START OF THE BLOG

My favorite color just happens to be green. It is also the color Tu-Tu buns will answer when you say what color is this? (adhd moment -If given two color choices like red train or blue train...Pick blue...he will). So, this is my blog about green, the adventure of my kiddos, all about sensory issues and the unknown diagnosis and just the funny blonde/ADHD moments that happen to me every day.

I think the first time I ever thought about chemicals (Clorox cleaner) and their affect was when Tu-Tu buns was first born. I was the mom who used it everywhere all the time. Then, when they thought he had cystic fibrosis, I read up about it on the internet and it said that strong cleaners and candles can aggravate the lungs…YIKES. But, that’s really when I started noticing what I was doing for their environment. (By the way- T u- Tu did not have Cystic Fibrosis. This was ruled out in Feb 2005. I wonder if my family will ever get over the licking at Christmas. Yes, I went around and asked everyone to lick Tu-tu buns to see if he was salty.)

In the fall of 2007, I read Jenny McCarthy’s book and started to research the Gluten Casein Free Diet. Because if Tu-tu had any form of a Spectrum Disorder I wanted a jump start and him to have a clean diet. I ordered a lot of books on recipes and went to HEB. We have since ruled this out, but it really started my look into the foods we eat. I should have already known this since I did fitness competitions and I knew what you put in your mouth was crucial to how your body develops muscle. Well, the brain is a muscle!

Shortly after the book and in the midst of my vida loca- my mother in-law, gigi, got diagnosed with CANCER! Lung cancer and totally separate from her other cancers. Now, I read THE HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER. (See my reading trend-yes, I love books).
Well, I figure if I can do some small things then I can either impact my kid’s health or that of their kids. But, there is so much information and I figure the blog can help bring some of it together. Plus I would like a place to make sense of everything and maybe it will help in the way Dawn does- who introduced me to blogging two years ago. I tried before but could not really come up with anything. So here goes.