This was our dinner time last week. S was getting creative with her food placement :) It makes me a little sad looking at the lovely plate of spaghetti. I have endometriosis and have been looking into alternative treatments. My doctor wants to put be on Lupron for 6 months, the stuff sounds awful, night sweats, hot flashes, mood swings...things I get to look forward to when I'm 60. I don't want to go through that now. I have been running into a lot of articles at random places about gluten avoidance and endometriosis improving and in some cases going away completely. Is it coincidence or help from above? I'm giving it a try, I'm on day two, augghh!

Here is the list of foods I am to avoid:

wheat
red meats
refined sugars and honey
caffeine
chocolate
dairy
fried foods
saturated fats and oils
soy products and soy protein products
convenience foods
tinned foods
additives and preservatives alcohol

Wholly cannoli, I could use a cannoli right now. I'm starting with wheat and sugar, baby steps I tell you. Check back in a week, I may be face down in a pile of snicker wrappers

If you have any gluten free recipes, suggestions I would love to hear them!!

Another fun day

We enjoyed little Jo's birthday this past week

She turned three, so cute to watch her try and hold up three fingers,

it's a lot of work!

She loved having all the attention on her, oh wait that happens everyday :)

Opening in the presents before dad left for work

Having sisters home all day because of teacher prep day

She loved her princess tunnel and fort

Princess blanket

Princess pop-out book

You get the idea

Cake for the celebration was going to be ice cream cake roll

When the cake crumbled into itty bitty pieces it turned into peanut butter cup truffle, yummy

Rockin' boots

I wish I could pull off moon boots like this little one can

Youv'e had a birthday

M & S turned 10 a few weeks back
10 as is double digits
I remember when they used to look like this...

and now they have grown into this...

big, girls
I'm not ready to call them tweens, they still like to pretend play and dress up dolls
I hope they always like to do those things :)
They were thrilled when they received ipods for their birthday gift
they had both asked for money to put into their ipod savings goal,
boy were they surprised :)

Hamflakes

We had the sister missionaries over for dinner last week and they were telling my girls how to make "hamflakes"

We substituted and made turkeyflakes, turned out pretty cute for lunch meat