Week 3 - Day 1

(Apr. 24, 2011)

Today was Easter Sunday!!!! I thought today would be a hard day for Jeannette because Easter is usually associated with tons of candy.  My neighbors and us were getting together to do a multi-family Easter Egg hunt in our back yards (thanks to the "Easter Bunny" hiding all the eggs the night before).  Thankfully for us, there are other kids in my neighborhood that have food allergies so we were careful to fill the plastic Easter Eggs with other goodies beside chocolate, peeps, and jelly beans.  Most of the plastic eggs were filled with erasers, stickers, bouncy balls, money, tatoos, and silly bandz.  One has to get creative when sugary foods can't be given.  It was almost a blessing to not have to have all that candy in the house because it's not only the kids that eat it; it's mommy!!!!

We tried to make this day as special as we could considering Jeannette's restrictions.  Instead of the typical ham that we eat, my dad got snow crabs for the kids.  Jeannette shouldn't be eating ham based on what I read, so we went with seafood.  We also had asparagus, green beans and potatoes.  I made sure the kids tried the greens, but alas, they didn't like them.  I have to keep trying.  Right?  As for the crab legs, I'm not even sure she was supposed to eat those, but it was a special occasion so we went with it.  Because we were eating at my parents house, I had to make sure to bring a bunch of things with us.  I had to bring all her supplements to make her shake, non-dairy butter for dipping the crab into, her special dessert, and snacks.  It's a lot of work to organize all her food when leaving the confines of your own home.  We were just heading to my parents house.  Just think what it would be like if we were going away for a weekend.  Yikes!!!   In the end, I forgot her dessert and forgot some of her snacks, so we had to make due with what we had.  For dessert for the rest of us, I had made angel food cake with strawberries.  Because I had forgotten Jeannette's special dessert, I allowed her to have a very tiny portion of the angel food cake and some strawberries.  I know that the strawberries weren't allowed yet, let alone the cake, but the mommy guilt kicked in.  I didn't feel so horrible considering it was fruit.  It could have been chocolate cake.