Well here we are at the start of another school year! Where does the time go? The boys are now starting grade 8 and grade 9, and are anxious to get back and see their friends at Edmonton Academy.
We have had a great summer aside from the weather and a long one as the kids finished early June 9th. In order to side track them from 12 hour days of video games while we were at work we arranged some camps, a trip to Kelowna and a fishing trip with Dad and Grandma and Grandpa, and their cousins and grandmother from Ontario came to visit as well.
Golf camp was a big success funny enough! The instructors at RedTail Landing were amazing and patient and the kids thoroughly enjoyed themselves. In Kelowna they got the chance to do some tubing, surfing and wakeboarding with great friends of ours and strut their stuff meeting new friends in the process.
We arrived home and hit our first hitch when I decided to repaint the entire house. I had never put my mark on it when we moved in and now that our gluten free- casein free life had settled in and become routine, it was time. When moving furniture to paint, we came across hundreds and hundreds of the boys pills stashed under anything that wasn't glued down. If I could only tell you how expensive the stupid things were you would understand completely my moment of utter failure!!!! Heart failure that is! I sat down and held my breath for a moment. Suddenly it all made sense. The conversation with the doctor over the last set of testing and why he seemed perplexed that their levels hadn't changed. How could they with the pills in the cushions of the couch and under every coffee table! I was lucky our pets weren't becoming hyper sentient!!!
In that moment by myself with a handful of pills I stared and them and started to laugh. My God I couldn't take 40 pills a day even if it meant my life! How in the heck did I think the kids could do that?
I made a decision that moment that the pills were done. They had done so well on the diet and Ididn't want to lose that. So we compromised. And that was that. Do they probably still have some deficiencies? Sure. Would I if I was tested ? Probably. In the grand scheme of things, we do what we can manage and call it a day. We added back all the food that had been taken away except the gluten and casein and the boys are eating better, happier and finally putting on some healthy weight for their heights.
In the end I am still finding their stashes. I stop for a moment and think about what wonderful boys I have and then scoop them up and into the garbage. My house however, has never been cleaner!
Sometimes it is about finding balance. One footstep at a time.
In love and light,
Kathryn
