Liam's laying down (hopefully taking a nap) and Joshua is watching Mickey on tv in the living room. It's almost lunchtime, so i'll have to put together their lunch soon.
I'm running some laundry and baking some bread (thank you, bread machine) and have straightened up most of the house -- minus some cleaning I need to do in the bathroom (I hate cleaning bathrooms).
I'm online on Vitacost.com looking up vitamins and supplements. Right now i'm looking at elderberry syrup, grapefruit seed extract, (both of those are for health and wellness and most importantly immune health especially in the winter!) and then a Calcium w/Magnesium & D3 vitamin for Joshua, too. I don't want to LOAD him up but I know through everything I've read what seems to be the basic/most important ones to start with.
Yesterday, I managed to get out of the house alone for a few hours. Josh's dad came down and sat with the kids while I went out. I stopped at got gas in the truck, and used a D&D giftcard that a friend of mine sent online through email to me to stop and get myself coffee. I am SO thankful for small things like that.. a small giftcard so I can sneak out and have a coffee alone. It's those things that mean the world to me, because no one really understands the world I have on my shoulders right now.
Anyways, after I did those 2 errands, I ran down to a grocery store that my mom had given me a $50 giftcard to. They receive the giftcards at work so she gave it to me knowing we could use the help with groceries right now. I haven't been to this store in a while so I didn't know what they have for a natural foods section. But I was so surprised to find that they have an AWESOME section!
I ended up with 2 loaves of gluten free/dairy free (Udi's) bread, 4 boxes of gluten free pastas, a bunch of different snacks (crackers, pretzels, all gluten free), apples, a waffle/pancake mix, dairy free chocolate chips, raisins, prunes, and a few other things that I can't remember.
I'm not too worried if Liam has gluten products, he only has to be dairy free per his pediatrician. But Joshua is to follow a GF/DF (or CF if not completely DF) diet, which is the first step recommended after an autism diagnosis. So, while I was worried before about making sure MY diet was good -- now I don't care if I eat or not (come to think of it, I haven't eaten a real meal in 2+ days... just popcorn, coffee, and redbull...) and I want THEM to get the foods they need. Gluten and dairy free is not cheap, but I can manage it, I think. I can make the gluten free foods last a while, I hope.
Josh is on call this week at work, so he didn't get home last night until 9pm. I had just gotten the kids both to sleep and finally sat on the couch to watch tv with some popcorn with nutritional yeast and a homemade caramel macchiato (OMG AMAZING).
But all in all, it was nice to get out of the house for a couple of hours alone, even if it WAS to just grocery shop. I think lunch today will be peanut butter on the GF bread, and probably apple slices, maybe raisins, too. Since focusing on keeping their meals and snacks gluten and dairy free, the kids have been eating MORE.
Last night for dinner I made them a fake "mac and cheese" meal. I cooked up gluten free elbows, mixed them with a vegan (soy free, dairy free, gluten free) "butter" spread and then mixed in nutritional yeast. They had that with apples and raisins. :)
All the while, I sit here and drink a redbull, hoping that I won't be hungry until dinnertime. Checking my amazon order for the books I ordered, and placing things in my vitacost online cart that I can't afford to order.
To be honest, life kinda sucks right now, you guys.
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