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I have lots of people ask me about the gfcf diet that our family is on. Now, I personally am not all that strict with the casein, but I HAVE to be conscious of the amount of gluten I intake. I know certain foods that I can cheat with and not have devastating effects, but even those I keep to a minimum. We let The Younger cheat on the gluten as well, but seeing that he probably has a touch of ADHD, we do limit it. As for The Elder, we rarely cheat and if we do we try to do it when nothing pressing is about to occur in the next 3 days. Though sometimes it is either gluten or starve. Those times we are kicking ourselves for not packing extra snacks!
So I started updating the more info link to this blog to include gfcf foods that we like (the prepackaged kind, you’ll have to see better blogs for the kind you have to cook). That way I don’t have to remember and I can just send this link to people! (Smarter not Harder right?)
I also included a list of plugins that I use.
Hopefully The Hub will help me expand the list as I know I’m forgetting a lot of them.
Nothing about Nothing IV
Here is an excerpt from a comment I posted on a friend’s blog which is dedicated to documenting their adventures of their first child who just turned 4 months:
To add on to T’s comment about when life changes:
- At mobility – Yay, because you don’t have to carry them around anymore when they are 30lbs (of course ours might still be that seeing they are in the 10th percentile!). Boo, because you have to nail everything to the floor and glue the cabinets and drawers shut.
- When they start talking – Yay, because you don’t have to try to mind-read anymore. Boo, because they either don’t shut up, embarrass you in public, or they start talking back and put YOU in time out!
- When they potty train – Yay, because you don’t have to pack a diaper bag that weighs more than the baby anymore. Boo, because you have to get up more frequently to take them to the bathroom (in the middle of movies and on long drives).
That’s as far as I can go without going into theory! Cheers! Enjoy and you’ll be so thankful that you have documented this so well. Be sure that you do the same with subsequent kids. They always get screwed…”
Would love to hear what others who have gone before me can warn me about tell me what I can look forward to in future milestones!
Oops…moving forward…
One of the things I wanted to do this year was publish a post every single day. Well, I missed January 1st….so much for that goal! Ha! That was a result of a gluten hangover from New Year’s Eve. We spent time at The Couple Friends’ house and totally indulged in breading and pie crusts.
BUT I’m all about Being Great in 2008 and that means, accepting that I’m not perfect, accepting that some things can be perfected and others can be delegated, learning to think like ME and not how others expect me to think, asking for advice and opinions without obligating myself to take or adopt them, and moving forward after a fall!
So on to the next goal, I’m doing something EVERY DAY toward writing my book. Not just thinking or talking about it, but something concrete like research or writing. So far so good. I like that because then I won’t get hyper-focused one day and then burn out the next.
I’m also in the process of embracing my right-brain and learning to organize everything tailored to my needs. According to The Book, that means I am allowed to pile and not file! Yahoo! I’m so excited. The most immediate project is my closet. Sounds mundane and non-productive, but it is the source of the most clutter in my bedroom which totally shuts me down because I have to walk through my closet to go to the bathroom AND when I lay down on my bed I can see right into the closet. Not what I need to wake up to! So I sat in my closet and observed and tried to figure out what was my biggest struggle with keeping the closet tidy….1) shoes (though part of that is because the Kiddos like to wear my shoes around the house..???) and 2) not hanging up clothes from the laundry, and 3) lack of proper handling of those items that are in laundry purgatory – been worn, but not ready for the washer yet. Specifically jeans and PJs and lounging clothes that I wear in the middle of the day between my daytime biz suit and my nighttime biz suit.
The solution you might be wondering? I’m adopting a “Drape” philosophy!! I’ve been researching Trouser Racks and Hooks. I think it will work. Does anyone else have this problem special need? What are some of the things that you’ve tried? Did it work?
I’m also in the process of changing management systems for my businesses and I’m going to break it down into segments so I don’t get overwhelmed. Imagine that! Project management – what a concept! The difference is that it is not linear. I’m using the “mind-mapping” strategy. I did this over the weekend and was totally amazed at how much I got accomplished.
Well, off to get something to eat!
