Green Onions

Somedays you just need to step back and laugh at yourself. Laugher is the best medicine.  Today was a very rough pain day for me. Two of my four children needed help and I was determined to be there for both of them. Over these past few months I have had to find a new normal for myself and have had to let things go that are not as important as others. My family is THE most important thing in my life and I would do anything for them! I am learning that I do what I NEED to do and just have to plan for a flare-up afterwards and stay down for a couple days in order to recover from it.

So it was the end of the day I was attempting to make dinner, and I mean attempting, since this diagnosis I have had to cut out all gluten, dairy, eggs, sugar, and pretty much anything that tastes good! The creamy soup that I made did not look anything like what it used to look like when I would add whole milk and regular flour. This time it looked almost transparent and paste looking from the rice milk and arrowroot powder (It reminded me of Elmers glue... YUCK). I have to admit I was not too excited to eat it. But when you are starving you seem to eat anything that you can due to your limitless choices! However, I was excited about  the bacon and green onions that would cover up the awful appearance. Just as I sat down to eat I went to grab the green onions and low and behold they were nowhere to be found! I searched frantically and became very upset over not being able to find the  GREEN ONIONS! WOW, now thats a thing to get upset over.... After interrogating my teens, I found that they had been used the night before and then thrown out. My teens just looked at me in disbelief as I ranted and raved about the missing green veggies! It wasn't until later, during family night that we all had a good laugh at how MOM really FREAKED out about her precious green onions! I realized just how unimportant things can be and we should not take our pain and frustrations out on our loved ones. I am so thankful for such a forgiving family.