum done. I'm much more suited to Spring and ever since I became born again & accepted Jesus I have used Easter as my New Year's Day. Its much more fitting for me to begin new resolutions, traditions, and goals with Easter- the ultimate New Begining. I mean, people are born ever day- Only ONE has conquered sin & death. Happy Easter indeed! And Happy New Year!!

While I have been MIA I have been reading & researching & to be honest, if I read one more article, blurb, tweet or quip about nutrition, I'm gonna barf. I think I actually did when I saw somewhere that the scent of strawberries can slow a siezure. The big thing I learned is read the research, but look at my child & take my cues from him. So I follow his favorite tastes to the blood type diet- he stops losing weight, success! I remove dairy from his diet, he stops spitting up, more success! I read how diet can change behavior, slow or even stop siezures (Little Man does not have siezures but I live in fear of them!)so I take out gluten - no easy feat to perform since I live in the middle of nowhere & gluten, well, lets just say that its everywhere. And here is where I hit my snag- he began to lose weight again! He went back down below 15 lbs & I damn nearly wept. I mean he's 19 months now & I struggle to get calories into him. Soooooo, I went out & I bought jarred baby food. Previously, I had made all my own, thinking that was best for him. Nope! He now back up to 15 lbs. 9 oz. & he happily eats pasta, and basicly anything else that comes processed in a babyfood jar. I even fed the gerber baby, just like Kristin :)  

Also, I have decided to take the "al a carte method" to therapy. After reading about & you tubing just about every therapy there is, I'vce decided to do a little bit of this & a little bit of that. Why? I have no money & live in the middle of nowhere:) I do have a checklist of things that I do have access to, chiropractor, Feldenkrais, massage therapy & hippotherapy. So those are what I will persue in addition to our wonderful ECI therapists. Really, I am very lucky to have landed in this county in particular. Little Man's therapists are wonderful:)

There are lots of other things going on too, health insurance, special-ed preschool, potty training, jobs, ex-wives, old parents, date nights, birthday parties, I tell ya, the fun never stops around here.