Coming Visiting

We have some business to take care of in Utah this weekend. Call me if you want to get together. Except for Friday lunch which is always claimed by Denise. :)

Horses

Anybody who knows Faith, knows that she is a horse freak! She loves them soooo much. When we moved to Idaho we told her that we would be able to find somewhere to get her horse riding lessons. Life being what it is has prevented us from fulfilling that. Now my daughter HATES to spend her own money. If she has to buy it herself she feels that she doesn't need it. However, she has decided that the best thing to spend her money on is horse riding lessons. She is bouncing off the walls and randomly screams because she is so excited. She needed a pair of boots with heels for the lessons. They didn't necassarly have to be cowgirl boots but nothing but the best for my little girl. And yes she bought those herself also. When were at the ranch store with her to trying boots I looked at John and could tell what he was thinking. Never in his life did he think he would raise a cowboy/girl. Yet he has. She loves country music (don't mention Taylor Swift unless you have earmuffs on), she loves horses, she loves the country and yes she loves all manner of farm animals. John put it perfectly "Nothing feels better then knowing you helped make your child that happy"

Windy

The winds were 40-50 mph today. Still was nothing like the wind storm we drove out of in Centerville. Went to drop Faith off at Youth Group, and there was a notice of no services due to power outage. Another little girl was standing out side in the wind and cold becuase her babysitter dropped her off not knowing it was closed and locked. Both John and I thought we left our cell phones at home. Luckly John found his and we were able to call the girls mom. It was cold waiting with her but it didn't take her mom too long to show up. Then Faith and I are freezing becuase of waiting so we just HAD to have ice cream. :)

Anybody want a dog?

Okay John would get mad if I really gave away our puppy but he did the unthinkable today. He was found chewing on my newest knitting project. I haven't been able to knit very much lately due to the money it takes for larger projects and we managed to work a blanket into the budget because the yarn was on sell. I just started it this weekend and Scott found it in Enekay's mouth after breakfast. Luckily he only dropped about ten stichs off the knitting needle.

Weekends

I would like to be able to say that weekends around here are exiciting. Nope they are pretty much your typical suburban weekend. Saturday's are for chores and Kenpo classe. Sunday's are for church and chilling. Sometimes like today I get the urge to make something new like doughnuts. The GF ones are done and taste pretty good. Even I liked them and I usally don't like the GF stuff that Scott eats. Faith is at a friend from church's house becuase they have a mutal interest in large animals and she has horses which of course makes Faith just in heaven.

School Time

John took the day off work today, just to have a day off. However, I told him that if he was going to be home he would have to study with the kids. So the kids are doing school work and John is working on his apprenticeship workbooks. Would be a quite day if I had not gotten up with the puppy this morning at 5, I am GROUCH when tired so this day should be interesting. And girls I have NO coffee to make it better. :(

New Neice

John's brother and wife welcomed a new little girl into this world. Congrats to them! I hear she is a beautiful girl but I wont get a chance to see her until we go down to Utah at the beginning of March. Hopefully one of their older children will provide pictures soon. :)

GF

Some of you may know that Scott chose to go Gluten Free (GF) in his diet. He read a book written by another child with Asperger's Syndrome and that the kid was GF and casein free. Alex talked to his aunts about it (all of John's sister's are GF) and then asked me if he could. Once I told him that casein was yogurt and cheese, he was not having that but he still wanted to try GF. It has worked wonders for him, his attitude is so much better, he controls his mood swings better and his eczema has cleared up a lot. It has been completely worth the change in the way I cook. Now I cook a lot more potatoes instead of noodles, however when I do cook noodles WinCo has bulk GF noodles so Scott gets his own. And did you know cans of chili include wheat as a filler? Well I have gotten pretty adept at making homemade chili. :)

So how can I be sure it is really working for him? Every month we give him a cheat day. A day where he can eat gluten. Yesterday was his cheat day in addition to his birthday. He gorged himself on gluten, toast for breakfast, all you can eat Chinese for lunch, pizza for dinner, and that doesn't even count the candy, and doughnuts and what not that he ate in between. At the end of the day he puked. He told me that it was a sucky way to end a birthday. I believe it is a good object lesson on how his body doesn't like gluten that much. In addition I want to ground the boy to his room for the next week, he has major attitude problems and getting frustrated over the smallest things and he has been snappy with me.

What does this all add up to? Scott remains GF and next cheat day we will enforce moderation. Thankfully that's not for another month.

Footnote: We do normally moderate cheat days, just not on his birthday, after all you only turn 15 once.

Sweater

Some time ago I told you that my niece and nephew conviced me to try and knit a sweater. Well I did it and here are the results.