Our time here has so far been so nice.  Well not the weather all the time lol.  And I haven't seen all my friends yet.  But I am taking my time and just relaxing.  It is unbelievable what stress can do to a person's entire system.  And I am now just beginning to see how much stress my children have been under as well.  I am very thankful for my friend who has opened her home up to us.  She has been very gracious and understanding and she has encouraged us all.  She has also helped me get both of my boys to see the allergy specialist.  And that appointment has been so helpful.  The allergy specialist heard and saw my son having one of his coughing spells.  And he really thinks that my son Mr.Magoo had Whooping Cough!!!!  That is on top of a very bad case of broncitis where he was also placed on orders to stay in bed...no activity whatsoever.  That was really hard for my 11 year old son to do.  He wanted to ride his bike and run and play.  The allergy specialist also showed me that his asthma is bad again....which wasn't any surprize to me after he was so ill.  He also retested his allergies for me and we now get to removed eggs again, and now some new ones....wheat, soya, fish!!  He is still dairy intolerant to all dairy products.  Then we have his other new allergies to dust and dust mites...and his same environmental allergies to pollens from trees, weeds and grasses.  So it was abit of a blow to have to remove wheat from his diet.  He loves wheat!  But...we are on the wet coast and we can find easily enough different foods to feed him and his little brother as well...though the youngest has the same allergies - I need to also take away rice from him.  Where we live...I can't find very much at all that we can eat...and I say we, because there is me too. 

Oh...we did get to attend something very neat last week.  We joined our friends here and went to their Young Naturalists Club, they met together at one of the local beaches.  We watched as the leaders threw a net out into the ocean and pull it slowly back up onto the beach to see what sort of critters they could find.   It was just so very cool.  We saw pipefish, rock cod, flounder, and the usual crabs and clams.  We also saw afew things that I can't recall their names of lol.  Then my children each dug in designated areas to do a critter count of critters they find in the sand.  All three of my children just loved it and had a blast!!!  Thank you anerez!!!  It was so much fun, we can't wait to go back.  :)

Blessings from acraisydaisy