Peanut free and hating it! July 27, 2007

I just learned that our local school is a nut free school. (insert your corny jokes here.) Kids cannot bring in any kind of peanut butter or snack that has been processed in a plant that manufactures peanuts.

I find myself getting a little upset about this. I mean, I am allergic to certain nuts and if I eat them I don’t die or anything but break out in some fabulous looking welts all over, so I certainly understand the sensitivity. But if your kid is going to die if they eat nuts – home school them. Don’t send them to public school to affect everyone else.

Peanut butter sandwiches are great according to me! They are fast to make, healthy (yes, I use the real peanut butter with no sugar or corn syrup) and cheap. Now I cannot make them for my kids? Are you serious? A lot of breads nowadays have the “has been manufactured in a plant that manufactures peanuts” so I cannot pack that! No granola bars or certain crackers. So what am I supposed to do? I do what my neighbor says most moms do – the school lunch program.

Now this ticks me off! Not only is this expensive, but I have no idea what my kids are eating and most things are not that healthy. Some are but those are the choices.

When are we going to stop being so sensitive – what about the people that have milk allergies, chocolate and/or wheat? Do we ban those from schools? What about when these children get to be adults and get into the workforce? They are so used to having everything peanut free that they demand it in the workplace too? What about bees? Are you going to ban bees from coming into the schoolyard?

Ahh. The main thing I am upset about is how this affects my 5 year old. That is all the kinds of sandwich that she will eat. What do I have her eat while at school? Sorry to rant – just had a bee in my bonnet.

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I am so tired! July 23, 2007

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. 🙂

Lately, I have been not getting any sleep. Rachel is not sleeping and I am not sleeping. Not fun!

We are here in beautiful Colorado and we love it. We have found a church, a small group, I am volunteering at our local hospital doing infant hearing screenings and the kids have been in all kinds of fun camps – VBS, theatre camp and Spy camp this week.

The kids have been playing with neighborhood kids since the day we moved. It truly is a great place to be.

We have been doing some remodeling – new carpet in the basement and main floor, new tile in the kitchen and new paint everywhere else. My parents came for a visit and took my dad to the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center. He was able to go into wolf enclosures and feed and pet the wolves. Some baby wolves even gave us kisses! It was awesome.

I had a birthday and I loaded myself up with a bunch of fun new games from Amazon. We have been enjoying playing them. One of my favorites to play with my card shark 5 year old is Rat-a-tat-cat. It is a mix between a math game and a memory game.

Hope you all are well. 🙂