A Random Assortment of Updates

I forgot so many things at the store yesterday. Do you ever do that? Anyway, the kids and I were headed to a birthday party so I sent hubby to the store to get eggs, sour cream, and salt. Yes, we were completely out of salt. On a day that I also decided to make bone broth! 

Birthday Party Fun!

Anyway, its now Sunday and I just realized we are also out of cream cheese! We always buy cream cheese! Every week! What was I thinking? 

It has been a crazy 6 days. I don't know officially if I have Alpha Gal, but I really think I do. I suppose I should go in for a blood test to confirm my self-diagnosis. I think I have had it for a year. That was the first time I noticed having these awful allergies. My symptoms are random allergy attacks, like in the middle of the night sometimes! Asthma. Itchy throat, itchy ears, hives on the top of my mouth, stomach bloating and fatigue, constipation...when I have an attack of these, I usually am laid up in bed for a day. Or two! In the past month I have even had trouble breathing. I have been at my wits end to figure this out...

I also have other autoimmune issues like type two diabetes and IBS-C that I have had for years and years, but all the other symptoms that I listed above are new from the past year or so. 

I have now been mammal-product free for almost one week--I started last Monday--and I feel a lot better. My allergies are way better! I also feel less stressed about what in the world I am going to eat. Also, I was using a tallow lotion and tallow toothpaste and I need new lotion and toothpaste! I'm trying to read the ingredient list on everything that goes on my body or in my mouth. I just realized while writing this that I also own a tallow based hand soap...that will have to go.

We have a relaxed week of homeschooling coming up, and hopefully I can do some organizing. I need to make a list of home-school books to buy over the summer. I need to do some shopping for our summer plans--weeks spent by the pool! I want to get some snack containers and thin towels like turkish towels...anything to make lots of time spent in the sun easier. We also need to buy sunscreen, but we have two whole months until the pool opens to plan it out. 

Oh, and I'm also planning a garden. It's going to be great, I hope! We shall see...the garden plot is tilled and ready and now I'm just waiting on the weather. 

God is good and I am hopeful that as I continue to cut out mammal products I will continue to feel better...and better, and maybe I can have a summer with energy that is not spent in bed, or crying from allergies. One can hope?

I am content with what God gives me. Every day is a gift. 

I'm going to lay in bed and eat chocolate.