Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Milk and Tomato's

So I took my husband with me to Wal-Mart with me yesterday to pick up a few groceries, primarily for our 15 month old., and boy was it interesting.

Our 15 month old has a sensitivity to cows milk so therefore he drinks soy formula, and soy milk, and I have yet to try to introduce him to anything that is milk based. So because of this there are quite a few things that a normal 1 year old eats that my son can’t have yet.

So while we were at Wal-Mart we decided to come up with things he could have that we could mix together to put into storage containers as pre-made meals instead of spending the extra money to do the Gerber meals which are not enough food to fill him up. We had already had mashed potato’s that I make with soy milk as our base for the meals and my hubby was wanting to find some veggies and meats to add to it. Veggies were the easy part cause my little man will eat just quite a few of them, but when it came to finding him some meats that he could handle that’s when the issues with my hubby started.

Hubby decided to go down the soup isle looking for a mix of stuff for the baby and kept picking out stuff like beef stew, and Progresso chunky soups….after about ½ a dozen flavors that I had to say no to my hubby started to show his frustration right there in the middle of the isle. Try explaining to my hubby that not only can our son not have any soups that are milk based (such as cream of chicken) but because his only 1 his digestive system is not ready for foods that have a tomato base due to the acidic level. My 1 year old is also not ready for anything with spices yet either….Hello!! He is only 1.

My hubby got so frustrated that he was about ready to give up and leave. After a bit of arguing and explaining I finally convinced my hubby to be satisfied with the food limitations until the Pediatrician says we are clear to start trying other foods.

These are the moments that really test my patients level and that chuckling at the situation is not because I’m laughing at my hubby but because the comical side of me is what helps keep my sanity in these situation. I tell my hubby that this is why I usually don’t take him grocery shopping with me but he reminded me that he does need to learn how to shop for our 1 year old and be able to know what he can and can’t have.

So what's a girl to do, at least my husband is interested in wanting to know what our son can have.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Post Super Bowl!

This was a cake that I made for my hubby's Super bowl Party!!

Well after a weekend of headaches, and my husband’s football team losing the Super Bowl I thought our week was going to start off rough. We went to the VA today for an appointment with the PTSD therapist and it turned out to be a productive day.

Yes, I said PRODUCTIVE and VA in the same sentence. I gained some knowledge that gave me a much better understanding of how PTSD affects the brain and what parts of the brain. Even after being with my husband for the past 5 years I feel like I only have a glimps of an understanding on how he is personally affected by his PTSD.

I was also able to finally touch base with a representative from Wounded Warrior and got my husband all squared away as well as start getting him a rep through Wounded Warrior to help him go back through his comp and pen and redue his application.

I got a lot of positive responses from everyone that I talked to and I felt that I am finally getting the exposure to the information that I have been looking for that would provide me with the best abilities to help my husband improve and finally truly recover.