Long neglected

It's been a while since I've been here! A month, to be exact! It's hard enough keeping up with one blog, let alone two! I promise to keep this more up to date!

In the past month, we've found out that dairy was the cause of Kate's GI issues. After an ultrasound of her gallbladder, we were able to rule that out. Two weeks of pepcid after that helped pave the way. Now Dr. B has her completely dairy-free and she's doing great! She hasn't had one single GI upset since we took her off of dairy. Before that, she was getting sick every 2-3 days. YUCK! She's slowly getting used to not having her cheese. She's decided that she likes rice milk on her cereal, so that's a big plus! Her daily cheese "fix" in her lunchbox and milk on her cereal were really her only dairy consumption, so here at home, it hasn't been that big of a lifestyle change. Preston had requested dairy-free chocolate for Christmas from Santa, and he followed through, bringing both of them chocolate Santas. Kate was over the moon (she loves chocolate) to get to eat chocolate again. Preston didn't care for it because it tasted like his dairy-free chocolate chips that he happens to like. ???

We made it through all of Christmas with plenty of goodies. The kids made sugar cookie cutouts and I turned them loose with the piping bags. They loved it! We also made marshmallows and they were delicious! They had to be rolled in sugar because they were so sticky, and they kicked the crud out of Peeps! I bet they'd make some awesome s'mores! They're definitely something we'll make again!