MUCH, MUCH NEWS TODAY!

I took the boys to school today and immediately headed out shopping. I seriously want to get what little christmas shopping I have over with as soon as possible, so I made two quick stops, Best Buy and Walmart.  That's all the hints I'm giving.

I also had to do a big grocery shop because its our turn to cook for a family with a new baby.  Our school has this really cool program for when a family has a new baby, people get to sign up to cook them supper for the next couple of weeks/months.  This particular family was the first family that invited us into their home and befriended Buddy and LG, so we were so going to sign up to cook.  Fortunately we weren't the only ones, they have meals planned for 6 nights a week for 3 months!!! How amazing is that, well this is their 5th baby.  The Man says he can't wait for our baby to get here, so he can get all this different and new food delivered to our house.  HaHa!

I also got a phone call that there was a cancellation at the allergist and if LG wanted to come in early he could. Well, yes! I want to figure out what is causing the allergic bronchitis, so I headed to school to pick him up early and head to the allergist.

Let M.E. make this clear, we were there for 3 and half hours.  Yes, a whole 210 minutes.  I was getting stressed as was LG sitting in this little room that was about 100 degrees.  And do you know how hard it is to keep a 4 year old from scratching his arms after they have been poked with 30 itchy things after having sat in said room for 2 hours?  It was not fun.  Fortunately, he was a trooper and the nurses were very impressed with his composer and offered him much candy.

The verdict.
He is allergic mainly to DUST and little bit to Mold.  As I've said earlier posts I really wanted to avoid medicine so the doctor was ok with M.E. not going the zrytec route.  We are going to be getting the hypo-allergenic pillow and matteress covers, I will be vaccumming his room everyday he is at school at least an hour before he comes home until we can get the carpet up, and really trying to watch what he is into and avoid stirring up dust.  With this said, I'm going to really try, although I'm not known for my house keeping skills, but for him, I'll do anything.

In other BAD NEWS.... I was talking with my sister, Aunt Cream, about LG's experience at the allergist and she told M.E. that my little cousin, Raven, who is 16, was diagnosised with luekemia yesterday and is already at St. Jude's-Memphis undergoing chemo.  I could break down and give you a million reasons why this should not have happened to her or her family, but the Lord only knows and all we can do is pray.  PLEASE PRAY. It is already quite extensive and looks very, very scarey.  We will know more in the coming days and I will keep you posted.  Pray for comfort and strength for all those who are suffering.