Wordless Wednesday 29 April 2009: Hoppiness

3-year-old Logic

"But, Mom, this dress looks GOOD dirty!"

. . . and a few minutes later . . .

"I flushed the toilet with my elbow. So now I don't have to wash my hands!"

Busy

I thought you all might enjoy this fun picture of Mira and Gingersnap. Aren't they cute together?

I took some photos of baby bunnies this week, and will hopefully get a chance to post some soon. We've sent to pet homes some of the satin babies that weren't show-quality but had great personalities, sent to freezer camp a few that had health or temperament issues, and are looking for homes for a few more bunnies.

Hopefully we'll be trimmed down to just a few of the best satin and mini satin rabbits before too long. I might also keep the mixed-meat-breed doe, because she's such a wonderful mother and is a great resource as a foster mother while also producing amazingly fast-growing and healthy babies.

Life has been busy, but good, lately. With kids, homeschooling, housework, adding the extra family member, dog training and doctor appointments, plus DH working extra hours due to craziness at work, I have had my hands full.

The college student who is living with us--we'll call her Name-Like-A-Semiprecious-Stone, or NLASS for short--fits in pretty well with our family. She enjoys being here, and we enjoy having her.

Several of you asked what excitotoxins I am avoiding. Yes, artificial sweeteners are on the list, as are natural and artificial flavors. Also any kind of modified starch or modified protein, or extract of a protein/soy/yeast. Soy sauce, of course. And dough conditioners--the stuff that makes bread soft, like L. cystine (not sure if I spelled that right). Who knew? Actually, just about any food with additives is likely to have excitotoxins in it. The actual full list is a full page long, but I'm not supposed to publish it or give it out to people until the study is over.

At least it's not like a food allergy where I have to be 100% compliant and completely avoid everything that might contain any amount of an excitotoxin in it.

Right now I'm beginning the slow process of trying to figure out what levels I can tolerate, and how sick different foods make me. And then deciding which foods are worth what level of illness at what times. Great fun. :)