Random Thoughts On My Brain

I’ve been in a bit of a quiet, sleepy funk today. I’m super tired from staying up on this computer until one in the morning.  I’ve got stuff on the brain, but nothing deep, just random.  Thought I’d share…lucky you, huh?

1. Gardening For Dummies
I am hoping I can find this book at our local library-I’m gonna need it!  I reserved a plot at a community garden site, and after spending some time at Barnes and Noble tonight, reading a pile of gardening magazines, I’ve concluded that I need to go straight to the dummies book!

My daughters asthma is flaring up again.  I have not had to deal with it for over a year, since we have changed our eating habits.  Her allergy to corn syrup is a trigger, and it seems to be getting worse as she is now sensitive to all corn products.  She took a bite of a corn tortilla chip and immediatley reacted to it this week, which is new for her.  Her asthma is a bit unusual.  She has the instant reaction of a horrid, barky cough, it almost sounds like her throat is closing up. (scary, I know.. time for an epi-pen?) If her coughing spasms get bad enough, it turns into wheezing.  In the past, we would just take away the offending food (corn syrup) and it would go away.  Lately,  its been hanging on all throughout the day.  I am not sure if her corn allergy is getting worse, which means I need to be more careful about what she eats, or her spring seasonal allergies are kickin’ in and the two combined are a bit much for her immune system, and are kickin’ her!  She couldn’t catch her breath last night after playing at the park, so I had to give in and give her a puff from her inhaler, which I have not had to do in a year!  I’m buummin’ a bit about that!!  I’m going to get her tested for allergies ASAP.  Hopefully, it is just a seasonal thing. If not, the idea of eliminating ALL corn products is a bit daunting and makes me want to cry a little.  I just read that it is the hardest allergen to eliminate over wheat, eggs, and dairy, because it is in EVERYTHING!  {sigh}

3. Moldy Lunchbox
This is what happens when daughter leaves her lunchbox at school over spring break week.   Gross, huh?  It had a half eaten orange in it.  I was going to make her clean it out because she has been SO forgetful of her lunch bag the last few weeks, so I thought that would be great motivation to start remembering!  I forgot to enforce it before she went to bed, ( I was busy at Barnes and Nobel feeling like a gardening dummy) so now I’m gonna have to clean it.  I can’t bear to let it sit in my kitchen like that overnight…it would give me bad dreams, and we all know I need a good sleep tonight so you will be spared another random, sleepy-brained, rambling post tomorrow!

4. Ripe Bananas
Here is something positive-I’m having a new love affair with ripe bananas.  My local grocery store is selling big bags of them for just over a buck, which I think is just lovely!  I freeze them, and use them in green smoothies, homemade popsicles, and banana bread.  Makes me happy.  Woot!

5. Laundry
I am in shock that I am actually keeping up with laundry since starting “AP Tuesdays” a month ago.  If you only knew what a struggle this has been all my married life, you would be so proud!  I am a bit disappointed in myself today, instead of folding 2 loads right out of the dryer, I piled them on my folding table (I was tired!) and they are still sitting there. Oh well, progress–not perfection, right?

6. French Coffee Press

My oldest daughter is a gift giver.  Like, it- is- just- in- her- and- she- can’t- not- not- do- it– gift giver.  It is truly a beautiful “gift”, one she says she “gets from her Grandpa Don.”  Aw.
 Recently she had been given a gift card to Target, so when I took her to spend it, she picked a couple little things out for herself and then became very consumed with buying me a gift.  I mean, CONSUMED.  I tried to talk her out of it numerous times and told her to spend it on herself, but she just begged me.  How sweet is that?  She said, “mom, what is something you have been wanting for a very long time?”  We just happened to be in the kitchen appliance area, and there they were, Bodium  French Coffee Presses.  I’VE BEEN WANTING ONE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!  I gave in to my punkin’ and made a deal with her.  I told her I would let her buy me a gift if she would let me pay half.  She beamed like she had just won the lottery.  How precious is that??  Now, I get to make this iced coffee recipe I found at Small Notebook that I have been dying to try.  Yippee!

7. Small Notebook
Sigh.  Another love affair of mine.  I really, really love this blog.  Everything she does, makes me say “I wanna do that, too!”  Like making my own bars of soap or making homemade yogurt.  I’m gonna do both in the next few weeks, so I can be more like her  continue on this journey of making more things homemade. Don’t worry, I’m not at the stalker stage….yet.

Oh boy, its time to stop.  I feel so much better getting that all off my brain, so if you are still reading, THANK YOU!  G’night!