~Happy Febraury 2013~
Today is the first day of the new month and it is hard to believe that Korbin is signing up for Baseball tonight when Rod gets home from work tonight. They raised the price this year from $65.00 last year to $85.00, which is disappointing since baseball is over before school gets out and it is an extremely unorganized legugue. Plus alot of time it feels like the participates are engaging in 8th grade student council instead of thier children's baseball experience. Fall Ball had none of these feelings/ experiences and much more enjoyable for the players and parents. In addition to the sign-ups fee's, we have to sell $100 in raffle tickets.
Tomorrow, Korbin stats a baseball hitting clinic. It goes from 9:30 am to approximately 11:30 am every Saturday in the month of February. This will hopefully get him ready for try-outs in March. Depending on how he does/feels, they offer another clinic on Saturdays in March, Hopefully the one on one assistance will help him to hit and field the ball better, He is a great catcher, and in fieldsmen. Korbin played 2 years of t-ball and last season was second year of farm league .
His first year, Korbin had a coach named M. Shields. At age 6, Korbin was the youngest boy on the team and M. worked him hard and he improved alot his supervisions and his encouragement.It was sad when he did not return the next season. Last year Rod coached his team and had the makings of a great year until a group of self imposed sissy-parents decided that they needed to coach from the bench and never bring their kids to practice. In addition to teaching their kids to earn their position, every time the boys were rotated they would call the league president and cry to him. These parents destroyed our teams moral and taught the kids to whine and blame rather than to work hard and give it their all. It was hard to see and hear these people disrespect my man who gave it his all long after they put their kids to bed and went to bed themselves.
I often wonder how people who conduct themselves in this manor can sleep at night.
After coaching Korbins soccer team for 6 season, Rod has never inquired these types of problems and it is hard to tell if he will volunteer again or be asked to volunteer because of the lies and constant exuberant tales of parents who obviously have no people skills whatsoever.
After Korbins baseball clinic, we will be heading to A2 for some shoping and dinner at a steak place. Rod promised us a lovely dinner out when he got hired full time at his current company. He will start Monday, Febuary 4th. So we will celebrate this week-end before our gluten free adventure also starting on Monday. Our life is changing in lots of ways!
As I sit here & write, I am icing my right knee. There is lots of snow on the ground and we walk to school at 3:07 Monday-Friday to get Korbin from school. For the most parts these walks are unadventurious but yesterday we got inside and when the water met the hard wood floor down went Mommy. I hit my head on the fridge and ne knee hit the wall. I felt like I had hit a thousand shards of glass. The room began to spin and I thought I was going to be sick.
When I got it together and got off the floor, I called Rod at work. He informed me in no uncertain terms he was talking me to the hospital. There, they aspirated my knee, took x-rays and gave me a cortizone shots. It was a long night and I missed visiting my friend H in the hospital which hurt my heart as much as my now aching knee.
I am praying that all the plans we have for tomorrow will be as easy and as fun as we orginally planned for!!
Have a great week-end and enjoy the super bowl, if you are watching!!
~Kristy~
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Friday, February 1, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Accomplishing goals
One of goals for this year was to become more organized. Which is a very fitting goal since our house is getting ready to become Gluten Free ( GF).
In recent months Korbin has began to gain weight and have more problems with his stomach becoming harder and more distended than normal. He has always been treated for acid reflux and has severe constipation. My sweet boy often complains of his tummy hurting. In Kindergarten, he had a scope done to check for an ulcer which may have been the cause of his stomach hurting. He had no ulcer, praise the Lord, and he had a biopsy to check for Celiac's Disease. The biopsy came back inconclusive, which the GI doctor said it was a high probability that he did not have a gluten intolerance. So, we moved on. A decision I highly regret now because even though we moved on, the symptoms did not.
Korbin plays 2 or more sports all year long with a short break from December to February. He eats more fruits and veggies than not but does enjoy his junk food too. This summer when the allergist said Korbin weighed 108 pounds, warning signals went off within me. He has always been middle of the road for his height and weight, this was the first time anyone has ever said anything about his weight. The funny thing is that his body fat is extremely low, less than 5 %.
Something was not right!
I began slowly doing research on Celiac's disease and a gluten intolerance. The rate of tests coming back inconclusive or negative but someone still suffering for this is alarmingly high. Something I wish I would have known years ago. I watched Korbins stomach become hard and bloated after certain meals, and one particular date we were eating steak and potato's. The moment he ate a roll, his stomach began to hurt. Plus, his constipation issue's were painful for me to even watch as he cried from the bathroom in agony as he tried to relieve himself. I felt extremely helpless!
Finally in late November, I told Rod it was time to do what we should have done before and go with my gut feeling. Pardon the pun. We need to try to eliminate the gluten from out diets to see if it would help Korbin's on going stomach issues.He reluctantly agree. His reluctance was not because he did not want Korbin to feel better but because it felt like we were talking yet another thing away from him. First nuts, now everything else because so much has gluten in it!
We agreed that we would wait until after the holiday to implement the changes, and as you may remember I do not start my goals in January because I believe that it sets you up for failure if you jump from the busiest season of one's life into changes without proper time to make an action plan. Failure to plan is a plan to fail.
As I began to list my goals for 2013, I knew I had to go through the clutter and become more organized. Now I realize that my quest for organization was going to help us succeed in removing the gluten from our lives.
As we sat down to explain to Korbbie about the gluten, we told him our family is a team. Every member has an important part of our team. If everyone does not show up for practice, at the game everyone would be on different pages of the same book. Food is our practice and it fuels us for the game of school, work and other things that we do that requires us to think, run and use brain power & energy. Since we are a team, we will all go gluten free so that we are all on the same page of the same book. It will require some work and adjustment but I have no doubt with God's help we will get it accomplished.
As January passed and I watched Korbin to see if specific things bothered him, I noticed that many of the same things that bothered his system also bothered Rods. I have thought for many years that Rod is lactose intolerant. He just watches his dairy intake but refuses to believe that he could be lactose intolerance. As I read and study more about Celiac's Disease, that is one of the signs/symptoms of being gluten intolerant as well.
I downloaded a book to my kindle recommended by one of my friends called The G-Free Diet by Elizabth Hasselbeck ( Ya know ,the blonde from the View). It has really helped understand the disease and the gluten is in alot of things other than food. It also sent me running to the bathroom to check shampoo and I found that Rod's body wash has almond paste in one of the lower ingredients which was the random thing that has been causing Korbin to break out when Rod comes home from work. We has originally thought is was something from work and Rod was coming in from work to wash his hands & face with antibacterial soap. This stopped the majority of the breakouts. Now we know why it did.
As we prepare to be gluten free, I am reorganizing my kitchen. I will need to purchase some new storage items so that the gluten free items do not become cross contaminated with my old ones. I found this great website called Simple Dimples that showed me some great organization idea's for my kitchen storage.
This is my next project, with a trip to the dollar store, I will have this done by the end of the week.I will post pictures of my cabinets before & after. Feb. 1st is "D-Day" for a gluten free kitchen. So, why not go all the way?? A new kitchen system for a new start??
I am super nervous and super excited to start this leg of our adventure together. Yesterday, I celebrated my 5 year post op anniversary. I have lost approximently 200 lbs!! I did it to be healthier. I want my family to be healthy too and will do whatever it takes to help them live long, healthy lives. Even if it takes me out of my comfort zone.
Anything worth having is worth fighting for, and our health is definately worth that!!
~Kristy~
In recent months Korbin has began to gain weight and have more problems with his stomach becoming harder and more distended than normal. He has always been treated for acid reflux and has severe constipation. My sweet boy often complains of his tummy hurting. In Kindergarten, he had a scope done to check for an ulcer which may have been the cause of his stomach hurting. He had no ulcer, praise the Lord, and he had a biopsy to check for Celiac's Disease. The biopsy came back inconclusive, which the GI doctor said it was a high probability that he did not have a gluten intolerance. So, we moved on. A decision I highly regret now because even though we moved on, the symptoms did not.
Korbin plays 2 or more sports all year long with a short break from December to February. He eats more fruits and veggies than not but does enjoy his junk food too. This summer when the allergist said Korbin weighed 108 pounds, warning signals went off within me. He has always been middle of the road for his height and weight, this was the first time anyone has ever said anything about his weight. The funny thing is that his body fat is extremely low, less than 5 %.
Something was not right!
I began slowly doing research on Celiac's disease and a gluten intolerance. The rate of tests coming back inconclusive or negative but someone still suffering for this is alarmingly high. Something I wish I would have known years ago. I watched Korbins stomach become hard and bloated after certain meals, and one particular date we were eating steak and potato's. The moment he ate a roll, his stomach began to hurt. Plus, his constipation issue's were painful for me to even watch as he cried from the bathroom in agony as he tried to relieve himself. I felt extremely helpless!
Finally in late November, I told Rod it was time to do what we should have done before and go with my gut feeling. Pardon the pun. We need to try to eliminate the gluten from out diets to see if it would help Korbin's on going stomach issues.He reluctantly agree. His reluctance was not because he did not want Korbin to feel better but because it felt like we were talking yet another thing away from him. First nuts, now everything else because so much has gluten in it!
We agreed that we would wait until after the holiday to implement the changes, and as you may remember I do not start my goals in January because I believe that it sets you up for failure if you jump from the busiest season of one's life into changes without proper time to make an action plan. Failure to plan is a plan to fail.
As I began to list my goals for 2013, I knew I had to go through the clutter and become more organized. Now I realize that my quest for organization was going to help us succeed in removing the gluten from our lives.
As we sat down to explain to Korbbie about the gluten, we told him our family is a team. Every member has an important part of our team. If everyone does not show up for practice, at the game everyone would be on different pages of the same book. Food is our practice and it fuels us for the game of school, work and other things that we do that requires us to think, run and use brain power & energy. Since we are a team, we will all go gluten free so that we are all on the same page of the same book. It will require some work and adjustment but I have no doubt with God's help we will get it accomplished.
As January passed and I watched Korbin to see if specific things bothered him, I noticed that many of the same things that bothered his system also bothered Rods. I have thought for many years that Rod is lactose intolerant. He just watches his dairy intake but refuses to believe that he could be lactose intolerance. As I read and study more about Celiac's Disease, that is one of the signs/symptoms of being gluten intolerant as well.
I downloaded a book to my kindle recommended by one of my friends called The G-Free Diet by Elizabth Hasselbeck ( Ya know ,the blonde from the View). It has really helped understand the disease and the gluten is in alot of things other than food. It also sent me running to the bathroom to check shampoo and I found that Rod's body wash has almond paste in one of the lower ingredients which was the random thing that has been causing Korbin to break out when Rod comes home from work. We has originally thought is was something from work and Rod was coming in from work to wash his hands & face with antibacterial soap. This stopped the majority of the breakouts. Now we know why it did.
As we prepare to be gluten free, I am reorganizing my kitchen. I will need to purchase some new storage items so that the gluten free items do not become cross contaminated with my old ones. I found this great website called Simple Dimples that showed me some great organization idea's for my kitchen storage.
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| This photo is from the Simple-Dimples site and not my own. |
This is my next project, with a trip to the dollar store, I will have this done by the end of the week.I will post pictures of my cabinets before & after. Feb. 1st is "D-Day" for a gluten free kitchen. So, why not go all the way?? A new kitchen system for a new start??
I am super nervous and super excited to start this leg of our adventure together. Yesterday, I celebrated my 5 year post op anniversary. I have lost approximently 200 lbs!! I did it to be healthier. I want my family to be healthy too and will do whatever it takes to help them live long, healthy lives. Even if it takes me out of my comfort zone.
Anything worth having is worth fighting for, and our health is definately worth that!!
~Kristy~
Monday, January 21, 2013
Dream a little Dream
Yesterday, we drove to Rod's parents after church for dinner.When we were first married, Rod & I would alternate on Sundays going to my mamaw's for lunch or his parents. Sometimes if my dad was home, we would go there. Over the years, things have come up and this has kinda dwindled.
From church to my In-Laws house, it is roughly an hour or so. After a quick stop at Rite-Aid for juice, vitamin H20 and coffee we were on our way. With the boys listening to the new Kutless CD, we turned up the music and headed north.
Rod grabs my hand and kisses my fingers like he often does, and askes what we thought we were going to do for our TENTH ANNIVERSARY this summer. Ten years?! Where has the time gone???
The last time we did anything for our anniversay was the year we got married, and went on our honeymoon. This was also the last time we took a vacation. So the prospect of going away is thrilling! The question at hand is do we do something alone or as a family? Just as we have not been on a vacation in 10 years, our 3 & 8 year olds have never been on vaction!
After a few minutes of discussion we decided to take a week-end to ourselves; a 3 day week-end, and then take a full weeks vacation as a family!
I smiled at Rod and a quick glace from the road to return my smile as he squeezed my hand, it was finally ok to dream again. Its sad to say that before now, I can not remember the last time we sat together and dreamed.
It was fun!
Before we knew it the hour drive was over, but the happiness that dreaming brought lasted through out the day. Dinner was nice, Rods mom made steak ( for Korbin) and spaghetti ( for Konnor). I like eatting dinner with Rod's family because we sit at the table and pass things around, talking and just having some family time. It reminds me of being a kid and eatting dinner with my Dad & Step-Mom. I like that they boys have this sense of family and learn some life skills from this experience.
I would be remissed if I said it is perfect sitting around the dinner table every time. But when the boys are older, I am praying that the good memories far out weigh the bad and the bad have a learning purpose in their lives. Like any family we have our ups & downs, the more I pray regarding direction as well as my place in this family, I see God working and changing hearts. I have along way to go to be where I need to be in this family, but to know God is working gives me motivation to continue to try and pray for continued growth and change.
Yesterday, was a great day around the dinner table and the spark in my husbands eye was still there as we cleaned the table.
Dreaming gave us hope.
I was reminded of Rod's mom favorite verse, Jeremiah 29:11 " I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". It was nice to have a hope for the future again!!
On the way home, we picked up our conversation where we left off and landed on a destination for our family trip. This made my heart happy and seemed to agree with our family as it gave us a peaceful tone for the rest of the night.
Even today, it makes me smile to think about it. Its not necessarily the vacation that is warming my heart but the time together making memories, and the hope for the future, that is giving me joy.
Joy unspeakable and full of Glory, because God kept his promise. " If you have faith the grain of a mustard seed, you can move a mountain." We kept our faith, and He moved our mountains.
~Kristy~
From church to my In-Laws house, it is roughly an hour or so. After a quick stop at Rite-Aid for juice, vitamin H20 and coffee we were on our way. With the boys listening to the new Kutless CD, we turned up the music and headed north.
Rod grabs my hand and kisses my fingers like he often does, and askes what we thought we were going to do for our TENTH ANNIVERSARY this summer. Ten years?! Where has the time gone???
The last time we did anything for our anniversay was the year we got married, and went on our honeymoon. This was also the last time we took a vacation. So the prospect of going away is thrilling! The question at hand is do we do something alone or as a family? Just as we have not been on a vacation in 10 years, our 3 & 8 year olds have never been on vaction!
After a few minutes of discussion we decided to take a week-end to ourselves; a 3 day week-end, and then take a full weeks vacation as a family!
I smiled at Rod and a quick glace from the road to return my smile as he squeezed my hand, it was finally ok to dream again. Its sad to say that before now, I can not remember the last time we sat together and dreamed.
It was fun!
Before we knew it the hour drive was over, but the happiness that dreaming brought lasted through out the day. Dinner was nice, Rods mom made steak ( for Korbin) and spaghetti ( for Konnor). I like eatting dinner with Rod's family because we sit at the table and pass things around, talking and just having some family time. It reminds me of being a kid and eatting dinner with my Dad & Step-Mom. I like that they boys have this sense of family and learn some life skills from this experience.
I would be remissed if I said it is perfect sitting around the dinner table every time. But when the boys are older, I am praying that the good memories far out weigh the bad and the bad have a learning purpose in their lives. Like any family we have our ups & downs, the more I pray regarding direction as well as my place in this family, I see God working and changing hearts. I have along way to go to be where I need to be in this family, but to know God is working gives me motivation to continue to try and pray for continued growth and change.
Yesterday, was a great day around the dinner table and the spark in my husbands eye was still there as we cleaned the table.
Dreaming gave us hope.
I was reminded of Rod's mom favorite verse, Jeremiah 29:11 " I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future". It was nice to have a hope for the future again!!
On the way home, we picked up our conversation where we left off and landed on a destination for our family trip. This made my heart happy and seemed to agree with our family as it gave us a peaceful tone for the rest of the night.
Even today, it makes me smile to think about it. Its not necessarily the vacation that is warming my heart but the time together making memories, and the hope for the future, that is giving me joy.
Joy unspeakable and full of Glory, because God kept his promise. " If you have faith the grain of a mustard seed, you can move a mountain." We kept our faith, and He moved our mountains.
~Kristy~
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